Archive for March, 2017
The 10 Most Common Arabic Words about Spies Posted by jesa on Mar 11, 2017
Marhaba! It is hard not to come across a spy or an intelligence related story in the news. Be it from stories of Russian hacking in the American Presidential Elections to the thousands of documents released by WikiLeaks on U.S. intelligence programs. Given the saliency and recurrent theme of spy and intelligence related stories in…
Archaeological Discovery_reading Posted by aziza on Mar 10, 2017
In this post, I present a reading comprehension exercise based on a story adapted from bbcarabic. You can use the vocabulary provided to assist your comprehension. أعلنت وزارة الآثار المصرية اكتشاف تمثالين فرعونيين، أحدهما يرجح أنه للملك رمسيس الثاني، والآخر للملك سيتي الثاني، في منطقة المطرية، شرق القاهرة. ويعود التمثالان لعصر الأسرة التاسعة عشر، وعثر…
Did you See Banksy’s New Hotel? (2) Posted by jesa on Mar 7, 2017
Marhaba! I am sure you found the recent listening comprehension exercise about Banksy’s hotel in the West Bank interesting and fun. Today, I am sharing the answers to the previous questions in the listening comprehension post. I am also sharing the news story to refresh your memory. The most important learning goal from these listening…
Did you See Banksy’s New Hotel? Posted by jesa on Mar 4, 2017
Marhaba! Today I am sharing a very recent news story that i read about Banksy’s art in a new and different way. The story is about Banksy’s new hotel in the West Bank. What makes this story very interesting is that it discusses the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict in a different way. I know that many…