UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses Syllabus
Turkish Lower Intermediate
Turkish Level 2
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Turkish Levels 1 and 1+ at UCL Language Centre or equivalent
elsewhere (upon interview with tutor).
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 lower intermediate level. They will be able to express themselves and deal with
practical matters confidently. The course addresses all four language skills (reading,
writing, listening, and speaking) with wider range of vocabulary and grammar. Cultural
awareness will be developed through tasks and role play.
Functions
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Talking about the future
Talking about facts and their habits.
Making requests, stating intentions
Expressing possibility and suggestions
Expressing obligations, giving advice
Telling what you need
Stating conditional situations
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Making plans for near future and distant future
Prepositions of place
Offering and asking for help
Planning a night out.
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Reading road signs.
Expressing their strengths and weaknesses
Expressing their preferences, obligations, wishes and choices.
Seeing a doctor or pharmacist.
Conjunctions
Phonetics
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Vowel harmony
Consonant changes: Hardening and Softening
Narrowing
Grammar
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Endings: Prepositional phrases, Relative phrases, making sentences by using
adjectives and adverbs derived from verbs.
Time expressions: since, for, from .... until ...., after, before.
Future Tense
Present Tense
If conditionals
Can and can not.
May/might and may not/might not.
Obligations, necessities: Need, do not need; have to and do not have to.
Comparisons
Let’s and shall structures
Learning Resources
Books
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Course book: Rona,Bengisu Turkish in Three months,(Hugo) (1998) in PDF.
chapters 7,8 and 9
Dilmer 2 (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
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
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
www.turkcegazeteler.com
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