UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses Syllabus
Turkish Upper Intermediate
Turkish Level 3+
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 to function in everyday spoken and written
Turkish at upper intermediate level to converse with native speakers fluently and discuss
personal, social and current issues using appropriate grammatical structures. Cultural
awareness will be enhanced with the extended use of authentic material and
presentations.
Functions
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Reporting events, using past perfect.
Asking questions with past aorist and past perfect.
Talking about habits in the past.
Stating preferences by using conditional.
Making comparisons.
Writing informal and formal letters.
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Making plans for near future and distant future
Health and fitness.
Expressing their preferences, obligations, wishes and choices.
Time related words and conjunctions; while, when, by,
Jobs/careers/CVs/Job’s interview/Letters.
Renting a house – negotiating.
Reading a short story.
Making presentations on a chosen topic.
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Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Improving pronunciation by listening exercises.
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.
Revision of Tenses
If conditionals with different tenses.
Revision of can and can not.
May/might and may not/might not.
Comparisons
Conjunctions and gerund.
Learning Resources
Books
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Course book: Rona, Bengisu, Turkish in three months (in pdf format) chapters:
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Dilmer 2 &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
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Symons Şenel, The Routledge Intermedıate(2012),Turkish Reader, Political and
Cultural Articles.
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
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