University of Notre Dame

Department of Classics
Program of Arabic Language and Culture
Fall 2015
MEAR 10001-03: First-Year Arabic I
Dr. Amaya Martin
Schedule Alif Baa: Aug 26 Oct 1

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Aug 25

Aug 26

Aug 27

Aug 28

Unit 1

Unit 2

Unit 2

Aug 31

Sept 1

Sept 2

Sept 3

Sept 4

Quiz Unit 2

Unit 3

Unit 4

Unit 4

Unit 4

Sept 8

Sept 9

Sept 10

Sept 11

Unit 5

Unit 5

Unit 5

Unit 6

Sep 14

Sept 15

Sept 16

Sept 17

Sept 18

Quiz Units 2-5

Unit 6

Unit 6

Unit 7

Unit 7

Sept 21

Sept 22

Sept 23

Sept 24

Sept 25

Quiz Units 1-7

Unit 8

Unit 8

Unit 9

Unit 9

Sept 28

Sept 29

Sept 30

Oct 1

Oct 2

Quiz Unit 8-9

Unit 10

Unit 10

Worksheet

Test Alif Baa

Unit 3
Sept 7
Quiz Units 2-4

Homework Aug 26 Sept 30

For Monday

For Tuesday

ForWednesday

For Thursday

For Friday

Aug 26

Aug 27

Aug 28

Unit 2
Listening Exercise
1
Drill 1 (1-4)
Letters and
Sounds:
alif, baa, taa, thaa
Listening
Exercises:
2, 3, 4
Drills: 2, 3

Letters and
Sounds:
uu, ii, short vowels
Listening
Exercises:
6,7, 8, 10, 11
Drills: 5, 7, 10, 13
Listen to New
Vocabulary 41-2

Sept 3

Sept 4

Listen to Arabic
letters and sounds
(p.2)
Read pp. 3-8
Drill. 1 (p.10)
Listen New
Vocabulary (p.15)

Aug 31

Sept 1

Quiz Unit 2
Unit 3
Letters and
Sounds:
jiim, Haa, Kha,
sukuun
Listening
Exercises:
1, 2, 3, 4
Drills: 3, 4, 5
Prepare drill 6 to
read in class

Letters and
Sounds:
waaw, yaa
Listening
Exercises:
5, 6, 7, 8
Drills: 9, 10, 11
New Vocabulary
61-2
Drill 12

Sept 7

Sept 8

Quiz Units 2-4

Unit 5
Letters and
Sounds:
shadda, siin, shiin
Listening
Exercises:
1, 2, 3, 4
Drills: 2, 4, 5

Sept 2
Unit 4
Letters and Sounds:
hamza
Listening
Exercises:
1, 2, 3, 4
Drills: 1,2
Listen and learn the
numbers 1-10

Sept 9

New Vocabulary
p.100
Drill.6

New Vocabulary
pp.74,75
Drill 5 (A)
Letters and
Sounds:
daal, dhaal
Listening
Exercises:
5, 6
Drills: 6, 7

New Vocabulary
p.86
Write 5 sentences
with new
vocabulary

Sept 10

Sept 11

Letters and
Sounds:
Saad, Daad
Listening
Exercises:
7, 8, 10
Drills: 7, 8, 11, 12,
14

Unit 6

New Vocabulary
p.112-3

Letters and
Sounds:
raa, zaay
Listening
Exercises:
7, 8
Drills: 9, 10

Letters and
Sounds:
taa marbuuTa,
Taa, DHaa
Listening
Exercises:
1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8
Drills: 3, 4, 8, 11

For Sept 14

Sept 15

Quiz Units 2-5

New Vocabulary
p.130-1
Drill 13
Letters and
Sounds:
ayn
Listening
Exercises:
9, 10
Drills: 14, 15

Sept 16
Letters and Sounds:
ghayn
Listening
Exercises:
12, 13
Drills: 18, 21, 22
New Vocabulary
p. 143
Drill 25 (write 5
sentences)

Sept 17

Sept 18

Unit 7

Letters and
Sounds:
laam

Letters and
Sounds:
faa, qaaf, kaaf,
Listening
Exercises:
1, 3, 4, 5
Drills: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6,

Listening
Exercises:
6
Drills: 8, 9, 10
New Vocabulary
p.163-4
Drill 13

Prepare drill 5 (A)

Sept 21

Sept 22

Quiz Units 1-7

Unit 8

Read pp. 166-7

Letters and
Sounds:
Miim, nuun, haa
Listening
Exercises:
1, 2, 3, 4
Drills: 1, 2, 5, 6

Sept 28

Sept 29

Quiz Unit 8-9

Letters and
Sounds:
tanwiin

Unit 10
Letters and
Sounds:
Alif maqSuura,
alif qaSiira,
Listening
Exercises:
1, 2

Listening
Exercises:
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Sept 23
Letters and Sounds:
Hamza (again)
Listening
Exercises:
5, 6, 7
Drills: 8, 9
New Vocabulary
p.189
Drill 10
Drill 14
Watch the videos
in drills 13 and 15

Sept 30

Worksheet

Drills: 1
prepare the
sentences to read
aloud in class and
translated them
into English
Read p. 225

Sept 24

Sept 25

Unit 9

Letters and
Sounds:
Hamza l-wasla

Letters and
Sounds:
Alif laam
Listening
Exercises:
1, 2
Drills: 1, 2, 3, 6

Listening
Exercises: 3
Drills: 7, 8 (write
ten sentences)
New Vocabulary
p.204
Drill 11
Read pp. 206-8
Drill 16

Oct 1

Test Alif Baa

Oct 2