ICO Learn Arabic Workbook Level 7, Part 1

This is the seventh-grade workbook and complements the student textbook in this series.

Objective:

This workbook aims to apply what the student studies in the textbook in greater depth. It also enhances and fulfills linguistic skills the student has already learned, focusing on reading skills to ensure that the student has the ability to learn new vocabulary words, use them, and employ them in expressing his feelings towards daily events while applying grammar in writing, reading and speaking.
Each of the sixteen units in the student’s textbook is accompanied by another one in the activity book in order to reinforce the goals of the exercises in the workbook.

The Book Design:

As a complement to the textbook, it parallels its design and layout. It consists of 16 units, including revision, divided into eight sections for each semester. Each unit contains exercises on the different skills as enrichment for the skills in the student textbook. The revision units aim to achieve the three units’ goals, which precede it through conversation, reading, writing, understanding and comprehension.

The Proposed Duration for the Material:

In accordance to what was mentioned in the curriculum’s document, as both books are integrated and revision units are enrichment for the content, each unit will run the duration of eight classes in two weeks, assuming there are four Arabic classes per week. The revision unit, which follows each three main units, will have four classes a week, each class running for 45 minutes. Consequently, the 12 main units last 96 classes throughout the two semesters and the 4 revision units last for 16 classes through the two semesters.

However, both books last 112 classes through two semesters excluding the hours for mid and final exams. The more days in school, the more the teacher will be able to fit the classes needed to keep up with students’ abilities. In addition, it takes into account students’ contrastive levels.

The Book Content:

The book concentrates on moral issues, such as honoring parents, respect towards neighbors and human rights. In addition to explanations of phrases like “falathat akbadona” (which literally means "pieces of my liver" but translates as “our children”), the importance of Ramadan and its righteous days, and, of course, stories imitated by animals.