Course outline – 30 weeks 
            Language: Standard Modern Arabic 
             
            Level: 2 
            Course book: Mastering Arabic 1: Book with online audio/video by Jane Wightwick. Palgrave Macmillan, November 2014. 
            ISBN: 9781137380449   
             
            Knowledge of Arabic script is ESSENTIAL. 
             
            In Level 2 we aim to cover units 9-17.  
             
            Please note that this is a proposed course content, it may vary depending on the level of the group. 
             
          
                                    
                       Topics & Vocabulary                                      Grammar                                                            Communicative objectives 
                                    
                                                                                                                 
                                                                 •   Revision level 1 grammar                         •    Revision level 1 
                          Level 1 revision                       •   Enumeration of what one                          •    Shopping: asking for price of some fruit, vegetables and other 
                           Topics 1 to 10                            has/possesses + dialectal                             objects 
                     See Level 1 course outline                      variations                                       •    Requesting/ordering items 
                                                                 •   Plural possessive pronouns                       •    Ordering goods in a market/ shop 1 
                       Shopping in a market                                                                           •    Checking whether an outlet has an item we want to buy 
                                                                                                                      •    Describing/understanding what an object is made of 
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                       Topics & Vocabulary                                      Grammar                                                            Communicative objectives 
                                    
                                                                                                                 
                                                                 •   Arabic roots                                     •    Referring to 3+ objects/ people 
                                                                 •   Human & non-human plurals                        •    Pointing at objects / people and saying what/who they are 
                  Plurality and colours                          •   Plural patterns 1 &2                             •    Shopping for a party 
                     Arabic roots 1                              •   Plural demonstrative pronouns                    •    Referring to colours of feminine words 
                                                                 •   Feminine colours                                 •    Shopping conversation 2 
                                                                 •   The accusative case 
                                                                                                                 
                                                                 •   Plural patterns 3-4                              •    Asking questions about day before actions & events 
                                                                 •   Past tense MaDi 1                                •    Narrating / reporting day before sequence of events/ 
                 What happened Yesterday                         •   Verb kaana                                            actions 
                                                                 •   Simple/ regular trilateral verbs                 •    Describing places/ objects in the past 
                                                                 •   Sequence connecting words & 
                                                                     Expressions                                      •    Speaking and writing about self or others 
                                                                 •   Intro. to use of Arabic roots                    •    Answering police style investigation questions 
                    Numbers 11-100                                   dictionary                                       •    Describing and asking about the weather 
                      The weather                                •   Plural and dual case endings                     •    Talking about a holiday 
                                                                 •   Numbers 11+ with singular noun 
                                                                 •   Basic weather expressions 
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                       Topics & Vocabulary                                      Grammar                                                            Communicative objectives 
                                    
                                                                                                                 
                                                                 •   Days of the week/parts of the day                 •  Reading & reporting newspaper titles & headlines 
                                                                 •   Plural pattern 5                                  •  Talking & reading about routine diplomatic state affairs in the 
            What happened last week State affairs &              •   Word order in sentence with a                     Arab world 
                   Politicians in the Arab World                     verb                                              •  Language communication Review 
                                  +                              •   Question words what, when, why                    •  Conversation review 
                      Language Review                                + verb                                            •  Situating events/actions more precisely in time 
                                                                 •   More past tense verbs 
                                                                 •   Longer IDaafa structure 
                                                                 •   Grammar review 
                                                                                                                 
                                                                 •   Telling the time                                 •    Describing basic daily routine 
                                                                 •   Present tense MuDari` (trilateral                •    Asking others about their routine 
                                                                     regular verbs)                                   •    Asking and giving the time 12 hour clock 
                                                                 •   Time marker       لﻛ + time unit                 •    Referring to AM/PM and meal times to situate actions in time 
                        Daily routine Means                      •   Prepositions bi, min….hatta                      •    Making and negating statements in the present tense 
                            of transport                         •   Changing middle letter vowel of                  •    Talking about destinations and means of transport 
                   School & University subjects                      muDari` 
                                                                 •   ‘An’ ending time markers 
                                                                 •   MuDari` Negative form 
                                                                                                                 
                                                                 •   Words of places & their plurals                  •    Shopping at the grocery store basic commodities 
                                                                 •   Introduction to verb forms                       •    Reading Restaurant advert and Menu 
                                                                 •   Dictionary work (lexical field +                 •    Ordering a meal 
                          Eating & drinking                          verb forms                                       •    Working out a restaurant bill 
                         Comparing things                        •   Forms II, III, IV of regular verbs               •    Talking / reading about kitchen chores 
                                                                 •   Past/ MaDi negative forms                        •    Saying what did not happen 
                                                                 •   Attached pronouns & verbs                        •    Making comparisons 
                                                                 •   Comparative pattern Af`al 
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