Learning Activity - Turkish Pronunciation

[Dylan Morley]

For my learning activity I would place a few basic words in different categories on the board that use all the of the difficult letters in the Turkish alphabet.  In my opinion, the hardest words include to pronounce include ç ı ğ ö ü ş. First and foremost I would go over the correct pronunciation of the worst and then use different words to describe them.  For example, we could go over colors.  Kirmızı means red while Yeşil means green.  Or we could do numbers like three which isüç.  Also we could use individuals in the classroom such as teacher which is öğretmen.  In addition to teaching some of these harder to pronounce vocabulary I would also teach basic words such as hello (merhaba) or goodbye (hoşçakalin).  I believe this could be a good way to expose individuals to Turkish pronunciation.