LN702
Arabic: Level One (Fast Track for Learners Familiar with Arabic Script)
This information is for the 2019/20 session.
Teacher responsible
Mr Luay Hasan PEL.6.01
Pre-requisites
- Students must have familiarity with Arabic script. Admission into the course upon tutor’s approval during the information sessions.
- 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 at survival level.
- To raise awareness about the two Arabic varieties (formal and colloquial).
- To further develop students´ ability to use the Arabic writing system.
- To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Arabic.
- To bring the students to level A1 of the Common European Framework.
Communicative content
- Greetings
- Asking for and giving personal information, directions and opinions
- Talking about family
- Talking about your country
- Describing people, places and objects
- Talking about past events and experiences
- Using the dictionary (basic)
- Asking and giving the time
- Talking about present events
- Talking about future events (basic)
- Ordering in a restaurant
- Asking for and giving directions
Structural content
- Roots
- The definitive article
- Independent pronouns and pronoun suffixes.
- Nouns-adjective phrases
- Numbers
- Feminine and masculine words
- Adjective-noun agreements
- Word order
- Verb-subject agreement
- Demonstratives (singular)
- Possessive pronouns
- Interrogatives (where, when, what, how many,etc)
- Prepositions: in, between
- Nisba (nationality)
- Idafa (genitive construction)
- Past tense
- Linking words (Firstly, after, lately, etc.)
- Present tense
- Future tense (basic)
- Plural (sound, masc./fem.)
- Negative phrases (past, present, future)
- Prepositions with pronoun suffixes
- Persons of the verb (sing./pl.)
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 LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.
Indicative reading
- Textbook: Test your Arabic. Part. I, Luay Hasan, Lightining Source, 2015 (there are some samples in the LSE library)
- Students will be also provided with a study pack.
Other materials useful for this level
- Mastering Arabic 1, Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
- 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
- Speed up your Arabic. Strategies to avoid common errors, Sebastian Maisel, Routledge, 2015
Assessment
Continuous assessment (70%) in the MT and LT.
Oral examination (30%) in the LT.
Key facts
Department: Language Centre
Total students 2018/19: 11
Average class size 2018/19: 11