Arrange travel & describe a home

Ask for the information you need when travelling or looking for accommodation. Describe places precisely, complete practical forms and begin systematic word building.

Make clear which apartment you mean.
أُرِيدُ الشَّقَّةَ الَّتِي رَأَيْتُهَا.I want the apartment that I saw.
A relative clause adds identifying information. You practise using it to describe people and places more precisely.
A glimpse of what you’ll learn

What you’ll study.

Illustrative scene of visitors talking with a seller in a traditional market

Handle arrivals and accommodation

  • Use airport and hotel vocabulary to discuss arrivals, accommodation, room choices and the information a traveller needs.
  • Ask for and give directions, describing distances, turns and the position of a place in relation to another.
  • Read about hotels and their services, and connect practical information with the forms used by travellers.
  • Complete arrival and hotel forms, including personal details, dates, room type and length of stay.
Illustrative scene of a host showing a visitor the rooms in an apartment

Describe a home and discuss renting

  • Describe a home’s location, rooms, furniture, facilities and rent, and discuss shared or individual living arrangements.
  • Ask detailed questions about an apartment and explain why one place suits you better than another.
  • Follow spoken and written housing descriptions, using relative clauses to identify the particular place or feature you mean.
  • Plan a rental advertisement that gives a reader the property’s main features, location and price.
صَرْفٌ

Ṣarf · word forms

  • Connect an action verb with its maṣdar, the noun that names the action.
  • Study verbal-noun patterns for basic verbs, selected derived forms and four-root-letter verbs.
نَحْوٌ

Naḥw · sentence structure

  • Identify a person or place with “who/which” clauses using alladhī and allatī.
  • Ask someone to choose between options; study an with a present verb, laysa and changes in subject–predicate order.
  • Use dual nouns for two things and recognize how their endings change within a sentence.

By the end of ARB 106,
you should be able to…

Speaking

Ask for travel and accommodation information

Explain what you need at an airport or hotel and ask for or give familiar directions. Discuss a home’s location, facilities and rent, then ask follow-up questions and describe the features that matter to you.

Listening

Identify the details needed for a stay

Follow familiar travel and housing exchanges and identify the place, room or arrangement being discussed. Pick out specific details about location, rooms and belongings so you can answer questions about the accommodation.

Reading

Understand accommodation information

Read a text about hotels and identify their services and how they have developed. Follow a housing description or advertisement and find the location, features and living arrangements that help you understand the offer.

Writing

Complete forms and describe a rental property

Enter personal and stay details in arrival and hotel forms. Use a plan to write a rental advertisement with location, rooms, facilities and price, applying the descriptive sentence patterns and relative clauses practised in the level.

Your starting point and next step.

Before this level

Handle familiar everyday exchanges and describe routines or experiences in connected sentences.

Find your starting level

How your progress is reviewed

Your work across the level shows how well you can follow a conversation, pick out details and organize your ideas in writing.

Your sessions and level reviews

Your learning materials

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

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