UCL LANGUAGE CENTRE
Evening Courses
Arabic Level 4
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 who already have a good knowledge of
Arabic to acquire an advanced level. Students will be able to communicate in most
situations with native speakers and follow debates on sociall issues and express
themselves with more complex and linguistically accurate structures. Cultural awareness will
be further developed
Functions
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Expressing opinions
Agreeing and disagreeing
Extracting information from written or oral resources
Plans and ambitions
Arabic culture and society
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Social and family life in the Arabic World (more advanced)
Cultural and religious events (Eids)
Poetry (introduction)
Arabic Newspapers (news articles)
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Grammar
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Relative pronouns
the negation (past, present, future, and the nominal sentence)
the comparative
Meaning of the verb forms ‫معاني أوزان الفعل‬
Cases ‫اإلعراب‬
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 15-16-17
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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