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Listening Comprehension Exercise: Ramadan Desserts Posted by on Jul 2, 2014 in Arabic Language, Culture, Grammar, Pronunciation, Vocabulary

      Have you ever been to a Muslim country in Ramadan رمــضــان ? Muslims all over the world celebrate the holy month of Ramadan these days. Ramadan is the Arabic month of Sawm الــصــيــام (fasting) which is the fourth pillar رُكــْـــن of Islam (You can find more information about the Five Pillars of Islam here). Beside the spirituality روحــانــيـــة of Ramadan, it is celebrated in different ways in all Muslim countries. These different celebrations إحــتــفــالات depend on the habits الــعـــادات and traditions الــتــقـــالــيـــد of each country. In today’s video from Al Jazeera Arabic YouTube channel, we are going to learn about some delicious Ramadan desserts and the job of the person who makes it.

Watch this video and then answer the following questions:

شــَــاهــِــدْ الــفــِــيــديــُــو ، ثــُــمَّ أجـِــبْ عـَــن الأســئــلــة الــتــَّــالــِــيــَـــة :  

 

الأســـْـــئــِـــلــة Questions

 مــا هـــِــى أشــْــهــَــر أنــْـــواع الــحــَـــلــَــوِيــَّـــات حــَــســَــبْ الــفــِـــيــديــُــو ؟      

1) What is the most famous dessert according to the video?

هــَــلْ تــَــتــَــوَافــَـــرْ الــكــُــنــَــافــَـــةُ طــُــولَ الــعــَــامْ ؟ و بــِــمــَــاذا تــَــرْتــَــبــِــط أكــْــثــَـــر ؟  

2) Is Konafa available all the year? What is it related more to?

فــِــي أى الــدول تــَــشــْــتــَــهــِــرْ الــكــُــنــَــافــَـــة ؟

3) In which countries is Konafa famous?

Konafa by Johanna on Flicker

Konafa by Johanna on Flicker

مــَـــا هــُــوَ الإســْــمُ الــعــَــربــِــىُّ لــِ بــَــائــِــع الــكــُــنــَــافــَــة ؟

4) What is the Arabic name for the Konafa seller?

كــَــيــْــفَ تـــصــْــنــَــعْ الــكــُــنــَــافــَـــة ؟

5) How is Konafa made?

مــَــا اِســْــمِ الــحــَــلــْــوى الــثــَــانــِــيــَــةِ الــتـى يــَــتــَــحــَــدَّثُ عــَــنــْــهــَــا الــفــِــيــديــُــو ؟

6) What is the name of the second dessert that the video speaks about?

Katayef/Atayef via arabianmama.com

Katayef/Atayef via arabianmama.com

أكــمــِــل الــعــبــارات الآتــِــيـــة :

7) Complete the following sentences:

– “يــُــمــْــســِــكُ بــَــائــِــعُ الــكــُــنــَــافــَــةِ بــِــيــَــدِهِ ………. و يــَــبــْــدَأُ ……….. نــُـــصــْــبــَــتــِــهِ ، و بــِــحــَــرَكــَــةٍ ………… دَائــِــرِيــَّـــةٍ يــَــضــَــعُ الــكــُـــنــَـــافــَــةَ ……….. فــَــوْقَ أُخــْــرَى و كــَــأَنــَّـــهُ …………. لــَــوْحــَــةً فــَــنــِّـــيــَّـــة”

– “الــقــَــطــَــايــِــفُ ……….. هــِــىَ الأخــْــرَى بــِــشــَــهــْــرِ ……….. الــمــُــبــَــارَكْ ، و لــَـــهــَــا ……….. كــَــبــِــيــرةٌ بــَــيــْــنَ الــحــَــلــَــوِيــَّـــاتِ ……….. فــى مــِــصــْــر”

Konafa by Leslie Seaton on Flicker

Konafa by Leslie Seaton on Flicker

مــَـــا هــُـــوَ مــُــفــْــرَد الكــَــلــِــمــَــات :  “أنــْــوَاع” و “بــُــلــْــدَان” و “أجــْــوَاء” و “اِحــْــتــِــفــَــالات” ؟

8) What is the singular of the words: أنــْــوَاع”, “بــُــلــْــدَان”, “أجــْــوَاءand “اِحــْــتــِــفــَــالات?

ما هو مــُــرادِف الــكــَــلــِــمــَــات : “تــَــوَافــُـــرْ” و “رَوْنــَـــقْ” و “تــَــقــْــتــَــرِنُ” و “شــَــعــْــبــِــيــَّــةٌ” ؟

9) What are the synonyms of the words: ” تــَــوَافــُــرْ”, “رَوْنــَــقْ”, “تــَــقــْــتــَــرِنُand “شــَــعــْــبــِــيــَّــة”?

تـــَــرْجــِــْم الـجــُــمـْــلــَــة الـتــَّــالـِـيــَـة إلـى اللـغــة الإنـجــلـيــزيـة :

10) Translate the following sentence into English:

و إنْ كــَــانــَــتِ الــحــَـــدَاثــَـــةُ قــَــدّ دَخــَــلــَــتْ فــِــى صــِــنــَــاعــَـــة الــكــُــنــَــافــَـــةِ ، إلا أنَّ الــكــُــنــَــافــَـــةَ الــيــَــدَويــَّــةَ مــَــا زَالــَــتْ تــَــحــْــتــَــفــِــظُ بــِــوجــُــودِهــَـــا و رَوْنــَـــقــِــهــَــا .”

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