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Labor Day Quiz Posted by on May 1, 2012 in Arabic Language, Culture, Uncategorized, Vocabulary

     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 1st 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 1st 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/

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Well, I was born near the city of Rasheed or Rosetta, Egypt. Yes, the city where the Rosetta Stone was discovered. It is a small city on the north of Egypt where the Nile meets the Mediterranean. I am a Teacher of EFL.