Qatari curriculum, secondary stage
Grade 11 English in the Qatari national curriculum asks students to read longer texts, write essays, reports and formal letters, and handle grammar accurately, aiming at CEFR level B1 High. Edunest matches your child with a tutor for live online lessons, taught one to one and planned around the school textbook and MOEHE's exam calendar.
Lessons fit around the Qatari school week and can be explained in English or Arabic. Parents are welcome to join, and a brief written note follows the lessons.
What we cover
MOEHE's English standards organise Grade 11 into listening, speaking, reading and writing, with a short core grammar list. We follow the same map and add the exam habits that turn skill into marks.
Articles, reports, reviews and biographies of roughly 350 to 550 words. Students find main ideas, locate detail and identify the writer's attitude. Opinion questions answered with a plain fact are where many marks slip away.
Main idea and detail · The writer's attitude · Articles, reports, reviews
Grade 11 is the year students become comfortable with extended writing: persuasive and cause-and-effect essays, book reviews, reports and formal replies. A plan that sequences ideas, and clear paragraphs, make the biggest difference.
Persuasive essay · Letter of complaint and reply · Point, evidence, explain
Choosing the right tone for a letter to a principal, a review or a message to a friend. Learners often write formal tasks in a chatty voice, or stiffen a friendly email with ceremonial phrases.
Formal letters and emails · Neutral reviews and articles · Informal messages
The core grammar the standards list for Grades 9 to 11: narrative tenses, conditionals, gerunds and infinitives, phrasal verbs, reported speech and connectives. Grammar is judged inside writing, so each rule has to hold up in a student's own sentences.
Past simple and past perfect · Zero, first and second conditionals · Reported speech, indirect questions · Although, whereas, unless
Working out unknown words from clues in the sentence, then checking them in print or digital dictionaries and a thesaurus. Students who translate word by word read slowly and lose the gist of a passage.
Guessing from context · Synonyms with a thesaurus · Topic vocabulary
News items, mini-lectures and documentary clips of up to about four minutes, followed by debate, presentation and follow-up questions. Keeping a discussion alive by paraphrasing is a Grade 11 standard few students have practised on purpose.
Note-taking while listening · Debates and presentations · Paraphrasing
Reading each question for its task word, timing every section, planning a written answer in a few minutes and saving time to check spelling and punctuation. Careless slips cost marks a student already knows how to earn.
Task words · Timing · Checking spelling and punctuation
Your tutor works from the textbook, worksheets and unit order your child's school uses, so each lesson matches what the class is doing that week.
How lessons run
Every Grade 11 English lesson is live, with the tutor and your child alone together on a video call. The rhythm follows the school semester.
The tutor sets a short reading, asks for a paragraph of writing and talks with your child in English. Recent school tests and marked homework show where marks are going, so the plan starts from evidence.
The plan maps the units the class will reach before each exam window, beginning with the first mid-term on 13 October 2026. Weekday sessions follow the end of the school day, weekend ones can fall on Friday or Saturday, and every time is agreed in Qatar time.
A lesson usually studies one text closely, then turns it into writing: a summary, a reply or an opinion paragraph. Grammar is taught where it appears in your child's work, and Arabic explains a rule whenever that is quicker.
Between lessons your child writes one piece. The tutor marks it with clear codes for tense, spelling and organisation, and the next lesson opens with the rewrite, the plan, draft and improve cycle the Grade 11 standards describe.
Each lesson closes with a quick check of what was taught. Afterwards you receive a few lines on what went well and what to practise, and any lesson is open for you to watch.
Government secondary schools finish at 1:30 pm, so afternoons and evenings suit most families; during Ramadan, times follow that year's official hours.
The exam
Grade 11 English has no external exam board. Students are assessed in school across two semesters, through classroom work plus a mid-term and an end-of-semester exam in each, under MOEHE's calendar and assessment policy.
Exam board
Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MOEHE)
Its Student Assessment Department proposes the annual school calendar and sets the system schools use to assess students.
Tasks, assignments and oral work marked by the teacher through each semester.
How a tutor helps
The tutor helps your child plan presentations and written assignments while the work stays their own, and rehearses speaking aloud so oral marks reflect real ability on the day.
Tests the units taught in the first part of the semester.
How a tutor helps
In the weeks before, the tutor lists the units in scope, revisits each text type and grammar point, and sets timed practice that mirrors the format your child's school uses.
Covers the units taught after the mid-term; content already tested is left out.
How a tutor helps
Since the mid-term units are not examined again, revision centres on the second half of the semester, with extended writing practised under time until planning feels automatic.
A make-up window follows Semester 1; the second round covers both semesters.
How a tutor helps
For a student facing a make-up or second-round exam, the tutor rebuilds the year as a condensed plan, starting with the skills that cost the most marks.
MOEHE's 2026-2027 calendar gives Grades 10 and 11 in day schools the windows below. Your child's school confirms the day of the English paper inside each window.
Classroom work and exams from both semesters combine into the year's result under MOEHE's assessment policy. The policy sets the split between components, and the tutor plans from the breakdown your child's school shares.
What we look for in a tutor
Every tutor we match for Grade 11 English meets these standards.
Writes accurate, natural English well beyond the B1 High level Grade 11 aims at, and can explain why a sentence works.
Understands the four skill strands, the core grammar list and the semester calendar, and reads your child's textbook before planning.
Has taught secondary students whose first language is Arabic, and recognises the errors that come from carrying Arabic patterns into English.
Explains a point in plain English first, switches to Arabic when that unlocks it, and checks understanding with a fresh example.
Follows safeguarding practice for learners under eighteen, keeps lessons on the agreed platform and welcomes a parent in the room.
Writes a brief update after each lesson and flags a worry the moment it appears, long before exam week.
Common difficulties
Common sticking points for Arabic-speaking students, and the tutor's response to each.
Attitude questions depend on tone and word choice, and students often answer them with a fact lifted from the text.
How a tutor helps
The tutor teaches the signals of opinion, such as evaluative adjectives, hedging and contrast words, and asks your child to back every answer with a quoted phrase until it becomes habit.
Arabic prose often links clauses with و, and the habit carries into English as long chains joined by "and".
How a tutor helps
Your child learns to plan in five minutes, open each paragraph with a topic sentence and use connectives such as although, whereas and unless to show how ideas relate.
Students often skip the past perfect, so a reader cannot tell which event happened first.
How a tutor helps
The tutor draws simple timelines, then has your child retell a real event twice, once in the past simple only and once with the past perfect, to hear the difference.
Written Arabic usually leaves short vowels out, so English vowels get dropped or swapped when writing fast.
How a tutor helps
The tutor keeps a personal list drawn from your child's own writing, groups the words by spelling pattern and tests them briefly at the start of each lesson.
Grade 11 expects formal, neutral and informal register, and Arabic courtesy phrases translated directly rarely suit an English letter.
How a tutor helps
Your child builds a small bank of formal openings, requests and closings, then writes one letter of complaint and one reply, checked against a register checklist.
The speaking standards expect students to answer complex questions and keep a discussion going by paraphrasing.
How a tutor helps
Each lesson includes a short presentation or debate turn followed by unexpected questions, so rephrasing and buying thinking time become practised moves.
Questions learners and parents ask
Tell us your child's school, track and next exam date. A member of our team reads every enquiry and replies personally with a suggested tutor.