Arabic WAA01/01 October 2020
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1. Section A: Reading comprehension (30 marks), texts on puppet theatre, World Radio Day, sleep habits, shea butter uses, and CO₂ recycling fuel project; tasks include matching, MCQs, cloze, and short written responses.
2. Section B: Grammar (20 marks), sentence restructuring with cues (e.g., “قد“، “لکن“), tashkeel application, case endings, and vocabulary insertion tasks; extensive focus on syntactic transformation and grammatical correctness.
3. Section C: Writing (30 marks), argumentative essay (240–280 words) on the topic of conspicuous consumption among Arab youth, causes, problems, and proposed solutions.
4. Reading texts themes: educational impact of puppetry, societal role of radio, weekly productivity tips, health and economic value of shea butter, carbon capture and green energy initiatives.
5. Language structures tested: sentence transformation with connectors and particles, diacritic placement, gender and number agreement, verb conjugation, noun-adjective collocation, vocabulary context selection.
6. Assessment balance: comprehension depth, grammatical precision, structured formal writing; total = 80 marks; duration = 2 hours 30 minutes.
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