Intermediate Turkish A is designed for students who can already read and understand paragraphs of a fair length and also write short paragraphs in present, past and future tenses using with gerunds.  The course will further cover the use of verb active, auxiliary verbs, participles, indirect speech, causative gerunds, and gerunds of time.  Due to the nature of Turkish language the use of relevant suffixes with the verbs will be explained within sentences.  The course will include comprehensive reading passages of a fair length. 

Students are required to attend language laboratory sessions and listen to the recordings on the WebCT (one hour a week) and hand in their Work Book for correction.

The students at the end of this course (Intermediate Turkish A) will be able to write sentences in present, past and future tense as well as change them into indirect speech. They will be able to read passages of a fair length.

Attendance (10%)

Class participation (10%)

Fortnightly assignments (30%)

Final examination (including oral component) (50%).

Students are required to attend language laboratory sessions and listen to the recordings on the WebCT (one hour a week) and hand in their Work Book for correction.

2 x 2 hours of lectures per week (may include language laboratory session). Students will be required to spend one additional hour in the language laboratory doing self study.

Elementary Turkish B

Tömer HITIT: Yabancılar icin Türkçe 2 & 3, Ankara: Ankara University Press, 2002

Additional Sources:
G. L. Lewis, Teach yourself Turkish, The English University Press, London 1968
N. A. McQuown & S. Koylan, Spoken Turkish: Book 1 (1972), Book 2 (1981), and a set of six cassettes
G. L. Lewis, Turkish Grammar, 2nd edition, 2000