The exam lessons are organised around the past paper's question types, not the
syllabus order. This page is the other view: the al-ʿArabiyyah Bayna Yadayk course as it ran in
class. It was co-taught — the two lecturers split the units cleanly and alternated, teaching one
progressive syllabus together. Use it to follow a lecturer or to revise a unit in its original order; the
per-word/grammar depth lives in each lesson's 📹 Lecture tab, and off-topic asides in
From the lectures.
🟢 Sheikh Riyas — odd unitsUnits 1, 3, 5, 7 (Greetings · Housing · Food & Drink · Study) + the graded-reader / revision sessions. 20 videos.
🟤 Sheikh Irfan — even unitsUnits 2, 4, 6, 8 (Family · Daily Life · Prayer · Work) + the exam-prep / reading sessions. 22 videos.
1 التحية والتعارف Greetings & Introduction Sheikh RiyasV01 · V02 · V03
Taught: demonstratives هذا / هذه & gender agreement, tāʾ marbūṭah → feminine, the question word كم, numbers 1–10, professions/countries.
Exam lessons: Q-words (كم) · Vocabulary
2 الأسرة The Family Sheikh IrfanV04 · V05 · V06 · V07 · V09
Taught: مَن / ما / أين questions, kinship vocab (عمّ/خال/ابن/بنت), turning past → present (يـ/تـ), possessive suffixes ـي/ـكَ/ـكِ/ـه/ـها, the definite article & tanwīn.
3 السكن Housing Sheikh RiyasV08 · V10 · V11
Taught: rooms & furniture vocab, أريد + accusative object + adjective agreement, the question word ماذا + present verb, كم + singular accusative, days of the week.
Exam lessons: Vocabulary · Grammar toolkit
4 الحياة اليومية Daily Life Sheikh IrfanV13 · V15 · V16 · V19 · V20
Taught: متى + telling the time (fem. ordinals), the future سـ / سوف, jumla ismiyya vs fiʿliyya, fāʿil / mafʿūl bihi, the three case-endings, the sound verb across all 14 persons.
Exam lessons: Q-words (متى) · Grammar toolkit
🟠 Between Units 4 & 5 — Ṣarf revision Sheikh Akram V21
A one-off morphology (صرف) revision class by Sheikh Akram — not part of either lecturer's continuous track. Reinforces the verb-conjugation drilling. Feeds the Grammar toolkit.5 الطعام والشراب Food & Drink Sheikh RiyasV22 · V24 · V25 · V26 · V27
Taught: meal & food/drink vocab, the dual, the imperative, the prohibition لا الناهية, pronouns (mubtadaʾ/khabar), من يأكل / ما تشرب dialogues, fem. 2nd person تطلبين/تشربين.
Exam lessons: Vocabulary · Grammar toolkit
6 الصلاة Prayer Sheikh IrfanV28 · V29 · V30
Taught: deriving the imperative (al-amr) across 3/4/5/6-letter verbs, the six prayer-unit sentence patterns, لماذا + لأنّ, كيف, ism al-fāʿil (ذاهب/مسافر), prayer/mosque vocab, ordinals 6th–10th. No class slides — these videos are the primary source.
Exam lesson: Unit 6 — Prayer
7 الدراسة Study Sheikh RiyasV33 · V34 · V35 · V36
Taught: study/school vocab (root د-ر-س), كان and its sisters, the imperative + object, في أيّ…؟, قريب من / بعيد عن, the counted noun تمييز العدد, school stages (with Sheikh Irfan's V38). No class slides.
Exam lesson: Unit 7 — Study
8 العمل Work Sheikh IrfanV37 · V38 · V39 · V40
Taught: professions m/f by root (صيدليّ/ممرّض/مهندس/طيّار), هل + present verb, fronted khabar (لي…), كم ساعةً + tanwīn, clock & time, building a paragraph from picture groups. No class slides.
Exam lesson: Unit 8 — Work
Reading, revision & exam-prep sessions
Interleaved with the units, both lecturers ran reading and revision classes that feed the skill lessons:🟢 Sheikh Riyas: graded readers & reading passages V12 · V14 · V17 · V23, and a Units 1–4 revision test V18.
🟤 Sheikh Irfan: Units 5–6 revision + question-word drill V31, the five exam question-types & paper logistics V32, a Units 6–8 workbook/error-correction review V41, and reading/grammar revision V42 · V44.