SOAS LANGUAGE CENTRE

Levantine Arabic Beginners 3

Materials: (Ahlan Wa Sahlan & materials designed by the teacher)

Overview of course contents Synopsis

Conversation: Arabic Beginners 3 aims at providing students with communicative

• Ordering a meal in a restaurant
• Counting things
• Expressing feelings: hungry, thirsty
• Going to the shops
• Shopping for food
• Expressing agreement
• Comparing things
Grammar:
• I like/want to eat, drink, to buy
• Verb conjugation in present tense:
• (to like, to eat,to drink)
• Use of dual, regular and irregular plurals
• Plural nouns and adjectives
• Active participle and when used as adjective
• Teaching methods target language skills of the whole group as well as
• individual learners; making sure that every student is learning according to
• Going / I am going to buy
• Giving orders
• Passive participle
• Comparative and superlative adjectives
opportunities to enable them to engage in conversations in which they
express likes, agreements, things they want to do, compare and count things
through class activities with their teacher and/or peers.
Class instructions are delivered in English however Arabic language is
introduced gradually allowing students to learn in their comfort zone.
Students are encouraged to participate in drilling practice, pair work and
group work, word games and role play.
The various aspects of the language are introduced through listening,
speaking, reading and writing activities.
There are two consolidation sessions throughout the course, one in the
middle of the course and one at the end of the course. Consolidation aims at
practicing the learned materials through various activities.
their own learning styles.
By the end of the course learners are expected to converse confidently in the
topics they have been introduced to throughout the course.
They will also be able to read short texts relevant to what they learned and
convey the meaning in their first Language accurately.