Arabic A2, Unit 1: Review: reading and the verb

Review: reading and the verb

Arabic A2 · Unit 1

GoalRead short texts and use the present tense with all persons.

New words

أَنَا أَدْرُس كُلّ يَوْم (ʾanā ʾadrus kull yawm) · I study every dayهِيَ تَفْتَح النَّافِذَة (hiya taftaḥ an-nāfidha) · she opens the windowنَحْنُ نَلْعَب مَعًا (naḥnu nalʿab maʿan) · we play togetherأَنْتِ تَجْلِسِين هُنَا (ʾanti tajlisīn hunā) · you (f.) sit hereهُمْ يَدْخُلُون ثُمَّ يَجْلِسُون (hum yadkhulūn thumma yajlisūn) · they enter, then they sitهُنَّ يَكْتُبْنَ الدَّرْس (hunna yaktubna d-dars) · they (f.) write the lessonكَاتِب وَمَكْتَبَة (kātib wa-maktaba) · a writer and a library

Explanation

This is the review of unit 1. You read right to left, word by word and then in one line. You know that words grow from a root of three letters. The present tense has eight faces: one prefix for each person, and the endings ـِين، ـُون، ـْنَ for “you” (f.) and “they”. The middle vowel belongs to the verb. Read the texts below aloud, then write a text of your own.

Who	Verb كَتَبَ
أَنَا	أَكْتُب
أَنْتَ / أَنْتِ	تَكْتُب / تَكْتُبِين
هُوَ / هِيَ	يَكْتُب / تَكْتُب
نَحْنُ	نَكْتُب
هُمْ / هُنَّ	يَكْتُبُون / يَكْتُبْنَ

Worked examples

Maryam writes about her day. Read each sentence, then press Listen.

Ahmad

أَيْن يَجْلِس عُمَر؟

Omar

أَنَا أَجْلِس هُنَا.

Ahmad

وَهُنَّ يَدْرُسْنَ؟

Omar

نَعَم، هُنَّ يَدْرُسْنَ فِي الْمَكْتَبَة.

Ahmad and Omar talk about the evening.

Check the root: four words, one idea.

Class activity

Your own text. Write 4 sentences about your day. Say who you are, where you study or work, what you do every day, and what a friend does. Use at least three different forms of the verb, the words وَ and ثُمَّ, and all the vowels. Read it aloud when you are done.

Practice

Press Listen. Is the verb for “he”, “she” or “they (m.)”?

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Write in Arabic: “they (f.) enter”.

The picture shows a man. Say: “you (m.) go out”.

Which word is the doer from the root ع-م-ل: عَامِل or مَعْمَل?

The picture shows a library. Write: “we study in the library.”

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