This answer key is to be used with Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al'Arabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic: Part one, Second Edition. The new answer key for Al-Kitaab, Part One is intended as a resource for teachers and for learners studying on their own. The answer key has been substantially expanded from the old version and now includes text of all audio sentences included in the vocabulary section of each lesson. Text of the basic "story" of Maha and Khaled in each lesson answers to most vocabulary, grammar and review drills included in each lesson.

Al-Kitaab: Part One develops skills in standard Arabic while providing additional material in both colloquial and classical Arabic. With new video material and revised and updated text and exercises, the bound-in and revised DVDs supersede both the former CD audio set and video DVD previously available only as separate items—making this singular volume a comprehensive whole for those immersed in the early and intermediate stages of learning Arabic.
Providing approximately 150 contact hours of college-level instruction, parts of this revised edition are updated with contemporary selections for reading comprehension. The organization of the chapters has been adapted to reflect the most current pedagogical developments. Audio tracks for vocabulary sections now allow students to hear a new word followed by a sentence using it in context with previously acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures, enabling students to build new vocabulary skills while reviewing old material. The basic texts have been re-filmed with a new cast of actors. The DVDs also contain substantially more material that exposes the learner to Egyptian Arabic: students have the options of seeing and hearing the video of each lesson in both Modern standard Arabic and Egyptian colloquial Arabic. In addition, a short dialogue in Egyptian colloquial Arabic appears at the end of each lesson. New video materials also feature interviews with Egyptians (subtitled in English) about various aspects of Arab culture, such as gender issues, fasting in the Muslim and Christian traditions, social clubs and their significance, and more.

FEATURES OF PART ONE, Second Edition:
• Develops all language-related skills including reading, listening, speaking, writing, and cultural knowledge
• Immediately incorporates extensive use of authentic materials for reading, listening, and grammatical practice, thus relating abstract grammatical concepts to practical skills
• Presents narrative-based content through audio and video media rather than written text to develop meaning-focused language processing skills, utilizing two main characters and their extended families
• Develops reading skills through the use of composed texts derived from the main narrative and authentic texts from newspapers and journals
• Introduces grammar using spiraling and inference, challenging students to discover the grammar of the language by means of analogy, problem solving, and educated guessing
• Reinforces grammar and vocabulary through extensive classroom and homework exercises that provide constant review and expand to challenge students as their skills develop
• Introduces students to Egyptian colloquial through scenes based on the main narrative to promote the use of shared vocabulary and structure of the two registers to increase listening comprehension skillsContains Arabic-English and English-Arabic glossaries and reference charts as well as a new grammar index

Arabic At Your Hands Series is one program in a collection of programs called “Arabic For All”. This series comprises a developed version of the book “Arabic At Your Hands”, which introduces a comprehensive curriculum for teaching Arabic for non-Arabic speakers, students and teachers. This curriculum is developed for educational entities, including schools, institutes and universities. It begins from the basic level and continues with the students until they master Arabic language, which enables them to join university and continue their Arabic studies in various majors. The developed series is designed by the authors of the original series, who are an academic team specialized in teaching Arabic for non-Arabic speakers.

• Level’s units, books and lessons:
  
  The first level consists of two parts (books), each of which includes 8 units (total of 16 units). Each unit consists of 9 lessons, constituting a total of 144 basic lessons in this level.
  
  The lessons of each unit are organized as follows:
  • First lesson: First dialogue, its vocabularies and exercises 2 pages
  • Second lesson: Second dialogue, its vocabularies and exercises 2 pages
  • Third lesson: Third dialogue, its vocabularies and exercises 2 pages
  • Fourth lesson: Vocabularies exercises and additional vocabularies. 2 pages
  • Fifth Lesson: Grammar structures and exercises. 4 pages
  • Sixth lesson: Sounds 3 pages
  • Seventh lesson: Speaking and exercises 3 pages
  • Eighth lesson: Reading and exercises 3 pages
  • Ninth lesson: Writing and exercises 4 pages
  • Total of 25 pages per unit
  
  
  Tests and Evaluations:
  Two types of tests are included in the first level:
  1. Short tests: 8 tests in each two units
  2. Two comprehensive tests for determining level:
     • Midlevel comprehensive test (at the end of the first book)
     • Final comprehensive test (at the end of the second book)
There are no audio records for final and midtrial tests because answers have to be given from the students not the teacher.


• At its end, the first level includes a group of vocabularies with illustrated pictures. It also comprises lists for vocabularies used in each unit and another list for all vocabularies used in the level arranged alphabetically. It also contains listening texts along with an audio CD (8 hours) covering all texts and some of the exercises included. There is also a preparatory booklet for teaching Arabic letters.
  Click here to download Arabic Between Your Hands Textbook: Level 1, Part 1 Audio content.

