Arabic Year 1 (Beginners)

Term 1

Topics covered

Alphabet and sounds, greetings and leave-taking, yourself and where you are from, professions, everyday objects

Grammatical structures

The short and long Arabic vowels; masculine and feminine words (gender of nouns); simple sentences; case endings - the nominative case, nouns (singular) and adjective agreement; plural of words, possessive endings, the letter Ta Marbouda and its sound, attaching a suffix to a word ending in Ta Marbouda, separate personal pronoun, subject and predicate, separate pronoun

Learning objectives

• Writing and reading the Alphabet as well their sounds (phonetics)
• Introducing and identifying yourself and others
• Greeting people
• Saying good-bye
• Asking about well-being
• Talking about what you do
• Identifying places of origin and Arab countries, political system and capitals.
• Describing everyday objects/ objects in class room
• Making polite requests and asking questions
• Introduction to colloquial Arabic; phonological variations/ different hand writing

Term 2

Topics covered

More objects, immediate surroundings and facilities, family , more countries and peoples; numbers; prices

Grammatical structures

Prepositions, coordinating particle, demonstrative, contrasting particle , negation, the definite article, sun and moon letters, question words, verbs, dual, more about plural, negation and conjugation

Learning objectives

• Being able to count
• Eliciting information
• Expressing admiration
• Cardinals numbers
• Describing a situation
• Giving your address
• Expressing regret or apology

Term 3

Topics covered

Food and drink, daily routine and schedules, telling time, describing people, positions and activities, the weather, past events, Arabic print media

Grammatical structures

Sequence, the verb KANA, comparing and contrasting, partitive nouns, giving a reason, the imperative, case of the noun, attached pronoun to verb, likes and dislikes, plural of noun, idafa structure, verbal noun and past tense

Learning objectives

• Requesting and declining things politely

• Describing activities in the present, past and future

• Reporting what other people say

• Talking about the weather

• Describing daily activities

• Expressing contrast and reasons