LN705     
Arabic: Level Three (Standard)

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Availability

Requisites

Assumed prior knowledge:

Language skills and knowledge of Arabic at A2/B1 level of the Common European Reference Framework for Languages are required.

Additional requisites:

• Students should show command (at both oral and written level) … see description of “Communicative content” and “Structural Content” of Level 2 Fast Track (LN704). Admission into the course after 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 establish the skills, language and attitudes required to promote and facilitate further study of Arabic.
• Level B1 of Common European Framework.

Communicative content

• Talking about past events and experiences
• Talking about present events and experiences.
• Describing places, people and objects.
• Making comparisons.
• Expressing wishes, plans for the future, uncertainty and doubts.
• Giving opinions and judgements
• Expressing agreement and disagreement.
• Talking about current issues
• Giving advise

Structural content

• Revision of past tense and Present tense
• Revision of negative phrases
• Forms of the Arabic verb (1-10)
• Plural patterns
• Comparative forms
• Verb Kana (To be) and other hollow verbs
• Future tense
• Numbers
• Verb/subject agreements
• Assimilated, doubled and defective verbs
• Verbs with hamza
• The subjunctive
• Kana and its sisters
• Inna and its sisters
• Relative clauses
• Imperative: do/don' t
• Passive
• Dual (verbs, nouns, adjectives, pronouns and relative clauses)

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. 

• Textbook: Test your Arabic. Part. 2, Luay Hasan, Lightining Source, 2016 (there are some copies in the Library).
• Students will be provided with a study pack.

Other useful materials for this level (All books can be found at the LSE library)

• Mastering Arabic 2, Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
• Al-Kitaab fii Ta‘llum al-‘Arabiyya  Pt. 1: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic by Brustad et al, Georgetown Univ.Press, 2011
• Speed up your Arabic. Strategies to avoid common errors, Sebastian Maisel, Routledge, 2015
• A student grammar of Modern Standard Arabic, Eckehard Schulz. Cambridge University Press, 2004

Dictionaries

• The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage (edited by N S Doniach, Oxford Univ. Press,1983)
• Dictionary Arabic-English, English-Arabic by N.Awde and K. Smith, Bennett and Bloom

Oral examination (30%)

Continuous assessment (70%)