Topic
WEEK
1
1. Personal information. Vocab Book 61-68
Talking about
yourself, Childhood,
nationality and family
2.
Polite requests
Asking questions
Greetings
Mr Taoufiq Cherkaoui
New GCSE SOW
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Learning Outcomes
Age and numbers
* Progression from foundation
* Developing confidence in speaking
Teaching & Learning
Activities
* Listen and responding
* Read and write: Extract
personal information from
texts
* Conversation: Personal
information
Grammar
* The noun (masculine and
feminine)
* Vocabulary learning and
testing
* Joining letters
* My name is … and I live in
Bradford in Britain
* What’s you name?
* Where do you live?
* Introduce yourself
* Giving your address and saying
where you live
* Listen and responding
* Read and write: Extract
personal information from
texts
* Conversation: Personal
information
* Numbers 1-20
* Asking questions about age
* How old are you?
* I am … years old
* And you?
* Your birth date
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* The noun (masculine and
feminine)
* Emphatic and non-
* The noun (masculine and
feminine)
* Vocabulary learning and
testing
* Sun letters and Moon
letters
emphatic letters:
‫ ك‬and ‫ق‬
Resources
* Teacher resources:
- Greetings L1 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 2-8
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 90-93
* Teacher resources:
- Greetings L1 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 2-8
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 90-93
* Teacher resources:
- Age and Birthday L2 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 2-8
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Birthdays Pages 96-97
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Using superlatives
* Older than and younger than
* Comparing each other’s age
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* The noun (masculine and
feminine)
* Superlatives
* Personal pronouns 1st
and 2nd person feminine
and masculine
* Teacher resources:
- Superlatives L3 PP
- Worksheets
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Countries
* Countries and nationality
* Saying where you are from
* Who is this
* Is this John? Yes it is
* Asking questions about country
and nationality
* Extracting information from
texts
* Writing
* Listening skills
* Countries (masculine and
feminine)
* Case ending: nominative
and genitive
* Making plurals
* Gender agreement
* Sun letters and Moon
letters
* Teacher resources:
- Countries & nationalityL4 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 2-8
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Letter to a friend abroad
pages 94-95
WEEK
6
TOPIC
My family
Plus extended family
7
My family
Describing character and
personality
8
Talking about childhood
Talking about your
childhood
Revision of greetings
9
Facial features and
body parts
10
Pets and animals
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Teaching & Learning
ACTIVITIES
Grammar
Resources
* Talk about members of your family
* Say how many people you have in
your family
* Family tree
* Some professions p 11
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Possessive
* This is & that is
(feminine and masculine)
* Opinions and reasons
* He is, she is
* Describing members of your family
* Questioning
* Who has 4 sisters
* What is he/she like?
* Questions: Who is kind… tall…
mean…?
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Alternatives for I
* Connectives
* Antonyms
* They are (PL M, PL F,
Dual)
* Write a text about your childhood
* I was born on the …
* I grew up in …
* My dad was… and my mum was …
* Feelings and character
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* The past tense
* Using time phrases
* Compare and contrast
the Past and the Present
* A look at common
patterns
* Describing facial features and
physical appearances
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Dual (eyes)
* Colour and agreement
* He is, she is
* They are (PL M, PL F,
Dual)
* Teacher resources:
- Features L8 PP
- Worksheets
* Talk about pets
* Describing pets and giving opinions
with reasons
Questioning:
* Who likes…? Why?
* Who doesn’t like…? Why?
