Potential Skills Potential New Structures Potential Topics Health and the words for parts of the body and negation of and phrases, Body rudimentary expressions related to health expressing the absence of something Fashion and articles of clothing; shopping review personal pronouns and Dress in Arabic prepositional phrases, Cultures demonstrative forms Talking About the expressing likes and dislikes; weather review equational sentences Weather expressions and introduce jussive verb forms Cuisine in words for food; eating and drinking introduction of nisba Selected Cultures expressions; shopping for food adjectives of the Popular Music in words for playing instruments; types of verbal and nominal sentences Selected music and word gerunds Cultures Family and describing and expressing emotions enclitic forms previously Friends; Life learned; enclitic pronouns Events Discussion of recognizing names of people and places in adjectives continued Selected Current Arabic Events Methods: Students entering Bloomsburg University who have four years or more of a second language in high school will be waived of the requirement and receive 2 GEPs. Students with fewer than 4 years of learning in a foreign language will take a placement test. Students who place above the second level (x.102) will be considered to have fulfilled the General Education Goal 8 Basic Communication in a Second Language. Students who successfully complete a language course above the second level (above x.102) and who did not take the placement test, will also satisfy goal 8. During class sessions students spend most of the time on a variety of activities to exercise spoken Arabic, often working in small groups or pairs in order to maximize time spent on speaking. Spoken Arabic may also include voice recordings and on-line interactive speaking exercises. Many activities which focus on writing, reading, and listening comprehension could take place outside class sessions. Activities in class sessions and outside class sessions may require use of electronic media; the language laboratory will be available to facilitate activities using media. Homework assignments will also include a variety of writing assignments, texts, resources from the library, and realia (authentic objects specific to Arabic-speaking culture).
Potential Topics Potential Skills Potential New Structures Health and the Body words for parts of the body and rudimentary expressions related to health negation of and phrases, expressing the absence of something Fashion and Dress in Arabic Cultures articles of clothing; shopping review personal pronouns and prepositional phrases, demonstrative forms Talking About the Weather expressing likes and dislikes; weather expressions review equational sentences and introduce jussive verb forms Cuisine in Selected Cultures of the words for food; eating and drinking expressions; shopping for food introduction of nisba adjectives Popular Music in Selected Cultures words for playing instruments; types of music verbal and nominal sentences and word gerunds Family and Friends; Life Events describing and expressing emotions enclitic forms previously learned; enclitic pronouns Discussion of Selected Current Events recognizing names of people and places in Arabic adjectives continued Methods: Students entering Bloomsburg University who have four years or more of a second language in high school will be waived of the requirement and receive 2 GEPs. Students with fewer than 4 years of learning in a foreign language will take a placement test. Students who place above the second level (x.102) will be considered to have fulfilled the General Education Goal 8 Basic Communication in a Second Language. Students who successfully complete a language course above the second level (above x.102) and who did not take the placement test, will also satisfy goal 8. During class sessions students spend most of the time on a variety of activities to exercise spoken Arabic, often working in small groups or pairs in order to maximize time spent on speaking. Spoken Arabic may also include voice recordings and on-line interactive speaking exercises. Many activities which focus on writing, reading, and listening comprehension could take place outside class sessions. Activities in class sessions and outside class sessions may require use of electronic media; the language laboratory will be available to facilitate activities using media. Homework assignments will also include a variety of writing assignments, texts, resources from the library, and realia (authentic objects specific to Arabic-speaking culture).
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