A1 CEFR
Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she owns. Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.
A1/1
Textbook: Salam! neu A1-A2: Arabisch für Anfänger. Klett Sprachen GmbH
Speaking Topics: Letters: writing, pronunciation (with transcription) and reading. Greetings, getting to know each other, origin, asking how one is doing, speaking about family and living situations, saying goodbye, using a number of short important sentences, learning numbers from 0-10
Planned Grammar Topics: Subjects, demonstrative pronouns, interrogatives, Arabic articles, feminine and masculine words, negatives with adjectives and participles. Conjugating present tense, sun and moon letters, negation of verbs, personal pronouns (singular), possessive pronouns (singular), the Nisba adjective
A1/2
Textbook: Salam! neu A1-A2: Arabisch für Anfänger. Klett Sprachen GmbH
Speaking Topics: Asking and answering simple questions, making and responding to simple statements dealing with familiar and immediate matters. Learning numbers up to 20. Speaking about time, work, phone calls, home, writing emails, naming objects, describing an apartment.
Planned Grammar Topics: Grammar revision through various exercises, prepositions, interrogatives, adjectives and nouns, simple linking words, subjects and personal pronouns, conjugating words in the imperfect, personal and possessive pronouns (plural). The verb ‘have’. Numbers (3-10) with feminine or masculine nouns.
A1/3
Textbook: Salam! neu A1-A2: Arabisch für Anfänger. Klett Sprachen GmbH
Speaking Topics: Asking and answering simple questions, making and responding to simple statements dealing with familiar and immediate matters. Describing the city center and its stores, asking for and giving directions, naming groceries, going shopping, describing recipes, giving measurements and prices, making appointments.
Planned Grammar Topics: Review of grammar through various exercises (verbs, prepositions), adjectives & nouns, simple linking words, negatives, expanding subjects & personal pronouns, dual form, conjugating verbs in the present tense, the possessive construct, further question words, introduction to cases in Arabic.
A2 CEFR
Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment). Can communicate in simple and routine situations requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.
A2/1
Textbook: Salam! neu A1-A2: Arabisch für Anfänger. Klett Sprachen GmbH
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics: Ordering food and drink, talking about future actions, asking and offering, talking about the family, setting the table, describing the garden, counting to 100, describing a picture, family members, daily routine.
Planned Grammar Topics: Review of grammar through various exercises, dual adjective & noun, subjunctive, modal verbs, demonstrative pronouns, irregular nouns (أب، أخ), possessive endings in all cases, numbers 11-99 (+accusative indefinite article), prepositions with personal endings, definite adjectives, sentence structure, negation with لا، ما ، لن ، ليس…, verb conjugation in all tenses and كان, more question words, more linking words and other topics.
A2/2
Textbook: Salam! neu A1-A2: Arabisch für Anfänger. Klett Sprachen GmbH
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics: Talking about means of transportation, getting information about departure and arrival times, buying a ticket, asking for and telling the time, naming items of clothing, describing an apartment, writing a postcard, talking about the weather, talking about activities, describing a picture.
Planned Grammar Topics: Review of grammar through various exercises, pronouns in the dual, personal endings in the plural form, لكنَّ + personal endings, imperative, negative imperative, numbers 100 – 1000, colors, intensifying particle إنَّ, indirect speech with قال, perfect in the singular and plural, modal verb + أن + subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive, special features of verbs with hamza, weak verbs, the Arabic root system.
A2/3
Textbook: Salam! neu A1-A2: Arabisch für Anfänger. Klett Sprachen GmbH
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics: Talking about their school days and the past, describing their daily routine and work day, describing people, talking about fashion and lifestyles, describing the development of mentalities, planning a vacation, checking into a hotel, find out information about the vacation destination, talking about one’s CV.
Planned Grammar Topics: Verbs with special features in the perfect tense, verbs with prepositions, personal endings to verbs, the days of the week, tenses, apocopate, كان + accusative, past progressive tense, the verb “to be”, decades, particle قد, color adjectives, imperative, the conjunction “that”, particles with subjunctive, relative pronouns, relative clauses, ordinal numbers up to 10, numbers.
B1 CEFR
Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered at work, school, leisure etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
B1/1
Textbook: Arabisch Intensiv. Aufbaustufe B1/B2, Buske H.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics:
Review and expansion of basic vocabulary (getting to know each other, living, traveling, doing something, reading, understanding, speaking, shopping, professions) Job advertisements. Mouna in her new apartment. Receiving someone after a trip. Relatives and friends, marriage advertisements, marriage proposal, commitment, one’s own characteristics, internet in everyday life - advantages and disadvantages, fairy tales and much more…
Picture stories and picture description, a presentation about marriage in Austria and one’s dream partner.