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Masculine and feminine
* Regular and broken
plurals
* Adjectival agreement
* Teacher resources:
- Pets L9 PP
- Worksheets
Culture: A look at an Arabic
Film Star (Egypt)
* Teacher resources:
- Family L5 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 9-11
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 90-93
* Teacher resources:
- Describing personality L6
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 12-13
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 90-93
* Teacher resources:
- Childhood L7 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 14-15
WEEK
TOPIC
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Teaching & Learning
ACTIVITIES
Grammar
Resources
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My House
* Talk about your house and the
different rooms in your house
* Describe your house and give
opinions on your house
* Comparing rooms (Superlatives)
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Masculine and feminine
* Superlatives
* Plurals (MA2: p26-27)
* Teacher resources:
- My house L10 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 20-29
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 10-11
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My House
* To say what you have in different
rooms in your house
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Human and Non-Human
plurals (MA2: 30-31)
* Adjectives and the
plural
* Teacher resources:
- Furniture L11 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 20-31
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 10-11
* Say what you do in different rooms
in your house
* Say where your house is: Country,
coast, mountain, town, village,
outskirts of town …
* I watch TV in the living room
* I do my homework in the office
* I eat in the dining room etc…
* Looking at notices of types of
property for rent
* Describing which property would
suit different families
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Key verbs
* Present tense
* Revision: Past tense
* Teacher resources:
- House & Activities L12 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 20-31
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 10-11
* Use the internet to find
suitable properties for
different families
* Reading: Extract information
from texts
* Listening: Listening to
property requests and extract
information
* Adjectives
* Identify plurals, past
and present tense from
texts
* Teacher resources:
- House for rent L13 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 32-33
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 10-11
Furniture
13
My House
My Area
Consolidate + Activities
14
My House
For Rent
* Consolidation and revision
* The students to learn key words on Pages 36-37 for test
* Culture: A Look at Saudi Arabia: House in Saudi Arabia
WEEK
15
TOPIC
Sports and leisure
Sports
16
Sports and Leisure
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Sports and Leisure
Time phrases
Saying what, when,
where and with whom
18
Grammar
Resources
* Talking about Sport
* What sports you do to keep
healthy
* Short writing tasks about
sports
* Reading and comprehension
based on key vocabulary
* Verbal nouns
* Subject object
* Study key vocabulary
and verbs
* Time expressions
* Connectives and
intensifiers
* Teacher resources:
- Going out L16 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 56-72
* Talk about what you like to do in
your spare time
* Listening to people talking
about what they like to do in
their spare time
* Extracting information from
texts
* Write short texts about
what you do
* Listen to people arranging to
meet and make notes about
when, where and what they will
be doing
* Reading texts and fill in the
table with the right info
* Write about your plans
* Verbal nouns and
participles
* Active participle: Player,
boxer
* Passive participle:
Preferred, favourite
(MA2, p 62-63)
* Revision: Past and
present tense
* The future tense
* Subjunctive: MA2 p73
* Teacher resources:
- Going out L16 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 56-72
Using key verbs and sports
Rowing, archery,
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Teaching & Learning
ACTIVITIES
* Talking about going out
* Reminder of days of the week
* Future plans: Talk about your
leisurely future plans
* Consolidation and revision
* The students to learn key words on Pages 72-73 for test
* Culture: A Look at Morocco p 70-71
* Teacher resources:
- Going out L16 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 56-72
WEEK
19
TOPIC
Leisure and General
Interests
Hobbies and free time
Vocabulary book p61,62, 63
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Hobbies and free time
Interests and going out
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
* Talking about your interests
Music instruments
* Teacher resources:
- Sports L14 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 56-61
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 112-114
* Talking about going out
* Reminder of days of the week
* Future plans: Talk about your
leisurely future plans
* Listen to people arranging to
meet and make notes about
when, where and what they will
be doing
* Reading texts and fill in the
table with the right info
* Write about your plans
* Verbal nouns and
participles
* Active participle: Player,
boxer
* Passive participle:
Preferred, favourite
(MA2, p 62-63)
* Teacher resources:
- Free Time L15 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 64-65
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 115
* Musical instruments
Listening to people talking
about what musical
instruments they play and why
* Extracting information from
texts
* Write short texts about
musical instruments
Listening to people talking
about what musical
instruments they play and why
* Extracting information from
texts
* Listening to people talking
about health issues
* Talk about health problems
* Extracting information from
texts
* Revision: Past and
present tense
* The future tense
* Subjunctive: MA2 p73
* Teacher resources:
- Going out L16 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 66-69
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 115
* Teacher resources:
- Going out L17 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 186-198
* Teacher resources:
- Going out L17 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 186-198
Cinema, books, drawing, fishing,
football, guitar, chess, music,
reading, singing, poetry, play,
photography, parties, horse riding.
