Mr Luay Hasan PEL.6.01

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

• 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 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.)

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.

• 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

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