UCL LANGUAGE CENTRE
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Arabic Level 3
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Arabic syllabus level 2+ at UCL Language Centre (or equivalent)
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The course aims to help students become more confident speakers of Arabic using good
basic knowledge of Arabic to develop all four skills (speaking, listening, reading and writing)
to an intermediate level. Students should be able to have a good command of the language
in most common situations. Cultural awareness will be developed
Functions
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Describing Activities
Expressing what you would like to do in the future
Extracting information from written or oral resources
Describing your daily routine
Reading news articles
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Social and family life in the Arabic World
Describing People
Writing CV
Places and accommodation
Arabic Newspapers (Headlines)
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Grammar
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Nominal Sentence with its negation
Ordinal numbers
Object pronouns
Introduction to cases
Subjunctive
Learning Resources
Books
UCL Language Centre
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Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum Al-Arabiyyeh. By M. AlBatal and others. Georgetown Univ. Press.
1995. Unit 9-10-11
Bilingual Dictionaries
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Hans Wehr Arabic English Dictionary Of Modern Arabic (edited by JM Cowen ,
Spoken Lang Service 1976.
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The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage. Oxford Univ. Press. 1982
Useful websites:
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www.bbc.co.uk/arabic
www.aljazeera.net
www.laits.utexas.edu/aswaat/
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