Mr Luay Hasan PEL.6.01

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

• 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 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

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. 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)

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