Archive for 'Grammar'
Reading Comprehension Exercise: The Phenomenon of Abu-Simbel Posted by Fisal on Feb 22, 2014
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage and then answer the questions: فــِــي صــَــبــَــاح الـيــَــوم الـســَــبـت الـمـُــوافــِــق 22 فـِــبـرايــر ، تــَــعــَــامـَــدَتْ الـشــَّــمــْــسُ عــلــى وَجــْــهِ تــِـمــْــثـــَــالِ الـمـَــلـِــك رمـســيــس الـثــانــى داخــِــل مـَــعــْــبــَــدِهِ بــِـمـَـــديــنـــة أبــُــو سـِــمــبــِــل فـى جــَــنــُــوب أســْــوان بــِــصــَــعــيــدِ مـِـصــر . و تـــُــعــتـــَـــبــَـــر هـَــذهِ الــظــَّـــاهــِـــرَةِ الــفــَــلــَــكــِــيـــّــةِ هـِـىَ الأقـــْـــدَم و الأهـــَـــم بــيــنَ…
Practice the case marking system Posted by aziza on Jan 31, 2014
The case marking system (الإعراب) is the system of marking the end of a word with a vowel or a suffix according to its function in the sentence. It has been discussed in previous posts. Please follow the link below for an introuction to the case marking system. https://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/the-case-marking-system/ In this post, I present a…
Types of predicates Posted by aziza on Jan 1, 2014
The nominal sentence (الجملة الإسمية) in Arabic begins with a noun or a pronoun. The nominal sentence has two components the subject (المبتدأ) and the predicate (الخبر). The subject can be a noun (اسم), pronoun (ضمير) or demonstrative (اسم اشارة). محمد ممتاز. هو طالب. هذا محمد. The predicate (الخبر) can include different constructions. In this…
Reading Comprehension Answers: World Teachers’ Day Posted by Fisal on Oct 30, 2013
Here are the answers to the reading comprehension exercise about the World Teachers’ Day. To view the exercise again, click here. تـــَـــتـــَـــحــَــــدَّثْ الــقــِـــطـــْـــعــَــــةُ عــَــنْ الــيــَـــوم الــعــَــالــمــىّ لـِــلــمــُــعــَـــلـــِّــمــيــن 1) The passage talks about the World Teachers’ Day. تـــَـــأثـــِـــيــــرُ الــمــُـــعـــَــــلـــِّـــمــيــنَ عــَــلــى الأطـــْـــفــَــــالِ : الــمــُــعــَـــلـــّــمــُـــونَ هــُـــمْ أحــَــدِ الــعــَـــوَامـــِـــلِ الـتِـي تــُـــبــْـــقــِــي الأطــْـــفــَـــالَ فـِــي مــَـــدَارسـِــهــِــم وتــُــؤَثـــِّــــرُ فـِــي عــَــمــَـــلــِــيــَّـــةِ الــتــَّـــعــَـــلــُّـــمِ…
Reading Comprehension Exercise: World Teachers’ Day Posted by Fisal on Oct 29, 2013
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage and then answer the questions: فــِــي جــَــمــيــع أنــْـــحـــَــــاءِ الـعــَــالــَــمْ ، يــُـــوَفـــِّـــرُ الـتــَّــعــْـــلــيـــمُ الــجــَـــيــّــدُ الأمــَـــلَ والـوَعــَـــدَ بــِــمــُـــســْــــتـــَــــوى مــَـــعـــِـــيـــشـــَـــةٍ أفـــْـــضـــَــــلَ . و مــَـــعَ ذلـِـكَ ، فــَــلــَـــيــْــسَ مــِــنَ الـمـُــمـْــكـِــنِ أنْ يــَـــكــُـــونَ هــُــنــَـــاكَ تــَــعــْــلــيــمٌ جــَــيــّـــدٌ بــِــدُون وُجــُـــودِ مــُــعــَـــلــِّــمــيــنَ مــُــخــْـــلــِــصــيــنَ ومــُــؤَهــَّــلــِــيــنَ . والــمــُــعــَـــلـــّــمــُـــونَ هــُـــمْ أحــَــدِ…
The Coldest October in 25 Years for the Arabs Posted by jesa on Oct 15, 2013
Marhaba! First of all, allow me to wish you all Adha Mubarak (أضحى مبارك)! Today, I am sharing a video from Al Arabiya news station that discusses why October 2013 is proving to be the coldest month of the year for many Arabs in the Middle East. Rather than provide you with a reading comprehension…
Learn 100 of the Most Common Words in Arabic Posted by jesa on Oct 10, 2013
In this post, I share the 100 most commonly used words in Arabic. For those looking to learn a language quickly, Tim Ferris (of the 4 Hour Work Week) recommends you learn vocabulary based on frequency. For example, the 100 most frequently used words in English writing make up about 25% of all English writing…