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Spoken Arabic: Hobbies

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I will be going through the following worksheet on Hobbies with my Year 10. Thought others might find it useful too 🙂

Click here to download your copy of Spoken Arabic – Hobbies

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Enjoy 🙂

HM

 

Qur’anic Arabic Vocabulary

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Up for a challenge? Use the following worksheet will help you learn at least 20 keywords that regularly occur through out the Qur’an.

I will be using this worksheet with my Year 10s to help them revise the 20 words. I’ve uploaded the keywords and example ayaahs here for those of you who are learning them for the first time.

With Ramadan coming up – it will be useful to learn keywords to understand the Qur’an in Arabic as you recite it during the day, in prayers, in Taraweeh and when the Imam recites ayaat containing these keywords.

Blank worksheet for 20 Qur’anic Arabic keywords

20 Qur’anic Arabic keywords answers pdf

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Enjoy! Hope you manage to learn all 20 inshallah!

HM

 

End of term assessment

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Year 10s were given the following assessment as their end of Term 2 test.

This assessment covers the following topics:

  • 20 verbs in the Qur’an (pdf here)
  • Past Tense conjugation
  • Present Tense conjugation
  • Identifying nouns from a particular verb
  • Using your knowledge of past/present tense and grammar topics (learnt previously) to translate simple sentences.

Have a go at the test – the answers have been uploaded too 🙂

Exam Sheet PDF

Answer Sheet PDF

 

Answers here:

Enjoy, download and share!

 

Arabic Verbs in the past tense

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My year 8s, 9s and 10s are learning 20 verbs that are oft-mentioned in the Qur’an, a useful list which I can work from to help teach concepts such as conjugations in the different tenses, nouns, and keywords in the Qur’an by extension.

E.g. By learning the verb “s-j-d” سَجَدَ  I can help students with past/present tense conjugation for the different subject pronouns and help them identify nouns that are created out of this verb e.g. “masjid”. So the verb roots are really the key to making students feel confident in exploring the Qur’an.

Here is a worksheet I will be using in this week’s lesson to review

  • Past Tense conjugation
  • 20 verbs + English meaning
  • Subject pronouns

Click here to download this worksheet

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HM

 

Arabic attached/possessive pronouns

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Here is a worksheet to help review possessive pronouns (attached pronouns). It helps students to identify the possessive in the English sentence and then translate that into the Arabic pronoun they have been taught.

I’m using this worksheet with students who need more revision on this topic and this worksheet inshallah will give them the chance to review them in a format that isn’t my usual table format.

Click here to download the worksheet

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Hope you find this worksheet useful inshaAllah

HM

 

 

Arabic worksheet: Alif maqsurah

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This Arabic worksheet on the topic of Alif Maqsurah gives an explanation and short exercises to give the student the chance to apply the knowledge via reading and writing practice.

Click HERE to download a copy of the worksheet on Alif Maqsurah

Alif maqsurah-page-001Hope you find this worksheet useful insha Allah.

HM

 

Arabic Verbs matching game

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Here is an activity I created and used with my 3 classes. It was a good way of helping the girls review the verb list I handed out to them. Check this post out to get your hands on the pdf of a list of verbs oft-used in the Qur’an.

Here is a picture of one of the works by a team who managed to put it all together and presented the game in their own creative way 🙂

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Preparation:

I printed the sheets out in colour and laminated each sheet. I then cut out each image (apples) leaving a thin white border around it. Then, I cut each apples in half. I stored each set of verbs in mini ziploc bags.

How I used this resource:

I then asked the girls to place a tick around the verbs they were already familiar with on the page (cover the English to see which ones they could translate without looking).  I then handed out the resources which was played in pairs. Mashallah, the girls got on very well.

Benefits of pair-work:

Students love working together and helping each other. Pair up students who are different abilities to allow them to teach each other and learn not only the material but soft skills too e.g. patience, politeness. The benefits will show up as better class cohesion and healthy competition.

PDF of Apples Arabic Matching game

Here is an example of what the resource pdf looks like:

Past tense apples matching game-page-003Hope your students find this activity as fun as my students did insha Allah 🙂

HM

New Arabic Language teaching resources

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Here are a few Arabic language teaching resources I have come across that you may also find helpful in some way. I’ve been watching, downloading and reading everything Arabic teaching related these past few weeks and I’ve really enjoyed myself so here is a small selection of what I have come across:

Pictorial wiki – A site to help you learn Arabic vocabulary. The nice thing about this site is that the words are organised into categories. Each category has a picture and once you hover over the picture it will show you the word in Arabic and whether it is masculine/feminine.

http://www.languageguide.org/user/wiki.jsp?lang=ar

Al-Masdar (Qatar Foundation International) – This is the section of the QFI site that has Language teaching resources as well as Arab Cultural resources. Full of resources for teachers. Take your pick.

http://arabicalmasdar.org/

Arabic Teacher Training and Cultural Programme – I’ve only watched the first two videos. They are aimed at teachers teaching Arabic speaking, reading and writing full-time. I’ve picked up points here and there and would like to do a separate blog post on them with a summary of each video.

Hope you find these links helpful iA!

HM

List of verbs in the Qur’an

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Here is a list I’ve created for my class that I need to distribute in my next lesson so that the girls can start to play the games I have made for them to practice their present tense and past tense.

Download the free pdf HERE

Verbs in the Quran list-page-001

Hope you find this useful iA!

HM

Arabic grammar review board game

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Here is a board game I’ll be using in my class as a quick and fun way to review what has been taught previously. We are on half-term holidays for a week so the girls will need some help reviewing the previous grammar concepts.

Download the pdf for the Arabic grammar board game HERE

I will laminate this sheet and it will be a pair activity. You will also need dice and counters for this game.

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Enjoy!

HM