SOAS LANGUAGE CENTRE 
                                                                            Levantine Arabic Beginners 3  
                                                    Materials: (Ahlan Wa Sahlan & materials designed by the teacher) 
                                 Overview of course contents                                                               Synopsis 
                   Conversation:                                                      Arabic Beginners 3 aims at providing students with communicative 
                    •   Ordering a meal in a restaurant                               opportunities to enable them to engage in conversations in which they 
                    •   Counting things                                               express likes, agreements, things they want to do, compare and count things  
                    •   Expressing feelings: hungry, thirsty                          through class activities with their teacher and/or peers. 
                    •   Going to the shops                                             
                    •   Shopping for food                                             Class instructions are delivered in English however Arabic language is 
                    •   Expressing agreement                                          introduced gradually allowing students to learn in their comfort zone. 
                    •   Comparing things                                              Students are encouraged to participate in drilling practice, pair work and 
                    Grammar:                                                          group work, word games and role play. 
                    •   I like/want to eat, drink, to buy                             The various aspects of the language are introduced through listening, 
                    •   Verb conjugation in present tense:                            speaking, reading and writing activities. 
                    •   (to like, to eat,to drink)                                     
                    •   Use of dual, regular and irregular plurals                    There are two consolidation sessions throughout the course, one in the 
                    •   Plural nouns and adjectives                                   middle of the course and one at the end of the course. Consolidation aims at 
                    •   Active participle and when used as adjective                  practicing the learned materials through various activities. 
                    •                                                                 Teaching methods target language skills of the whole group as well as 
                    •                                                                 individual learners; making sure that every student is learning according to 
                    •   Going / I am going to buy                                     their own learning styles. 
                    •   Giving orders                                                 By the end of the course learners are expected to converse confidently in the 
                    •   Passive participle                                            topics they have been introduced to throughout the course. 
                    •   Comparative and superlative adjectives                        They will also be able to read short texts relevant to what they learned and 
                                                                                      convey the meaning in their first Language accurately.