Arabic (Modern Standard) Pre-Advanced

The aim of the Arabic Pre-advanced level is to provide students with communicative skills to enable them to start using semi-authentic materials and work towards greater fluency in communicative Arabic. Following Arabic Upper-Intermediate 3, this course continues to cover more advanced structures and more specialized vocabulary. Students completing this course are able to continue to Arabic Pre-Advanced 2.

Class instructions are delivered in Arabic but some English may be used to clarify certain aspects of grammar or expression. Students are encouraged to participate in guided practice, pair work and group work. The various skills of the language are reinforced through relevant activities in the four areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing. There are two consolidation sessions: one in the middle of the course and one at the end of the course. Consolidation exercises aim to provide further practice of the recently learned language through different activities.

Teaching methods target the language skills of the whole group as well as giving specific help to individual learners, ensuring that every student is learning according to their own learning style. By the end of the course, learners are expected to converse confidently about the topics they have covered throughout the course. They will also be able to read and understand more complex and sophisticated texts on both concrete and abstract topics and to write longer texts with a good range of expression.