This course will help students to understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc., and to understand the main point of many radio or TV programmes on current affairs or topics of personal or professional interest when the delivery is relatively slow and clear. The student will understand texts that consist mainly of high frecuency everyday or job-related language as well as descriptions of events, feelings and wishes in personal letters.
Students will be able to discuss most situations likely to arise whilst traveling in an area where Arabic is spoken and, as a result, will be able to prepare conversation topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life (e.g. family, hobbies, work and travel).
Students will be able to connect phrases in a simple way in order to describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and will be able to write simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.
Content:
UNIT 1- Expressing basic habits and daily routines. Review of transitive (with one or two direct objects) and intransitive verbs. The weak verb. The passive verb. Vocabulary practice.
UNIT 2- Asking and answering questions in present. The Five Nouns. Interrogative pronouns.
UNIT 3- Expressing actions in the past. The past tense and its morphology.
Verb conjugations.
UNIT 4- Talking in a simple manner about future plans and projects. The Future Tense. Six Verb Groups. Contrast of the present and future tenses.
UNIT 5- Differentiation between Masculine and Feminine sound plural.
UNIT 6- Giving instructions. Adequately reacting to being asked for permission. Justifying a request. Imperative and its morphology.
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