Book Six concentrates on teaching Form Two, Three and Four Verbs in a comprehensive manner, covering regular and irregular verbs in various moods and tenses. It introduces the subjunctive and jussive moods and the particles that govern them. The key theme running through the book is the weather and seasons and the student will learn to talk about the temperature and climate in various parts of the world at different times of the year. As usual, passages of dialogue and extensive exercises enable the student to put into practice the knowledge he/she has acquired.

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Book Five focuses on air travel, meals and medical matters. It builds upon the student's knowledge of first form verbs by introducing various defective forms (verbs containing one or more weak root letters). The book also extends the student's understanding of cardinal numbers into the thousands and suggests practical applications for their use. Answer Book: You can view the Gateway to Arabic Book Five answer booklet and then download the file for your personal use only. (Page 19) In the fifth book of the series, the key grammar area covered are the first form defective verbs – that is to say those verbs with a weak first, middle or final root letter, or more than one weak root letter – in the past and present tenses as well as the forms of the imperative. (Page 64) Cardinal numbers from 1 to 1000 and beyond are also taught, with practical exercises such as writing out prices in full, using numbers with the four basic mathematical operations, and talking about temperature, what year it is, and one’s age. (Page 40) Subject areas covered include medical problems, visiting the hospital and arranging doctor’s appointments; dining out in a restaurant; receiving, feeding and entertaining guests at home, and meeting someone at the airport. A variety of passages of text, dialogues, telephone conversations and emails are used to introduce new subject material and, as always, extensive exercises and comprehension activities are included to reinforce the new areas of grammar and vocabulary. 

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Gateway to Arabic Book Four focuses on family relationships and life in the home. It builds upon the student's knowledge of past, present and imperative verbs by introducing some hollow, doubled root letter and 'hamzated' verb forms. Each topic is reinforced through the provision of realistic dialogues to enable the student to gain greater confidence and fluency in using Arabic. This book covers:• Family relationships• Home and family life• Asking for and giving directions• Telling the time• Extensive dialogue practice• Doubled root letter verbs• Hollow verbs• Verbs with an initial alif or waw• Verbs with a medial or final hamza• Interrogative particles• Rules governing hamza• Cardinal numbers from 20 to 99 and ordinal numbers from 1 to 19 and the rules governing their use.• A comprehensive listing of the nouns used in the book, together with their plural forms• A list of the past tense of 115 verbs used in the book, together with their present tense forms

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Book Three offers a step-by-step approach to learning past and present tense verbs, with plenty of opportunity for practice. Each point of grammar is reinforced through sample conversations that offer the student the chance to use the language in a meaningful context and develop confidence in self-expression. This book covers: * Over 60 past and present tense verbs* The imperative and negative imperative* The nominative, accusative and genitive cases, including the genitive of possession (idafa)* Comparative and superlative adjectives* Attached and detached pronouns* Word roots and word patterns* Cardinal numbers from 1 to 19 and ordinal numbers from 1 to 10, and the rules governing their usage* Prepositions* Dialogue practice* A comprehensive listing of the nouns used in the book, together with their plural forms* A list of the past tense verbs used in the book, together with their present tense forms

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Gateway to Arabic Book Two marks the beginning of formal grammar and vocabulary learning and is suited to learners from the age of seven upwards.  The book concentrates on non-verbal sentences and covers a wide range of useful, everyday vocabulary. Explanations of grammar points are kept to a minimum as far as possible at this stage, so as not to daunt younger learners. As with the rest of the ‘Gateway’ series, all Arabic text is fully vocalised throughout. (Page 2) It begins with the question of gender, teaching students to recognise the taa marbuta feminine ending, using vocabulary based on items in the classroom and items found in the home. The first exercise engages the student in sorting vocabulary by gender, with scope for reading and handwriting practice. (Page 4) Building on the initial vocabulary, students are taught to construct their first sentences using the ‘This is…’ (haadhaa, haadhihi) format in its masculine and feminine forms, thereby introducing the concept of the agreement of nouns with regard to gender. (Page 6) The concept of gender agreement is then further reinforced through the introduction of adjectives, enabling the student to build up more complex sentences such as ‘This is a small house, and this is a big house.’ (Page 8) The interrogative particles ‘a’ and ‘hal’ and the words for yes and no are then taught, enabling the teacher to begin question and answer activities with the class. For example, ‘Is this a long ruler?’ (Hal hadhihi mistaratun taweelatun?), inviting the answer ‘No, this is a short ruler.” (Laa, hadhihi mistaratun qaseeratun). The introduction of the word for ‘what?’ (maa?) and new vocabulary covering animals and shapes lends further scope for speaking, reading and writing practice, as does the teaching of the forms of ‘That is…’ (dhaalika nad tilka) (Page 16) The knowledge of how to define words acquired in book one of the series is further reinforced and extended to cover subject and predicate sentences such as ‘This house is small’ (haadhal-baytu sagheerun) as opposed to the phrase ‘a small house’ (baytun sagheerun) with which the student is, by now, familiar. Singular pronouns and a limited range of vocabulary relating to people, including some professions, are then covered, such as ‘he is a doctor’, ‘she is a teacher’ etc. This is followed by an introduction to the singular attached pronouns such as ‘This is my book’ (hadhaa kitaabee), ‘This is his sister’ (haadhihi ukhtuhu) etc. (Page 21) The basic primary colours are then taught, using the animal vocabulary already acquired by way of illustrating the agreement of gender when using colours. Six further colours such as pink and brown are also taught in conjunction with some fruit and vegetable vocabulary for futher practice and usage. (Page 25) Six key prepositions are then taught, with a brief outline of how they change the case ending of the following noun to a kasra. Vocabulary including the interrogative particle ‘Where?’ (ayna?) as well as items of clothing is used to explore the prepositions further by encouraging the student to describe where the items are in relation to other objects. This offers scope for reading and speaking practice, as well as classroom games. (Page 29) A further interrogative particle, ‘Who?’ (man?) is then brought in to provide further scope for asking about people’s occupations. (Page 33) Some passages of text follow providing opportunities for translation from Arabic into English and English into Arabic, as well as giving students the opportunity to write their own piece of descriptive text in Arabic. (Page 35) Parts of the body are then taught, as a launchpad for introducing the concept of the dual in Arabic, which is taught in the nominative and accusative forms, together with the corresponding demonstrative pronouns and agreement of adjectives. (Page 39) The various forms of the plural are then touched upon, beginning with the sound masculine plural, the sound feminine plural, and a brief introduction to the broken plural using nouns already covered so far in the book. (Page 43) The use of plural demonstrative pronouns is outlined with an extensive exercise to reinforce this point of grammar. The last areas to be covered are the cardinal numbers from one to ten in the masculine and feminine forms, and some basic countries and nationalities giving students the chance to talk about where they are from and what nationality people are.

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With its wealth of practice materials, Gateway to Arabic Book One teaches the skills necessary for reading and writing the language. This book covers: * Recognition of Arabic letters in their isolated form* Formulation of letters in their written isolated form, with clear arrows to indicate the correct writing direction* The three short vowels: fatha, kasra, and damma,* The recognition and formulation of letters in their joined forms* Nunation (al-tanween)* The three long vowels (al-madd)* Al-sukun* Al-shadda* The sun and moon letters (al-huruf al-shamsiyyah wa'l-qamariyyah), and their associated rules* Al-alif al-maqsura* Al-hamza

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All the books together as a package Gateway to Arabic Series 9 Book Set - Dr. Imran Hamza Alawiye

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