SLP 120B

Beginning Arabic

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Winter 2000

Khalil Barhoum

T&TH: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Office: 40-42B

Room: Cubberly/Education 208

Office: (650) 723-3637

khalil@stanford.edu

WEEK ONE

Videotaped/audiotaped text: "I Do not Like New York City."

Grammar: adverbs; noun-adjective phrases; demonstrative particles

Reading: weather and seasons, today's weather

Culture: Lebanese singer Fairouz & one of her most famous songs

Listening activity
Reading activity
Speaking activity
Writing activity

• Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 72-88.
• Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

Videotaped/audiotaped text: "Ana Khalid--I am Khalid."

Grammar: verbal nouns; 'why.'

Brassiri Restaurant (in Cairo); Khan al-Khalili Restaurant (in Cairo)

Culture: Arabic food

Listening activity
Reading activity
Speaking activity
Writing activity

• Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 89-105.
• Barhoum, Spoken Arabic 

Videotaped/audiotaped text: "I am the Oldest."

Grammar: possession with pronouns; fronted predicate; describing past states; the dual; numbers 1-10; how much?

Culture: secondary school in the Arab world; Arabic currency.

Listening activity
Reading activity
Speaking activity
Writing activity

• Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 106-128.
• Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

Videotaped/audiotaped text: "I am the Oldest."

Grammar: possession with pronouns; fronted predicate; describing past states; the dual; numbers 1-10; how much?

Culture: secondary school in the Arab world; Arabic currency.

Listening activity
Reading activity
Speaking activity
Writing activity

• Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 106-128.
• Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

Tuesday, February 1: Test One (Lessons 5-7)

Videotaped/audiotaped text: "Almustaqbal littijaara"

Grammar: narrating in the past; the dual; numbers 11-100; the structure of Arabic words.

Culture: soccer in the Arab world; Arabic currency.

Listening activity
Reading activity
Speaking activity
Writing activity

• Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 129-153.
• Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

Videotaped/audiotaped text: "Almustaqbal littijaara"

Grammar: narrating in the past; the dual; numbers 11-100; the structure of Arabic words.

Culture: soccer in the Arab world; Arabic currency.

Listening activity
Reading activity
Speaking activity
Writing activity

• Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 129-153.
• Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

Videotaped/audiotaped text: "Grandmother Wakes me up at 9:00 a.m."

Grammar: the non-human plural; telling the time; the use of 'laysa' with noun sentences.

Culture: recreational facilities and athletic clubs in the Arab world.

Listening activity
Reading activity
Speaking activity
Writing activity

• Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 154-173.
• Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

Videotaped/audiotaped text: "Grandmother Wakes me up at 9:00 a.m."

Grammar: the non-human plural; telling the time; the use of 'laysa' with noun sentences.

Culture: recreational facilities and athletic clubs in the Arab world.

Listening activity
Reading activity
Speaking activity
Writing activity

• Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 154-173.
• Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

Videotaped/audiotaped text: "Grandmother Wakes me up at 9:00 a.m."

Grammar: the non-human plural; telling the time; the use of 'laysa' with noun sentences.

Culture: recreational facilities and athletic clubs in the Arab world.

Listening activity
Reading activity
Speaking activity
Writing activity

• Brustad, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic I, pp. 154-173.
• Barhoum, Spoken Arabic

WEEK TEN End-Quarter Period: March 5-March 11 (Sun-Sun)

Review

Test Two (Lessons 8-9)
Hand in Written Essay

(Final in Time Schedule: Wednesday, March 15, 7-10 P.M.)

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Course Requirements & Grade Distribution

• Test One: (Lessons 5-7): 45%
• Test Two: (Lessons 8,9): 30%
• Homework, Attendance, Participation: 20%
• Written Essay: 5%

• Khalil Barhoum, Spoken Arabic.
• Brustad, et al, Al-Kitaab: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic, Part I.
• Videotapes and Audiotapes of Al-Kitaab (Available at Audiovisual Lab in Meyer Library).
• Doniac, The Concise Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary

• NISUS Arabic Word Processing Program
  A must for ALL Arabic students!
  (ZMS 52)
• "The Holy Qur'an" on CD at Meyer (ZMS 594)
• The Rosetta Stone: An integrated learning program on CD (ZMS 606)
• Arabic audiotaopes on Formal Written Arabic
• Arabic audiotapes on different varieties of Spoken Arabic (i.e., Levantine, Egyptian, Saudi, Moroccan)
• Videotapes on the Arab World, the Middle East, and Islam (available at Meyer Library Media Center)

• Wortabet, Wortabet's Pocket Dictionary
• Wehr-Cowan, Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic

• Lunch at an Arabic Restaurant
• Arabic Potluck Dinner

Drill 1 (Even numbers), p. 75
Drill 2, p. 76
Drill 7, (Even numbers), p. 80
Drill 11, p. 85

Drill 2, p. 92
Drill 4, p. 94
Drill 8, p. 98
Drill 11, p. 100

Drill 2, p. 109
Drill 4, p. 112
Drill 8, p. 116
Drill 16, p. 126
Drill 18, p. 128

Drill 2, p. 133
Drill 7, p. 141
Drill 9, p. 143
Drill 14, p. 146
Drill 15, p. 147
Drill 19, p. 153

Drill 2, p. 160
Drill 4, p. 161
Drill 5, p. 162
Drill 7, p. 165
Drill 10, p. 167
Drill 14, p. 171
Drill 16, p. 173

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