Intermediate Arabic an Integrated Approach
- List Price: $58.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
- Publish date: 02/01/1999
Focusing on the development of communicative skills, each lesson contains listening, speaking, and reading activities, as well as extra materials and exercises to provide variety, entertainment, and further opportunities for practice. The listening selections include folktales and anecdotes well known to native speakers as part of their oral tradition. The dialogues reflect the quality of everyday oral interaction among Arabs, often with an element of humor. The reading selections, consisting of poems, short stories, newspaper articles, descriptions of Arab cities, and biographies of historical figures, are designed to improve reading skills while enriching the student's knowledge of Arab history, culture, language, and literature. Among the supplementary activities are songs, crossword puzzles, root-and-pattern identification exercises, passage completions, dictations, free compositions, and more.