MERHABA BRIDGES
Bridges Team: Merhaba Team
Instructor(s) Name(s): Rebecca Mueller, Date: 03/01/2016
Lesson #: 6
Location: Fairview Elementary
Theme: A trip to the ZOO in Istanbul!
Objectives: The students will be able to:
 Say 6 color words
 Say numbers 6 to 10
 Say 7 animal words
 Say what they like and don’t like
 Say yes and no
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Introduction: Circle Up!
 Students hold hands in a circle. Teachers
come together in the center; greet students
by shaking hands and saying “Merhaba”
and “Ben _____”
2 minutes
None
5 minutes
Song visuals
Team
Member
Language
Coordinator
Comments
Everyone
Extra challenge: learn how to say Memnun oldum,
“pleased to meet you”. Teachers can say this to all the
students.
Activity 1: Bird Song
Merve,
EVERYONE:
 Seated in a circle: Review the song using
the pictures and reciting each line
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separately to see if we can recognize and
reproduce some words.
SMALL GROUPS:
 Students and teachers will go over the
words from each line again, using the small
visual cards.
 Students will order the cards, counting Bir,
Iki, Uc (there are 6).
 Each group can also talk about the colors
of the pictures, and each picture’s place in
the story (Bir, Iki, Uc).
MAYBE SKIP THE ABOVE TO SAVE TIME
FOR OTHER ACTIVITIES
Activity 2: What I Like
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Teachers will use two puppets to model
“Seviyorum” / I Like and “Sevmiyorum” / I
Don’t like. Use a THUMBS UP or THUMBS
DOWN gesture for each instead of
translating to English.
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Evet/ Hayir can also be modeled.
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Students can give a “thumbs up” when
they hear “I like” and a “thumbs down”
when they hear “I don’t like.”
Activity 3: "Going to the Zoo"
EVERYONE:
 Show students a picture of the zoo and talk
5 minutes
2 puppets
10 minutes
Zoo visual
Rebecca and
Merve
Rebecca
candy
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about the zoo.
Ask students if they have been to the zoo
(EVET can raise hand, then HAYIR can raise
hand).
Asks students if they like the zoo (EVET/
HAYIR raise hands).
Go around circle and ask which animals they
like (can say the animals in English for now).
With every answer, ask all students to raise
their hands if they also do or don’t like
(SEVIYOR they like, SEVMIYOR they don’t’
like). If a student does not produce “I Like,”
teacher can say it for them.
Students can get a small candy when they
take their turn.
Transition
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Still seated in a circle, teachers introduce
today’s games but students must agree to
practice the Turkish words before we play
them.
I Spy
Charades
Pick 2 teams (small groups) and teachers
to work with each group
Activity 4: I spy
2 GROUPS:
 Sitting in a circle, students quickly
practice colors together using visuals, or
2 minutes
10 minutes
None
None
Merve
Everyone
2 minutes
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things from around the room. Students
wearing the color that is being practiced
can be in “Charge” of making sure they
remember that color name.
Students do “Stand up sit down” game
based on who is wearing a given color.
“Whoever is wearing kirmizi stand up! OK,
now sit down!”
I Spy: Teacher asks if anyone knows how
to play I Spy. ONE student can start and
model the game. Then each student gets a
turn to be the “I spy” leader using colors
in Turkish. They can use Evet and Hayir
when the other students ask them “Is it
this book?” “Is it the table?” etc.
If there is time after all students lead, the
teacher can also introduce a new color to
the game (pembe, mor or turuncu, maybe
based on what the kids are wearing?).
Activity 5: Charades
EVERYONE:
 Everyone comes back together in the
front. Teachers show the animal visuals
and review quickly with the students.
“Who knows THIS animal?” Student(s) can
volunteer the name. Teacher models
name. students practice saying it loud,
soft, singing,etc .
 Ask students to break into teams and
practice well because the winning team
gets candy.
2 minutes
6 minutes?
20 minutes
5 minutes
Animal visuals,
Merve,
small cards
with picture of
animal (to
draw from a
pile)
paper and
marker to keep
score
candy
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SMALL GROUPS:
 Teachers ask students if they like “Like” or
“Don’t like” each animal, or go around and
ask students to produce sentence “I like
squirrel” etc. for their favorite animal.
5 minutes
EVERYONE:
 Explain the rules for charades – Teams will
pick a leader each round and that leader
has to pick a paper of one animal. They
must act like that animal for their
teammates and teammates must guess the
animal and say together in Turkish (Once
one student knows it they can lead the
others in producing it).
 Have the students play, 1 team then the
next team, for all the animals (3 or 4
rounds).
10 minutes
Activity 6: What We Saw at the zoo
10 minutes
EVERYONE:
 Teachers will use two puppets to model a 5 minutes
conversation about “What they saw at
the zoo” – I saw sekiz/8 fil ! They were
sooo big! They were eating hay! Oh well I
saw 10 giraffes(could be some in English,
more “zoo” animals,” because practicing
the numbers)!” etc.
 Ask students after each exchange, “So,
how many fil did they see?” Sekiz! (Hold
up eight fingers). Review numbers 6-10 in
Puppets
Merve
Number
visuals?
Animal visuals
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particular, could use number visuals.
Activity 7: Feeding the animals
5+ minutes
Animal food
visuals (simple
pictures!!)
EVERYONE:
 Ask students if they would help “feed” the
animals. Students can be asked to draw
(NUMBERS in Turkish) “10 buckets of
water,” “7 bails of hay,” “8 bananas,” “6
apples,” and “9 steaks”
 – They can have a little time (1 minute?)
for each and have to draw simple shapes
like the examples so they have time.
 – They must be accurate!!!, the teachers
can repeat the numbers / help students
count to that number individually if the
students need more help.
 After the activity, teachers can check the
students work. Students who got the
numbers correct get a candy.
Everyone
Paper and
colors
candy
Plan B: Coloring activity. Students must draw a blue (mavi) cat, red dog, etc.
Vocabulary
English
I like
I don’t like
Transliteration
Turkish
Sev-ee-yor-um
seviyorum
sevmiyorum
Sev-mee-yor-um
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