Arabic for GCSE
Arabic for GCSE
DURATION: (3) Terms, (7) weeks/term, (6) hrs/week.
2017 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Open to students who:
- Are aged 14-16 years, and achieved a level corresponding to the requirements of the Key Stage 3 programme of study for Modern Foreign Languages within the National Curriculum for England.
- Already have a working knowledge of Arabic and who want to consolidate, and develop further, their understanding in order to progress in their academic or professional career.
- Pass the placement test and succeeded with at least 75%.
- Have experience in using the Internet and the ability to learn how to use our LMS – Moodle.
Mode of Attendance:
Credit hours
Objectives:
The aims and objectives of this course are to enable students to:
- Develop their ability to communicate confidently and coherently with native speakers in speech and writing, conveying what they want to say with increasing accuracy.
- Express and develop thoughts and ideas spontaneously and fluently.
- Listen to and understand clearly articulated, standard speech at near normal speed.
- Deepen their knowledge about how language works and enrich their vocabulary in order for them to increase their independent use and understanding of extended language in a wide range of contexts.
- Acquire new knowledge, skills and ways of thinking through the ability to understand and respond to a rich range of authentic spoken and written material, adapted and abridged, as appropriate, including literary texts.
- Develop awareness and understanding of the culture, civilization and identity of the countries and communities where Arabic is spoken.
- Be encouraged to make appropriate links to other areas of the curriculum to enable bilingual and deeper learning, where the language may become a medium for constructing and applying knowledge.
- Develop language-learning skills both for immediate use and to prepare them for further language study and use in school, higher education or employment.
- Develop language strategies, including repair strategies.
Method:
- The course is taught in Arabic and includes materials that cover the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
- This course adopts task-based method of learning, where students are required to perform some Arabic linguistic tasks in and out of class time, such as: role-play, presentations, and discussions followed by some general conversation activities.
- There will be guided practice in language usage and authentic communicative activities.
- Authentic audio, video, and reading materials are presented from the very beginning, and consists of a variety of activities (both online and offline) designed to evaluate students’ abilities to accomplish the intended learning outcomes such as; a Glossary, Single & Folder Choice, Assignments and Quizzes.
- Independent Arabic reading skills are improved in every lesson, giving students confidence and motivation.
- Positive reading, writing, speaking and comprehension habits are developed for future studies and work.
- Class size is limited to five students to allow intensive interactive practice with individual feedback and advice on progress.
- This course is based on 3 Terms. Each term consists of synchronous and asynchronous activities. The synchronous activities consist of approximately 42 hours of interactive classes. The asynchronous activities are used to monitor private studying.
Term 1: Identity, Culture, Local area, Holiday and Travel
Overview of course contents:
Conversation subjects:
- Who am I? relationships; interests; socialising with friends and family.
- Customs, everyday life; food and drink; and shopping.
- Social media and technology (use of, advantages and disadvantages).
- Cultural life: celebrations and festivals; reading; music and sports.
- Holidays: preferences; experiences and destinations.
- Travel, accommodation; directions, eating out.
- Asking for help and dealing with problems;
- Town, region and country; weather; places to see; things to do.
Grammar:
- Personal pronouns, possessive pronouns
- Demonstratives
- Masculine and feminine
- Adjectives
- Negation
- Verb “to work”
- Question tags: where…. ?, what …..?, who ….?
Vocabulary:
- Names of places, sports.
- Names of some countries
- Nationalities
- Professions
- Daily activities
- Morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night
- Family members
- Some jobs and some flat items
- Appropriate asking and ordering expressions.
- Hobbies and interests
- Names of foods and drinks.
Course Outline:
- Students will have the ability to communicate, identify themselves to others, talk about their families, their childhood, and express their daily life activities using a range of vocabulary and the three different tenses.
- Students will also be able to communicate their professions, studies, hobbies, interests and ideas and interact effectively.
- Students will have the ability to understand each other and deal with situations according to their linguistic lexicon. They will also be able to respond to questions during their studies at the term.
- Students will be able to to communicate, in writing and in speech, their personal information, family, residence (home) and studies as well as writing in Arabic in the chat room with their teacher and colleagues.
- By the end of this term, students can communicate comfortably with native speakers and express their ideas, ask questions, and make necessary suggestions. They will be able to participate in class discussions, use and understand vocabulary and oral work.
Recommended Study Habits:
- Going to the Glossary activity and revising some vocabulary with its images or phrases.
