Mr Luay Hasan PEL.6.01

• Students should show command (at both oral and written level) … see description of “Communicative content” and “Structural Content” of Level 2 Fast Track (LN704). 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.
• This course is suitable for students wanting to improve Modern Standard Arabic.

Course aims

• To develop the use of Modern Standard Arabic.
• To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Arabic.
• Level B1 of Common European Framework.

Communicative content

• Talking about past events and experiences
• Talking about present events and experiences.
• Describing places, people and objects.
• Making comparisons.
• Expressing wishes, plans for the future, uncertainty and doubts.
• Giving opinions and judgements
• Expressing agreement and disagreement.
• Talking about current issues
• Giving advise

Structural content

• Revision of past tense and Present tense
• Revision of negative phrases
• Forms of the Arabic verb (1-10)
• Plural patterns
• Comparative forms
• Verb Kana (To be) and other hollow verbs
• Future tense
• Numbers
• Verb/subject agreements
• Assimilated, doubled and defective verbs
• Verbs with hamza
• The subjunctive
• Kana and its sisters
• Inna and its sisters
• Relative clauses
• Imperative: do/don' t
• Passive
• Dual (verbs, nouns, adjectives, pronouns and relative clauses)

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.

Indicative reading

• Textbook: Test your Arabic. Part. 2, Luay Hasan, Lightining Source, 2016 (there are some copies in the Library).
• Students will be provided with a study pack.

Other useful materials for this level (All books can be found at the LSE 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
• Speed up your Arabic. Strategies to avoid common errors, Sebastian Maisel, Routledge, 2015
• 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)
• Dictionary Arabic-English, English-Arabic by N.Awde and K. Smith, Bennett and Bloom

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