Books:
- Resuhi Akdikmen Standard Turkish Dictionary
- Can Goknil Bilmecelerle ABC
- Talat Sait Talman 201 Turkish Verbs
- Orhan Veli Kanik Siirler
- Erol Unal Karabiyik & Yilmaz Ozek Tonton Ali Okulda, Tonton Ali Yeni Yila Giriyor
- Rasim Kaygusuz Cin Ali'nin Arabasi
- Nurettin Koc Guzel Turkceyi Ogreniyorum -Ogrenci Kitabi
- Nurettin Koc Guzel Turkceyi Ogreniyorum-Ogrenci Defteri
Grading:
There is written homework everyday,which is collected for correction and grading. The written work may involve doing exercises from the book, worksheets that I have prepared, writing dialogues, descriptions and summaries. You will also write an invitation, some poetry, and a short children's story. Sometimes, you will be asked to turn in a casette of your recording of oral exercises. There are 10 quizzes, a midterm and a final.
Grading Criteria |
Percentage |
Attendance(mandatory) |
10% |
Homework |
30% |
Quizzes |
20% |
Midterm |
20% |
Final |
20% |
Syllabus
September 7-9
Chapter 1 : Getting Acquainted- Greetings. Talking about the class room environment. The Alphabet- Turkish sounds, vowel harmony Making Plural, Personal Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns and Demonstrative Adjectives, Asking questions with kim, ne, nasil, Conjugating predicate verbs, Bilmecelerle ABC ,
Quiz
September 13-16
Chapter 1: Introducing and Describing Oneself and Others- Professions, Nationalities- li/siz suffix to generate nouns and adjectives from nouns, Nereli? Cities and countries, negative/question/negative questions of predicate verbs, da as conjunction-Ama/fakat/ve/veya conjunctions, numbers, saat kac? telling simple time, kac saat, kac tane? kac yasinda?
questions
Quiz
September 20-23
Chapter 2- Feeling Sick and Going to the Doctor Parts of the Body- Di'li gecmis of predicate verbs (affirmative/negative/question/negative question), Colors, the locative case, consonant harmony,nerede,ne zaman questions? (orada/icerde/sagda/kuzeyde),var/yok sentences with locatives
Quiz
September 27-30
Chapter 2- Friends/ School/Clothing Describing people and places/Rooms of the house Mis'li gecmis of predicate verbs(affirmative/negative/question/negative question)Nicin/neden questions,hakkinda/gibi/ile Exclamations; em/hem...ne/ne conjunctions Possessive Adjectives, Dative case, Telling time using the dative case; time expression -a kadar, var/yok sentences
Quiz
October 4-7
Chapter 3- Visiting Friends/Cooking Kac para? Ne kadar? questions Introduction of verbs with -mak infinitives Present continuous tense (affirmative, negative, question, negative question), Di'li gecmis and Mis'li gecmis for non-predicate verbs, the objective case, Telling time with the objective case, numbers, giving phone numbers and dates- Quiz
October 11-14
Chapter 3- Food/ Shopping in the Neighborhood, using time expressions with-tir/dir (iki saattir, uc gundur Possessive Adjectives, var/yok sentences with possessives, -ki as relative clause maker to indicate time and place (yarinki, masadaki)- Quiz
October 18-21
Chapter 3- Studying for Exams, Describing the Neighborhood, Var/Yok sentences with locatives and possessives, diye with sormak and cevap vermek, the future tense (affirmative, negative, question, negative question) the ablative case, "Ku vak vak" Song- Quiz
October 25-28
All cases of Nouns, time expressions -dan once/dan sonra/-dan beri ; herkes/kimse; Var/Yok Sentences; Verb conjugations in mis'li, di'li gecmis, future and present continuous tense, asking all kinds of questions- Tonton Ali Okulda - Midterm
November 1-4
Chapter 4- Wedding Invitations/ Relatives noun compounds and noun constructions, the abilitative in di'li/mis'li gecmis/ present continuous and future tenses- birbirleri/kendi,
