Course Description
Continuation of Elementary Turkish I, emphasizing oral fluency, written expression, and reading comprehension. Taught by the use of vocabulary in simulated settings through repetition drills, frequent use of vocabulary, acting, and reading aloud. Augmented by reading and grammatical analysis of texts.
Athena Title
ELEM TURKISH II
Prerequisite
TURK 1001
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Objectives: 1- read texts of elementary level II difficulty. 2- communicate and converse in Turkish on a variety of topics occurring in everyday situations. 3- write elementary II narrative style paragraphs. 4- develop cultural awareness.
Topical Outline
Week 1: Where is the bus terminal? Topics: Cities, places, transportation, vacation. Functions: Asking about activities, asking about location of places, comparing things, contrasting things. Grammar Points: The definite past auxiliary for nonverbal predicates, the interrogative of the definite past tense. Week 2: How is the weather over there? Topics: Weather, money and banking Functions: Talking about the weather, exchanging money, asking about preferences, expressing preferences. Grammar Points: Or questions and statements, the adverbial suffix -(y)IncA, exceptions to vowel harmony rules, question words: review -mAk icin. Week 3: What would you like? Topics: Food, restaurants, Turkish cuisine, grocery shopping, recipes. Functions: Ordering a meal, expressing thanks, making requests, stating purpose. Grammar points: Counting words, the imperative mood: Third person forms and review,the aorist tense, As-soon-as clauses Week 4: I want to apply for a secretarial position. Topics: Work, careers, abilities and job skills, personality traits, Functions: Stating purpose, applying for a position, asking personal traits, describing people. Grammar points: The non-future subject participle -(y)An, correlative conjunctions: either ... or, neither ... nor, both ... and, simple, derived, and compound verbs, primary postpositions, phrasal verbs. Week 5: Midterm. Week 6: What are you doing during the bayram holiday? Topics: Holidays, vacations, celebrations, customs and traditions, invitations. Functions: Expressing wishes / desires, using cultural formulas appropriately, offering sympathy, extending invitations, accepting / declining invitations, offering something, accepting/ declining an offer. Grammar points: The optative, intensive adjectives, verbal nouns -mA, -(y)I, the relative suffix +ki. Week 7: I am looking for a book. Topics: Books, literature, shopping, daily life and activities, time, personal letters. Functions: Talking about books and literature, talking about daily activities, writing a personal letter. Grammar Points: Adverbs of frequency, the derivative suffix +lA, expressions of time, primary postpositions �nce, sonar, Her and hi�, the adverbial suffix -(y)Ip. Week 8: I am looking for a rental unit. Topics: Houses and apartments, accommodations, hotels. Functions: Looking for an apartment, finding an apartment, signing a lease, finding hotel room, asking questions about a hotel room. Grammar Points: The future subject participle -(y)AcAk, the reflexive pronoun kendi, subject-verb agreement, word order and logical stress, the adverbial auxiliary -(y)ken, contrasting (y) IncA and -(y)ken. Week 9: Are you sick? Topics: Parts of the body, health, illnesses, hospitals and medications, remedies. Functions: Describing minor illnesses, making appointments, asking opinion, expressing opinions, giving medical advice, apologizing for a past action, thanking for a past action. Grammar Points: The necessitative with -mAlI, the derivative suffix -lAn, the non-future object participle -DIK. Week 10: At the pharmacy. Topics: Pharmacies, hygiene, health. Functions: Agreeing, disagreeing. Grammar Points: The partitive and other similar structures, the future object participle-(y)AcAK, the passive and the reflexive. Week 11: At what time does the Izmir train depart? Topics: Travel, transportation, humor. Functions: Speaking about others; gossiping, asking for information, expressing anger, displeasure, des cribing past activities, telling jokes. Grammar Points: Question tags, the reported past tense, the derivative suffix -I, review of the simple tenses, the dubitative auxiliary -mI, the words ayni, ubur, and diger, the adverbial suffix -(y)ArAk. Week 12-13: May I speak to Lale? Topics: Telephone messages, daily activities and chores,cities. Functions: Taking / leaving messages over the phone, asking about ability, expressing ability, possibility, probability, polite requests, asking for help, asking permission. Grammar Points: The abilitative -(y)Abil, the abilitative for politeness, the causative, the adverbial suffix -mAdAn, -mAdAn once / -DIktAn, sonra. Week 14: Are you free? Topics: Transportation, travel, reminiscences, past experiences, the post office, getting. Functions: Getting information about and buying a plane ticket, remembering and talking about the past, comparing the past and present, speculating about past, present, and future events, mailing a parcel; buying stamps. Grammar Points: Forming when clauses, the past progressive tense, the habitual past tense, the conditional, the predicative suffix +Dir Week 15 & 16 Review.
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global CultureSyllabus