Conversation Partner Guide

Turkish Study Guide 17

Online at http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu/turkish

Essential Preparation:
1. Go through the student study guide carefully, all materials assigned, and the instructions
on this sheet. Remember to limit yourself to using the vocabulary and structures the
students are learning. This is one of the hardest parts of teaching beginning students.
You need to practice speaking their vocabulary.
2. Go through this conversation guide carefully and prepare yourself for each exercise.
Prepare necessary materials as needed.
3. Remember to give responses and instructions in Turkish using the structures and
vocabulary the students are familiar with. If you want to introduce new instructional
phrases, explain them to the students first before using them. Introduce new phrases
gradually and in concordance with what students are learning. Avoid introducing too
many new phrases at once and when students have had a challenging week with the
grammar in the book.
4. Bring in a series of images that depict different sports being played.
5. Bring in any other supplementary materials such as multimedia activities, songs, youtube
videos, etc that will enhance the students knowledge of Turkish culture and language.
Lesson Plan:
Remind students at beginning of session that there will be 10 minutes at the end of the
session in which they can ask you questions in English.
Remember to have students sit in a circle or around a table and to encourage them to stand
up and move around when doing the dialogue practice.
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 them
about their weekend plans, what occurred during the week etc. Use only structures students
are familiar with and know how to do. Since they are learning the definite past, you can ask
them what they did last weekend as a warm-up activity.

Months, days, seasons drill

Drill students on months, days, and seasons by asking them individually to say the months
backwards and the 7 days of the week backwards. Randomly choose students to do the next
one, avoid going in order so that students wont anticipate their response. Give students
different months and ask for the appropriate season.
Sports vocabulary
Show students the different sports images and ask them to create 2-3 sentences based on the
images. Some sentences should be in the present progressive and others in the definite past.
Part B: Students work in pairs for dialogue practice (15-20 minutes)
Scenario I: Two friends talk about plans for this evening.
Scenario II: Students have prepared two dialogues each that are meant to be acted out during
the conversation session. Have each pair act out one dialogue from each partner before the
group. Allow them some time to practice before they act out the dialogues.
Scenario III: Students will tell their partners what they did with their friends last Friday or
Saturday night. They should tell their partners where they went, with whom, and what they
did. Then have them briefly share their plans for this weekend using the present progressive.
Part C: Whole group together (15-20 minutes)
Activity 1: As a group, create a story together. The activity works as follows:
Step 1: As a group you decide on a character. You describe this character, their name, what
they look like, etc.
Step 2: One person in the group says a sentence that starts out the story. It can be in the
definite past or the present progressive (the two verb tenses the students are familiar with).
Step 3: The next person says a sentence to continue the story. This repeats until someone
decides to end the story.
Activity 2: Have each student talk about what they have done during the day.
Activity 3: Have each student present what they did for the activity Well Earned Day Off
in the study guide.
Activity 4: If you planned anything that you would like to do (such as a song, video, etc) you
can do so at this point.
Give the students a chance to ask questions in English during the last 5-10 minutes.
This is a 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.