Mr Luay Hasan

This is a non-credit-bearing course available to all LSE students, staff and alumni.

Assumed prior knowledge:

Students should demonstrate command (at both written and oral level) of the "Communicative Content" and "Structural Content" of LN705: Arabic Level 3 (Standard). Please see the course description of LN705: Arabic Level 3 (Standard) online.

Additional requisites:

• For admission into the course, students must complete a level test and obtain the tutor's approval.
• Students should demonstrate commitment to regular attendance and to the completion of homework and assessments.
• Students should dedicate at least two hours per week to 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
• To bring students to Level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

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 hypotheses and certainty
• Comparing possibilities
• Forbidding and suggesting
• Talking about current issues
• Paraphrasing

Structural Content

• Relative clauses
• Revision of past, present, future, and imperative
• Revision of the 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 (or merge with the next line if equivalent)
• Transitive verbs with two direct objects

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

• Hasan, L. (2016). Test your Arabic: Part 2. Lightning Source.

Copies are available in the LSE Library. Handouts will also be provided.

Other useful materials

All titles below are available at the LSE Library.

• Brustad, K., Al-Batal, M., & Al-Tonsi, A. (2011). Al-Kitāb fī taʿallum al-ʿArabiyya, Part 1: A textbook for beginning Arabic. Georgetown University Press.
• Schulz, E. (2004). A student grammar of Modern Standard Arabic. Cambridge University Press.
• Wightwick, J., & Gaafar, M. (2009). Mastering Arabic 2. Palgrave Macmillan.

Dictionaries

• Doniach, N. S. (Ed.). (1983). The Oxford English-Arabic dictionary of current usage. Oxford University Press.
• Al-Munjid fī al-lugha wa-l-aʿlām. (1998). Dār al-Mashriq. (Arabic–Arabic dictionary)

Oral examination (30%).

Continuous assessment (70%).