SOAS LANGUAGE CENTRE

Levantine Arabic Beginners 2

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

Overview of course contents Synopsis

Conversation: Arabic Beginners 2 aims at providing students with communicative

• Ordering food and drink
• Booking a room, ordering room service
• In the taxi
• Describing things and people
• Expressing possession 1: Idafa structure
• Expressing possession 2: – ‫ا‬- ‫ا‬
• Expressing ownership 3: I have ‫ ي‬I have with me
• Expressing belonging to me, to you – –
• Talking about and describing various hotel facilities
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• Ordinal Numbers: floors in a building
• Inquiring about prices
• Numbers 10-99 and 100 to 900
• In the hotel
Grammar:
• Here and there
• Question words: Who. what, which
• Demonstrative article
• Positional language and directions
• Verbs to have, to work, to eat, to drink, to book, to
buy
• Imperative form of some verbs
• Possession
opportunities to enable them to conduct short conversations to make
bookings, ask and talk about possessions, shop for items and describe them
through class activities.
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.
Teaching methods target language skills of the whole group as well as
individual learners; making sure that every student is learning according to
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 topics and vocabulary
they have learned and convey the meaning in their first Language accurately.