Arabic
104 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
- Colours in Arabic
- Family words in Arabic
- Letter shapes: ṣād to qāf
- Letter shapes: kāf to yā — the alphabet complete
- Body parts in Arabic
- Shapes in Arabic
- Food and fruit in Arabic
- Weather words in Arabic
- Days of the week in Arabic
- Toys in 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
- Sun letters and moon letters
- Numbers one to ten
- Colour words and gender
- Animals in Arabic
- Reading Surah Al-Fatihah with meaning
- Reading Surah An-Nas with meaning
- Simple questions and answers
- This and that: near and far
- Simple possession: my and your
- Where is it? Simple prepositions
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
- The Arabic alphabet and letter shapes
- Short vowels: reading with harakat
- Numbers and gender agreement
- Colours and gender agreement
- Greetings and everyday phrases
- Family members
- Asking questions: who, what, where
- Days of the week
- Describing people and things
- Possession: the iḍāfa construction
- Telling the time
- Food and mealtimes
- Building reading fluency
- The future tense
- Connecting sentences: and, but, because
- Roots and dictionary skills
- Comparing things: bigger, best
Key Stage 3
- Translating both ways
- 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
- Reading a short story extract
- Reading a news headline and article
- Reading and appreciating a short poem
- Skimming and scanning for gist
- Translating idioms and fixed expressions
- False friends: words that trick a translator
- Translating a spoken dialogue
- Writing a formal letter or email in Arabic
- Describing a picture and narrating events
- Arabic loanwords in other languages
- Arabic names and their meanings
- The Arabic script beyond Arabic
GCSE
- Speaking and listening at GCSE level
- 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
- Identity, family and relationships
- Technology and free time
- School and future plans
- Travel and tourism
- The environment
- Customs and festivals
- Daily routine and time
- Writing at GCSE level
- Reading at GCSE: exam technique
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