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LN707     
Arabic: Level Four (Standard)

This information is for the 2022/23 session.

Teacher responsible

Mr Luay Hasan PEL.6.01

Pre-requisites

 

  • Students should show command (at both written and oral level)  … see description of “Communicative content” and “Structural Content” of Level 3 (LN 705) . Admission into the course after completion of level test and tutor’s approval.
  • Students should demonstrate commitment to regular attendance, completion of homework, completion of the dossier and all assessments.
  • Students should dedicate at least two hours per week for coursework in addition to classes.

 

Course content

Course Aims

  • To develop the use of Arabic.
  • To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Arabic.
  • Level B2 of Common European Framework.

Communicative Content

  • Describing people, feelings and places.
  • Talking about past experiences and events.
  • Talking about present experiences and events.
  • Relating actions in the past.
  • Expressing wishes, plans for the future and doubts.
  • Summarising.
  • Giving opinions and judgements.
  • Expressing hypothesis and certainty.
  • Comparing possibilities.
  • Forbidding and suggesting.
  • Talking about current issues.
  • Paraphrasing.

Structural Content

  • Relative clauses
  • Revision of past, present, future, imperative
  • Revision of passive voice
  • Revision of hollow, assimilated, doubled and defective verbs
  • Revision of verbs with hamza
  • Conditional sentences
  • Inna and its sisters
  • Forms of hollow, assimilated, doubled and defective verbs
  • Forms of verbs with hamza
  • Verbs with two accusatives
  • Transitive verbs with two direct objects

Teaching

16 hours of classes in the MT. 22 hours of classes in the LT. 2 hours of classes in the ST.

This is a 40 hour-course. Please refer to the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ timetable for course teaching arrangements.

Indicative reading

  • Textbook: Test your Arabic. Part. 2, Luay Hasan, Lightining Source, 2016 (There are some copies in the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ library).
  • Handouts will be also provided.

Other useful materials for this level (All books can be found at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ library)

  • Mastering Arabic 2, Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
  • Al-Kitaab fii Ta‘llum al-‘Arabiyya  Pt. 1: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic by Brustad et al, Georgetown Univ.Press, 2011
  • A student grammar of Modern Standard Arabic, Eckehard Schulz. Cambridge University Press, 2004

Dictionaries

  • The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage (edited by N S Doniach, Oxford Univ. Press,1983)
  • Al-Munjid fi-l-Lughah wa-l-A‘laam (Dar al-Machreq, Beirut, 1998) (Arabic-Arabic)

Assessment

Continuous assessment (70%) in the MT and LT.
Oral examination (30%) in the LT.

Key facts

Department: Language Centre

Total students 2021/22: Unavailable

Average class size 2021/22: 5

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