Arabic

 

Beginners

You will develop basic listening, writing, speaking and reading skills in Arabic. You will have one class test and grammar revision during the course.

Course materials include worksheets and online resources.

Textbook

  • Al-Kitaab fii taʿallum al-ʿarabiyya by Kristen Brustad, Mahmud al-Batal and Abbas al-Tonsi, Part 1, Second edition, Chapter 1.

Topics and vocabulary

  • What is your name?, How are you?, What is his or her name?
  • Nationalities and languages
  • Where do you live?
  • Speaking revision
  • Numbers 1 to 10
  • A short conversation and introducing friends
  • Listening and answering questions
  • Family members and relatives
  • Asking questions
  • The map of the Arab world

Grammar content

  • The Arabic alphabet
  • The use of shadda
  • Dagger alif
  • The use of madda
  • Sun letters and moon letters, definite article, Tanwiin
  • Gender in Arabic and the nisba adjective

Elementary

You will build on your beginner's listening, writing, speaking and reading skills in Arabic.

Course materials include worksheets and online resources.

Textbook

  • Al-Kitaab fii taʿallum al-ʿarabiyya by Kristen Brustad, Mahmud al-Batal and Abbas al-Tonsi, Part 1, Second edition, Chapters 2 to 8.

Topics and vocabulary

  • Everyday life
  • Revision of family members and relatives
  • My extended family
  • My classmates and friends
  • Weather
  • Days of the week
  • Belongings
  • Food
  • Hobbies

Grammar content

  • Personal pronouns and plural
  • Al-jumla al-ismiyya
  • Ali-iDaafa, possessive pronouns
  • Grammar revision
  • Present tense, al Jumla al-fiʿliyya
  • Adverbs, noun plus adjective, demonstrative pronouns
  • Al-maSdar, because, because of, in order to
  • Prepositions of belonging
  • Numbers 1 to 100

Intermediate 1

You will develop listening, writing, speaking and reading skills in Arabic at an intermediate level. You will have a class test and revision during the course.

Course materials include worksheets and online resources.

Textbook

  • Al-Kitaab fii taʿallum al-ʿarabiyya by Kristen Brustad, Mahmud al-Batal and Abbas al-Tonsi, Part 1, Second edition, Chapters 8 to 14.

Topics and vocabulary

  • Your last holiday
  • Telling the time
  • Travelling
  • Daily routine
  • Quantifiers
  • Plans for the future
  • Studying
  • Asking for directions

Grammar content

  • Past tense, root and pattern
  • Revision of numbers and ordinal numbers
  • The subjunctive (al-manSuub)
  • Object pronouns
  • Jumlat al-Sifa
  • Superlative
  • Future tense
  • Negation
  • Reporting information
  • Describing places
  • Verb patterns

Intermediate 2

You will build on your intermediate listening, reading, writing and speaking skills in Arabic. You will have a class test and revision during the course.

Course materials include worksheets and online resources.

Textbook

  • Al-Kitaab fii taʿallum al-ʿarabiyya by Kristen Brustad, Mahmud al-Batal and Abbas al-Tonsi, Part 1, Second edition, Chapters 15 to 20.

Topics and vocabulary

  • Clothes
  • Tourism
  • Months
  • The impersonal constructions
  • Expressing feelings
  • Parts of the body
  • Colours
  • Playing a game in Arabic

Grammar content

  • Revision of verb tenses, negation
  • Relative pronouns, al-sharT
  • Comparative and superlative
  • Verb patterns
  • The case marking system
  • Dual
  • Feminine plural, particles of similarity