القِراءة — نُصوص الدُّوَل والثَّقافة والاحتِفالات
Countries, Cultures & Celebrations · The international world
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1. نَبرة المُؤَلِّف
2. حِياد
3. اِنتِقائِيَّة
4. دَلالة
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Short tasks for listening, reading, speaking and writing. Choose the skill you find hardest.
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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.
Exam link: in Paper 1 you hear each recording twice — use the first listening for the general idea and the second for detail.
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 Countries, Culture and Celebration that uses two of them.
Answer aloud in full Arabic sentences. Record yourself if you can, then listen back for clear pronunciation.
Exam link: Paper 3 is a role play and two topic conversations, with ten minutes of supervised preparation beforehand.
Task: Write 60–80 words about Countries, Culture and Celebration. Use the language from this lesson, give one opinion with a reason, and check your agreement before you finish.
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Three short stages based on the revision plan above.
Three texts — cultural and perspective-aware comprehension Text 1 (Travel article — partly vowelled): 5 questions. R1: What city is being described? R2: What three things does the writer recommend? R2: What historical fact is mentioned? R3: Is the writer's attitude to the city positive,…
Cross-text matching — cultures and perspectives 8 statements about culture, celebration or diaspora identity. You match each to Text 1, Text 2, Text 3, or None. This Paper 2 Q5 task requires: (1) careful paraphrase recognition (the statement never uses the exact same words as the…
Cultural bias in reading — advanced R3 From Text 3 (diaspora opinion), select 3 sentences. For each: "Is this a fact or an opinion? What assumptions does the writer make? Is there cultural bias here?" you write one sentence using يتَّضِح from Lesson 8 D5: "يتَّضِح من أسلوب…
Use the boxes as a final self-check.
Comprehension worksheets (check AO breakdown, R3 quality noted). Cross-text matching (accuracy + most difficult match reasoning). Cultural bias analysis quality.
Read Text 3 (diaspora opinion) again. Write a 60-word Arabic response: do you agree with the writer's perspective? Give 2 reasons for your view using evidence from the text. Use لا يمكن إنكار أنَّ and على الرغم من ذلك.
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