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Foreign Language I

Course Code	: YD183
Course Type	: Required
Couse Group	: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language	: Turkish
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 2
Prt.	: 0
Credit	: 2
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 3

Objectives of the Course

This is an A1 level (Starter) course. This course’s main objective is to improve the level of the students who have just started learning English or the students who are at their beginner level. The course gives opportunities to students to improve their beginner level studying integrated skills via real life contexts. Communicative approach is also emphasized.

Course Content

This course enables students to study on basic contents of English such as; introducing and greeting, hometown and countries, numbers, age, phone numbers, family, activities and hobbies, time, food and shopping. During the course, students meet basic grammar points such as have got, to be, possessive adjectives, a/an, there is/are, telling the time, Present Simple, adverbs of frequency.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Burcu AYDIN

Assoc. Prof. Güliz TURGUT DOST

Ins. Saim ÖZKAN

Prof. Faruk KALAY

Prof. Yıldız TURGUT

Learning Outcomes

1.	To be able to introduce themselves and greet people in different ways.
2.	To be able to talk about their hometown and where they live, ask people where they live and where they are from and what their nationality and language are.
3.	To be able to tell their age and ask people their ages.
4.	To be able to talk about the family members using personel pronouns and possessive adjectives.
5.	To be able to talk about free time activities and hobbies, tell their favourite hobbies, rank the activities and ask people about their favourite activities and hobbies.
6.	To be able to talk about days, weeks, months and seasons, tell their birthdays and important days and say which days, months and seasons they like or dislike.
7.	To be able to tell the places in a city and their locations, and ask people where they are.
8.	To be able to ask and tell the time and arrange a meeting with someone.
9.	To be able to do a shopping list, tell the names, colours and prices of clothes, tell which clothes they and others usually wear and like, and use the expressions about shopping.

Recommended or Required Reading

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

The Verb Be (singular-plural) Statements and Questions Question Words: Who-What-Where-How old? + Vocabulary about Countries, Nationalities, Languages

Week 2 - Theoretical

This-That-These-Those Plural and Irregular Nouns

Week 3 - Theoretical

Have got/Has got Possessive ‘s and Possessive Adjectives + Vocabulary about Family

Week 4 - Theoretical

There is/There + Places in a Town

Week 5 - Theoretical

Prepositions of Time and Place, Positive and Negative Imperatives + Months of the Year + Telling the time

Week 6 - Theoretical

Can/Can’t + Vocabulary about Sports

Week 7 - Theoretical

Present Simple Tense (Positive-Negative-Questions-Short Answers) + Hobbies and Interests

Week 8 - Theoretical

Adverbs of Frequency + Object Pronouns, Like+ing + Adjectives to Describe Feelings

Week 9 - Theoretical

Be going to: Intentions and Predictions + Holiday Activities / Future Tense (Will / Won't)

Week 10 - Theoretical

Can/Can’t (Asking for Permission) + Why-Because + Clothes Vocabulary about Money and Prices

Week 11 - Theoretical

Must/Mustn’t / Can’t (Prohibition) + Personality Adjectives

Week 12 - Theoretical

Have to/Don’t have to / Needn’t + Jobs

Week 13 - Theoretical

Present Continuous Tense (Positive-Negative-Questions-Short Answers) + Vocabulary about House and Furniture

Week 14 - Theoretical

Present Simple Tense vs. Present Continuous Tense + Vocabulary about Housework

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Final Examination	1	%100

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	15	4	0	60
Final Examination	1	10	1	11
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				71

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PÇ-1	PÇ-2	PÇ-3	PÇ-4	PÇ-5	PÇ-6	PÇ-7	PÇ-8	PÇ-9	PÇ-10	PÇ-11	PÇ-12	PÇ-13	PÇ-14	PÇ-15	PÇ-16
OÇ-1	4		4		4
OÇ-2	4		4		4
OÇ-3	4		4		4
OÇ-4	4		4		4
OÇ-5	4		4		4
OÇ-6	4		4		4
OÇ-7	4		4		4
OÇ-8	4		4		4
OÇ-9	4		4		4

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