D5Lesson 10 of 12L Listening

Listening — Sport, Leisure and Past Events

الاستِماع — الرِّياضة والتَّرفيه والأَحداث الماضِيَّة

Hobbies, Sport & Leisure · Personal and social life

10-minute rescue route
  1. Learn six key items.
  2. Read the grammar shortcut.
  3. Complete one quick check.
Keep it manageable. One completed section is useful revision. You can return later for the rest.
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What you need to do

Focus on these outcomes rather than trying to memorise everything at once.

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Key language

Tap each card to reveal the meaning.

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Quick vocabulary check

Choose one answer. Mistakes are part of revision.

1. التَّمييز بَين الأَزمِنة

2. مُشتِّتات زَمَنِيَّة

3. التَّعَرُّف على الأَفعال الماضِيَّة في الكَلام

4. اللَّواحِق في الكَلام السَّريع

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Grammar shortcut

Read it once, then explain the rule or strategy in your own words.

Listening strategy: past tense verbs in speech are marked by suffixes and past time expressions. The ـتُ/ـتَ/ـتِ suffixes at the end of verbs are fast in natural speech — you must train yourself to catch the final vowel. Past time expressions (أمس، الأسبوع الماضي) are easier to catch and signal "what follows or preceded is past tense." Using time expressions as anchors is often more reliable than trying to hear every suffix.
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Four skills practice

Short tasks for listening, reading, speaking and writing. Choose the skill you find hardest.

🎧 Listening

🎧 Audio coming soon

Listen for time, place or person. Catch who is speaking, where they are and when the event happens. Until the audio is ready, prepare by covering the English, reading each item below aloud twice, then saying the meaning from memory.

  1. التَّعَرُّف على الأَفعال الماضِيَّة في الكَلام recognising past tense in speech
  2. اللَّواحِق في الكَلام السَّريع suffixes in fast speech
  3. التَّمييز بَين الأَزمِنة distinguishing tenses
  4. مُشتِّتات زَمَنِيَّة tense distractors

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 Sport, Leisure and Past Events that uses two of them.

  • التَّعَرُّف على الأَفعال الماضِيَّة في الكَلام
  • اللَّواحِق في الكَلام السَّريع
  • التَّمييز بَين الأَزمِنة
  • مُشتِّتات زَمَنِيَّة
Check your answers
  • التَّعَرُّف على الأَفعال الماضِيَّة في الكَلام — recognising past tense in speech
  • اللَّواحِق في الكَلام السَّريع — suffixes in fast speech
  • التَّمييز بَين الأَزمِنة — distinguishing tenses
  • مُشتِّتات زَمَنِيَّة — tense distractors

🗣️ Speaking

Answer aloud in full Arabic sentences. Record yourself if you can, then listen back for clear pronunciation.

  1. Talk about Sport, Leisure and Past Events for thirty seconds without stopping.
  2. Say what you did last time — use a past-tense verb.
  3. 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.

✍️ Writing

Task: Write 60–80 words about Sport, Leisure and Past Events. Use the language from this lesson, give one opinion with a reason, and check your agreement before you finish.

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Revision sprint

Three short stages based on the revision plan above.

1 · Review

Main 1 25 min

Three IGCSE-format listening tasks Text 1 (50 sec): A young person describes their sporting hobby — past experience (childhood), current habits, future plans. 8 multiple choice (3 options): which sport they played as a child (PAST — listen for past time expression + past verb), how often…

2 · Practise

Main 2 12 min

Tense confusion error analysis Go through answers. Focus on: (1) Past vs present confusion — "The speaker said يلعب (present habit — EVERY day). Not لعِب (past — ONCE). The question asked about what he does regularly — so present tense was the answer." (2) Suffix catching — "Could you…

3 · Apply

Main 3 6 min

Cumulative performance tracking you record: Text 1 (/8), Text 2 (/6), Text 3 (/6) = /20. Plot on cumulative tracker (D1–D5). You write: "My tense identification accuracy was [high/medium/low]. The tense I find hardest to identify in speech is [past/present/future]. My…

✓

Finish and reflect

Use the boxes as a final self-check.

What you should be able to show

IGCSE-format listening tasks. Cumulative performance tracker. Tense identification discussion accuracy.

Optional follow-up

Portfolio piece final version due next lesson. Listen to 5 minutes of Arabic sport commentary or news report on a past event (Al Jazeera Arabic sport). Write: 5 past tense verbs you heard (with their English meaning), 2 time expressions that confirmed past tense, 1 observation about the speed at which past tense forms appear.

Confidence check

How secure do you feel after this lesson?