LN704     
Arabic: Level Two (Fast Track)

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Availability

Requisites

Assumed prior knowledge:

Language skills and knowledge of Arabic at A1 level of the Common European Reference Framework for Languages are required.

Additional requisites:

• Students should have previously learnt … see description of “Communicative content” and “Structural Content” of Level 1 Fast Track (LN702) and/or Level 2 Standard (LN703). Admission into the course upon completion of level test and tutor’s approval.
• 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 develop the use of Arabic.
• To offer an insight into one major dialect of the Arabic language.
• To establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Arabic.
• To bring the students to level A2  of Common European Framework.

Communicative Content

• Talking about present events and experiences
• Talking about past events and experiences
• Describing people, places and objects
• Talking about habits, hobbies and daily routine
• Making comparison between people, things or places
• Using both past and present
• Talking about future plans (further details)
• Giving opinions
• Expressing agreement
• Expressing wishes and plans for the future
• Writing a biography

Structural Content

• Revision of past tense
• Revision of present tense
• Negative phrases
• Prepositions with pronoun suffixes
• Forms of the Arabic verb (1-4)
• Comparatives
• Adverbs of frequency
• Masdar (verbal noun)
• Time expressions
• Verb Kana  (To be) and introduction to hollow verbs
• Plural (broken plural 1-5)
• Future tense
• Numbers
• Adjective-noun agreement (human/non-human)
• Use of the accusative
• Declination (nominative, genitive, accusative).

22 hours of classes in the Winter Term.
16 hours of classes in the Autumn Term.

Please refer to the LSE timetable for course teaching arrangements.

16 hours of classes in the AT. 22 hours of classes in the WT. 2 hours of group tutorial time, as arranged by the teacher during the AT, WT, ST. 

Study Pack will be provided

Other materials useful

• Mastering Arabic 2, Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Al-Kitaab fii Ta‘llum al-‘Arabiyya  Al-Kitaab Fii Ta Allum Al- Arabiyya: Pt. 1: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic by Brustad et al, Georgetown Univ.Press, 2011
• Arabic as one language, Mahmoud Al-Batal (ed.), Georgetown Univeristy Press, 2018

      Dictionary

• The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage (edited by N S Doniach, Oxford Univ. Press,1983)

Oral examination (30%)

Continuous assessment (70%)