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Arabic — Bayna Yadayk Companion

أَهْلاً وَسَهْلاً! A spoken-first companion to a taught Arabic class using Al-Arabiyyah Bayna Yadayk, Book 1. Each unit gets a lesson (grammar frames + practice), a dialogue reader (line-by-line audio), and a flashcard deck; topics that cut across units get a chapter of their own, and the book's review tests become practice papers.

1. Lessons

  1. 1Greetings & Introductions Meet, greet, ask names and origins — correctly gendered 20m
  2. 2The Family Family words, my/his suffixes, first verbs, في + place 20m
  3. 3Housing Where you live, I want…, renting and furnishing, noun + adjective 20m
  4. 4Daily Life When?, the verbs of the day (I / you / you f.), سَـ will, لا don't, the clock, by bus 20m
  5. 5Food and Drink Ordering a meal, the three meals, he / she forms, don't-and-do orders, the joining vowel, kilos 20m
  6. 6The Prayer The five prayers in order, the command machine (wake up, put, wait, eat), I'm travelling to Mecca, near and far, ill and lazy 20m
  7. 7Study The past tense opens: he did it · I will be a teacher · which faculty? · far from and near to · the marks get their names 25m
  8. 8Work What do you do, where, how many hours · the faculty gives the job · study or teach · I have children · the clock to twelve · and the first “I studied” 25m

2. Topic chapters

  1. 1Numbers and Their Forms Digits, counting, counting things, the three counting bands, the number after a definite noun, ranking all ten, and the days · one number, five costumes 28m
  2. 2Prepositions — the placing words في · مِنْ · إِلى · لِـ · عَلى · بِـ · مَعَ · لَدَى · عِنْدَ · بَعْدَ — where and when, with gap-fill practice; grows with each unit (now Units 1–7) 32m

3. Dialogue readers

  1. 1Unit 1 Dialogues Six dialogues, line-by-line: speak, hear, reveal 15m
  2. 2Unit 2 Dialogues Family photo · the Prophet's ﷺ family tree · fajr at home 15m
  3. 3Unit 3 Dialogues Where do you live · renting a flat · the furniture shop · the days 15m
  4. 4Unit 4 Dialogues A school morning · the family's day off · a holiday morning 15m
  5. 5Unit 5 Dialogues Outside the restaurant · the meal service · the guests · two short readings 18m
  6. 6Unit 6 Dialogues The five prayers · two travellers · the ʿaṣr adhān · the book's eight questions and two exercises 18m
  7. 7Unit 7 Dialogues The timetable · two students at university · leaving before six · both reading passages · the listening scripts 25m
  8. 8Unit 8 Dialogues Two men and their jobs · six students · two teachers · three portraits · the pilot and the teacher · the listening scripts 25m

4. Flashcards

  1. 1Unit 1 Vocabulary Deck 50 words, both directions, with audio 10m
  2. 2Unit 2 Vocabulary Deck 41 new words, both directions, with audio 10m
  3. 3Unit 3 Vocabulary Deck 54 new words — housing, furniture, counting, ranking, days 12m
  4. 4Unit 4 Vocabulary Deck 42 new words — the verbs of the day, time words, the clock, things at home 12m
  5. 5Unit 5 Vocabulary Deck 47 new words — the three meals, food and drink, describing people 12m
  6. 6Unit 6 Vocabulary Deck 42 new words: the five prayers, the commands, the travel words, near and far, ill and lazy 12m
  7. 7Unit 7 Vocabulary Deck 57 new words, from the book's own list: seven verbs in the past, school and university, three months, the ranking words finished 15m
  8. 8Unit 8 Vocabulary Deck 27 new words, from the book's own list: love and teach, the workplace, six subjects, two ways to have, the clock's last hours 12m

5. Practice papers

  1. 1Exam 1 — the paper after Units 1–4 The book's own 40-mark review test, exercise for exercise: join, group, odd-one-out, brackets, reading — marked as you go 35m
  2. 2Exam 2 · the paper after Units 5–6 The second 40-mark test: pairs, odd-one-out, a word bank, find the planted error, brackets, reading; marked as you go 35m
  3. 3Exam 3 · the paper after Units 7–8 The book's own 40-mark test on study and work: add two words, odd-one-out, a word bank, join the halves, brackets, reading 30m
  4. 4The Mid-term · Units 1–8 The book's 100-mark mid-term, with a 38-mark listening section played aloud; two printing faults explained where they fall 60m

6. Reference

  1. §Frames & Phrasebook (Units 1–8) Every phrase, frame, agreement rule and number form — printable

Suggested rhythm per unit: lesson → flashcards → dialogue reader → flashcards again a day later. Questions go to your teacher — in class.