Planned Grammar Topics: Grammar review through various exercises, consolidation of linking words, interrogatives, prepositions, case endings. Passive voice, the negation of the past with لَمْ ,and the apocopate, position and number of the verb in the sentence, the nominal clause with certain predicate nouns. The formation of the elative, the comparative, the superlative, Diptotic case endings, كَانَ and its sisters with nominal clause, the negation with لَيسَ and غَيرَ , كَانَ and its sisters with expressions of having, كَانَ and its sisters with verb and many exercises.
B1/2
Textbook: Arabisch Intensiv. Aufbaustufe B1/B2, Buske H.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics: Neighbors, everyday life of an employee, time, buying and selling, means of communication. At the post office and telephone store, clothes, colors, at the bank, important expressions (Ask, want, must, need) and much more.
Picture stories and picture description, a presentation about one’s everyday life.
Planned Grammar Topics: Grammar review through various exercises, relative clauses, temporal clauses, expressing possession with “have” and Arabic prepositions: عِندَ لِــ مَعَ لَدَى, Weak verbs that start with و . Translating sentences into German. Consolidation of connective words, expansion of the plural, numbers with nouns, participle and lots of exercises.
B1/3
Textbook: Arabisch Intensiv. Aufbaustufe B1/B2, Buske H.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions
Speaking Topics: A tour of the old city of Damascus, sights and antiquities, vacations, public holidays, days of rest, verbs of sensory perception, vacation greetings. An official letter, newspaper news, the press, telling the time, reading the date accurately, the Arabic language, using the Internet, the world of politics, various news texts, picture stories and picture descriptions. Choosing an Arabic newspaper, reading an article aloud and explaining it with your own words, giving a presentation about it.
Planned Grammar Topics: Grammar review through various exercises, conjugation of verbs of the type مَرَّ in the past, quantifiers, demonstrative pronouns, local sentences حَيثُ, sentences with إنَّ| أَنَّ or أَنْ , the past perfect tense, the verbal noun, verbal stems, to do something, conjugation of weak verbs of the type نَسِيَ ,can, causal clauses لِأَنَّ ...... بِمَا أَنَّ , final clauses | لِـكَي | حَتَّى لِـــ | and much more.
B2 CEFR
Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with mother-tongue speakers quite possible without strain for either party. Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a point of view on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
B2/1
Textbook: Arabisch Intensiv. Aufbaustufe B1/B2, Buske H.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics: What are we doing tonight? Making suggestions and reacting to them. Talking about culture-literature-theater and cinema. Expressing opinions. Artists and writers, CV, a date to the cinema, cultural events. How to use your time?
Songs and poems, picture stories and picture description. A presentation about a well-known Arab personality from art or culture.
Planned Grammar Topics: Revision of grammar through various exercises. The particle, the passive voice, verbal noun, indirect speech, آخِر | أَخِير - آخَر, the word “self” نفس, expressions of restriction, restrictive subordinate clauses, constructions to express the exceptions إِلَّا - سِوَى - غَير and many more.
B2/2
Textbook: Arabisch Intensiv. Aufbaustufe B1/B2, Buske H.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions
Speaking Topics: Nadjwa wants to travel to France. At the office. Nadjwa's car has broken down. Trades and professions, Germany and the Arab countries, Geography, the weather and weather news. Well-known Arabic proverbs and quotes. A poster.
Planned Grammar Topics: Review of grammar through various exercises, translating sentences into German, conditional clauses, relative clauses with مَا or مَنْ, some important idioms with مَا. Elative, adverbs and other topics.
B2/3
Textbook: Arabisch Intensiv. Aufbaustufe B1/B2, Buske H.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions
Speaking Topics: The children are laughing. What’s wrong with you? Zakaria Tamer. At the doctor, body parts. A verse by al-Mutanabbi, some wisdom. Morning coffee round. Watching Arabic movies. Songs and poems.
Picture stories and picture descriptions. Giving a presentation about a movie, book or story.
Planned Grammar Topics: Reviewing grammar through various exercises, translating sentences. Describing a condition with الحَال. Forming the imperative, the negated imperative, verb constructs with كَانَ. Maybe. Using بعض. Connecting genitive with ذو / ذات and many exercises.
C1 CEFR
Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning. Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
C2 CEFR
Can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read. Can summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and explanations in a coherent presentation. Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations.
