B2Module 5M5.4Editing guide
Soru cümleleri: reported questions
The third and last piece of Module 5. Two kinds of question, handled differently: WH-questions keep their question word and just nominalize the verb, while yes/no questions need the “whether or not” trick where the verb appears twice. Read top to bottom — that's the final video's order. Each beat gives what she says, the exact screen the viewer sees, and how it should move. The Turkish text has to be letter-perfect; the visuals are yours to make better.
1Intro2Two types3The rule
4Core example5Each question word6kim → kimin
7Part B title8Whether-or-not9Person endings
10Which half does what11Past examples12Future examples
13Outro
The 13 beats
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Intro — piece 3
Host + title · 00:22
Says“Now let's look at the third piece of modül 5. Reporting questions.”
On screen
3 · SORU CÜMLELERİ
reported questions
How it movesSame numbered section card as the rest of the module — this is “3”, and it's the last one. Module 5 has three pieces: fiil cümleleri (M5.1 + M5.2), isim cümleleri (M5.3), and this. If you've been showing the three pieces anywhere, this is where the set completes.
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Two types of question
Concept · 00:36
Says“Reported questions split into two types: yes/no questions, and WH questions. We will start with the WH questions today. When I say the WH questions I mean who, what, where, when, why and how.”
On screen
WH questions ★yes / no questions
kim who · ne what · nerede / nereye where · ne zaman when · neden why · nasıl how
How it movesTwo chips in, then a star lands on the WH one and the yes/no chip dims (it comes back at beat 7). Then the six question words build in one at a time as she lists them — she says the list twice, so use the cleaner run and let each word land on its own. Keeping these six visible as a strip you can call back to in beat 5 would tie the section together.
NoteThe audio here is unclear — it transcribes as “double H questions” and later “eight questions,” but she plainly means the who/what/where/when/why/how set. WH questions is what should be on screen. Worth a listen at 00:39 and 01:14 to hear how she actually says it, in case the wording needs a pickup.
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The rule — the question word doesn't move
Rule · 02:04
Says“When we report this kind of question, the question word stays exactly the same, and we change the verb using -DIK and -AcAK.”
On screen
The question word stays — only the verb changes
question word+verb + -DIK / -AcAK+possessive+-(n)I+sordu
How it movesThis is the easy half of the lesson and the screen should feel that way. Best move: hold the question word completely still — no animation on it at all — while the verb beside it visibly transforms. The contrast between the frozen word and the moving one is the rule. The formula is the same one from M5.1 with a question word bolted on the front and sordu instead of söyledi, so build it as a modification of what they know rather than something new.
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The core example
Comparison · 02:27
Says“Ali ‘nereye gidiyorsun?’ diye sordu. Ali nereye gittiğimi sordu.”
On screen
Direct
Ali “nereye gidiyorsun?” diye sordu.
Ali asked: “Where are you going?”
Indirect
Ali nereye gittiğimi sordu.
Ali asked where I was going.
How it movesThe same before → after treatment used across Module 5: quote marks peel away, the verb morphs, the reporting verb lands. But here make nereye the anchor — it should sit in the identical screen position in both lines and not move at all while everything around it changes. Both versions held together at the end reads best.
Notediye sordu is how she frames every direct question in this lesson — it's the quoting frame, the equivalent of dedi in the earlier lessons. Keep it on screen in the direct line and let it disappear in the reported one.
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Through each question word
Examples · 03:21
Says“Let's go through each question word and give examples.” — then she reads each pair, direct first.
On screen
Ali “ne yapıyorsun?” diye sordu.
Ali ne yaptığımı sordu.
Ali asked what I was doing.
Ali “o nerede oturuyor?” diye sordu.
Ali nerede oturduğunu sordu.
Ali asked where he lives.
Ali “neden geç kaldınız?” diye sordu.
Ali neden geç kaldığımızı sordu.
Ali asked why we were late.
Ali “nasıl başardın?” diye sordu.
Ali nasıl başardığımı sordu.
Ali asked how I managed it.
ImagesA simple supporting image per pair — your pick, just starting points: someone glancing over at what you're working on · a map pin on a neighbourhood · arriving late, people already seated · a finished result someone's impressed by. All four are one person asking another something — a two-person framing across the set would tie them together.
How it movesEach is a pair, so keep the before → after rhythm, and keep the question word anchored and still in both lines. One thing worth catching: the person flips in the third one (kaldınız → kaldığımızı, you-plural becomes we) — the same point-of-view shift she taught in M5.1, so emphasise both the question word and the changed ending there.
Read firstThere's a ne zaman pair at 03:56–04:10 that doesn't hold together: she asks “Ali, ne zaman gelecekler?” but reports it as “Ali ne zaman geleceğinizi merak etti / sordu.” Those are two different people — they in the question, you all in the answer. It's left off the screen above on purpose. Don't put that pair up until Can or Jülide says which one is right; the reported half alone (Ali ne zaman geleceğinizi sordu.) is fine to use if the direct half is dropped.
NoteShe offers two reporting verbs on that one — merak etti (“wondered”) and sordu. If it survives the edit, showing the last word swapping between the two is a nice callback to the reporting-verb beat in M5.3.
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kim → kimin
Rule · 04:43
Says“Ali ‘kim geldi?’ diye sordu. Ali kimin geldiğini sordu. Here kim received the genitive case suffix — kimin — because it works like a person here: who.”
On screen
Ali “kim geldi?” diye sordu.
Ali kimin geldiğini sordu.
Ali asked who came.
the one question word that does change — kim takes the genitive -in
How it movesThis is the exception to the rule from beat 3, and it's worth marking as one. Everywhere else the question word sat frozen — here, let kim finally move, with the -in arriving on it as its own beat. Playing it against the earlier examples (“remember how the question word never changed? here's the one that does”) makes it stick.
