This information is for the 2019/20 session.
Teacher responsible
Mr Nadim Ben Mohamed Mahjoub
Availability
This is a non-credit bearing course available to all LSE students, staff, alumni and external clients.
Pre-requisites
Course content
Course aims
Communicative content
• Greetings
• Personal information
• Your immediate family
• Your studies and jobs
• Where you live
• Your city and country
• Present and past actions/events
• Describing people, places and objects
• Daily habits/routine
• Making comparisons
• Talking about future plans (basic)
• Expressing likes/dislikes
Structural content
• Pronunciation
• Feminine and masculine words
• Present tense
• The definitive article
• Independent pronouns and pronoun suffixes
• Nouns-adjective phrases
• Numbers
• Plural
• Word order
• Demonstrative
• Possessive pronouns
• Interrogatives (where, when, what, in which,etc.)
• Prepositions: in, between, etc
• Nisba (nationality)
• Idafa (genitive construction)
• Past Tense
• Use of "also, where, in the same, etc."
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.
Formative coursework
Weekly exercises featuring interactive work and oral practise; grammar exercises; reading and listening comprehension.
Indicative reading
Study Pack to be provided.
Other useful materials
Assessment
Oral examination (30%) in the LT.
Continuous assessment (70%) in the MT and LT.
Key facts
Department: Language Centre
Total students 2018/19: 8
Average class size 2018/19: 7
Personal development skills