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Arabic module level one course description.

Course information

Prerequisite for entry

For complete beginners or those who have had only very little contact with the language.

Course duration

20 x 2-hour classes.

Self-Study

80 hours in total.

Module titles

Arabic Level 1, Arabic Levels 1 + 2 (together with Arabic Level 2)

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the course is to enable student to function at a basic every day survival level (basic vocabulary, grammar, morphology, syntax and phonetics). On completion of the course students should be able to communicate in and understand Arabic on a number of practical every day matters. Cultural awareness will be developed. Language learning skills, including autonomous learning and how to approach authentic materials will be developed. Some transferable skills will also be developed.

Course Content

Main topics/themes to be covered

• Greeting, introduction and nationalities
• The Family
• Jobs and places of work
• Describing things and places
• The weather
• Measures of time (Numbers 1-12, time, days of the week, seasons)
• Food and drink
• At the restaurant
• At the grocery shop
• At the bookshop
• Introduction to expressing likes and dislikes
• Basic daily life routine
• Past events
• Future plans

Functions and skills

Orthography

• The letters of the Arabic Alphabet
• Handwriting styles

Pronunciation

• Long and short vowels 鈥� word stress
• Emphatic and non-emphatic consonant sounds
• Sun and moon letters/ joining Hamza 鈥� sentence stress

Speaking and Writing

Ability to:

• respond to a question or comment
• get the message across
• communicate successfully
• infer meaning
• respond to a text

Activities:

• Introducing oneself and the family, names, nationality, jobs and places of work.
• Describing places and locations
• Talking/writing about the weather
• Talking/writing about past events (Past holiday)
• Talking/writing about daily routine
• Talking/writing about future plans (a trip to the Arab world)
• Roleplay: Ordering a meal at a restaurant in colloquial Levantine.
• Role play: Shopping for food in colloquial Levantine.
• Role play: Shopping for books and stationery in colloquial Levantine.
• Talking/writing/Describing a trip to an Arabic country
• Describing pictures

Listening and Reading

Ability to:

• understand gist
• understand relevant detail
• extract the main ideas and specific information from a text
• form an overall impression of a text and understand details

Activities:

• A letter from a student in an Arab country to his/her parents
• 鈥楳y Summer blog鈥�
• A touristic guide to an Arab country
• A student diary about touristic activities in the Arab world

Writing Formats

• A letter/ an email, a blog, a diary
• A tourist guide
• Description of a trip to the Arab world
• Interview

Linguistic Structures

Grammar

Non-Verbal:

• Personal pronouns
• Possessive pronouns
• Feminine and masculine nouns
• The Nisba adjective
• Noun-adjective phrases
• To have 毓賳丿| 賱賽
• Nominal sentences
• Definite article
• Idafa structure
• Demonstrative pronouns 賴匕丕 貙 賴匕賴 貙 賴丐賱丕亍
• Positional language 賮賵賯-毓賱賶-鬲丨鬲-亘噩丕賳亘-亘賷賳-賮賷-毓賱賶 賷賲賷賳-毓賱賶 賷爻丕乇
• The dual 丕賱賲孬賳賶
• Regular plural 噩賲毓 丕賱賲匕賰乇 丕賱爻丕賱賲 賵噩賲毓 丕賱賲丐賳孬 丕賱爻丕賱賲
• Describing plural nouns of non-human
• Ordinal numbers

Verbal:

听(匕賴賻亘 廿賱賶貙 禺乇賻噩 賲賳貙 乇噩賻毓 廿賱賶貙 賮鬲賻丨貙 噩賱賻爻貙 賰鬲賻亘貙 賯乇賻兀貙 爻賲賽毓貙 丿乇賻爻貙 兀賰賻賱貙 卮乇賽亘貙 睾爻賻賱貙 賱毓賽亘貙 爻亘賻丨貙 毓賲賽賱貙 爻賰賻賳貙 賱亘賽爻)

• Past tense
• Prepositional articles
• Present tense
• The future
• Hamzated verbs 兀禺匕貙 爻兀賱貙 亘丿兀
• Doubled verbs 兀丨亘賾賻
• Assimilated verbs 賵氐賱- 賵噩丿
• Hollow verbs 賰丕賳 貙 夭丕乇貙 亘丕毓
• Defective verbs賯囟賶貙 賲卮賶貙 亘賯賷
• Verb Patterns 爻丕賮乇貙 卮丕賴丿貙 丕卮鬲乇賶貙 兀毓胤賶貙 兀乇丕丿

Learning Resources 听

Compulsory material

• Mastering Arabic, Jane Wightwick and Mahmood Jaafar (Macmillan), New edition 鈥� ISBN: 978137380449

Additional material

• Alif Baa with DVDs by Kristen Brustad听听(Author),听Mahmoud Al-Batal听(Author),听Abbas Al-Tonsi听(Author),(Georgetown University Press); Third edition (30 Jun. 2010) ISBN:听1589016327
• Easy Arabic Grammar by Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, ISBN 0071462104
• Arabic Verbs & Essentials of Grammar by Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, ISBN 0071498052
• Your First 100 Words in Arabic by Jane Wightwick ISBN 0844223956 (ISBN13: 9780844223957

A selection of basic authentic material will also be used.听

In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials available for self-study in the Self-Access Centre.听