The following is the overall syllabus for UvA Talen Arabic 3, January-March 2020. This syllabus is based on the syllabus for a previous course and will be updated with current information as the course proceeds.
If you do not pass the final exam or cannot attend class on the day of the final exam, the make-up exam or resit can be taken on either Tuesday, 25 March or Wednesday 31 March from 19:00 to 21:00 at UvA Talen, Roetersstraat 25.
Please try to miss as few classes as possible, not more than two in order to be eligible for the final exam.
Lesson
Material Covered
Lesson 1
13/1
Updated 17/1/2020.
During class:
Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 14, through page 194.
Homework for next class:
Learn vocabulary in Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 14.
Do exercises 8, 9, 10, and 12.
Watch the video described on p. 199 and answer the questions. The videos are on this page.
Since we will be talking about the weather in Arabic, you may want to look at this Egyptian weather page.
Pages 194-194 have references to St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai. Here is the Wikipedia page about that: Dutch, English.
Lesson 2
20/1
Updated.
During class:
Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 14 (remainder).
Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 15. Exercises 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 11.
Homework for next class:
Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 15: Exercises 1 and 7. Do the bottom of exercise 12 on p. 209, where you have to rewrite the paragraph in third person. Next time we will do the exercise on page 210; please think ahead about what you will need to say.
Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 15, speaking exercise on page 210.
Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 16.
Homework for next class:
Do exercises 4, 8, and 9 in Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 16, as well as the video exercise on page 225.
Write out a complete conversation between a shopkeeper and a customer based on Conversation 2 on page 210 to hand in to the teacher during the next class.
Do Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 17, exercise 15, which is a writing exercise. Turn it in to your instructor in class.
Look at Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 17, exercise 14 on page 241. If you do not have a paper dictionary, it may be difficult for you to do, but at least carefully read the explanation of weak verbs on page 240.
Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 17, exercise 15, p. 242, to turn in to your instructor. If you don’t have enough time for this week, then hand it in the following week.
Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 18, exercise 8, which we will discuss in class. Keep preparing this unit: learn the vocabulary and read the texts.
Oops! Didn’t notice that I was supposed to hand out a supplemental reading to work through in the next lesson. So instead of that, we’ll start on Unit 19, working through exercise 3. Please start learning the names of the months to prepare for that.
Lesson 7
24/2
Not yet updated.
During class:
Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 18 (cont.)
Homework for next class:
De Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 18, exercises 11 and 13.
Watch Shaykh Munaf, episode 5.
Prepare Mastering Arabic 1, Unit 19.
It would be a good idea to start looking at the description of the final test, especially the part about writing and speaking skills.
Prepare the supplemental reading, described on this page. I’ll send around links to files with embedded audio in an email message, in case you weren’t in class.
