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Subject-Verb Agreement in Arabic Posted by aziza on Dec 7, 2016
In Arabic, subjects and verbs have to agree with each other. Recently, many of my students have been making agreement errors with conjugation because they do not notice how the position of the verb and subject affect agreement. If the verb comes after the subject, it agrees with it in gender and number. If the…
Practice prepositions Posted by aziza on Nov 30, 2016
The aim of this post is to revise what we learnt about prepositions in the previous posts. The following sentences have the prepositions removed. Can you complete the sentences below with the appropriate prepositions? Complete the following sentences with the appropriate preposition listed in the figure above. السفر ——— الشرق الأوسط يؤثر ——— أفكار الشخص وشخصيته…
Arabic Prepositions 5 Posted by aziza on Nov 28, 2016
Arabic Prepositions (حروف الجر) are an interesting and a challenging topic for learners of Arabic. When I mark students’ essays, I notice many mistakes with prepositions. In this post, I highlight the meanings and usage of three of the Arabic prepositions; give examples and some exercises on the selected prepositions. مذ / منذ both mean…
Arabic Prepositions 3 Posted by aziza on Nov 21, 2016
Arabic Prepositions (حروف الجر) are an interesting and a challenging topic for learners of Arabic. When I mark students’ essays, I notice many mistakes with prepositions. In this post, I highlight the meanings and usage of two of the Arabic prepositions; give examples and some exercises on the selected prepositions. على means on/over…
Arabic Prepositions 2 Posted by aziza on Nov 18, 2016
Arabic Prepositions (حروف الجر) are an interesting and a challenging topic for learners of Arabic. When I mark students’ essays, I notice many mistakes with prepositions. In this post, I highlight the meanings and usage of two of the Arabic prepositions; give examples and some exercises on the selected prepositions. اللام /لـ means both to…
The female mechanic, answers Posted by aziza on Sep 30, 2016
In this post, I present the answers of the listening exercise on the news story from bbcarabic on a young lady who works as a mechanic in Upper Egypt, an area which is known for being very traditional and conservative. The questions are based on the first 1:10 minutes of the video. The vocabulary list…
Reading, Muslim Emoji, 2 Posted by aziza on Sep 16, 2016
This post presents the answers of the reading comprehension exercise based on a news item from CNN Arabic. Please find the news story, questions and answers below. دبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة (CNN) — قريبا، سيضاف إلى قائمة الرموز التعبيرية “الإيموجي” رمزان جديد سيسران كثيرا من مستخدميها في الدول الإسلامية، وهي رمز فتاة ترتدي الحجاب، وشاب…