UCL LANGUAGE CENTRE
Evening Courses
Arabic Level 3+
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Arabic syllabus level 3 at UCL Language Centre (or equivalent)
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to communicate in a wide range of daily
situations and understand Arabic in many practical issues. Students will be given more
sophisticated written texts after their abilities of reading and writing are further developed.
Cultural awareness and knowledge of Arabic life style will be further developed during the
course.
Functions
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Describing your relationship with others
Describing causes and consequences
Extracting information from written or oral resources
Reading news articles (more advanced)
Expressing opinions regarding people, things, and places
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Social and family life in the Arabic World (more advanced)
Describing characters (in culture, arts and politics)
Job opportunities
Arabic Newspapers (news articles)
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Grammar
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The superlative
The verbal sentence (subject-verb agreement)
Negation of the past
Verb forms
Using dictionary
Learning Resources
UCL Language Centre
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Books
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Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum Al-Arabiyyeh. By M. AlBatal and others. Georgetown Univ. Press.
1995. Unit 12-13-14
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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