Modern Standard Arabic
Course Main Objectives
1. Listening, speaking, and reading.
2. Oral expressions and simple topics.
3. Writing short sentences.
4. Arabic culture
5. Reading sentences, short paragraphs and conversations.
Structure of Each Lesson
1. Review and conversation
2. New vocabulary
3. Minutes reading
4. Minutes: the new grammar and drilling
Week 1 and 2
Introduction to the Arabic Alphabet letter and sound
Week 3 and 4
1. Introduction to the Arabic Alphabet
2. Two common greetings
3. Introducing oneself
4. Leave-talking
5. Arabic alphabet: One- way connectors
6. Arabic numbers
• Review lesson 1
• Identifying yourself and others.
• Arabic alphabet: two-way connectors.
• Long and short vowels
• Separate personal pronouns.
Week 5
• Review Lesson 2
• The morning greeting
• Asking about well-being
• Arabic alphabet: two way connectors.
• Review lesson 3
• Inquiring about and identifying place of origin.
• Subject and predicate
• Colloquial Arabic
• Separate pronouns
• Arabic alphabet: two way connectors
• Identifying and inquiring about Arab countries, capitals, cities, Arab states, political systems and capitals.
Week 6
• Review lesson 3
• Inquiring about and identifying place of origin
• Subject and predicate
• Colloquial Arabic
• Separate pronouns
• Arabic alphabet: two way connectors
• Identifying and inquiring about Arab countries, capitals, cities, Arab states, political systems and capitals
• Identifying objects from the immediate environment
• Expressing possession
• Attached pronouns
• Colloquial Arabic
• Arabic alphabet: two- way connectors
Week 7
• Identifying objects from the immediate environment.
• Expressing possession
• Attached pronouns
• Colloquial Arabic
• Arabic alphabet: two-way connectors
• Describing national and regional affiliation
• The relative “noun” (nisba)
• Gender in Arabic nouns
Week 8
• Identifying objects in the school environment
• The letters alf maqsura and hamza
• Diacritical marks (sadda, madda, tanwin, sukun, short alif).
• Representation of foreign sounds
• Colloquial Arabic
• Identifying objects from school surroundings
• The prepositions and the noun phrase
• Enumerating, using the coordinating particle
• Demonstratives
• Contrasting with and
• Negating with
• The nominal sentence and cases of its nouns
• The definite article, assimilating, and no assimilating sounds
• Definite and indefinite nouns.
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