Arabic 4

Students in this subject start developing in-depth knowledge of the Arab World in general and individual countries in the region. This will include approaching the Arab world from a historical perspective, which is crucial to the critical understanding of its civilisation and appreciating existing customs, lifestyles, and prevailing values. Students will also enjoy reading and/or hearing information about texts by extraordinary Arab writers, poets, and singers who express ideas, feelings, and aspirations born in the Arab world. In this, students will be aided by the increasingly complex linguistic elements learnt in this course, which will make it possible to enjoy the writings on the history of the Arab world, biographies, poems, reflective essays, informative reports and newspaper and magazine articles offered during this semester.

提升阿拉伯语听、说、读、写能力。

• 1Read and interpret Arabic texts of a few pages
• 2Write personal and informative texts of moderate complexity
• 3Write texts of moderate length and complexity based on independent small-scale research
• 4Communicate spontaneously in situations requiring direct exchanges of information on familiar topics and activities
• 5Comprehend and interpret short aural texts
• 6Apply new grammatical concepts in writing and speaking and identify these concepts in reading and listening
• 7Analyse historical, political, religious, and cultural issues and trends in the Arab world and the work of some Arab poets, writers, thinkers, and political figures.