Mr Nadim Ben Mohamed Mahjoub TW3.6.01

• No previous knowledge of Modern Standard Arabic required.
• 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.
• This course is suitable for students wanting to learn Modern Standard Arabic.
• Admission into the course upon tutor’s approval during the information sessions.

Course aims

• To develop the ability to use Arabic effectively for purposes of practical communication at survival level.
• The course introduces the students to the Arabic writing system and enables them to read and write basic words and sentences.
• To deal with a range of predictable simple language tasks using a limited range of language.
• To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Arabic.
• To bring the students to level A1- of Common European Framework.

Communicative content

• Greetings
• Asking for and giving personal information
• Talking about your immediate family
• Talking about studies and jobs
• Say where you live
• Talking about your city and country
• Talking about present actions

Structural content

• Alphabet
• Joining letters
• Pronunciation
• Feminine and masculine words
• Roots
• Present tense
• The definitive article
• Independent pronouns and pronoun suffixes
• Nouns-adjective phrases
• Numbers
• Plural
• Dual
• Word order
• Demonstrative: this (masc./fem.)
• Possessive pronouns
• Interrogatives (where, when, what, in which,etc.)
• Prepositions: in, between, etc
• Nisba (nationality)
• Idafa (genitive construction)
• Introduction to Past Tense
• Use of "also, where, in the same, etc."

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 LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.

Students will be provided with a study pack.

Other useful materials for this level

• Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic, Letters and Sounds by Brustad et all. Georgetown Univ. Press, Second or Third Editions
• Mastering Arabic Grammar, Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• Al-Kitaab fii Ta‘llum al-‘Arabiyya  Al-Kitaab Fii Ta Allum Al- Arabiyya: Pt. 1: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic by Brustad et al, Georgetown Univ.Press, 2011
• Mastering Arabic 1, Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Language Centre Learning Support

• Tandem Learning: Regular events to improve your spoken language skills - Join our Language Exchange programme! Find out about the details and our Facebook Groups
• Online Language Learning: Try our Moodle site “LSE Language Gateway” as extra support for your language learning (includes links to podcasts, streaming television, free online courses).

Go to www.lse.ac.uk/languages and click on 'Learning Support'

Continuous assessment (50%) in the MT and LT.
Oral examination (30%) and in class assessment (20%) in the LT.