UCL LANGUAGE CENTRE
Evening Courses
Arabic Level 2+
Prerequisite for entry
30 weeks of Arabic language study
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to develop competence in the Arabic Language
at the elementary continuation level. The course is a continuous introduction to students with
30 weeks of knowledge of the language. It is designed as part of a sequence that will enable
students to understand, speak, read and write Modern Standard Arabic with ease.
The course is designed to give students the means to master the Arabic writing, which is a
prerequisite to learning Arabic.
Topics:
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Giving an explanation
Comparing things
Counting
Arabic currencies
Hobbies
Future plans
The months of the year
Numbers 100-1000
Applying for a new Job
Applying to study Arabic in a language centre
Telling the time
Function
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Talking about favourite TV program and the time of broadcasting
Talking about future plans (Job, travel)
Talking about favourite hobbies
Talking about and comparing between cities you visited in the past
Role play: Job Interview
Role play: Interview at the language centre
Grammar
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In order to, because of and because
The verbal nouns
Possessive forms: Prepositions with attached pronouns
How many and how much
Nominal sentence: The fronted predicate
Verb to be in the past tense
Past tense
The root and the pattern
Ordinal number
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Learning Resources
Books
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Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum Al-Arabiyyeh. By M. AlBatal and others. Georgetown Univ. Press.
1995. Unit 6-7-8
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Mastering Arabic. By J. Wightwick. Macmillan Press. 1990
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Bilingual Dictionaries
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Elementary Modern Standard Arabic: Abboud University of Michigan
Hans Wehr Arabic English Dictionary Of Modern Arabic (edited by JM Cowen ,
Spoken Lang Service 1976.
The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage. Oxford Univ.Press. 1982
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Useful websites:
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www.BBC..co.uk/arabic
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