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     It is Labor Day عيد العمال again ! and we shall never forget how much laborers suffered and are  still. So, Happy Labor Day to all the hard-working laborers all over the globe. Last year, we presented a post article about the occasion and today we are going to read the article again and do some little quiz on it.

Read the following article about Labor Day and then answer the questions:

   :  اقـــرأ الــمــقــــــال الــتــــالـــــى عـــن عــيــــد الــعـــمـــــال ثـــم أجـــــب عـــــن الأســــئــلـــــــــة  

1) When do the Egyptians celebrate “Labor Day”? 

مـــتـــى يــحــتــفــــل الــمــصـــريـــــون بـــعــيــــد الـــعــُــمــــّــــال ؟  

2) When do Americans celebrate “Labor Day”?  

مــتــــى يـــحـــتـــفــــــــل الأمـــريــكـــيــــــون بــعـــيــــــد الـــعـــُـــمـــّـــــــال ؟  

3) What slogan did the Chicago workers lift up? 

مـــا الــشـــــعــــــار الــــذى كــــان يــــرفـــعـــــــه الــعـــُــمــــّــــــال فــــى شـــيـــــكـــــــــاغــــــــو ؟ 

4) Who called for the first workers’ strike on May 1^st 1886 ?

  مــَـــــن الــــذى دعــــــــا لإضــــــــراب الــــعــــُـــــمــــــّـــــــــال فــــى الأول مــــِــــن مــــايـــــــو 1886 ؟ 

5) How is Labor Day celebrated ?

كـــيــــــف يــتـــــم الإحــتــــفـــــــال بـــعــــيــــــد الـــعـــُـــــمـــــّــــــــــال ؟ 

6) Choose the correct answer between brackets اخـتــر الإجـابـة الــصـحـيـحـة مـِـن بـيـن الأقــواس 

    a- Labor Day is a/an ………. (weekly – monthly – annual) vacation.

عــِــيــــدُ الــعـــُــمــّـــالِ هـــُــو عـــُــطــلــــة ……… (أســبــُــوعــِــيــّــة – شـهــريــّــة – ســنــويــّـــة 

   b- The U.S. Congress designated May 1^st as ………… Day.

                      (Loyalty – Generosity – Cruelty) 

اِعـتـبــرَ الـكـونـجــرس الأمـريـكـى الـيـوم الأول مـِـن مايـو هــو يـوم ….. ( الـوفـاء – الـسـخـاء – الـقــســـوة 

   c- The person who said “Without labor, nothing prospers” is ……..

                          (Aristotle – Sophocles – Jefferson) 

الـشـخـــص الـــذى قـــال عــــبــــَـــارة : “لا شـــيءَ يــنــــجـــــح بـــــدون الـــعـــَـــــمـــــــــــــل” هــــُــــــو         ………… (أرســـطــــُـــــو – ســـوفـــوكــلـــيــــــــس – جـــيـــفـــــرســـــــــــون  

7) Translate the following sentence into Arabic: ترجـِم العـبـارة الـتـالـيـة إلى اللغــة العـربـيــة  

“The  Egyptian workers have made great efforts in the construction of the Suez Canal and the High Dam and had a long history of struggle for better conditions.”  

……………………………………………………………………….. 

Answers will be posted soon 

Derivatives of the Verb “to work” 

Peace  سلام /Salam/

Read this blog article on Shamm Annaseem   and answer the following questions:

Article Link: Shamm Annaseem Article

اقــــرأ الــمــقــال الــتـــالى عــن شـــم الــنــســــيــم ثــم أجــب عــن الأســئــلـة   

1) What did the ancient Egyptians celebrate in Shamm Annaseem? 

 بم كان يحتفل المصريون القدماء فى شم النسيم ؟

2) What does ‘Shemu Feast’ mean ? 

ما معنى كلمة “عيد شموس” ؟

3) What did the ancient Egyptians think of the Shemus Feast? 

ماذا كان رأى قدماء المصريين فى عيد شموس ؟

4) Why is this day distinguished from the other days of the year?

