UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses Syllabus
Turkish Upper Intermediate
Turkish Level 3
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Turkish Levels 1, 1+, 2 and 2+ at UCL Language Centre or
equivalent elsewhere (upon interview with tutor).
Ability to make suggestions, express ideas, make negotiations and discussions is required.
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 upper intermediate level to converse with native speakers and discuss
personal, social and current issues using appropriate grammatical structures. The
reading and writing skills will be further developed through cultural awareness by
extended use of authentic material.
Functions
Expressing ideas and opening discussions on social and current issues.
Discussing topics by giving examples.
Understanding the meaning and themes in articles and news and interpreting.
Making oral presentations on a chosen topic.
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Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Talking about likes and dislikes by using verbal nouns
Making suggestions for free time events.
What should one do to be happy and how to deal with stress.
Advertisements, poetry, songs, articles.
Introducing a region in Turkey.
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Vowel harmony
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Understanding the meaning of complex sentences through different listening
material. ( adverts, news, interviews.)
Grammar
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Revision of gerund and conjunctions
Revision of obligations, necessities.
Verbal Nouns
Revising infinitive; mek
Short infinitive; me.
Relative Clause.
Participles
Derivational suffixes.
Learning Resources
Books
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Course book: Rona, Bengisu, Turkish in three months (in pdf format) chapters: 12
and 13.
Dilmer 3 ,Yabancı Dilim Türkçe (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.
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Rona, Bengisu (1989) Get by in Turkish, BBC Publications, London
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Dictionaries
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Langenshcheidt 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
www.turkcegazeteler.com
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