Upper intermediate user (40 hours given in 2 stages; 20 hours each stage)

General description: learners are enabled to use Arabic to effectively communicate ideas facts, feelings about these topics: health (physical and mental), literature, media, emotions and feelings.

Objectives: By the end of this level, the learner will be able to

1.      engage in more communicative functions: listing the main ideas and some details of a literary or informational text, talking about illness and requesting assistance and expressing feelings and emotions.
2.      engage in short conversations (about 150 words) related to the topics listed above.
3.      ask and respond in some details to questions about the topics listed above.
4.      read and understand simple texts of about 120 words related to the topics listed above.
5.      use collocated Arabic expressions and vocabulary in contexts related to the topics listed above.
6.      produce a summary of about 30 words in simple sentences about the topics mentioned above.