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| Overview: |
| Express wishes, extend an invitation, give directions, describe professions, and congratulate others in this low-intermediate course. Review grammar, including noun and pronoun cases, nominal and verbal sentences, the permutative, the Idafa structure, and verb forms and tenses. Read short passages, write short letters, and learn to use conditional structures, the passive voice, verbal nouns, and multiple Idafa in speaking, reading and writing. |
| Prerequisites: |
| Introductory Arabic IV (ARAB1154E) or equivalent. |
| Additional Information: |
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| Syllabus: |
Syllabus, Graduate School, USDA
Objective
To provide the student with a review of introductory Arabic and
To provide the student with a review of introductory Arabic and an introduction to more complex grammatical structures and vocabulary at an intermediate level.
Learning Outcome
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to converse more fluently using more complex grammatical structures and vocabulary.
Instruction
Major topics covered in the course include
- dual and plural nouns in idafa structures;
- express frequency and exception;
- explaining reason using the subjunctive;
- derived forms - active and passive participles;
- weak verbs;
- negating past tense verbs;
- expressing intention;
- nouns of instrument;
- prepositions and relational concepts;
- adverbs of time and place;
- negating future time;
- relative clauses;
- additional prepositions;
- possessive idafa;
- habitual and progressive past;
- comparative nouns with doubled consonants.
Vocabulary topics will include
- appointments;
- festivities;
- schedules;
- expressing opinion and supporting it;
- describing past and present activities;
- newspaper advertisements;
- floor plans;
- house fixtures and furniture;
- describing business and locations;
- postcards and letters;
- colors;
- terms of address in written communication;
- expressing preferences, degree and uncertainty.
Methods of instruction include lectures, discussions, classroom exercises, homework assignments, role-plays, video and audio material, mid-term examination and final examination.
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