Gateway to Arabic – Book 6

Gateway to Arabic is a well-structured, progressive course which has been carefully designed to teach Arabic in a non-Arabic speaking environment to learners from a broad age range. It contains a wealth of exercises to reinforce vocabulary acquisition and the understanding and application of grammar. Extensive research and piloting ensure that the materials are easy to learn from and to teach.

Gateway to Arabic Book Six focuses on Form II, III and IV verbs in a comprehensive manner, covering regular and irregular verbs in various moods and tenses. Book Six also introduces the subjunctive and jussive moods and the particles that govern them. The key theme running throughout the book is the weather and seasons, and the student will learn to talk about temperature and climate in various parts of the world at different times of the year. Passages of dialogue and extensive exercises enable the student to put into practice the knowledge he or she has acquired, thereby reinforcing the learning process.

This book covers:

• The weather and seasons
• The subjunctive mood and associated particles
• The jussive mood and associated particles
• An introduction to the derived forms of Arabic verbs
• Regular and irregular Form II, III and IV verbs in the present, past, imperative, subjunctive and jussive
• Over 140 past and present tense verbs
• Reference list of nouns and their plurals
• Sample verb templates to aid conjugation