Product Description
Total: 20 Hours
It is a quick start program for those who are going to travel to Arabic speaking countries. In this course, we will try to cover the following topics as many as possible in order to help students to survive in those countries.
Topics
- Personal information:name etc.
- Countries, cities and nationalities
- Places around town/transportation
- Directions and locations
- The town centre
- Family
- Jobs Occupations and work places
Functions
- Greeting others and responding to greetings
- Introducing oneself and others
- Describing objects, people and places
- Requesting and giving directions and instructions
- Using simple cultural idiomatic expressions
Grammar
- Personal pronouns (I, you, he, she)/nominal sentence
- Gender
- The definite article
- The Nisba
- Demonstratives
- Question Words
- Prepositions
- Directions and insturctions
- Adjective/noun and adjective agreement/there is
- How to express possession
- idaafa structure
- Possessives(my, your…)
- Personal pronouns(we, they, you(plural)/sound plural forms
Textbooks:
- Wightwick, J. & Gaafar, M. (2007) Mastering Arabic 1, Second Edition w/2 CDs. Palgrave
- Wightwick, J. & Gaafar, M. (2011) Master Arabic 1 Activity Book, Palgrave
References:
- Wightwick, J. & Gaafar, M. (2005) Mastering Arabic Script, Palgrave
- Wightwick, J. & Gaafar, M. (2005) Mastering Arabic Grammar, Palgrave
- Wightwick, J. & Gaafar, M. (2012) Read and Speak Arabic, G and W Publishing