Arabic Language, Advanced, Part III (NCAA Approved)

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Course Description

Description

This course is designed for 7th to 12th grade students who are working on an advanced level in Arabic, including speaking, listening, reading, writing, and grammar.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Arrange sentences using the correct grammar to create essays.
2. Express possession, what they have and do not have in spoken and written communications.
3. Express obligation using new methods with correct Arabic grammar.
4. Talk about past events, personal celebrations.
5. Read, write, and narrate Arabic jokes.
6. Create personal letters, emails, invitations, and notes.
7. List new names of Arabic foods and state their ingredients.
8. Locate Arabic countries on the map and explain the borders and directions.
9. Demonstrate knowledge of Arabic culture, products, and practices.
10. Conduct an Arabic culture project: Arabic food.
11. Conduct a TV interview.
12. Use new Arabic idioms and proverbs.
13. Revisit: The shapes in Arabic.
14. Demonstrate an understanding of Arabic music, modern songs, new singers, and famous Arabic Media programs.
15. Describe family and relatives.
16. Analyze passages and interviews.
17. Communicate in formal Arabic, with an introduction to some words and phrases that are common in some colloquial Arabic dialects. Students will learn to distinguish the differences between standard Arabic and spoken Arabic from various Arabic countries.
18. Ask for and give instructions using imperative verbs and advice and be able to read road or hotel instructions.

This course has synchronous virtual class meetings and students will also schedule one-on-one virtual meetings directly with the instructor and teaching assistant. View the schedule for class meeting times. Meetings will be recorded for students who are unable to attend due to scheduling conflicts.

Virtual classrooms, and student activities in the classroom, may be recorded and added to the course as an ongoing asset for all class students to review. Students may be invited to interact in CTY community spaces that include students and instructors and potentially specially invited guests that are not enrolled in their course. Videos from YouTube or other web providers may be present in the course. Video recommendations or links provided at end of videos are generated by the video host provider and are not CTY recommendations. Student contributions (e.g., projects, forum posts, etc.) may remain in the course after the student completes the course. These artifacts may be preserved to showcase student work or to continue important conversations.

Materials Needed

Students will need a headset with microphone. A microphone with an on/off switch is recommended.

A textbook is also required for the course:

Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Intermediate Learners, Second Edition.

ISBN: 978-0-300-17877-7​

Other Readings: Additional reading materials or media files will be posted on course page.

Suggested Resource Material (not required): Oxford Picture Dictionary English/Arabic

ISBN: 0194740102

Detailed Course Information

Course Details

Unit One:

• Introduction to interview Q&A techniques
• Requesting and accepting things; getting into and out of conversations
• Mixing standard and colloquial elements; suppressing endings
• Culture: Family names on their origins
• Grammar: Expressing obligation, without يجب
• Forming a yes/no questions using the Hamza
• Absolute negation
• Inquiring about quantities
• Revising: Exception
• The passive
• Adverbs of time

Unit Two:

• Learning how to describe professions
• Describe places
• Reinforcing the ability to use all time frames
• Revisiting: The nominal sentence
• كان و أخواتها
• Multiple إضافة
• الممنوع من الصرف
• Culture: Visit to Jordan
• Map of Jordan
• Petra

Unit Three:

• Introduction to describing an evening out on the town
• Expressing personal events
• Letter writing styles
• Using the particle ما
• Using the particle إلا
• Culture: Visit to Morocco
• Map of Morocco

Unit Four:

• Introducing Arabic Jokes
• Using the particle إذا
• Using كاد
• المبني للمجهول و المعلوم
• Culture:
• Arabic Holidays
• The Arabic Art
• The Arabic market

Other topics:

• Arabic Currency
• At the store
• At the restaurants
• At the market
• The calendar, seasons, and weather
• Arabic proverbs
• Transportations
• Arabic stories

Technical Requirements

This course requires a properly maintained computer with high-speed internet access and an up-to-date web browser (such as Chrome or Firefox). The student must be able to communicate with the instructor via email. Visit the Technical Requirements and Support page for more details.

Zoom online virtual classroom
This course uses an online virtual classroom which can be used for instructor-student communication if the student has any questions about the course or curriculum. The classroom works on standard computers with the Zoom desktop client and also tablets or handhelds that support the Zoom Mobile app. Students will need a computer with the Zoom desktop client installed to watch any recorded meetings. The Zoom desktop client and Zoom Mobile App are both available for free download.

Most course lectures may be viewed on mobile devices, but in some cases assignments and quizzes must be completed on a desktop or laptop computer.

This course uses Respondus LockDown Browser proctoring software for designated assessments. LockDown Browser is a client application that is installed to a local computer. Visit the Respondus website for system requirements.

While Chromebook can be used to progress through the course, all exams must be completed on a PC or Mac.

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"My son thoroughly enjoys his Arabic course. In fact, it is his favorite course. The instructor has instilled a passion in him for learning not only the language, but the culture as well! He truly walks around the house speaking Arabic now. I don't understand what he is saying, but I love it!”

"Our family lives in rural America without much way of cultural diversions. When giving my daughter her first JHU CTY catalog, we were surprised but supportive when she picked Arabic. She is now in her 3rd semester and we see her practicing and going to class. However, we have no reference points on really how well she is doing outside of her grades. This all changed the other night.
In the next town over, there is a Greek and Mediterranean restaurant. The waiter, and presumably owner, had a Mediterranean appearance and an indistinguishable accent. When he mentioned he was from Lebanon, I told him that my daughter was learning Arabic. He began to talk with her and she answered quickly. The conversation was over in about 4 sentences but it left the waiter wide eyed. Apparently he used some non-standard conversational words and my daughter followed along and answered appropriately. When he asked me where she was learning Arabic, I told him all about JHU.
I am now talking with my daughter about helping her start an Arabic Club that would meet once month at this restaurant. She is also starting to tutor her 20 year old "cool" cousin on Arabic who has been teaching herself Arabic from a book, but did not know proper pronunciation of the alphabet or words. This too has been very motivational.
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