LN707     
Arabic: Level Four (Standard)

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Availability

Requisites

Assumed prior knowledge:

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

Additional requisites:

• 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.
• 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 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

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 LSE library).
• Handouts will be also provided.

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
• 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)
• Al-Munjid fi-l-Lughah wa-l-A‘laam (Dar al-Machreq, Beirut, 1998) (Arabic-Arabic)

Oral examination (30%)

Continuous assessment (70%)