Course outline – 30 weeks 
            Language: Standard Modern Arabic 
            Level: 2 
            Course book: Mastering Arabic 1. The complete course for beginners. 3  edition by Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar. Palgrave Macmillan, November 2014. 
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            ISBN: 9781137380449 (without CD) 
          
                       Topics & Vocabulary                                      Grammar                                       Communicative objectives 
                                                                                                                 
                         Level 1 revision                           Revision level 1 grammar                            Revision level 1 
                       Topics 1 to 10 p122 See                      Enumeration of what one                             Shopping: asking for price of some fruit, vegetables and other 
                   Level 1 course outline                            has/possesses + dialectal                            objects 
                                                                     variations                                          Requesting/ordering items 
                      Shopping in a market                          Plural possessive pronouns                          Ordering goods in a market/ shop 1 
                                                                                                                         Checking whether an outlet has an item we want to buy 
                                                                                                                         Describing/understanding what an object is made of 
                                                                                                                 
                                                                    Arabic roots                                        Referring to 3+ objects/ people 
                       Plurality and colours                        Human & non human plurals                           Pointing at objects / people and saying what/who they are 
                          Arabic roots 1                            Plural patterns 1 &2                                Shopping for a party 
                                                                    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 & 
                         Numbers 11-100                              expressions                                         Speaking and writing about self or others 
                           The weather                              Intro. to use of Arabic roots                       Answering police style investigation questions 
                                                                     dictionary                                          Describing and asking about the weather 
                                                                    Plural and dual case endings                        Talking about a holiday 
                                                                    Numbers 11+ with singular noun 
                                                                    Basic weather expressions 
                                                                                                                 
                   What happened last week State                    Days of the week/parts of the day                   Reading & reporting newspaper titles & headlines 
             affairs & Politicians in the Arab                      Plural pattern 5                                    Talking & reading about routine diplomatic state affairs in the 
                                World                               Word order in sentence with a                     Arab world 
                                  +                                  verb                                                Language communication Review 
                         Language Review                            Question words what, when, why                      Conversation review 
                                                            + verb                                                       Situating events/actions more precisely in time 
                                                                    More past tense verbs 
                                                                    Longer IDaafa structure 
                                                                    Grammar review 
         
                                                                                                      
                      Daily routine Means                    Telling the time                               Describing basic daily routine 
                          of transport                       Present tense MuDari` (trilateral              Asking others about their routine 
                 School & University subjects                 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 
                                                             Prepositions bi, min….hatta                    Making and negating statements in the present tense 
                                                             Changing middle letter vowel of                Talking about destinations and means of transport 
                                                              muDari` 
                                                             ‘An’ ending time markers 
                                                             MuDari` Negative form 
                                                                                                      
                                                             Words of places & their plurals                Shopping at the grocery store basic commodities 
                      Eating & drinking                      Introduction to verb forms                     Reading Restaurant advert and Menu 
                      Comparing things                       Dictionary work (lexical field +               Ordering a meal 
                                                              verb forms                                     Working out a restaurant bill 
                                                             Forms II, III, IV of regular verbs             Talking / reading about kitchen chores 
                                                             Past/ MaDi negative forms                      Saying what did not happen 
                                                             Attached pronouns & verbs 
                                                             Comparative pattern Af`al                      Making comparisons