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Listening comprehension exercise Posted by aziza on Sep 25, 2011
Listen to the clip below and answer the questions below. You can use the translated words below. قدرت = estimated مصلحة الإحصاءات العامة والمعلومات = Department of Statistics and Information إرتفاع = rise سكان = population الاحصاء السكاني = census إجمالي = total محللون = analysts توفير = making available الوظائف = jobs المساكن =…
Dabke Posted by aziza on Sep 20, 2011
Dabke (دبكة) is an Arabic folk dance. It is popular in Palestinian Territories and several Arab countries such as Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. A line dance, it is widely performed at weddings and joyous occasions. The leader of the dabke heads the line, alternating between facing the audience and the other dancers. Dabke in…
More notes on gender Posted by aziza on Sep 17, 2011
To add to my previous remarks about masculine and feminine, there are some words that refer to the same thing, and they have different gender, e.g. there are two words for window in Arabic: (نافذة) which is feminine and (شباك) which is masculine, likewise there are two words for life/living (حياة) which is feminine and…
Some notes on gender Posted by aziza on Sep 15, 2011
Learning the gender of words in Arabic is often tricky to non-native speakers, as there is not an easy rule that tells us whether a word is masculine or feminine, and many rules have exceptions. One of the most useful rules is that words that end in ta’ marbouta (ة) are feminine, e.g. سميرة, أميرة…
holiday word search game answer Posted by aziza on Aug 31, 2011
In this post, I present the answer of the word search game presented in my previous post. عطلة رحلة سفر شاطئ بحر صيد تسوق خبرة فندق ممتع All the vocabulary items deal with the holiday. Can you make a sentence for each word, e.g. عطلة العطلة الصيفية هذه السنة مدتها ستة أسابيع…
holiday vocabulary word search Posted by aziza on Aug 30, 2011
In this post, I have created an Arabic word search game for you. Can you find the 10 words below in the table? If you are not sure about the meaning of any word, look at the bottom of the page for the translation. عطلة رحلة سفر شاطئ بحر صيد تسوق خبرة فندق ممتع…
Holiday vocabulary and exercises answers Posted by aziza on Aug 29, 2011
In this post, I present the answers of the vocabulary exercises presented in my previous post. I also present the translation of the sentences below. 1- في العطلة الصيفية القادمة نريد أن نسافر إلى لبنان. 2- في العطلة قمت بعدة أنشطة ممتعة. 3- هل جربت الطعام اللبناني، إنه لذيذ جداً. 4- أحب السفر إلى البلدان…