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Part 3 will complete your lower intermediate knowledge over 10 weeks, giving you the confidence to communicate at a higher level.

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Arabic Lower Intermediate Part 3 Course overview

The third and final module, part 3, introduces fresh topics and more complicated grammar to help you reach a new level of proficiency.

You’ll learn to describe professions, give directions and discuss travel-related activities, as well as talk in greater detail about family relationships. We’ll revise past grammar structures and show you how to express uncertainty in Arabic.

At the end you will have achieved CEFR A1/2 level for language learning so you will be able to hold a conversation with native speakers. It is a purely automation tool. We will use it to bank data that will then be used for analytics within Salesforce. i.e. the automation will create Salesforce records, then we can report on them within Salesforce.

Who is it for?

Completed part 2? Studied Arabic elsewhere for at least 100 hours? You may have a rusty Arabic GSCE or be able to communicate at CEFR A1 level. See the eligibility section for more.

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Timetable

This course takes place one evening a week at 18:30 for 10 weeks.

Benefits

  • Focus on the skills needed to converse in real world scenarios
  • Access tools from home with our e-learning platform, Moodle
  • Finishing in July, this is the perfect course to refresh for a summer holiday.

What will I learn?

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • discuss sports and food
  • describe geographical directions and signs
  • understand some media, television and radio programmes
  • describe professions and travel-related activities
  • talk in more detail about family members and relationships.

Grammatical structures

  • expressing uncertainty and preferences
  • expressing frequency, possibility and exception
  • introduction to comparative nouns
  • revisiting the comparatives and superlatives.

Assessment and certificates

You will be awarded an official City St George's, University of London certificate on completion of the course. You must attend over 70 per cent of the classes to be eligible for the certificate.

Although there isn’t a formal assessment, your progress will be monitored throughout the course through your participation and performance during lessons. You will also be given weekly homework.

Teaching

Our Arabic tutors use a variety of teaching methods which are designed to be effective and encouraging. These include a mixture of role play, games, group work and class discussion.

Newspapers, audio and video clips are used too, which will give you a greater understanding of Arabic culture.

The book used on this course is Ahlan wa Sahlan: Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners.

Eligibility

Part 3 is ideal if you have either:

  • completed part 2 of the lower intermediate syllabus
  • studied formally for at least 100 hours
  • have a rusty GCSE in Arabic
  • are confidently communicating at CEFR A1 level.

You should already know:

  • how to make appointments and schedules, and describe festivities
  • how to read newspapers, write postcards and letters using correct terms of address
  • how to describe shops, local facilities and their locations
  • dual and plural nouns in Idafa structure
  • negative past tense and future
  • how to express intention and use relative nouns.

Looking to start at a different level? We run a range of Arabic courses at different levels.

English requirements

You will need a good level of spoken and written English to enrol on this course.

Tutors

  • Ahmed El-Shareif

    Ahmed EI-Shareif (online classes)

    Ahmed El-Shareif is a native Arabic speaker from Egypt with extensive experience teaching Arabic online and in higher education. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and holds two master’s degrees:

    • MA in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, SOAS, University of London (2012). Dissertation: “The Effect of Metacognitive Instruction on the Listening Ability of Arabic as a Foreign Language Students.”
    • MA in Academic Practice (2023). Project: “Exploring Levels and Types of Engagement with Open Education Practice and Open Educational Resources among Teachers of Arabic as a Second Language in Higher Educational Institutions in the United Kingdom.”

      He has attended multiple professional workshops led by the authors of different Arabic textbooks at the University of Texas (USA), as well as sessions in Spain and London.

      Teaching experience (current & previous):
    • Currently teaches Arabic online at City, University of London (Bayes Business School modules and all evening programmes, Years 1–3) and SOAS.
    • Previous roles at Suffolk College, University of Westminster, International House London, and King’s College London.

      Assessment & training:
    • Certified External Examiner for Pearson and the Chartered Institute of Linguists.
    • Designs and runs teacher‑training courses for Arabic instructors in the UK and abroad.

    Ahmed studied Classics (Latin and Greek), speaks Modern Greek, and knows Italian and Japanese.

  • Sawsan Askoul

    Sawsan has an MA in Translation from the University of Westminster and an MA in Applied Linguistics and Communication from Birkbeck College, University of London. She is particularly interested in Arabic phonetics and phonology, bilingual translation and second language acquisition. Sawsan is an experienced teacher who has been teaching Arabic as a foreign language for the past 15 years.

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