Intermediate level
This level addresses a number of functional topics such as: health care, recreation, marital life, living in a city, occupation and other topics. Texts contained in this level are relatively long compared to the texts of the beginner level. The level also focuses on vocabulary included in these texts. Students are also taught some grammatical topics such as: conjunctions, object, verb tenses added nouns, nouns in terms of numbers, verbs with and with no objects, extended nouns, present tense letters, feminine signs, regular feminine plural, regular masculine plural, duals, cases of ‘n’ omission from duals, question words meanings, functional words of present tenses when as object cases, Arabic consonants and vowels, positives and negatives, silent final vowel letters, adverbs of place and time, kinds of called nouns, adjectives and adverbs, the five verbs, the five nouns, distinction of numbers, signs of subjects, objects, silence and prepositions.
This level also focuses on some acoustic issues where each is presented initially through offering examples and listening to the correct pronunciation followed by training students on at the beginning of the next lesson. One of these issues is the distinction between the short ‘A’ sound and the glottal sound, the long ‘A’ and the glottal sound, the long ‘w’ and the soft ‘w’, the long ‘y’ and soft ‘y’, the stress and cut glottal, short glottal various ‘tanween’ or ‘double ‘n’ sounds forms, soft ‘L’ and other forms in His majesty’s Name “Allah’, ‘R’ sounds and its various occurrences when silent sounds meet in two successive words, how to pronounce two similar sounds when meeting in two words, silent ‘n’ and moving sounds, silent ‘n’ and silent ‘y’ or ‘m’. Teaching all these sounds and acoustic issues is supported by related exercises.
Listening is also an important skill that students are required to acquire during their study of this level. Listening comprehension of a dialogues and short texts for each unit followed by comprehension questions are the main activities of this level. Listening texts are mostly taken from the main texts of each unit where tier topics are varied to range from dialogues and prose including news bulletin and particular issues.
As for the conversation skill, students are requested to practice through individual, pair or group works where relevant and real life questions and answers are exchanged, dialogues and texts are completed, pictures are described, comparisons are held, and competitions and communicative questions are addressed. The goal of including these varied activities is to enable students acquire fluency and to achieve effective participation, interactivity and communication amongst learners.
Reading is one of the most important skills that students seek to acquire. Therefore, this level focuses on enabling students learn two types of reading strategies: intensive reading and free reading. The first one aims at providing students with an appropriate level of language constituents such as sounds, vocabulary and grammatical structures in addition to training them on reading. The latter one aims at directing students to practice reading independently. Reading texts varied from dialogue texts and short and long prose followed by a number of comprehensive questions.
This level also focuses on the writing skill through targeted composition, ordering words into sentences, writing paragraphs, holding comparisons, describing pictures, and summarizing texts into paragraphs, writing relatively short and long subjects, turning dialogues into recitative texts and other forms of writing activities. This level, further, focuses on some spelling issues such as training students on handwriting of some Arabic fonts including ‘Naskh’ and ‘Ruqaa’, differentiating the tied ‘t’ from the open ‘t’, and placements of glottal omission in an ‘ibn’ word and fixing it, the glottal stop in the middle and at the end of a word, and placements of writing ‘w’ or omission of ‘w’ in plurals and other spelling topics.
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