Thanks Henry! but now I am confused 

Ok I see my mistake in the first sentence. However Is that one correctly written? I was confused because the original sentence seems to be in a wrong order and used "gelecek". Shouldn´t it be "Ben bu hafta Istanbul´a gidiyorum" ? Which makes its negative form "ben bu hafta Istanbul´a gitmiyorum"

If not, why can you have the verb phrase before an expression of time? 

Find it hard to answer questions 7 and 8 because ı am not sure of the context which the sentences are used. Also, those questions don´t seem to be covered in the paragraph which is provided. (written exactly as they appear in the lesson)

Sizce Ali nasıl bir insan(dır)?

What kind of a person is Ali in your opinion?

Sizce Ali´nin otomobilinde neden benzin yok?

Why is there no gas in Ali´s car in your opinion?

Unless they are supposed to be opinion questions?

whats the point.

please

I also wish you luck with your learning. I agree that the best way to progress, after a certain point, is to spend time in Turkey, if you haven´t got a Turkish friend to help you locally. You also need to practise listening ( which can be achieved with movies) and speaking, which is also obviously a very important part. I have found the livemocha.com site useful for some aspects of learning, and if you are selective with friends (ie pick Turkish native speakers who are thorough with helping and correcting homework) you will probably improve some more. As with any free site, there are lots of pests and opportunists, but be extra vigilant with selecting ´friends´ and report spam and pests to get them removed or blocked.

vicudum kurşun kadar ağır!

I tried to figure it out, but all I got was:

________bullet so heavy??? Please help.

thanks

Thank you for the corrections, gokuyum.

I bet all those lexical faults sound funny but I´m not so worried about them. There is one grammar mistake which makes me angry but maybe it´s better not to mention it...maybe there is someone who doesn´t notice. Tense faults are very hard to correct: I try to choose them using all my knowledge but still make wrong decisions. What it takes, I guess, is more reading and listening.

A couple of notes:

- Is var/değil olduk wrong in every situation or in this case specifically?

It is wrong in every situation. Here is another example:

Mutlu değil olduğunu söyledi. (wrong)

Mutlu olmadığını söyledi. (correct)

- Why batacak but gidecek? Bitecek or bidecek? Yatacak or yadacak?

Most of the monosyllabic verbs don´t obey this rule. "gitmek" obeys "but "batmak" doesn´t." "bitmek" and "yatmak" also don´t obey. If I were you I wouldn´t soften the wovels of monosyllabic verbs if I wasn´t sure.

Merhabalar!

I was just wondering, in Turkish, how would you say:

Every word has 100 meanings.

Could it be: Her sözü 100 tanımı var. ???

Or maybe: Her söz için 100 tanımı var. ???

Or maybe something completely different?

Teşekkürler for any input!

I don´t think you can compare a small nick with a razor to the massive trauma experienced by these animals. Lets face it there is not a pleasant way of killing an animal.