D5Lesson 8 of 12R Reading

Reading — Leisure, Sport and Past Experience Texts

القِراءة — نُصوص التَّرفيه والرِّياضة والتَّجارِب 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. الأَحداث الماضِيَّة

2. تَسَلسُل الأَحداث

3. يَستَنتِج مِن الفِعل الماضي

4. سِيرة ذاتِيَّة رِياضِيَّة

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Grammar shortcut

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

Reading strategy: past tense verb clusters (فعَل، فعَلت، فعَلنا، فعَلوا) signal: a personal account, biography, event report, or narrative text. Past time expressions (أمس، الأسبوع الماضي، في العام الماضي) are the reading equivalent of the suffixes — they confirm past tense context. Gap-fill: tense choice is the primary criterion for Paper 2 Q4 when the text is a past narrative.
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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 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.

  1. سِيرة ذاتِيَّة رِياضِيَّة sports biography
  2. مُراجَعة الفَنادِق hotel review
  3. تَقرير النَّشاطات activity report
  4. الأَحداث الماضِيَّة past events
  5. تَسَلسُل الأَحداث sequence of events
  6. 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.

  1. Talk about Leisure, Sport and Past Experience for thirty seconds without stopping.
  2. Add one detail that a listener would not already know.
  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 Leisure, Sport and Past Experience. 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 20 min

Three texts — past-tense focused comprehension Text 1 (Sports biography — partly vowelled): 5 questions. R1: What sport does the athlete play? R2: What two achievements are mentioned? R2: How old was the athlete when they won their first championship? R3: What does the biographer's choice…

2 · Practise

Main 2 15 min

Gap-fill — tense awareness (Paper 2 Q4) Text 3 with 8 gaps. Each gap has 4 options: always include past, present and future forms of the same verb + an unrelated word as distractor. Example: "الفريق _____ البطولة الصيف الماضي." Options: (a) يفوز (b) فاز (c) سيفوز (d) يُلاعِب. You…

3 · Apply

Main 3 8 min

Cross-text: past tense and register Compare Text 1 (biography) and Text 2 (holiday review): "Both use past tense — but how does the register differ?" you identify: biography uses formal vocabulary and impersonal tone. Review uses informal, personal first-person language. Both use…

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Finish and reflect

Use the boxes as a final self-check.

What you should be able to show

Comprehension worksheets (check AO breakdown recorded). Gap-fill (check tense reasoning process quality). Cross-text register analysis.

Optional follow-up

Read Text 2 (holiday review) at home. Write a 50-word Arabic response: describe a similar or contrasting experience of your own using past tense. Include at least 3 past tense verbs not used in the original text.

Confidence check

How secure do you feel after this lesson?