Mr Nadim Ben Mohamed Mahjoub PEL.6.01

This is a non-credit bearing course available to all LSE students, staff and alumni.

• Students should have previously learnt … see description of “Communicative content” and “Structural Content” of Level 1 Fast Track (LN702) and/or Level 2 Standard (LN703). Admission into the course upon 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 Aims

• To develop the use of Arabic.
• To offer an insight into one major dialect of the Arabic language.
• To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Arabic.
• To bring the students to level A2  of Common European Framework.

Communicative Content

• Talking about present events and experiences
• Talking about past events and experiences
• Describing people, places and objects
• Talking about habits, hobbies and daily routine
• Making comparison between people, things or places
• Using both past and present
• Talking about future plans (further details)
• Giving opinions
• Expressing agreement
• Expressing wishes and plans for the future
• Writing a biography

Structural Content

• Revision of past tense
• Revision of present tense
• Negative phrases
• Prepositions with pronoun suffixes
• Forms of the Arabic verb (1-4)
• Comparatives
• Adverbs of frequency
• Masdar (verbal noun)
• Time expressions
• Verb Kana  (To be) and introduction to hollow verbs
• Plural (broken plural 1-5)
• Future tense
• Numbers
• Adjective-noun agreement (human/non-human)
• Use of the accusative
• Declination (nominative, genitive, accusative).

16 hours of classes in the AT. 22 hours of classes in the WT. 2 hours of classes in the ST.

This is a 40 hour-course. Please refer to the LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.

Study Pack will be provided

Other materials useful

• Mastering Arabic 2, Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, Palgrave Macmillan.
• 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
• Arabic as one language, Mahmoud Al-Batal (ed.), Georgetown Univeristy Press, 2018

      Dictionary

• The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage (edited by N S Doniach, Oxford Univ. Press,1983)

Continuous assessment (70%) in the AT and WT.
Oral examination (30%) in the WT.