5Four skills practice
Short tasks for listening, reading, speaking and writing. Choose the skill you find hardest.
🎧 Listening
🎧 Audio coming soon
Listen for one key detail. Note the single most important fact in each line — a number, a name or an activity. Until the audio is ready, prepare by covering the English, reading each item below aloud twice, then saying the meaning from memory.
- هِواية/هِوايات hobby/hobbies
- يُمارِس رِياضة practises sport
- يَلعَب كُرة القَدَم plays football
- يَسبَح swims
- يَرسُم draws
- يَعزِف على البيانو plays the piano
Exam link: in Paper 1 you hear each recording twice — use the first listening for the general idea and the second for detail.
📖 Reading
Scan the four items below and write the English meaning of each one without looking back at the Key language section. Then write one sentence in Arabic about Hobbies and Free Time that uses two of them.
- يَقرَأ
- يَكتُب
- يُصَوِّر
- يَطبُخ
Check your answers
- يَقرَأ — reads
- يَكتُب — writes
- يُصَوِّر — photographs
- يَطبُخ — cooks
🗣️ Speaking
Answer aloud in full Arabic sentences. Record yourself if you can, then listen back for clear pronunciation.
- Talk about Hobbies and Free Time for thirty seconds without stopping.
- Give one opinion and one reason for it.
- Ask a partner one question on this topic — then answer it yourself.
Exam link: Paper 3 is a role play and two topic conversations, with ten minutes of supervised preparation beforehand.