5Four skills practice
Short tasks for listening, reading, speaking and writing. Choose the skill you find hardest.
🎧 Listening
🎧 Audio coming soon
Listen for the speaker's opinion. Decide whether each speaker sounds positive, negative or unsure, and find the word that tells you. Until the audio is ready, prepare by covering the English, reading each item below aloud twice, then saying the meaning from memory.
- سِيرة ذاتِيَّة رِياضِيَّة sports biography
- مُراجَعة الفَنادِق hotel review
- تَقرير النَّشاطات activity report
- الأَحداث الماضِيَّة past events
- تَسَلسُل الأَحداث sequence of events
- يَستَنتِج مِن الفِعل الماضي deduces from the past tense
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 Leisure, Sport and Past Experience that uses two of them.
- سِيرة ذاتِيَّة رِياضِيَّة
- مُراجَعة الفَنادِق
- تَقرير النَّشاطات
- الأَحداث الماضِيَّة
Check your answers
- سِيرة ذاتِيَّة رِياضِيَّة — sports biography
- مُراجَعة الفَنادِق — hotel review
- تَقرير النَّشاطات — activity report
- الأَحداث الماضِيَّة — past events
🗣️ Speaking
Answer aloud in full Arabic sentences. Record yourself if you can, then listen back for clear pronunciation.
- Talk about Leisure, Sport and Past Experience for thirty seconds without stopping.
- Add one detail that a listener would not already know.
- 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.