Arabic

44 free lessons in The School on Ai Quran, from Early Years to GCSE.

Early Years

• Letter shapes: alif to thā
• Letter sounds: hear it, find it
• Letter shapes: rā to shīn
• My first Arabic words
• Counting one to ten
• Ears first: listening to Arabic

Key Stage 1

• All 28 letters, four shapes each
• Harakat: the short vowels
• How letters join into words
• Family and classroom vocabulary
• Reading a short surah with meaning
• Masculine, feminine and plurals

Key Stage 2

• Long vowels, shadda and tanween
• Your first word families
• The nominal sentence: two words, one statement
• Pronouns and attached endings
• The present tense and its prefixes
• Quranic vocabulary by frequency
• Sun and moon letters
• The definite article
• Masculine and feminine
• Singular, dual and plural
• The past tense
• Prepositions and saying where
• Listening and responding
• Speaking Arabic aloud
• Writing Arabic sentences

Key Stage 3

• Ism, fiʿl, ḥarf: the three word types
• Building sentences: jumla ismiyya
• Iʿrab: the three case endings
• Iḍāfa: the possessive construction
• Reading real classical texts
• Exam skills and real conversation
• Asking questions in Arabic
• Verb forms and the root system
• Saying no: negation in Arabic
• Extended writing in Arabic
• Arabic across the Arab world

GCSE

• The verb system: past and present
• Reading real texts with a dictionary
• The ten verb forms
• Balāgha: the art of Arabic eloquence
• Translation and its limits
• Beyond GCSE: continuing in Arabic

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