Mr Luay Hasan CMK.C804

• Students should show command (at both written and oral level)  … see description of “Communicative content” and “Structural Content” of Level 3 (LN 705) . Admission into the course after completion of level test and tutor’s approval.
• This course is suitable for students wanting to improve Modern Standard Arabic.
• Students should demonstrate commitment to regular attendance, completion of homework, completion of the dossier and all assessments.
• Students should dedicate at least two hours per week for coursework in addition to classes.

Course Aims

• To extend the ability to use Arabic effectively for purposes of general communication.
• To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Arabic.
• Level B2 of Common European Framework.

Communicative Content

• Describing people, feelings and places.
• Talking about past experiences and events.
• Talking about present experiences and events.
• Relating actions in the past.
• Expressing wishes, plans for the future and doubts.
• Summarising.
• Giving opinions and judgements.
• Expressing hypothesis and certainty.
• Comparing possibilities.
• Forbidding and suggesting.
• Talking about current issues.
• Paraphrasing.

Structural Content

• Relative clauses
• Revision of past, present, future, imperative
• Revision of passive voice
• Revision of hollow, assimilated, doubled and defective verbs
• Revision of verbs with hamza
• Conditional sentences
• Inna and its sisters
• Forms of hollow, assimilated, doubled and defective verbs
• Forms of verbs with hamza
• Verbs with two accusatives
• Transitive verbs with two direct objects

12 hours of classes in the MT. 20 hours of classes in the LT. 8 hours of classes in the ST.

This is a 40 hour-course. Please refer to the LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.

Study Pack

Other useful materials for this level

• Al-Kitaab fii Ta‘llum al-‘Arabiyya  Al-Kitaab Fii Ta Allum Al- Arabiyya: Pt. 1and Pt.2: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic by Brustad et al, Georgetown Univ.Press.

       Dictionaries

• Hans Wehr Arabic-English Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (edited by J M Cowan, Spoken Lang. Service,1976)
• The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage (edited by N S Doniach, Oxford Univ. Press,1982) ISBN 0-19-864321-7
• Al-Mawrid English-Arabic Dictionary by Munir Ba‘albaki (Dar al-Ilm Lil-Malayen, Beirut)
• Al-Munjid fi-l-Lughah wa-l-A‘laam (Dar al-Machreq, Beirut, 1998) (Arabic-Arabic)

Language Centre Learning Support

• Tandem Learning: Regular events to improve your spoken language skills - Join our Language Exchange programme! Find out about the details and our Facebook Groups
• Online Language Learning: Try our Moodle site “LSE Language Gateway” as extra support for your language learning (includes links to podcasts, streaming television, free online courses).

Go to www.lse.ac.uk/languages and click on 'Learning Support'

Continuous assessment (50%) in the MT, LT and ST.
Oral examination (30%) in the ST.
In class assessment (20%) in the LT.