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Arabic · Grade 1

Introduce and Describe People

A real communicative task in Modern Standard Arabic: greet someone, ask and give names, say where people are from, and introduce and describe a friend or family member. Learners hear and read fully vocalized models, practise with feedback on the forms that change for a male or female listener, and finish by writing their own short introduction.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 85 minutes
  • Introductions check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, choose a reply, highlight a text, pick map regions and match pairs
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What learners will discover

  • Greet someone, ask their name and give your own, choosing مَا اسْمُكَ؟ for a male listener and مَا اسْمُكِ؟ for a female listener.
  • Say where someone is from with مِنْ and name their nationality with the matching masculine or feminine ending (مِصْرِيٌّ / مِصْرِيَّةٌ).
  • Introduce another person with هٰذَا or هٰذِهِ and describe them with adjectives that agree in gender (طَوِيلٌ / طَوِيلَةٌ).
  • Understand a short written introduction and write an original introduction of yourself and one other person.

Lessons

  1. Hello, what is your name? 7 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  2. Where are you from? 6 steps4 practiceabout 20 min
  3. This is my friend 7 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  4. Your turn: a real introduction 7 steps4 practiceabout 21 min
  5. Introductions check 10 questions at the end

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