The 2011 Summer Intensive Programme is currently scheduled to run from Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 through Monday, July 16th, 2012.
Classes will run from 08:00 [8:00 am] until 14:30 [2:30 pm] each day, Sunday through Thursday.
The daily class schedule will look like:
| 0800-0855 | First class |
| 0905-1000 | Second Class |
| 1010-1105 | Third Class |
| 1105-1200 | Fourth Class |
| 1200-1230 | Lunch Break |
| 1230-1325 | Fifth Class |
| 1335-1430 | Sixth Class |
However, once the day’s classes are over the learning continues!! Students will then need to spend 4 hours a day divided between ‘community learning’ (spending time with local people) and private study (practising and preparing for classes). This is a programme not merely an institute and one cannot learn Arabic solely in the classroom.
A typical day for a student might then look like this:
| 0800-1430 | Class time |
| 1500-1700 | Rest |
| 1700-1900 | Homework and preparation for the next day |
| 1900-2130 | Visit friends, neighbours etc |
By the end of the course it is expected that students will be at Novice High level on the ACTFL scale, i.e. be able to give and receive directions; use verbs in the past and (to some extent) the present and engage in very basic conversations in a few topics.