This new edition includes three DVDs bound into the book that feature contextualized vocabulary, cultural background and illustrations, and new listening comprehension materials with each lesson. Newly recorded colloquial audio and video materials also accompany each lesson and continue the story of Maha and Khalid and their travels to Cairo with brief explanatory vocabulary and notes provided in the text. The appendices include grammatical reference charts, an Arabic–English glossary, and a grammar index. The materials cover approximately 150 contact hours of instruction, and students who complete Part Two should reach advanced proficiency.

Each lesson in Part Two centers on a text that deals with a social, historical, literary, or cultural issue. In addition to the main reading text, students will also find additional authentic texts for reading and listening comprehension, vocabulary and grammar exercises, close listening and speaking activities, and cultural background for the reading.

The newly revised and repackaged Part Two has been restructured to reflect pedagogical developments over the last eight years, updated with new authentic reading and listening texts, and expanded with new video materials. In addition to the speaking, listening, and writing skills emphasized throughout each lesson, more time and emphasis is placed on activating vocabulary and structure with new activities for inside and outside the classroom.

Features:

• Provides basic texts of printed media to help students connect the written and aural/oral aspects of Arabic
• Features intensive reading that is focused on grammar and pronunciation-not just comprehension
• Contains substantial amounts of drills and exercises to help students memorize and gain active control of an expanded vocabulary
• Explores the root and pattern system of Arabic grammar and complex sentence structure using vocabulary, complex texts, and translation exercises
• Develops writing skills at the paragraph level to encourage synthesis of vocabulary and grammar
• Provides explicit instructions to students and instructors on drills and activities, including recommendations on appropriate exercises for inside and outside the classroom
• New interactive DVDs contain reading comprehension texts with new material and new listening comprehension material
• DVDs present cultural background with illustrations and continues the story of Maha and Khalid using both Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic

The final and most advanced volume of the Al-Kitaab Arabic textbook program, Part Three is intended to help learners reach a superior level of proficiency by expanding vocabulary and providing paragraph-level activities in reading, writing, and speaking. More than thirty authentic texts by writers from across the Arab world address a range of political, social, religious, and literary themes and represent a range of genres, styles, and periods. Although the book focuses primarily on modern Arabic, classical Arabic texts have been incorporated into some of the lessons to introduce students to the continuity of the language throughout its history.

Like previous books in the series, Part Three presents vocabulary-building drills and contextualized explanations of grammar, with exercises designed to push students toward independent learning.

The original text and audio are now bound together in one volume along with new video material on DVD that continues the story of Maha and Khalid in Egyptian Arabic, making Part Three an invaluable textbook and reader.

Features:

• Guides learners to the superior level of proficiency
• Strengthens reading skills
• Increases vocabulary acquisition
• Refines and expands knowledge of sentence structure and the Arabic verb system
• Provides extensive writing activities
• Widens cultural background
• Includes more than thirty authentic texts by writers from across the Arab world
• Audio tracks have been remastered as MP3 files, recorded on one CD, and bound into the book
• Includes all new video material on DVD that continues the story of Maha and Khalid
• New video material continues instruction in the Egyptian dialect

The workbook consists of 15 units that offer additional practice for students, with self-study exercises to practice the language taught in the Student's Book, including exercises on pronunciation and spelling.

This is the new edition of a widely used textbooks covers the first year of instruction in Modern Standard Arabic. It will teach students to read, speak, and write Arabic, while presenting an engaging story that involves Adnan, a Syrian student studying in the United States, and Michael, an American student studying in Cairo.
In diaries, letters, and postcards, the two students describe their thoughts and activities, revealing how a non-American views American culture and how the Arabic culture is experienced by an American student. This new edition expanded communicative activities; an updated audio program; and material designed according to proficiency principles
Features of the New Edition include:

• expanded communicative activities
• updated audio program
• material designed according to proficiency principles

This is the first of two graded books for teaching beginners to write, and read, the Arabic script. It is part of both the MELS Easy Steps in Arabic and the MELS Graded Steps in Arabic courses. All words used in the workbooks, except two, are from the Qur’an. The Workbook begins with patterns to encourage right to left movement. Special techniques are used to show how words are built up from individual letters. Adequate space for tracing and copying is provided. The words at any given stage only include letters introduced to that point. A variety of techniques and exercises - diagrams, tracing, word-building, word break-down, word search puzzles - are used to show how words are formed from separate letters and how to identify letters in words. The main aim of the Workbooks is to make the reading of the Qur'anic script an easy, quick and enjoyable exercise. The ability to write the script is also an essential prerequisite for the further study of Arabic as a language, including the MELS Access to Qur'anic Arabic course. These Workbooks also provide an entry into the varied, intricate and beautiful art of Arabic calligraphy.

Features:
• Arabic Handwriting
• Development and practice of cursive writing
• Dictation