لماذا يتميز هذا اليوم عن باقى أيام العام ؟

5) Who else celebrates the same day for differnt occasions?

من أيضاً يحتفل فى نفس اليوم بمناسبات مختلفة ؟ 

6) What is the Arabic name of the singer that sings in the video?

ما اسم المطربة التى تغنى فى الفيديو ؟

7) What is the Arabic name of song in the video?

ما الاسم العربى للأغنية التى فى الفيديو ؟

How do people celebrate the Spring or Shamm Annaseem? 

كيف يحتفل الناس بالربيع أو بشم النسيم ؟

9)  What foods are special for that day?

ما هى الأطعمة الخاصة بهذا اليوم ؟

10) Translate the following into Arabic:

ترجم الجمل الآتية إلى اللغة العربية 

“Celebrating the Spring turns to a public festival. People go out to enjoy the fresh air. They visit parks, zoos and the countryside. There are special Egyptian foods that mark the day.”

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Answers will be posted soon

Peace سلام  /Salam/

     Language immersion is a second language learning method in which language learners immerse themselves in the target (second) language. The goal of language immersion is to create a linguistic environment that mimics the environment of first language acquisition. The idea behind language immersion is that, if all incoming communication is in the target language, then students will eventually be compelled to use the target language for all outgoing communication.

     Many people dream of traveling to foreign countries, yet traveling may not be easy for everyone. Our blog today is to help you plan an Arabic immersion day. You can have some fun and enjoy the language you are learning from the comfort of your own home. Now if you have a day off (let it be the weekend) that you can spend at home, how can you plan your own Arabic immersion day?

•      Start your Arabic immersion day by preparing some Arabic breakfast choosing from different recipes; ( Middle Eastern and Arabic Food Recipes ).
•     If you are a coffee fan, then you must start your Arabic immersion day by preparing some Arabic coffee, try the Arabic coffee here ; ( Smell and Taste the Arabic Coffee ).
•    While preparing the Arabic Coffee, turn on the Arabic Alphabet Song.
•    Some people like drinking coffee while reading the morning newspapers. In the Arabic immersion day, you will read news from the Middle East or the Arab World. Here are some good links: Huff Post Egypt News  ,  Al-Ahram Newspaper   ,  Al-Gomhuria Newspaper ,  Egypt Independent  , The Middle East  
•    If you get bored with the news, move on and learn something with our Arabic Word of the Day application. Don’t forget to scroll back for more Arabic words. The words are translated and are put into  sentences with pronunciation, so just click the microphone button.
•     Is it afternoon now and you are feeling lazy? Then why not watch an Arabic film! It would be a good idea I guess; ( Arabic Movies )
•     Do you like internet shopping? Do feel like shopping something related to the Arabic culture? How about exploring this wonderful site? Pyramid Imports You can also order so many Egyptian Films with or without English/French subtitles here; Arabic DVDs & CDs
•     If you are feeling hungry now, why not to prepare some Arabic meal. You can choose from different recipes here ; ( Middle Eastern and Arabic Food Recipes ).
•     Listen to the Holy Qur’an with different recitations, either in Arabic or in English; Quran Explorer
•     Read some Arabic poetry on the Poets Gate
• Call some friend or your Arabic Teacher and chat with them in Arabic for a little bit.
• Try making some Arabic poster with some Arabic words or sentence.
•     Read some wonderful articles on the Arabic Language and Culture on our Arabic Blog.
•     Try our page on Learn Arabic and enjoy our free resources and other products.
•     Listen to some Arabic Music on our Arabic Transparent Youtube Channel. You can also listen to some Arabic Mp3 songs.     
•      If you are tempted to be fully and really immersed, then try an Arabic Immersion Vacation and you can choose either Arabic Immersion – Cairo or Arabic Immersion – Alexandria
• Go to bed and have some sweet Arabic dreams !

Have a Happy Arabic Immersion Day

Peace  سلام /Salam/