20 hours over 10 weeks
Arabic Upper
Intermediate Higher 1:
 
Book and material:
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“Al-Arabiyyah bayna yadayk”
(Arabic at your hands), book 2, part 2 (unit 13-14)
Topics and
vocabulary:
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the Muslim world
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geographic and demographic advantages of the Muslim world
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famous Islamic organisations
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a look at Saudi Arabia and Nigeria
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history of Islam
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safety and security
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war and peace
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reasons and motivations of crime
 
Grammar and
structures:
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review: comparative and superlative
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the accusative case of temporal and local adverbs
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review: sound and weak verbs
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the five verbs
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distinctive nouns after numerals 11 to 90, 100, 1000
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the vocative
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the five nouns
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the adjective vs. the modal adverb “ḥāl”
 
Language
skills:
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recognising synonyms and opposites
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building complex sentences 
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understanding and analysing long texts
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writing short essays
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finding the write definition
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expressing feelings and opinions
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comparing things