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Edexcel International AS & A Level Arabic: every topic, by paper

All 12 Arabic topics for Edexcel International AS & A Level, grouped the way the exam is. Each topic has a few flashcards to test yourself; the full sets are free in Socrates AI.

Topics are grouped by theme; the exam papers test skills across all of them.

Topics and themes

Society, family and relationships

What is the Arabic for "the family" and "the extended family"?

الأسرة (العائلة)؛ العائلة الممتدة.

What is the Arabic for "marriage" and "divorce"?

الزواج؛ الطلاق.

What is the Arabic for "the generation gap"?

الفجوة بين الأجيال (صراع الأجيال).

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Education and the world of work

What is the Arabic for "school" and "university"?

المدرسة؛ الجامعة.

What is the Arabic for "teacher" and "student"?

المعلّم (المدرّس)؛ الطالب.

What is the Arabic for "education" and "higher education"?

التعليم؛ التعليم العالي.

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The environment and health

What is the Arabic for "the environment" and "pollution"?

البيئة؛ التلوّث.

What is the Arabic for "health"?

الصحّة.

What is the Arabic for "climate change" and "global warming"?

تغيّر المناخ؛ الاحتباس الحراري.

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Technology and the media

What is the Arabic for "the internet"?

الإنترنت (الشبكة العنكبوتية).

What is the Arabic for "a mobile phone"?

الهاتف المحمول (الجوّال).

What is the Arabic for "social media"?

وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي.

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Arab culture, literature and heritage

How many countries are members of the Arab League?

22.

What is the Arabic for "heritage" and "culture"?

التراث؛ الثقافة.

Who was Naguib Mahfouz?

An Egyptian novelist, the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1988).

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Grammar and rhetoric

Grammar: verb patterns (الأوزان)

What is a trilateral root?

A root of three consonants that carries the basic meaning, e.g. ك ت ب (writing).

What is the pattern of Form II and its usual meaning?

فعّل: intensive or causative, e.g. درّس (to teach).

What is the pattern of Form III and its usual meaning?

فاعل: doing an action with or to someone, e.g. شارك (to participate).

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Grammar: cases and i'rab

What is الإعراب?

Grammatical analysis showing the function of words through their case endings.

What are the three noun cases in Arabic?

الرفع (nominative), النصب (accusative), الجرّ (genitive).

What is the case ending for the subject (الفاعل)?

Marfu' (مرفوع), usually with ضمّة.

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Grammar: kāna, inna and their sisters

What do كان and its sisters do to a nominal sentence?

They make the subject (اسمها) مرفوع and the predicate (خبرها) منصوب.

Name four sisters of كان.

أصبح، أضحى، ظلّ، أمسى، بات، صار، ليس، ما زال، ما دام.

Correct the ending: "كان الجوُّ جميلٌ".

كان الجوُّ جميلاً (خبر كان منصوب).

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Grammar: derived nouns and the maṣdar

What is المصدر?

The verbal noun naming the action, e.g. كتابة from كتب.

What is اسم الفاعل?

The active participle, naming the doer: كاتب (writer) from كتب.

What is اسم المفعول?

The passive participle, naming what receives the action: مكتوب (written) from كتب.

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Grammar: numbers and agreement

What is the Arabic for the numbers 1 to 5?

واحد، اثنان، ثلاثة، أربعة، خمسة.

How do the numbers 1 and 2 agree with the noun?

They agree in gender and follow the noun as adjectives: كتابٌ واحد، طالبتان اثنتان.

What is the rule for numbers 3 to 10?

Reverse gender agreement with the singular of the counted noun, which is plural and genitive: ثلاثة كتب، ثلاث طالبات.

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Rhetoric (البلاغة)

What is البلاغة?

Rhetoric: the art of eloquent and effective expression.

What is التشبيه?

A simile: comparing two things sharing a quality, using a tool such as كـ or مثل.

What are the four elements of التشبيه?

المشبّه، المشبّه به، أداة التشبيه، وجه الشبه.

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Essay and translation

Essay and translation language

How do you say "in my opinion" in Arabic?

في رأيي (من وجهة نظري).

How do you say "firstly" and "finally"?

أوّلاً؛ أخيراً.

How do you say "on the one hand... on the other hand"?

من جهة... ومن جهة أخرى.

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