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Listening — Health and Lifestyle Texts

الاستِماع — نُصوص الصِّحَّة وأُسلوب الحَياة

Healthy Lifestyles · Health and wellbeing

Keep it manageable. One completed section is useful revision. Move through the tabs at your own pace.

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Learning Objectives

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

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Complete IGCSE Paper 1 format listening tasks on health and lifestyle themes

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Identify conditional sentences and passive structures in fast spoken Arabic

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Apply advanced distractor avoidance strategies with academic health vocabulary

Revision plan

10 minWarm-upPre-listening — academic health register prediction
25 minStep 1Three IGCSE-format listening tasks
12 minStep 2Conditional and passive analysis in listening
6 minStep 3P1 performance tracking
7 minPlenaryThirty seconds of Arabic health speech

Exam connection: Listening: academic health texts, conditional sentences in speech, medical passives (Paper 1 all formats) | Reading: nutrition article, mental health report, healthcare opinion piece (Paper 2 R1–R4, Q5 cross-text) | Writing: health article/email — Paper 4 Q3 asks for about 130–140 words (stretch: extend to 150 for extra practice) | Speaking: health centre role play + two topic conversations. Useful structures here include conditional sentences and medical passives.

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Vocabulary

Tap each card to reveal the meaning, category and example.

Three-step recall

Say the Arabic aloud.
Cover the meaning and recall it.
Use six items in your own spoken or written sentences.

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Skills Practice

Practise listening, reading, speaking and writing with the same lesson language.

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Listening

Listen for time, place or person. Listen twice: first for the overall meaning, then for evidence.

🎧 Recorded audio coming soon — use the device voice for listening practice now. Keep the transcript hidden for your first two listens.

What is the main topic or situation?
Who, where or when is mentioned?
Write one supporting detail.

Check your listening

A successful answer identifies the main topic, at least three accurate words and one relevant detail. Replay once, then reveal the transcript only if you still need support.

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Reading

Underline known words before answering.

يُوصى بـ. إِذا أكَلتَ الخضروات يومياً، ستُقَلِّل من خطر الإصابة بأمراض القلب.

What is the main idea or situation?
Choose one phrase and explain what it means in this context.
Find one example that shows the lesson language or grammar in use.
What extra detail could you add to make the text more complete?

Reading support

Start with names, numbers, repeated words, connectors and familiar verb patterns. You do not need to translate every word.

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Speaking

Build your answer, then ask a follow-up question.

Give a clear view about health or lifestyle using the lesson focus. Support it with a reason and an example.
Use at least three useful items from this lesson and one complete sentence with the target grammar.
Add one reason, detail or example instead of giving only a short answer.

Useful frame:في رَأيي.. لِأَنَّ.. أَيضاً.. وَمِن جِهَةٍ أُخرى..

Working alone? Record yourself for 30–60 seconds, listen back once, and improve one pronunciation, grammar or fluency point.

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Writing

Plan, write, check and improve.

Task: Write a focused response about health or lifestyle using the lesson focus, a reason and a supporting detail. Target: 80–100 words, extending to 130–140 words for an extended exam-style task.

I answered every part. I used the target grammar. I checked spelling and agreement. I added a reason, detail or example.

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Activities

Complete the activities in order, or choose the one that addresses your weakest area.

Independent revision: if an activity mentions a partner, cards, a picture or classroom equipment, use paper/notes on your device and complete both sides yourself. For speaking, record your answer and listen back once.

Warm-up10 min

Pre-listening — academic health register prediction

Study task sheets. Annotate all questions: "Q1 asks for a STATISTIC — listen for a number + بالمئة. Q2 asks about a CONDITIONAL relationship — listen for إِذا. Q3 asks about a PASSIVE medical procedure — listen for يُعالَج/يُشَخَّص prefix pattern. Q4 asks about the writer's RECOMMENDATION — listen for ينصح/يُوصى." This targeted prediction, now in its most sophisticated form in P1, takes only 3–4 minutes and significantly improves accuracy.

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Three IGCSE-format listening tasks

Text 1 (55 sec): A nutritionist discusses the Mediterranean diet and its benefits — 8 multiple choice (3 options): which food group is emphasised, what percentage reduction in heart disease is claimed, what the nutritionist says about processed food, one conditional recommendation (if you eat X then Y — listen for إِذا), one passive structure (is recommended — يُوصى بـ), the nutritionist's view on supplements, a comparison between two diets (أَفعَل form), and the closing recommendation. Text 2 (45 sec): Two young people discuss exercise and mental health — matching (Person A / Person B / Both). 6 statements. Text 3 (55 sec): Health expert describes the risks of screen addiction — select TWO correct statements from five. Academic vocabulary and passive structures. All texts played twice.

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Conditional and passive analysis in listening

Go through answers. Special focus: (1) Conditional in Text 1 — "The speaker said إِذا أكَلتَ الخضروات يومياً، ستُقَلِّل من خطر الإصابة بأمراض القلب. Did you catch إِذا? Did you hear the future verb in the result clause? If you missed the conditional you probably chose a distractor that was a general health statement rather than a specific cause-effect pair." (2) Passive in Text 3 — "يُعاج المريض بـ vs يُعالِج الطبيب المريض — different emphasis on the يُ prefix. In passive, يُ + ā vowel in the first syllable. Did you catch this distinction?" (3) Statistical distractor — "The speaker said خمسة وثلاثون بالمئة (35%) but some learners chose 53% — how? Reversing the tens and units in Arabic numerals is a very common error. Always listen for the higher number first in Arabic (e.g. عشرون وخمسة = 25, not خمسة وعشرون for traditional order)."

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P1 performance tracking

You record P1 listening score and begin the P1 cumulative tracker. Compare to the end of D1–D6 (D6 listening score) as a baseline. Write: "My P1 listening accuracy was [X/20]. Compared to my D1–D6 final score, this is [better/same/worse]. My main challenge in academic health listening is [X]. My strategy: [specific action]."

Plenary7 min

Thirty seconds of Arabic health speech

Play 30 seconds of Text 1 again. Write: every health noun heard, every Form II/IV verb heard, any passive or conditional structure heard. Compare lists. Count per student. "In 30 seconds of academic health Arabic you identified [average] structures correctly. At the start of F1–F6, you understood zero words of Arabic speech. The growth is real and the trajectory is exactly where it should be for Year 11 IGCSE readiness."

Useful to have

Things you can make or find to help you revise this lesson:

Listening task sheets (3 health/lifestyle texts)
IGCSE Paper 1 all question formats
Conditional sentence tracking sheet
Cumulative P1 performance tracker

Stretch challenge

If you already speak some Arabic at home: listen to Text 3 and transcribe the complete text from memory. Compare to your partner's transcript. Identify: all passive structures, all conditional sentences, all statistics, and any academic vocabulary from P1. Write a 50-word Arabic critical analysis of how the health expert presents their argument — is it balanced? evidence-based? persuasive?

Listening — Health and Lifestyle Texts

Learning Objectives

Revision plan

Vocabulary

Three-step recall

Quizzes

Quiz 1 — Meaning check

Quiz 2 — Match Arabic and English

العربية

English

Stretch challenge

Grammar

Notice the pattern

Accuracy checklist

Skills Practice

Listening

Reading

Speaking

Writing

Activities

Pre-listening — academic health register prediction

Three IGCSE-format listening tasks

Conditional and passive analysis in listening

P1 performance tracking

Thirty seconds of Arabic health speech

Useful to have

Stretch challenge

Plenary

Key takeaways

Final check

Optional follow-up

Confidence check