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Part B — yes/no questions
Section card · 05:18
Says“The second part of questions is yes/no questions. These questions are formed with the question particle mı.”
On screen
YES / NO QUESTIONS
the ones built with the question particle mI
How it movesBring back the two chips from beat 2 and light up the second one — that's the cleanest way to show the lesson turning a corner. Then the section card.
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The “whether or not” construction
Concept · 05:31
Says“And when we report it, we use -ip and -mAdIğInI. For example, let's take the verb gelmek — gelip gelmediğini. This structure is like ‘whether or not’ in English.”
On screen
There's no question word to hold on to — so the verb goes in twice
verb + -Ip+verb + -mA + -DIK + possessive + -(n)I
gelip gelmediğini
= whether or not he came
How it movesThe doubling is the whole idea and it's genuinely strange to an English speaker, so give this beat room. The move that explains it: the verb appears once, then a copy of it slides in beside itself and picks up the negative — positive, then negative, same verb. Landing the English “whether or not” underneath at the end is what makes it click. She reuses gelmek from every other lesson in the module, so students have a familiar verb to watch it happen to.
MakeA simple flat icon for “either way”: one path forking into a yes branch and a no branch, both live. One colour, transparent PNG.
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Person by person — gelmek
Table · 05:45
SaysReads each line.
On screen
benim→gelip gelmediğimiwhether I came or not
senin→gelip gelmediğiniwhether you came or not
onun→gelip gelmediğiniwhether he / she came or not
bizim→gelip gelmediğimiziwhether we came or not
sizin→gelip gelmediğiniziwhether you all came or not
onların→gelip gelmedikleriniwhether they came or not
onların→gelip gelmediğiniwhether they came or not — also fine
How it movesLine at a time, same layout and motion as the tables in M5.1 / M5.2 / M5.3 — it's the same set of possessive endings they've now seen four times, which is the reassuring part. The useful thing to show here is that the gelip half never moves: keep it visually frozen down the whole column while only the tail of the second half changes. Bring the second onların option in beside the first with an “or”, not replacing it.
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Which half carries what
Rule · 06:23
Says“Only the second part gets the negative suffix, and the second part actually gets the accusative case. Gelip gelmediğini.”
On screen
gelip gelmediğini
first half — just -Ip, nothing else · second half — the negative, the possessive and the accusative
How it movesThis is the one students get wrong, so make it a picture rather than a sentence: split the word into its two halves on screen and load everything visibly onto the right-hand one — negative, possessive, accusative arriving one by one — while the left half stays bare. If the first half looks conspicuously light and the second conspicuously heavy, the rule doesn't need explaining.
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Examples — past
Examples · 06:50
Says“Let's look at the examples.” — then each pair, direct first.
On screen
Ali “ödevini yaptın mı?” diye sordu.
Ali ödevimi yapıp yapmadığımı sordu.
Ali asked whether I did my homework or not.
Ali “sınavı geçtiniz mi?” diye sordu.
Ali sınavı geçip geçmediğimizi sordu.
Ali asked whether we passed the exam or not.
Ali “parayı aldılar mı?” diye sordu.
Ali parayı alıp almadıklarını sordu.
Ali asked whether they took the money or not.
ImagesA simple supporting image per pair — your pick, just starting points: a homework notebook being checked · an exam result envelope · money on a table, unclear who took it. All three are an open question — nobody knows yet which way it went. If the image leaves it unresolved rather than answering it, that's the “whether or not” feeling.
How it movesBefore → after as usual, but here there's a satisfying move available: in the direct line the particle mı / mi is the thing making it a question — so let that particle dissolve and the doubled verb grow out of it in the reported line. Emphasise the whole -ip … -mAdIğInI pair as one unit, not two separate words. Note ödevini → ödevimi flips in the first one; worth its own emphasis.
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Examples — future
Examples · 07:50
Says“Let's look at the future examples now.” — then, after the first: “Here, as you notice, we still have -ip. The verb, the negative suffix, and then the future tense suffix, and then possessive and accusative.”
On screen
Ali “gelecek misin?” diye sordu.
Ali gelip gelmeyeceğimi sordu.
Ali asked whether I would come or not.
Ali “projeyi bitirecek misiniz?” diye sordu.
Ali projeyi bitirip bitirmeyeceğimizi sordu.
Ali asked whether we would finish the project or not.
Ali “onlar işe gidecek mi?” diye sordu.
Ali onların işe gidip gitmeyeceklerini sordu.
Ali asked whether they would go to work or not.
ImagesSimple supporting images — your pick: an unanswered invitation · a project deadline on a board · an empty office on a weekday morning.
How it movesShe stops after the first one to break the word apart, so give that a dedicated build on screen: gel + me + ecek + possessive + accusative, arriving in the order she names them — and keep the gelip half frozen throughout, because her actual point is that it doesn't change. The first half stays -Ip whether the question is past or future; only the second half moves to -AcAK. If you can show the past version from beat 11 sitting above and only the tail swapping, that's the clearest possible version of this beat.
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Outro
Host + end card · not recorded
Read firstThere is no outro on this take — the recording stops dead at 08:52 on the last example, with no sign-off, no “görüşürüz,” and no mention of what's next. Every other lesson in the course ends with one. Don't try to hide it with a hard cut to the end card; flag it to Can and let him decide between a pickup and building the card over the last example's tail.
On screen
End card
“Exercises below” · “Next module →” · channel branding
How it movesIf a pickup gets recorded, treat it like every other outro — fade the end card up over her sign-off. This one closes Module 5, so it deserves the extra weight the M6.2 and M4.5 outros get. Until then, leave the tail as it is.