Conversation Partner Guide

Turkish Study Guide 20

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 the vocabularies and structures students are
learning and are familiar with.
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 to students in simple Turkish. You can
gradually add more complicated instructions and responses as the semester progresses.
Remember to add these new phrases slowly and in correspondence with the students
progress.
4. Bring in any other supplementary materials such as multimedia activities that you think
may add to cultural discussion.
5. Bring in images similar to the ones on page 273 of different clothing items for a
vocabulary drill in Part A.
6. Bring in an image of an empty suitcase and images of different items one would pack in a
suitcase before leaving for vacation. This will be used for Part C.
Lesson Plan: Remind students at the beginning of the session that there will be 10 minutes at the
end of the session for them to ask you questions in English.
Remember to have students sitting in a circle of chairs or around the table and to encourage them
to stand up and move around when practicing the dialogues.
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. Ask them questions that will encourage them to
speak in Turkish and warm up. Try to use structures and vocabulary that the students know and
perhaps need to practice as well. Allow ten minutes for this activity while students get settled and
everyone becomes adjusted to speaking Turkish.
Vocabulary Drill
Show the group, one image at a time, the different pictures you brought in of clothing items. Ask
the group the name of each item as you show them.

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

Scenario I: Students will reenact a scenario in which a friend has lost his/her wallet and does not
know what to do. One student will play the friend who has lost the wallet and the other will play
the friend who suggests advice on what the student needs to do. Have students switch roles.
Scenario II: Two friends are speaking on the phone and discussing the arrival of a visitor. One
friend is hosting a friend from out-of-town but can not go to pick him/her up. S/he has asked
his/her other friend to pick up the out-of-town visitor. While at the airport, the friend who is
giving a ride calls the other friend from his/her cell phone. S/he doesnt know what the visitor
looks like! The host explains what the friend is wearing, what s/he looks like, and from where
s/he is coming from. Have students switch roles.
Scenario III: Students have prepared dialogues similar to Section 5 in Unit 13. Have students
reenact these dialogues.
Part C: Whole group together (15-20 minutes)
Activity 1: Each student will take a turn describing a friends personality and appearance using
gibi and kadar.
Activity 2: Show students the picture of the empty luggage you have brought and the images of
the various objects. Ask students to pack their luggage by naming the different objects to put
into the suitcase. Which objects do they usually bring? Which objects do they not usually bring?
Have them create a list of objects they usually put in their luggage.
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 goodbye/parting/see you again phrases.