Five College Mentored Intermediate Turkish Study Guide 2



Five College Mentored Turkish Study Guide 52

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Theme 1: Turkish Food and Culture: Making and Drinking Coffee

Study Goals:

• Familiarity with the CultureTalk Turkey videos:

Food: Making and Drinking Coffee

o Turkish Coffee

o Making Turkish Coffee – Part 1

o Making Turkish Coffee – Part 2

• Memorization and active use of new vocabulary from this week’s CultureTalk videos

• Review of the material presented in LTET Lessons 4-5 (p. 21-34)

• Memorization and active use of new vocabulary from LTET Lessons 4-5

• Familiarity with substantive adjectives and the absence of the definite article.

• Familiarity with Turkish agglutination, vowel harmony and the formation of the plural.

• Familiarity with and comfortable use of the common infinitive.

• Familiarity with consonant changes

• Comfortable use of the Past Definite tense, and understanding of subject-verb agreement in Turkish

• Learning more about Turkish coffee, how it is made, and its role and history in Turkish culture.

• Ability to discuss coffee and its preparation.

• Ability to discuss the differences in Turkish and American coffee preparation and coffee-drinking ‘culture’.

Materials:

• Thomas and Itzkowitz, Elementary Turkish (LTET) Lessons 4-5 (p. 21-34)

Multimedia Materials:

CultureTalk Turkey

Food: Making and Drinking Coffee

o Turkish Coffee

o Making Turkish Coffee – Part 1

o Making Turkish Coffee – Part 2

Getting Started:

• Read through LTET Lesson 4 (p. 21-24). Read all bolded Turkish words and phrases aloud.

• Go over the vocabulary in Lesson 4.

• Watch the Turkish Coffee video on CultureTalk Turkey.

Assignments for Independent Study:

• Complete LTET Lesson 4, Exercises A and B (p. 24). Check your answers with the answer key.

• Read through LTET Lesson 5 (p.25-34). Read all bolded Turkish words and phrases aloud.

• Study Lesson 5, section 2. Variable consonants (p.26)

• Study Lesson 5, section 3. Past definite verb (p. 27-32), paying particular attention to the uses and nuances of this tense described on p. 28-9.

• Review Lesson 5, section 4. Agreement of subject and verb (p.33).

• Complete LTET Lesson 5, Exercise A (p. 33-4). Check your answers with the answer key.

• For all new vocabulary:

o Make Flashcards and review the vocabulary repeatedly.

o Make sure you can translate the words from English to Turkish and vice versa.

o Practice saying each word aloud in a sentence. Practice conjugating each new verb in the past definite tense. Practice using each new noun or adjective with a verb in the past definite tense.

• Following the directions below, study each of this week’s 3 Related Videos on CultureTalk.

Working with the CultureTalk videos:

• First, watch the video through at least twice. Listen carefully and try your hardest to understand at least the sense of what is being said. Use visual and tonal clues, and listen for words you recognize.

• Read the Turkish transcript. Pay particular attention to words and endings you couldn’t quite catch. Do you feel a little more comfortable with the structures now? You could look up a few words now, to aid your understanding. Read the Turkish transcript a second time, and watch the video again.

• Finally, read the English transcript, and watch the video once more.

• Print out or download the Turkish transcripts of this week’s CultureTalk videos. Go over them carefully, making sure you understand all vocabulary and grammar. Underline words and phrases you do not understand. Look up the vocabulary. Is any of the grammar unclear to you? Be sure to bring up any points of confusion at your tutorial.

Remember to make flashcards of all unfamiliar words and expressions! Use the Turkish transcription for correct spelling.

Please be sure to give yourself plenty of time to work with the videos; this will enable you to benefit the most from them.

Conversation Session Preparation Guide:

• Be prepared to drill, practice, and perform any of the exercises assigned in the textbook.

• Be prepared to use the new vocabulary and grammar you have learned this week.

• Be prepared to discuss any or all of this week’s CultureTalk videos.

• Be prepared to participate actively in a discussion of any of this week’s Discussion Questions.

• Be prepared to participate actively in any of this week’s Role-Play Activities.

Discussion Questions:

• Be prepared to talk about how to make Turkish coffee, and to be asked to explain the process in detail. Have you ever tried making Turkish coffee? Do you want to? Have you ever tried drinking Turkish coffee? Did you like it? How was it different from American coffee?

• Based on the first video be prepared to talk briefly about the history of Turkish coffee.

• What are the different coffee types you could be served in Turkey when you go to a coffee shop? Are they similar to what you might encounter in the U.S.? Do people drink coffee a lot in the U.S.?

Weekly Role-play Activities:

• You are in a coffee shop in Turkey. You order coffee – by which you naturally mean Turkish coffee. But the waiter has brought you Nescafe instead. You call the waiter back and want him/her to change the coffee. The waiter might become obstreperous! Or will he be apologetic? (Students change roles after the first performance):

First student: The customer

Second student: The waiter

• You are Turkish, and one of your American friends wants to learn how to make Turkish Coffee. Since you know how to make it, your friend comes and asks you to explain him/her exactly how it ought to be done. (Students change roles after the first performance):

First student: The student who knows how to make Turkish coffee

Second student: The American friend

To prepare for these Discussion Questions and Role-Play Activities you should:

• Memorize words you will need and practice challenging words or phrases aloud.

• For the Role-Plays, practice playing both parts (aloud!) in front of a mirror.

• Make yourself ready to actively engage in these conversations by the time of your conversation session. This doesn’t mean you need to know every single word, but you should be well-prepared. (Be sure you have memorized the specialized coffee vocabulary from this week’s CultureTalk videos.)

Homework to Hand in at the Tutorial:

• Can you think of a food or drink in the U.S. which is significant to Americans in a way comparable to the way in which Turkish coffee is significant to Turks? Write a dialogue in which an American explains the significance and preparation of a traditional American food or drink to his/her intrigued Turkish friend. This dialogue should be at least 1 page long. Practice reading your dialogue aloud, and be prepared to act it out at your conversation session.

• Write a dialogue in which a surprise guest arrives at a family home, and is naturally offered Turkish coffee…But both daughters of the house want the honor of preparing it! Each argues that her technique is better, describing exactly how she prepares the coffee and who taught her to do it that way. What will the solution be? This dialogue should be at least 18 lines long.

• In the CultureTalk video Turkish Coffee, the speaker mentions that coffee was originally brought to Turkey from Africa. Tell the story of how coffee arrived in Turkey, narrated in the past definite tense by an (imaginary) character who was there when it happened. How do you imagine the Ottoman nobles reacted to this new beverage? Did people like it at first? This story should be at least 15 sentences long.

• Write out LTET Lesson 5, Exercise B (p. 34). Feel free to check your own work in the answer key, but still bring the completed exercise to your tutorial.

Self-Assessment:

• I have studied and can now comfortably understand this week’s 3 related CultureTalk videos.

• I have memorized all new vocabulary from this week’s CultureTalk videos.

• I have memorized all new vocabulary from LTET Lessons 4-5.

• I understand and have completed LTET Lessons 4-5.

• I understand and have reviewed substantive adjectives, agglutination, vowel harmony, consonant changes and the formation of the plural.

• I understand and can comfortably use the common infinitive and the Past Definite tense.

• I can discuss the differences in Turkish and American coffee preparation and coffee-drinking ‘culture’.

• I can discuss how, when and why Turkish coffee is made.

• I am prepared to go on to the next study guide.

• I am ready to submit my self-assessment report.

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