BASIC CONVERSATIONAL ARABIC

Short Course: Basic Conversational Arabic

Objectives:

This course will help students to be able to read, write, speak and understand Arabic Language for their basic daily usage. Simple syntax will be applied and students will be doing few hands on activities to practice their Arabic language proficiency.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Arabic alphabet and sounds
2. Place of articulation
3. Arabic language and mother tongue
4. Nous, signal nouns, pronouns
5. Verbs variation
6. Numerals
7. Preposition and conjunctions
8. Adjectives
9. Day / Telling time / months / seasons
10. Basic daily dialogues / conversational

CONVERSATIONAL ARABIC (Intermediate)

Short Course: Conversational Arabic (Intermediate)

Objectives:
This course will help particpants to be able to read, write, speak and understand Arabic Language for their basic daily usage. Simple syntax will be applied and students will be doing few hands on activities to practice their Arabic language proficiency.

Contents:
Course Outline
At the end of the lessons, the participants should be able to use Arabic.

1. Arabic Pronunciation
2. Greetings
3. Numerals & Telling Time
4. Verbs & Variations
5. Nouns
6. Adjectives & Comparisons
7. Conjunctions & Prepositions
8. Family & Pronouns

Objectives

This course will enable participants to converse using simple sentences in Mandarin.

1. Provide opportunities to communicate with friends of a different race
2. Understand and appreciate different cultures
3. Build cohesion among different races

Course Outline

1. Introducing the Chinese Language
2. Pronunciation and Phonetics
3. Self-Introduction
4. Vowels, consonants and diphthongs
5. Simple Introductory Sentences
6. Phrases for Greeting
7. Pronouns and possessive pronouns
8. Tenses
9. Present, past and continuous tenses
10. Numbers
11. Group discussions
12. Days, weeks, months and years
13. Money: dollars and cents
14. At the food restaurant
15. To orders dishes, to name bowls, plates, spoons, chopsticks, to communicate with the waiters
16. Basic Conversation Practices
17. At the shopping mall
18. Festival: X'mas, Chinese NY, Deepavali, Hari Raya
19. Places: bank, post office, hospital
20. Group discussion
21. Traffic: mrt, bus,taxi,lorry, ferry, air plane....
22. Telephone conversation
23. Introduction and hands-on session on Chinese culture

Basic Conversational Mandarin II

Objectives

This course will enable participants to converse using simple sentences in Mandarin.
1. Provide opportunities to communicate with friends of a different race
2. Understand and appreciate different cultures
3. Build cohesion among different races

Course Outline
At the end of the lessons, the participants should be able to use Mandarin to:

1. Self-Introduction
2. Introducing to Chinese Language
3. Revision on Pronunciation and Phonetics
4. Start simple basic conversation in daily life
5. Sentence Structure - construct longer phrases to handle exchanges with sufficient ease
6. Basic grammar for sentence construction to carry out short conversation
7. Adjectives, including topics on nouns (gender and number) and descriptions
8. Talking about your family, daily routine and hobbies
9. Communication at work, home, social functions
10. Asking for and giving directions or information in places such as: hotels, airport, town etc
11. Learning new words and constructing simple sentences on Overseas Travel
12. Everyday Situations/Dialogues
13. Practical, Role Playing & Language Games
14. More hands-on session on Chinese cultures

Basic Conversational Mandarin III

 Course Outline 

Conversational Malay 1

Objectives

This course will enable participants to converse using simple sentences in Malay.

1. Provide opportunities to communicate with friends of a different race
2. Understand and appreciate different cultures
3. Build cohesion among different races

Course Outline
At the end of the lessons, the participants should be able to use Malay to:

1. Greet friends
2. Ask for directions
3. Understanding simple instructions
4. Tell time
5. Count numbers
6. Buy things
7. Weather report
8. My ambition
9. Visiting senior citizens
10. Name objects in their daily life
11. Healthy body
12. Feelings
13. My family
14. In the classroom
15. Know about Chinese Culture

Conversational Malay II

 Objectives

This course will enable participants to converse using simple sentences in Malay.

1. Provide opportunities to communicate with friends of a different race
2. Understand and appreciate different cultures
3. Build cohesion among different races

Course Outline
At the end of the lessons, the participants should be able to use Malay to:

1. Self-Introduction
2. Introducing to Malay Language
3. Revision on Pronunciation and Phonetics
4. Start simple basic conversation in daily life
5. Sentence Structure - construct longer phrases to handle exchanges with sufficient ease
6. Basic grammar for sentence construction to carry out short conversation
7. Adjectives, including topics on nouns (gender and number) and descriptions
8. Talking about your family, daily routine and hobbies
9. Communication at work, home, social functions
10. Asking for and giving directions or information in places such as: hotels, airport, town etc
11. Learning new words and constructing simple sentences on Overseas Travel
12. Everyday Situations/Dialogues
13. Practical, Role Playing & Language Games
14. More hands-on session on Malay cultures

Conversational Malay III

Course Outline