- Recording audio context and sending it to the teacher for correction.
- Writing about certain topics and commenting on the dialogues by expressing pictures or giving summaries on what the teacher has asked like audio or texts.
Course Outcome:
If the student passes the final exam of this course with 75% at least, they will successfully move to the next term “Arabic as a Second Language Term 2”.
Term 2: School, Future Aspirations, Study and Work
Overview of course contents:
Conversation:
- School types; subjects, instructions, events and pressures.
- Ambitions, further study; volunteering; training, and employment.
Grammar:
- Positive/ negative.
- Added and added to “Mudaf and Mudaf Elayh”.
- Masculine and feminine.
- Adjectives
- Prepositions
- Key asking.
- Tenses: Past, present and future
- Simple sentence conjunctions.
- Adverbs
Vocabulary:
- School materials and subjects
- Instructions and rules.
- School activities, celebrations.
- Schedules, holidays and events.
- Dictionary.
- Transportation.
- Weather & temperature.
- Four seasons.
- Camping.
- Hobbies.
- Communities.
Course Outline:
By the end of this term students will be able to:
- Read, understand and extract key information from short, very simple texts and written documents (messages, notices, instructions, etc.)
- Interact in a basic way with a native speaker in simple, routine, predictable situations, requesting or providing factual information, coping with an unfamiliar language or unexpected responses by asking for repetition or clarification.
- Write very simple notes, messages and short personal letters or emails providing essential information about themselves
- Demonstrate an initial insight into very basic aspects of the culture and everyday life in areas where the language is spoken so as to respond.
- Engage in conversations in which they express likes, dislikes, agreements, things they want to do, compare and count things through class activities with their teacher and/or peers.
- Participate in drilling practice, pair work, group work, word games and role play.
- Communicate with native speakers and can express their ideas, ask questions and make necessary suggestions.
- Translate passages to/from Arabic whilst maintaining a coherent overall meaning of the texts.
- Participate in discussions, understand and use vocabulary and oral work more effectively in and out class time.
Recommended Study Habits:
- Going to the Glossary activity and revising some vocabulary with its images or phrases.
- Recording audio and send it to the teacher for correction.
- Writing about or translating some topics or comment about the dialogues by expressing pictures or summaries on what the teacher requests like audio or texts.
Term 3: International and global dimension and Revision
Overview of course contents:
Conversation:
Bringing the world together
- Sports events;
- Music events;
- Campaigns and good causes
Environmental issues:
- Being ‘green’;
- Access to natural resources
Grammar:
- Positive/negative.
- Masculine and feminine.
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Addition
- Prepositions
- Key asking.
Vocabulary:
- Relevant vocabulary to environment, and natural resources and phenomena.
- Some names of national and international organisations.
- Expressions used in music and sports events.
- Global warming and air pollution.
Course Outline:
By the end of this term, students will be able to:
- Communicate effectively through understanding and responding in different settings, including the ability to ask questions and use the correct register.
- Communicate through exchanging opinions, providing descriptions, and narrating events.
- Initiate and develop conversations and discussions, including giving opinions.
- Manipulate grammatical structures with occasional variation of complex structures used with variation of word order.
- Use extended sentences that include a range of structures, for example conjunctions, pronouns, reported speech and/or a range of lexis to express abstract ideas/convey justified arguments conceptually more challenging language.
- Use accurate grammatical structures with successful references to past, present and future events.
- Develop coherent speech without errors that hinder clarity of communication.
- Translate passages from/to Arabic and the meaning of the passage is fully communicated without errors that detract from the overall flow or clarity of the translation.
Recommended Study Habits:
- Going to the Glossary activity and revising some vocabulary with its images or phrases.
- Recording some audio and send it to the teacher for correction.
- Writing about certain topics, commenting about the dialogues by expressing pictures or giving summaries on what the teacher has asked like audio or texts.
Course Outcome:
If the student passes this course with 75% at least, they will successfully sit for Cambridge GCSE or O-Level exams and will thereafter be eligible to join Cambridge A-level courses.
- A rich range of authentic spoken and written material, adapted and abridged, as appropriate, including literary texts will be offered by the institute.
- Additional activity materials presented from our institute.
- Over this entire course, students are required to use the whiteboard on the internet to take quizzes and retrieve assignment updates designed to evaluate their abilities to accomplish the intended learning outcomes.
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