Conversation Partner Guide

Turkish Study Guide 13

Online at http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/turkish
Essential Prepration:
1. Go through the student study guide carefully, all materials assigned, and the instructions
on this sheet. Remember to confine yourself to using the vocabulary and structures the
students are learning.
2. Go through this conversation guide carefully and prepare yourself for each exercise.
Prepare necessary materials as needed.
3. Remember to give instructions and responses in simple Turkish. You need to think about
this and practice ahead of time. Remember to train yourself to use a common set of
instructions and responses and to introduce new ones gradually and that correspond
appropriately to the students progress.
4. Prepare an exercise/drill for the accusative case.
5. Recycle or create new identity cards for Part A.
6. Bring with you the supplementary vocabulary from page 178 and choose some
vocabulary from the unit for Part A.
Lesson Plan:
Remind students at the beginning of the session that there will be 10 minutes at the end of the
session to ask you questions in English. Remind them that during the session Turkish is the
only language to be used, even when they need to ask questions.
Part A: Whole group together (10-15 minutes) Move from student to student, but give
students plenty of time to think and respond before helping them along. The group should be
in a circle of chairs or around a table.
Greetings
Greet students as a group as well as individually. Initiate casual conversation asking after
their health, what they are doing tonight, today, tomorrow, etc. This activity is meant to give
students time to warm up and practice speaking Turkish before starting the dialogues and the
next activity.
Vocabulary Drill
Hand each student a vocabulary word and ask for 1-2 sentences using the vocabulary word.
Have students share their vocabulary words.
Identity Cards
It has been a while since students have done an exercise with identity cards. Hand out the
identity cards and have students introduce themselves to one another inquiring about personal
information and whether the other person speaks a foreign language. Tell students to utilize
their new vocabulary about language when doing their introductions and greetings.

Part B: Students work in pairs for dialogue practice (15-20 minutes)

Scenario I: Students will role play a dialogue similar to the one in Section 3 of Unit 9. Let
students know that they must use the ablative case at least 3X. Afterward each pair has had a
chance to practice, students will perform the dialogue in front of other classmates.
Scenario II: Two classmates debate which are the hardest and most rewarding aspects of
learning Turkish. (dialogue students had to write for homework).
Scenario III: Using phrases similar to the ones on page 179, students will role play a
scenario in which one Turk and a foreigner are speaking. The foreigner asks the Turks to
slow down, explain words, and general questions about the Turkish language. Have students
switch roles.
Part C: Whole group together (15-20 minutes)
Activity 1: For homework, students have practiced talking about why they want to study
Turkish and whether it is difficult or not. Have each student explain to his/her classmates
why s/he has chosen to study Turkish and whether it is difficult or not.
Activity 2: Drill you created for the accusative case.
Activity 3: Devote this time to talking about languages. See if how many languages
everyone in the group speaks, encourage students to ask each other questions.
Give the students a chance to ask questions in English during the last 5-10 minutes.
This is good time to discuss cultural issues that came up during the session. End the
session on a positive note. Practice appropriate parting/goodbye/see you again phrases.