50 WAYS TO TEACH CHILDREN TURKISH 1 Get fairy tales and storybooks in Turkish on Amazon or from your local library Children love shared reading time and regardless of language acquisition they will always remember the time they spent with you reading books.Try to find books with good illustrations. Look at the pictures with your …
Turkish Songs for Children 1. Mini Mini Bir Kus Mini Mini Bir Kus Donmustu Pencereme konmustu Aldim onu iceriye Cik cik cik cik otsun diye Pir pir ederken canlandi Ellerim bak bos kaldi… 2. Ali Babanin Cifligi Ali Baba’nın bir çiftliği var Ciftliğinde horozları var Ü-ürü-ü diye bağırır Ciftliğinde Ali Baba’nın Ali Baba’nın bir …
Turkey is a very popular place people choose to vacation at. Most people go to the beach towns on the South coast, like Marmaris, Bodrum, Alanya and Kusadasi. This is where the parties are and the beaches. But there are also castles to visit, like the big castle in Bodrum, museums, mosques, countryside to see, …
Belly dancing is very popular in Turkey. The music is authentic Turkish music, with instruments like ‘tef’, which is a tambourine, and the zither. The zither is in the shape of a box, with strings across it, and it is played by using a pick, to strum, like a guitar. Folk music is very popular …
The Turkish alphabet has 29 letters. Letter Say it like this … A Uh B Beh C Jeh Ç Ch D Deh E Eh F Feh G Geh Ğ No sound at all! H Heh I Uh İ Eee J Juh K Keh L Leh M Meh N Neh O O – not like ow! …
Here are some popular boys’ names: Ali Ahmed/Ahmet Mehmet – very popular! Ibrahim, and sometimes ‘Ibo’ for short Murat Koray Cem. When you talk to someone with this name, you call them ‘Jem’, because the letter ‘c’ is said like a ‘j’ in Turkish. Some popular girls’ names are: Yasemin Aysun, which means ‘beautiful as …
Turkey has been around for a long time , so it has plenty of history. A very famous man, called Mustafa Kemal, is a Turkish hero. He is now called Ataturk, which means ‘Father of the Turks’. All over Turkey, you’ll see statues of him. Ataturk is like a celebrity, because back in 1923, he …
Turkey has more than 75 million people that live there. The biggest city is called Istanbul. Here you can cross a bridge, called the Bosphorus Bridge, from Europe, into Asia. There’s even a sign saying ‘welcome to Europe’ going one way, and ‘welcome to Asia’ going the other. Even though Istanbul is the biggest city, …
Mini Mini Bir Kus Mini Mini Bir Kus Donmustu Pencereme konmustu Aldim onu iceriye Cik cik cik cik otsun diye Pir pir ederken canlandi Ellerim bak bos kaldi… Ali Babanin Cifligi Ali Baba’nın bir çiftliği var Ciftliğinde horozları var Ü-ürü-ü diye bağırır Ciftliğinde Ali Baba’nın Ali Baba’nın bir çiftliği var Ciftliğinde kuzuları var Me-me diye …
Turkish Culture Food For centuries, Turkish khans and sultans had their own chefs prepare the tastiest dishes for them, which also influenced today’s popular Turkish food. Considered to be a combination of Central Asian, Balkan, and Middle Eastern cuisine, Turkish kitchen offers a variety of tastes ranging from mildly spicy Middle Eastern dishes to delicious …