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 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 LSE library).
- Handouts will be also provided.
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
- 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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