SOAS LANGUAGE CENTRE

Levantine Arabic Beginners 1

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

Overview of course contents Synopsis

Conversation: Arabic Beginners 1 aims at providing students with basic communicative

• Greetings and introduction skills through communicative opportunities to enable them to introduce
• Professions and jobs themselves and to conduct short conversations with their teacher and /or
• Family and marital status peers.
• Countries and nationalities
• Describing countries, Class instructions are delivered in English however Arabic language is
• Describing places and things introduced gradually allowing students to learn in their comfort zone.
• Numbers 1-12 Students are encouraged to participate in drilling practice, pair work and
• Telling the time group work, word games and role play.
• Ordering food and drink The various aspects of the language are introduced through listening,
• Talking about daily activities speaking, reading and writing activities.
Grammar:
• Personal pronouns, Possessive pronouns There are two consolidation sessions throughout the course, one in the
• Masculine and feminine middle of the course and one at the end of the course. Consolidation aims at
• Adjectives practicing the learned materials through various activities.
• Negation Teaching methods target language skills of the whole group as well as
• Verb ‘to work’ individual learners; making sure that every student is learning according to
Vocabulary their own learning styles.
• Names of places By the end of the course learners are expected to converse confidently in the
• Daily activities topics they have been introduced to throughout the course.
• Morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night They will also be able to read short simple texts relevant to what they have
• Family members learned and convey the meaning in their first Language accurately.
• Some jobs and some food items