Pre-advanced (40 hours given in 2 stages; 20 hours each stage)

General description: learners are enabled to effectively communicate ideas and attitudes about these topics: literature and culture, culture, nature and environmental issues, conflict and peace and human rights.  

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

1.      engage in more language functions: giving a short presentation, expressing opinion, outlining the main ideas and some details of  a text, expressing opinion and brief debating.
2.      engage in detailed conversations (about 170 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 factual and fictional texts of about 140 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 45 words in simple sentences about the topics mentioned above.