Language acquisition
IB Arabic B SL and HL
23 lessons at SL. 26 at HL, with every HL-only topic. Five-minute lessons, exam-style questions and timed mock papers.
- Units
- 7
- SL lessons
- 23
- HL lessons
- 26
- Questions
- 176
- Key terms
- 91
What you will study
Every lesson follows the current IB guide. Lessons marked HL are in the HL course only. The first unit is free.
Identities4 lessons · free
- IdentitiesWho I am: nominal and verbal sentences and agreement
- IdentitiesLifestyles and health: كان and its sisters
- IdentitiesLanguage and belonging: إنّ and its sisters
- IdentitiesBeliefs and values: opinions, أنْ and أنّ
Experiences3 lessons
- ExperiencesTelling a story: the past, كان + present and لم
- ExperiencesHolidays and travel: the future, لن and time clauses
- ExperiencesCustoms and celebrations: the dual, plurals and numbers
Human ingenuity3 lessons
- Human ingenuityTechnology and media: comparatives and superlatives
- Human ingenuityArts and entertainment: roots and verb forms II–X
- Human ingenuityScience and the future: conditionals with إذا، إنْ and لو
Social organization3 lessons
- Social organizationEducation and work: the verbal noun
- Social organizationCommunity and volunteering: the imperative and polite requests
- Social organizationRights, rules and relationships: relative pronouns
Sharing the planet2 SL · 3 HL lessons
- Sharing the planetThe environment: connectors and building an argument
- Sharing the planetRights, equality and globalisation: negation
- Sharing the planetHL: reporting the news: the passive and reported speechHL
Text types, audience and register4 lessons
- Text typesAudience, purpose and register
- Text typesLetters and emails
- Text typesBlogs, articles, reports and reviews
- Text typesSpeeches, interviews and brochures
Assessment: papers and the individual oral4 SL · 6 HL lessons
- Paper 1Paper 1: productive writing
- Paper 2Paper 2: listening
- Paper 2Paper 2: reading
- Individual oralThe individual oral: structure and the SL visual stimulus
- LiteratureHL: reading literature: the ḥāl, emphasis and imageryHL
- Individual oralHL: literature and the HL individual oralHL
Try a question
From “Who I am: nominal and verbal sentences and agreement”.
Questions are in Arabic, like the exam. Every answer comes with an explanation.
أيُّ جملةٍ صحيحةٌ لغويًّا؟
Show the answer
B. المدنُ العربيّةُ القديمةُ جميلةٌ
المدن "cities" is a non-human plural, so every adjective is feminine singular: العربيّةُ القديمةُ جميلةٌ.
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