The complete curriculum/ARB 105

Describe daily life & explain choices

Describe your routine, weather and clothing in connected sentences. Explain what you do and why, while making your verbs and descriptions more precise.

Connect an action to its reason.
أَلْبَسُ مِعْطَفًا لِأَنَّ الْجَوَّ بَارِدٌ.I wear a coat because the weather is cold.
Link an action to its reason with li-ʾanna (“because”), using the weather and clothing vocabulary you study here.
A glimpse of what you’ll learn

What you’ll study.

Illustrative scene of a man listening and taking notes at his home desk

Explain how your day unfolds

  • Describe work or study routines, travel to and from home, free time and weekend activities.
  • Ask about someone’s day and report their answers, using expressions such as always, usually, sometimes and never.
  • Read an interview about daily life, match questions to answers and identify the reasons given for an activity.
  • Write a routine or free-time account from a model, connecting actions and making the subject and object clear.
Illustrative scene of two men talking as they walk through their neighborhood

Describe conditions and explain your choice

  • Discuss seasons, temperatures and weather in different places, including activities suited to particular conditions.
  • Describe clothing and explain choices, using adjective agreement, reasons, contrasts and negative statements.
  • Read a description of a city’s climate and connect the conditions with the seasons and activities mentioned.
  • Use prompts to write a weather-and-clothing dialogue, then apply the question and verb patterns from the level.
صَرْفٌ

Ṣarf · word forms

  • Compare past, present and imperative forms of familiar verbs.
  • Use these verbs in the positive, negative and purpose expressions introduced in this level.
نَحْوٌ

Naḥw · sentence structure

  • Build verbal sentences with an action, its subject and, when needed, its object.
  • Match adjectives to nouns; explain purpose with li-, reasons with li-ʾanna and contrast with lākinna.
  • Distinguish negatives with mā, lam and lan, and practise answering yes/no and negative questions.

By the end of ARB 105,
you should be able to…

Speaking

Describe your day and explain your choices

Give an ordered account of your routine and say how often you do things. Ask about someone else’s day, report their answers, and discuss weather or clothing with a reason for your preference.

Listening

Follow routines and weather descriptions

Identify the activities and timing in a familiar account of someone’s day. Understand the main weather conditions and clothing choices mentioned, connecting actions with the reasons or preferences expressed.

Reading

Follow an interview and a climate description

Match questions to answers in an interview about daily life and find the writer’s reasons. Read about a city’s weather across the seasons and connect each condition with the activities described.

Writing

Describe routines and build a practical dialogue

Use a model to write about your routine or free time, with a clear order and expressions of frequency. Write a weather-and-clothing dialogue from prompts, checking verb forms, adjective agreement and links between ideas.

← ARB 104Talk about plans & past experiencesARB 106 →Arrange travel & describe a home

Your starting point and next step.

Before this level

Ask practical questions and give a short account of a familiar plan or experience.

Find your starting level

How your progress is reviewed

Your work across the level shows how well you can follow short dialogues, read familiar texts and write about everyday topics.

Your sessions and level reviews

Your learning materials

Reading materials, audio, interactive exercises, and vocabulary flashcards.

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