UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses Syllabus
Turkish Lower Intermediate
Turkish Level 2+
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Turkish syllabus level 2 at UCL Language Centre or equivalent
elsewhere (upon interview with tutor).
Ability of making question and answer sentences and suggestions using possessives, noun
phrases and common nouns and adjectives and optative.
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to function in everyday spoken and written
Turkish at intermediate level to communicate in Turkish to deal with everyday matters
confidently. Cultural awareness will be developed through tasks, role play and authentic
texts and videos.
Functions
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Talking about the future
Talking about facts and their habits.
Making requests, stating intentions and preferences.
Expressing possibility and suggestions
Expressing obligations, giving advice and negotiating
Using time expressions.
Reporting events.
Talking about health.
Talking about food.
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Making plans for near future and distant future
Health and fitness.
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Expressing their preferences, obligations, wishes and choices.
Time related words.
Phonetics
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Vowel harmony
Consonant changes: Hardening and Softening
Comma use and the change in meaning.
Grammar
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Revision of time expressions: since, for, from .... until ...., after, before.
Revision of let’s and shall structures and learning the question form,
Which: ki suffix, different uses of ki.
Past future
Past aorist (used to)
Past perfect
Mek the infinitive
Obligations, necessities: need to, do not need to, have to and don’t have to.
Comparisons
Learning Resources
Books
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Course books : Rona, Bengisu, Turkish in three months (in pdf format) chapters:
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Dilmer 2 , Yabancı Dilim Türkçe (available at SOAS book shop),
Other resources:
Pollard, Asuman Celen and Pollard, David (2004) Turkish, Teach Yourself Turkish &
Audio books (In the Self Access Centre)
Sinan Bayraktaroglu, Arin Bayraktaroglu, Ad Bachis, and Jeroen Aarssen (2000)
Colloquial Turkish, Routledge
References
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Sebuktekin, I. Hikmet (1971) Turkish-English Contrastive Analysis, Turkish
Morphology and corresponding English Structures (Janua linguarum. Series
Practica) Mouton: The Hauge
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Lewis, Geoffrey (2000) Turkish Grammar, Oxford University Press.
Rona, Bengisu (1989) Get by in Turkish, BBC Publications, London
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Dictionaries
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Langenscheidt New Standard Dictionary
The Redhouse Turkish-English Dictionary
Tureng on line dictionary.
Useful websites:
www.turkishlanguage.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk
www.digitaldialects.com
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www.turkcegazeteler.com
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