Vocabulary book p61,62, 63
Lifestyle
Healthy eating and
exercise
Vocabulary book p66, 67, 68
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Lifestyle
Health
To cough, to fall, to
sneeze, to swallow, to
smoke, to suffer, to feel
Resources
* Verbal nouns
* Subject object
* Study key vocabulary
and verbs
* Time expressions
* Connectives and
intensifiers
Piano, guitar, horn, song
22
Grammar
* Writing tasks about hobbies
* Reading and comprehension
based on key vocabulary
* Listening to people talking
about what they like to do in
their spare time
Vocabulary book p61,62, 63
21
Teaching & Learning
ACTIVITIES
* Good health and bad health
* Opinions and reasons
Addicted, afflicted, balanced diet,
smoking, protection
* Talking about pains and aches
Cold, flu, cure, clinic, first aid, ill,
illness, medicine, operation, pain,
painful, pill, protection, to suffer,
thermometer, to decide, treatment
2. Future plans, Education and work. Vocab 69-75
WEEK
20
TOPIC
Work
- Jobs and professions
- Work experience
- Job adverts, Internet
and email
- Future tense
Vocabulary book p 73 and 74
21
Work Experience
Full time, part time,
succeed, fail, earn, to
pay
Vocabulary book p73, 74, 75
22
Daily routine and
domestic tasks
23
School Subjects
Education,
Lebanese educational
system VS UK
Vocabulary book p71, 72, 73
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Time
Using time and time
phrases
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Teaching & Learning
ACTIVITIES
Grammar
Resources
* Professions
Work, profession, company, worker,
doctor, artist, journalist, engineer,
businessman, trader, office, baker,
confectioner, butcher, jeweller,
barber, florist, secretary, manger,
director, mechanic, farmer,
unemployment, employed, retired,
salary, to become, ambition
* Work and experience
* Applicant, able to, address, CV,
advertisement, age, diploma,
experience, gender and sex,
nationality, to need, to obtain, to
send, skill, qualification, driving
license, situation vacant.
* Talk about your daily routine and
what you do to help at home
* Introduce questions likely to
be used at GCSE
* Make sentences from
pictures
* Make sentences using ‘Works
as … in … ‘
* Key verbs
* Word, plural and
meaning (revision of some
professions) MA2 p 38
* Professions and their
plurals
* Active participle
* Teacher resources:
- Professions L17 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 38-52
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 226-228
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* A day in the life of Nadim
* 7 Key verbs
* Words frequency
* Time phrases
* Possessive
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Present tense
* Irregular verbs: General
note
* Making a present verb
negative by putting ‘laa’
MA2 pages 48-49
* To talk about school
* Education, student, pupil, teacher,
primary school, middle school,
secondary school, boarding school,
timetable, lesson, university.
* School equipment
* School subjects
* The time in Arabic
* Saying when and using time
phrases
* Incorporate tenses
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Broken plurals
* Regular plurals
* Teacher resources:
- Daily routine L18 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 38-52
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 12-13
* Teacher resources:
- L19 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 38-52
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages
* Teacher resources:
- L20 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 136-150
* Apply activities in all four
skills
* Questions
* Imperative
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 76-77
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 152-153
3. Out and About. Vocab 43-52
WEEK
25
TOPIC
The weather
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
* Talking about the weather and
climate
Holiday plans
My Town
Places in town
Activities
Visitor information
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Directions
Resources
* Key verbs
* The future tense
* Teacher resources:
- The weather PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 170-182
* To talk about holiday plans and
possibilities
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* 7 Key verbs
* Words frequency
* Time phrases
* Teacher resources:
- Holiday plans PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 170-182
* To talk about your town and places
in your town
* Say what you do in different
places in town
* What is available for visitors in
your town
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Broken plurals
* Regular plurals
* Teacher resources:
- Around town L20 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 74-75
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 154-166
* To be able to ask for directions
and give directions
* Directing people to different
places in town
* Apply activities in all four
skills
* Questions
* Imperative
* Teacher resources:
- Directions L21 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 76-77
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 152-153
The future tense
27
Grammar
* Introduce questions likely to
be used at GCSE
* Make sentences from
pictures
* Make sentences using ‘Works
as … in … ‘
Climate, weather, seasons, moderate,
cold humidity earth, land, air, wind
* Drought, pollute, cause,
snowstorm, poisonous
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Teaching & Learning
ACTIVITIES
WEEK
29
TOPIC
Means of transport
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Teaching & Learning
ACTIVITIES
*To be able to speak about means of
transport
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* The transportation game p79
* Mastering Arabic
Grammar
* Talk about the weather
* To talk about travel arrangements
* Say where you are going, how you
will get there, what you will visit and
what activities you will be doing
there
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Role play: Speaking
* Games to test learning
* The past tense MA2
p.82-83
* Describing the past:
The use of the verb
‘kaana’ MA2 p86
* Booking and finding a room
* Types of accommodation
