Arabic Level 1 Student Workbook Name: Age: Class: Teacher: 2 Dudley Street, Cheetham Hill Manchester, M89DA s a l a f i s c h o o l. c o 0 1 6 1 3 1 7 1 4 8 1
Arabic Level 1 Adults Workbook Manchester Salafi School Notes This book is best used alongside a notebook for repetition and practice It is best if you can read, write, spell, and have memorised all the words. This will help with book two and beyond. Try to understand the questions in the comprehension exercises, so that you become used to the words used when asking questions. New Words ( ) The following are two tables with all the new words in the passage. When we learn a noun or word, then it is important for us to learn the word and other words along with it. This way we can increase our vocabulary quickly and make sentences better. So for example: If we learn how to say the new house Then we should learn how to say the old house This means that we should try to learn the opposite of the word. In Arabic the opposite of a word is known as the We should also learn how to say the plural (lots) of the word. In Arabic this is known as the So if we learn the word Student - Then we should learn how to say lots of Students - Lastly we should try to learn similar words or synonyms of words PAGE 2
Manchester Salafi School Arabic Level 1 Adults Workbook So for example another way of saying student is to say Look at the table below for an example. ط الب ط لا ب أ س ت اذ ت لم يذ Student You will need to fill out and learn the words. You need to make sure you have memorised them along with the opposites and plurals and synonym ( ) PAGE 3
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Manchester Salafi School Arabic Level 1 Adults Workbook Pronouns The word for Pronouns in Arabic is ( ). In Arabic pronouns have some similarities and some differences to English. We will learn a few now and then expand on these later insha Allah. In English a pronoun is always separate from a word. For example: I am a student - here the I is separate from the word student. In Arabic the pronouns can also be separate from the word. For example: Here the word means I and means student. The following words in Arabic correspond to the English pronouns (I, We, You, He and She). It is important to memorise them all as you will come across these often: which means I which means We which means You (when talking to a man or a boy) which means You (when talking to a woman or a girl) which means He which means She It is important to note that in Arabic there is the masculine and feminine of every word. So in English you is said to both a man and a woman, whereas in Arbaic there are two separate words for each gender. Joined Arabic Pronouns (Brief) Arabic pronouns are which indicate that something belongs to someone change and attach themselves to the word at the end. For example the word book in Arabic is: PAGE 11
Arabic Level 1 Adults Workbook Manchester Salafi School However my Book is not: or (which does in fact mean I am a book ) In Arabic the ( ) changes to a ( ) and is attached onto the end of the word. So: becomes ك ت ابي You don t need to know this in detail, just yet, but if you learn the endings it will help you to grasp the role plays a lot better. Add the following letter/s Example instead to the end of the Pronoun word أ ن ا ي ك ت اب ي ك ت اب ن ا ن ا ن ح ن ك ت اب ك ك أ ن ت ك ت اب ك ك أ ن ت ك ت اب ه ه ه و ك ت اب ه ا ه ا ه ي PAGE 12