Development D5 lessons
D5-L01 · Hobbies and Free Time — Vocabulary and Present Habits
Name eighteen hobbies with their correct verb collocations, state how often you do them, and express preference with three distinct structures.
D5-L02 · Sport — Vocabulary, Famous Athletes and Cultural Context
Name fifteen sports, state rules with يَجِبُ and مَمْنُوعٌ, report results with فَازَ / خَسِرَ / تَعَادَلَ, and admire an athlete with يُعْجِبُنِي and أُعْجَبُ بِـ.
D5-L03 · The Past Tense — Form I Regular Singular Verbs
The D5 grammar milestone: build the past tense of any regular Form I verb for all five singular persons, and anchor it with six past time expressions.
D5-L04 · Past Tense — Plural Forms and Irregular Verbs
Add the three plural suffixes to the past-tense system, then handle hollow, weak-final and doubled verbs so you can write a group narrative.
D5-L05 · Storytelling — Narrative Connectors and كَانَ Description
Turn past-tense verbs into a story: describe the setting with كَانَ, express a past habit with كَانَ plus a present verb, and shape the narrative with connectors.
D5-L06 · Music, Arts and Arabic Culture
Name Arabic instruments and art forms, describe a cultural experience in the past tense, and express appreciation with يُعَبِّرُ عَنْ، يُؤَثِّرُ فِي and يُلْهِمُ.
D5-L07 · Holidays and Travel — Past and Future
Narrate a past holiday with حَجَزَ، أَقَامَ فِي، زَارَ and اسْتَمْتَعَ بِـ, then contrast it with future plans using سَـ and سَوْفَ.
D5-L08 · Reading — Leisure, Sport and Past Experience Texts
Read past-tense texts strategically: use verb clusters and time expressions to identify the text type, follow the sequence of events, and choose the right tense in a gap-fill.
D5-L09 · Writing — My Leisure Life (Paper 4 Extended Writing)
Build a 130–140 word leisure text that moves through past, present and future, and mark it against the three Paper 4 Q3 criteria.
D5-L10 · Listening — Sport, Leisure and Past Events
Hear the difference between past, present and future in connected Arabic, and use tense prediction to answer Paper 1 question types.
D5-L11 · D5 Consolidation — Past Tense Mastery and Speaking Preparation
Bring the whole D5 system together and rehearse producing accurate past tense in spontaneous speech before the unit assessment.
D5-L12 · D5 Assessment — Hobbies, Sport & Leisure
Sixty-mark unit assessment across listening, reading, writing and speaking, with the full mark scheme.