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Revision: 3 tenses
* I would like …
* Could I …
* To write a letter of complaint
about problems in a hotel
* The room was cold, dirty, noisy, no
soap in the bathroom,
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Writing a letter of
complaint using all 3
tenses (Present, Past and
Future)
Plane, ship, train, fast, arrive,
return, travel, walk, coach, hurry,
cross, railway, accident
30
Travel and Tourism
Travel in the Arab
World
31
Travel and Tourism
Booking a room in a
hotel
32
Travel and Tourism
A letter of complaint
33
* Consolidation and revision
* The students to learn key words on Pages 90-91 for test
* Culture: A Look at Tunisia p 88-89
Grammar
Resources
* Teacher resources:
- Transport L22 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 78-80
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 278-279
* Teacher resources:
- Travelling L23 PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 81-84-85
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 264-267
- Page 171 weather
* Teacher resources:
- At the hotel L24PP
- Worksheets
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 268-271
* Teacher resources:
- Letter of complaint L25PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 87
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 274-276
4. Customer services and transactions. Vocab 53-60
TOPIC
LEARNING
WEEK
OUTCOMES
* To talk about food and drink
35
Food and cooking
Different foods and
drinks
36
Food and cooking
Shops
At the greengrocers
38
Food and cooking
At the restaurant
Dealing with problems
39
* Feminine and masculine
* Opinions and reasons
*To say what you eat and drink for
breakfast, lunch and dinner
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Verbs
* Using time expressions
* Buying food in a shop and
supermarket
* Create a shopping list
* To talk about measures
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Measures
* Talk about eating out
* Reserving a table
* Asking for food and bill
* Arabic dishes and methods of
cooking
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Expressing time and
making requests
* Forms of verbs: MA2
p102-103
* Consolidation and revision
* The students to learn key words on Pages 108-109 for test
* Culture: A Look at Lebanon p 106-107
* General Revision: 110-117
Grammar
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Say what food you like and what
food you don’t like and say why
Daily meals and snacks
37
Teaching & Learning
ACTIVITIES
Resources
* Teacher resources:
- Food and drink L26PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 92-93
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 22-26
* Teacher resources:
- Daily meals L27PP
- Worksheets
* Teacher resources:
- At the greengrocers L28P
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 94-97
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 32-33
* Teacher resources:
- At the restaurant L29PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 98-101
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 28-34-35
WEEK
40
TOPIC
Clothes and fashion
Clothes
41
Clothes and fashions
Describing clothes and
colour
42
Clothes and Fashion
At the clothes shop
43
Clothes and Fashion
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Resources
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Feminine and masculine
* Opinions and reasons
* Teacher resources:
- Clothes and fashion L30PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 118-121
* Describe clothes you wear and give
opinions and reasons
* Describe what famous people wear
* Describe clothes in a fashion show
* Clothes in an Arabic wedding
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Colours and adjectival
agreement
* Buying clothes in a shop
* Role play: Customer vs Shop
keeper
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Relative pronouns
Human: allathee,
allatheena
Non-human: Alltee,
allaatee
* Describe clothes in a fashion show
* Listen and responding
* Read and write.
* Pair-work speaking
* Games to test learning
* Doubled verbs
* Irregular words
referring to people p135
* Teacher resources:
- Describing clothes L31PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 122-123
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 141
* Teacher resources:
- At the clothes shop L32PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 124-125
* Your Arabic Friend:
- Pages 141
* Teacher resources:
- Fashion Show L33PP
- Worksheets
* Mastering Arabic 2:
- Pages 130-131
* Consolidation and revision
* The students to learn key words on Pages 134-135 for test
* Culture: A Look at Iraq p 132-133
* General Revision: 110-117
Grammar
*To talk about what you like to wear
for different occasions
* Describe what clothes famous
people wear
Give opinions with reasons
Fashion Show
44
Teaching & Learning
ACTIVITIES
New Arabic GCSE (Short Course) Year 1
Listening and Reading Skills
Personal information
 General interests
 Leisure activities
 Family and friends
 Lifestyle (healthy eating and exercise)
Out and about
 Visitor information
 Basic weather
 Local amenities
 Accommodation
 Public transport
 Directions
Customer service and transactions
 Café and restaurants
 Shops
 Dealing with problems
Future plans, education and work
 Basic language of the internet
 Simple job advertisements
 Simple job applications and CV
 School and college
 Work and work experience
Grammar and language structure:
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Nouns: Feminine and Masculine
The definite and indefinite article (nominative, genitive and accusative)
Basic knowledge of case ending (tanween)
Definite article with ‘kul’ i.e
Idaafa
Singular – Dual – Regular Plural – Nominative – Accusative – Genitive
Broken Plurals
Nominative sentences including negation
Rules for writing Hamza
Adjectives
Pronouns
Possessive Pronouns
Personal Pronouns
Demonstratives
Prepositions
Verbs: Present – Past – Future – Negative forms – Question forms
Imperative
Negative of the Imperative
Verbal sentences
Root system
Adverbs: Time – Place – Manner – Number – Frequency
Conjunctions
Questions Words
Numbers