Reading and Writing Invitations "Yagmur Yagiyor" Song
November 8-11
Chapter 4- Leisure Activities/ Party/ Picnic Noun compounds/ constructions, negative of abilitative, yalniz-sadece, -dan baska Reading Orhan Veli, Cin Ali'nin Arabasi- Quiz
November 15-18
Chapter 5- Giving directions/ Reading Maps Command sentences, ordinal numbers, icin, Using noun compounds and constructions in giving addresses, iken/-ken- Quiz
November 22-24
Chapter 6- Work/Professions/ Work Places -ci and -lik suffixes The aorist (affirmative, negative, question, negative question), Reading Orhan Veli, writing poetry
November 29-Dec 2
Chapter 6- The Wedding Party/Moving the aorist with the abilitative, infinitives as subjects, nominalizations in subordinated clauses, Reading Orhan Veli- Quiz
December 6-9
Chapter 7- The Calendar, days of the week, Schedules, the necessitative Tonton Ali Yeni Yila Giriyor Review
December 13- The Final
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Spring- 1999
Guzel Turkceyi Ogreniyorum II by Nurettin Koc
January 19-21
Aziz Nesin "Evin Hangi Hali?"- reporting of direct quotations with "diye"- uses of time words "sabahlari/kislari/Pazartesi gunu/kisin" "Uses of hala, artik, haydi, keske" Review of Dilek Kipleri
January 25-28
Chapter 3: Traveling, Planning a Trip, A Vacation Review of Conjunctions: Generating of verbs from nouns and adjectives with "las/les" and "lan/len"
February 1-4
Buket Uzuner "Haydi Cervantes'e gidelim",
Indirect of declarative sentences;
Quiz
February 8-11
Chapter 4: Getting Engaged;
Military Service Indirect of questions;
"Madem","Meger" Mehmet Akif Ersoy "Istiklal Marsi"
February 16-18
Chapter 4: Renting a House, Signing a Contract,
Indirect of declarative sentences and questions Reading ads for houses for rent
February 22-25
Chapter 4: Furnishing a House; Rooms and Furnitures;
Various ways of indicating necessity,
Indirect of the Necessitative Sentences;
Quiz
March 1-4
"Nasrettin Hoca" Tencere Dogurdu";
"Optative+ diye"- and "command+ diye" to indicate intention;
Indirect of declarative,
question and necessitative sentences
March 8-11
Indirect of command sentences,
review of all reported speech; "-digi icin/-digindan/-digindan dolayi" to indicate intention
March 15-18
Chapter 5: Turkey and Turks;
geography- Orhan Veli "Istanbulu Dinliyorum Gozlerim Kapali" "boyunca-suresinde-sirasinda/ -dan beri/-dir" Verbal Noun Constructions/Nominalizations,
Film on geography and cities,
Midterm
March 22-25
- Turkish Cities/Architecture
- Oktay Rifat "Anit Kabiri Gezdim"
- Films on Mimar Sinan and Topkapi
- Ragmen/halde; "-mis olmak"/-acak olmak/ maz olmak
- Verbal Noun Constructions/Nominalizations
March 29- April 1
Chapter 6: Turkish Culture/ Music "Katibim",
Listening to various kinds of Turkish Music,
Review of Relative Clauses;
double phrases of adjectives and adverbs -ali/-di...-ali/-di...mi Proverbs;
reading a short newspaper article
April 5-8
Chapter 6: Mythology
"Yunus Baliginin Ustundeki Cocuk",
The Passive/Causative/Passive+Causative
Gibi/-iyor gibi/-mis gibi/-ir gibi
Muhakkak/belki/ -dikca ;
reading a short newspaper article;
Quiz
April 12-15
Chapter 7: Turkish History
Mustafa Necati "Asil Ruhlar"
Review of various -mis;/ Review of Conditionals
Reading a short newspaper article
Chapter 7: Republic and Independence War
April 19-21
Ataturk "Cocuklugum"
Review of various -ki's/
Review of Reflexive verbs; short newspaper article April 26-29
Chapter 8: Turkish Crafts/Art
"Hacivat ve Karagoz"
Film on Turkish art and crafts
Review of Reciprocal Verbs
Reading a short newspaper article
May 3
Final and Celebration
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