First Steps to Understanding Sarf (FSTUS)

Goals

To be able to:

• Memorise all the tables within the book

• Pronounce, recall, spell and define all the Arabic terminologies and rules 

• Recognise, conjugate and translate verbs from English to Arabic and Arabic to English, especially verbs from the Quran

Teaching Methodology

The teacher will explain each verb and its conjugation.

Students must memorise these tables and recite them to the teacher. 

Under the supervision of the teacher, students must complete all the exercises verbally. Thereafter, the students must complete selected questions in writing.  

Exams

Vocabulary

The students should try to learn all the vocab provided in the text book. 

However, the words in the document below must be learnt, and words from this list will be used in the written exam. 

FSTU Sarf Vocab for Written Exams

The oral exam will be based on all the vocabulary given in the book. 

Oral Exam Structure

• Students will be required to conjugate 9 verbs.

• Students will be given a maximum of 30 seconds to conjugate each verb. If a student is not able to conjugate within this time, it will be marked as incorrect.

• If a student starts to recite a conjugation incorrectly, the moderator will correct them. This will be considered to be an error.

• Each question is worth 3 marks

  • 3 marks for correctness 

  • 2 mark for fluency

A sample oral exam can be viewed here.

Resources

All resources for this subject are available here.

Videos:

Recordings of the previous year’s lessons are available here.