Five College Mentored Intermediate Turkish Study Guide 4



Five College Mentored Turkish Study Guide 54

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Theme 1: Turkish Food and Culture: Turkish Tea

Study Goals:

• Understanding of LTET Lesson 7 (p. 42 -46)

• Familiarity with the CultureTalk Turkey videos:

Food: Turkish Tea

o Social Importance of Coffee and Tea

o ‘Illegal’ Tea

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

• Memorization and active use of new vocabulary from LTET Lesson 7 (p. 42-46)

• Familiarity with and comfortable use of personal and interrogative pronouns

• Comfortable use of demonstratives

• Understanding and comfortable use of the imperative, both formal and informal

• Understanding of basic Turkish word order.

• Learning more about the history and modern role of tea in Turkish culture.

• Ability to compare and contrast the functions of coffee and tea in Turkish society.

Materials:

• Thomas and Itzkowitz, Elementary Turkish (LTET) Lesson 7 (p. 42-46)

Multimedia Materials:

CultureTalk Turkey

Food: Turkish Tea

o Social Importance of Coffee and Tea

o ‘Illegal’ Tea

Getting Started:

• Read through LTET Lesson 7 (p. 42-6). Read all bolded Turkish words and phrases aloud.

• Memorize all new vocabulary from Lesson 7.

• Watch the Social Importance of Coffee and Tea video on CultureTalk Turkey.

Assignments for Independent Study:

• Study example sentences 1-7 (p.42)

• Review sections 1-2 and memorize the personal and interrogative pronouns (p.42-3)

• Study and memorize the demonstratives in section 3 (p. 43).

• Study the forms and uses of the imperative in section 4 (p. 44-5)

• Read section 5. Word order (p. 45).

• 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 (the same as in preceding weeks), 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 both 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 the way Turkish people make tea. Have you ever drunk Turkish tea? If so, where and when? What did you think of it? What are the differences between the teabags used in the U.S. and the tea made by Turkish people?

• Based on the first video be prepared to talk about the region tea is grown in Turkey. Do people grow tea in any parts of the U.S.?

• Which one do American people drink more? Tea or coffee? What about the Turkish people? Do you think Turkish people drink tea more than coffee?

• What are the ladies in the second video talking about? What is ‘illegal tea’? is it consumed in the U.S.?

Weekly Role-play Activities:

• You and one of your Turkish friends are discussing whether tea is better than coffee. S/he thinks that tea is better than coffee, but you argue for coffee. Both sides are trying to support their perspectives by giving reasons. (Students change roles after the first performance):

First student: The supporter of coffee

Second student: The supporter of tea

• You are in the school cafeteria with one of your classmates. You are having tea and you clumsily spill the tea on your classmate. The tea was really hot and your classmate was hurt. (Students change roles after the first performance):

First student: The student

Second student: The classmate

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. (This week, be sure you know not only the vocabulary you will need to discuss coffee and tea, but also apologies, etc. for the second Role-Play Activity.

Review:

• Go through the flashcards you made for Study Guides 3, using each word or phrase aloud in a sentence. Are you still comfortably using all of this vocabulary?

• Go back to the list of absolute noun forms on LTET p. 37. Can you still confidently produce the objective definite forms?

• Can you still explain a recipe in Turkish?

Homework to Hand in at the Tutorial:

• Çay yok! Imagine that a global tea crisis means there is suddenly no tea left in Turkey. 2 or 3 distraught Turks discuss what tea means to each of them, and recount memories to do with drinking tea. What makes Turkish tea so special to them? How will they cope? Everyone makes suggestions. Will there be a happy ending? This dialogue should be at least 1 page long. Be sure to include personal and interrogative pronouns.

• Write a dialogue on any subject in which one of the interlocutors is extremely bossy. Use at least 15 imperatives. (At least 20 lines).

• Write out Lesson 7, Exercises A and B (p. 45-6).

Self-Assessment:

• I have studied and can now comfortably understand this week’s 2 related CultureTalk videos.

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

• I understand and have completed LTET Lesson 7 (p. 42-46).

• I have memorized all new vocabulary from LTET Lesson 7.

• I understand and can comfortably use personal and interrogative pronouns, and demonstratives.

• I understand and comfortably use the imperative, both formal and informal.

• I understand basic Turkish word order.

• I know about the history and modern role of tea in Turkish culture.

• I can compare and contrast the functions of coffee and tea in Turkish society.

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

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

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