UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses Syllabus
Turkish Advanced
Turkish Level 4
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Turkish Levels 1 to 3+ at UCL Language Centre or equivalent
elsewhere (upon interview with tutor).
An upper intermediate level is required.
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students who already have a good knowledge of
Turkish to acquire a better fluency and advanced level using more complex and
accurate structures appropriate to advanced level. Students will be able to
communicate in all situations using more complex and accurate structures, a wider
range of vocabulary, converse with native speakers and follow debates on a wide range
of issues. Cultural awareness will be further developed and raise through authentic texts
and various transferable skills will be covered.
Functions
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Understanding and describing the causes and consequences of an action or
event in detailed and complex sentences.
Expressing opinions, debating, commenting.
Improving reading, writing and listening skills through authentic material.
Making effective and clear presentations and opening one’s ideas to debate.
Noticing the differences between styles and genres.
Composing written pieces for different purposes.
Expressing opinions and ideas through well structured presentations.
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Means of communication (emails, mobiles, FB, twitter)
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Following current events and festivals through newspapers.
Arts (literature, music, cultural heritage,)
Turkish literature – short stories.
Newspaper articles.
Preparing and making presentations.
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
- Recognising/understanding various register/accents
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Grammar
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Object participles –
Present, past and future participles.
Object participles from possessives.
Object participles as nouns.
Time expressions: when with object participle.
Indirect speech.
Combinations with dik-(y)ecek + possessive.
Learning Resources
Books
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Course books: Rona, Bengisu, Turkish in three months (Hugo) in pdf format
chapter: 14.
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Dilmer 4 (available at SOAS book shop)
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
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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
Lewis, Geoffrey (2000) Turkish Grammar, Oxford University Press.
Rona, Bengisu (1989) Get by in Turkish, BBC Publications, London.
Uzuner, Buket, “ Güneş Yiyen Çingene”, Yazın Öyküleri, (2012) Everest Yayınları.
Dictionaries
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Langenscheidt New Standard Dictionary
The Redhouse Turkish-English Dictionary
Tureng online 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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