The complete curriculum/ARB 108

Discuss work & describe experiences

Explain work responsibilities, prepare a CV from a template and describe a visit. Add detail with relative clauses and distinguish doing an action from receiving it.

Describe a completed piece of writing.
كَتَبَ الطَّلَبَ.He wrote the application.
الطَّلَبُ مَكْتُوبٌ.The application is written.
Maktūb is a passive participle: it describes the application that received the action. You study how to form and use words like this.
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What you’ll study.

Illustrative scene of three men discussing work around a table

Explain work and prepare for an interview

  • Discuss occupations, ways of finding work and the qualifications, experience and skills used in an application.
  • Practise familiar interview exchanges and explain how someone found or applied for a job.
  • Read a story about a job applicant and follow how the events and the person’s decisions change the situation.
  • Complete a CV template, compare its details with another profile, and write an imagined interview dialogue.
Illustrative scene of visitors talking with a seller in a traditional market

Recommend a place and describe a visit

  • Describe places to visit and recommend a choice, organizing your reasons so someone else can follow them.
  • Listen to descriptions of cities and identify details about location, climate and notable places.
  • Read a trip itinerary to understand its purpose, daily activities, visit times and arrangements.
  • Write a trip report from prompts: when and where it took place, who joined, how you travelled and what happened.
صَرْفٌ

Ṣarf · word forms

  • Form passive participles from basic and derived verbs to describe what receives an action.
  • Compare active and passive participles so you distinguish the doer from the thing affected.
نَحْوٌ

Naḥw · sentence structure

  • Study sound masculine and broken plural endings in different sentence roles.
  • Recognize subjects and objects as nouns or pronouns, and use the appropriate subject case markers.
  • Choose relative pronouns for a wider range of people and things when adding detail.

By the end of ARB 108,
you should be able to…

Speaking

Discuss work and support a recommendation

Explain how a person found work and respond to familiar questions about a role or application. Recommend a place to visit, organizing your reasons and adding descriptive information through the sentence patterns studied.

Listening

Recognize job-search and destination details

Identify ways of looking for work in the listening activities. Recognize a city from a spoken description and pick out information about its location, climate and landmarks to answer questions about the place.

Reading

Follow a work story and a trip itinerary

Track the events and decisions in a story about a job applicant. Read an itinerary and find its purpose, destinations, times and planned activities, using those details to answer practical questions about the trip.

Writing

Prepare a CV, interview and trip report

Complete a CV template with personal details, qualifications, experience and skills, and write a short interview dialogue. Organize a trip report using prompts for participants, travel, purpose, events and observations, expanding sentences with useful detail.

← ARB 107Explain problems & compare optionsARB 109 →Tell stories & connect events

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Before this level

Sustain a practical exchange, compare options, and explain a choice with supporting details.

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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.

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Your learning materials

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

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