SLC 120C 
Beginning Arabic
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Spring 2000
T&Th: 11:00 - 1:00 
Class: 60-62M		 Khalil Barhoum
Office: 40-42B
Office: (650) 723-3657
khalil@stanford.edu
Tuesday, April 4:
Lesson Nine

Thursday, April 6, Tuesday, April 11, & Thursday, April 13:
Lesson Ten:

Videotaped/audiotaped text:
Grammar
Reading
Culture
Listening activity
Reading activity.
Speaking activity.
Writing activity.

Texts:
Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 174-194.
Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

Thursday, April 20, Tuesday, April 25 & Thursday, April 27:
Lesson Eleven:

Videotaped/audiotaped text:
Grammar
Culture
Listening activity
Reading activity.
Speaking activity.
Writing activity.

Texts:
Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 195-216.
Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

Tuesday, May 2: Quiz I (Lessons 9, 10 & 11)

Thursday, May 4, Tuesday, May 9, & Thursday, May 11:

Lesson Twelve:

Videotaped/audiotaped text
Grammar
Culture
Listening activity
Reading activity.
Speaking activity.
Writing activity.

Texts:
Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 217-240.
Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

Tuesday, May 16, Thursday May 18, & Tuesday, May 23:

Lesson Thirteen:

Videotaped/audiotaped text:
Grammar
Culture
Listening activity
Reading activity.
Speaking activity.
Writing activity.

Texts:
Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 241-262.
Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

Thursday, May 25: Quiz II (Lessons 12-13)

Tuesday, May 30, Thursday, June 1: Videotaped Oral Presentations

May 28-June 1: End-Quarter Period

June 2-7 (Fri-Wed) End-Quarter Exams
 

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Course Requirements
 
  • Test One (Lessons 9,10,11): 30% 
  • Test Two (Lessons 12,13): 20% 
  • Homework, Attendance, Participation: 40% 
  • Oral Presentation: 10% 
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    Required Texts & Tapes
     
  • Khalil Barhoum, Spoken Arabic. 
  • Brustad, et al, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part I. 
  • Videotapes and Audiotapes of Al-Kitaab (located at Audiovisual Lab in Meyer Library). 
  • Doniac, The Concise Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary 
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    Supplementary Material
     
  • Arabic audiotaopes on Formal Written Arabic 
  • Arabic audiotaopes on Formal Spoken Arabic 
  • Arabic audiotaopes on different varieties of Spoken Arabic (i.e., Levantine, Egyptian, Saudi, Moroccan) 
  • Arabic wordprocessing program NISUS (available at Meyer Library Audiovisual Lab) 
  • The Rosetta Stone Arabic software program 
  • Videotapes on the Arab World, the Middle East, and Islam (available at Meyer Library Media Center)
  • Other Dictionaries Available for Purchase Wortabet, Wortabet's Pocket Dictionary Wehr-Cowan, Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic
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    Suggested Cultural Activities
     
  • Lunch at an Arabic Restaurant 
  • Arabic Potluck Dinner
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    Homework: Written Assignments

    Lesson 10:
    Drill 3, p. 179 (Type up the whole drill.)
    Drill 16, p. 192 (Type up the whole drill.)

    Type up, or handwrite, the folllowing drills:
    Drill 6, p. 182 (Do even numbers only);
    Drill 7, p. 184 (Do even numbers only);
    Drill 9, p. 185 (Do even numbers only);
    Drill 10, p. 186 (Do All);
    Drill 11, p. 186 (Do even numbers only);

    Lesson 11:
    Drill 2, p. 198 (Do even numbers.)
    Drill 3, p. 199 (Type up the whole drill.)
    Drill 6, p. 205 (Do even numbers.)
    Drill 7, 206 (Do last part: Complete the sentences...)
    Drill 8, p. 207 (Do all 7 sentences.)
    Drill 11, p. 211 (Do even numbers.)
    Drill 12, p. 212 (Do even numbers.)
    Drill 14, p. 213 (Do even numbers.)
    Drill 15, p. 213 (Do even numbers.)

    Lesson 12:
    Drill 1, p. 221 (Do even numbers.)
    Drill 3, p. 222 (Type up the whole drill.)
    Drill 5, p. 225 (Do even numbers.)
    Drill 6, p. 228 (Do even numbers.)
    Drill 8, p. 229
    Drill 14, p. 236 (Do even numbers.)

    Lesson 13:
    Drill 1, p. 245 (Do even numbers.)
    Drill 2, p. 246 (Type up.)
    Drill 4, 248 (Do even numbers.)
    Drill 5, p. 250 (Type up even numbers + 12-15.)
    Drill 6, p. 252 (Do even numbers.)
    Drill 9, p. 256
    Drill 11, p. 186
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