5Four 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.
- عيد المِيلاد المَسيحي Christmas — in Arab Christian communities
- عيد القِيامة Easter
- رَأس السَّنة الجَديدة New Year
- المَهرَجانات الثَّقافِيَّة cultural festivals
- مَهرَجان جَرَش Jerash Festival — Jordan
- مَهرَجان قَرطاج Carthage Festival — Tunisia
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 Non-Islamic Cultural Celebrations in the Arab World that uses two of them.
- مَهرَجان الأَقصَر
- رَقص شَعبي
- مُوسيقى تَقليدِيَّة
- زِيّ تَقليدي
Check your answers
- مَهرَجان الأَقصَر — Luxor Festival — Egypt
- رَقص شَعبي — folk dance
- مُوسيقى تَقليدِيَّة — traditional music
- زِيّ تَقليدي — traditional costume
🗣️ Speaking
Answer aloud in full Arabic sentences. Record yourself if you can, then listen back for clear pronunciation.
- Talk about Non-Islamic Cultural Celebrations in the Arab World for thirty seconds without stopping.
- Say what you did last time — use a past-tense verb.
- 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.