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Chapter 1 : Alphabet, introduce yourself, introduction dialogue
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Chapter 2 : Forming basic sentences / questions (e.g. I am a student)
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Chapter 3 : The structure of there is/there is not. Question suffix, numbers
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Chapter 4 : Introduce family. Asking questions by using possessive suffixes
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Chapter 5 : Talking about daily life using the present continuous tense
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Chapter 6 : Talking about yourself, expressing hobbies. The structure of –mAk istemek
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Chapter 7 : Talking about the location of objects, people and buildings
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Chapter 8 : Talking about past events. Using past tense suffix with appropriate adverbs
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Chapter 9 : Describing activities. What you do today, what you did last weekend, etc.
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Chapter 10 : Shopping for food and clothes. Using appropriate phrases and asking questions
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Chapter 11 : Describing future plans. Future tense and related adverbs. –DAn önce
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Chapter 12 : Expressing the weather forecast. Months, seasons and other related vocabulary
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Chapter 13 : Describing a place or where an object is. Prepositions
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Chapter 14 : Talking about your job and profession names. Definite noun phrases
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Chapter 15 : Telling the time: what time is it?
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Chapter 16 : Body parts. Having a dialogue with a doctor
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Chapter 17 : Compare objects, people, etc. by using comparative and superlative structures
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Chapter 18 : Functions of the –ki suffix
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Chapter 19 : Practising structures learnt so far
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Chapter 20 : Revision
Course Description
The course introduces students to the following functions.
- Greetings
- Introducing yourself, friends and family
- Describing your nationality, age and profession
- Talking about your daily life; expressing routines
- Asking about hobbies, free time activities, interests and expressing likes and dislikes
- Talking about past events
- Shopping at the market or shop, enquiring about prices, size, quantity, etc.
- Describing future events/plans
- Describing a place e.g. where is the park/market? Describing where an object is e.g. Where is the book?
- Understanding the weather forecast
Level
CEFR A1
For absolute beginners or for those with very little knowledge of the language.
Materials
Yedi İklim Türkçe Seti A1
İstanbul Yabancılar İçin Türkçe Kitabı A1
The handouts and worksheets will be provided for each session from the above books and other additional resources.
Integrated Language
Kübra was born and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey and obtained her undergraduate degree in Turkish Language and Literature from the University of Sakarya in 2009. She finished her masters degree at the University of Istanbul, and completed her PhD on “Aspect Categorisation of the Travel Book of Evliya Çelebi” at the same university in 2018. Her studies include Ottoman Turkish, Old Anatolian Turkish and Linguistics. She also received a diploma from SOAS University of London in English Language and Academic Studies.
She started her career as a research assistant at the University of Kultur in İstanbul and worked there between 2010 and 2013. She participated in training programmes for Turkish language teachers in Turkey and received a certificate of teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language which was issued by Ankara University and Yunus Emre Institute. In 2014, after obtaining this certificate, she started to work at Yunus Emre Institute, London as a Turkish language teacher and education coordinator. She joined the University of Cambridge Language Centre as a visiting Turkish language teacher in 2017. She has also been working on the cataloguing project of the Turkic collection at Cambridge University Library. She still currently works in these Institutions as a Turkish teacher.
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Live Classes
Turkish Language Class - Kubra Past Recurring
Date | : | Tuesday, January 07, 2020 |
Time and Duration | : | 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (90 Minutes ) |
Time Zone | : | India Standard Time |
Datacenter Region | : | Europe (London, United Kingdom) |
Highlights
- Greetings
- Introducing yourself, friends and family
- Describing your nationality, age and profession
- Talking about your daily life; expressing routines
- Asking about hobbies, free time activities, interests and expressing likes and dislikes and many mor