Arabic

Arabic is the official language of over 20 countries and there are well over 375 million native speakers of the language. These speakers are largely concentrated in the Middle East, but there are minority groups of native speakers throughout the world. It is also an official language of the United Nations, the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Conference, and the African Union. For this reason and as a school in the Middle East, St. Mary’s Muhaisnah believes that learning the language would open many opportunities and would prepare the students in the career challenges that the world might offer.

LANGUAGE FOCUS

Four skills should be implemented in each and every classroom and should be assessed on a weekly and monthly basis. Students are trained to learn independently through researched-based tasks, presenting tasks and links the tasks to real life scenarios.

Arabic Department follows the KHDA framework: 

Year 1-3: Students give opportunity to frame sentences from given words

• Year1
  • Alphabets
  • Words with Pictures
  • Lesson about Class, Family, Weather,
  • Student Talks about Himself
  • Poems 
• Year 2
  • Words
  • Short Sentences
  • Adjectives
  • Lesson about School, Weather, Food, Animals,
  • Parts of the Body
  • Grammar
  • Poems
• Year 3
  • Sentences
  • Lessons about Weather, City, Shop, Library
  • Poems
  • Grammar

Year 4-9Students are given opportunity to make paragraph and search about meaning of the new words, Students link task with real life and preparing projects linked with lesson.

• Year 4
  • Sentences
  • Short paragraphs
  • Lessons about City, Kitchen, Traffic Signals, Jobs
  • Grammar
  • Poems
• Year 5
  • Sentences
  • Paragraphs
  • Lessons about Parks, Seasons, Traditional Food, Body Parts
  • Story
  • Grammar
• Year 6
  • Sentences
  • Paragraphs
  • Lessons of Hobby, Time, Daily Routine, Places
  • Story
  • Grammar
  • Poems
• Year 7
  • Sentences
  • Paragraph
  • Story
  • Grammar
  • Lessons on Transportation, International Events, Tourism in UAE, Sports, Environment, My Experience
• Year 8
  • Sentences
  • Paragraph
  • Story
  • Poems
  • Grammar
  • Lesson on Traditional Dress, National Day Celebration, Holidays
• Year 9
  • Sentences
  • Paragraph
  • Story
  • Poems
  • Grammar
  • Lessons about Arabic Countries, Comparing Between Old Dubai and Modern Dubai,  Respect