Marhaba! I hope you found the excerpt in the previous post interesting. I am confident you have all worked hard to answer the questions. In this post, I would like to present you with the answers and the translation of some key words. I want to stress again and again that such reading comprehension exercises are important because as you have seen they involve reading a text, writing up your answers, learning new words and translating sentences from Arabic to English. In addition to my recent post on 3 smart tips to pick up Arabic quickly, I want to reiterate that reading comprehension exercises serve as another smart way to learn Arabic and are crucially essential and important for learning proficiently.
Answers:
1. يبدأ تصوير المسلسل السوري الجديد << مدرسة الحب>> قريباً في بيروت قبل أن يتنقّل بين الإمارات ومصر وسوريا.
The filming of the new Syrian series “The School of Love” starts soon in Beirut before moving between the Emirates, Egypt and Syria.
2. في حديث لـ«الأخبار»، قال شاكر إنّه لم يكن يفكر في العودة إلى التمثيل مجدداً، لكن «سيناريو المسلسل وعلاقتي بالمخرج كانا سبباً في قراءتي للسيناريو في زمن قياسي، لأجد أنّه عمل فني متكامل».
In an interview with ‘Al-Akhbar’, Shaker said that he was not thinking of coming back to acting again, but “the script of the series and my relationship with the director were reasons that I read the script in record time to find out that it was a wholesome artistic project”.
3. قال المخرج صفوان نعمو إنّ تصوير المسلسل سيبدأ من لبنان، مع النجم هاني شاكر في غضون الأسابيع الثلاثة المقبلة.
The director Safwan Nimo said that filming the series will begin in Lebanon with the star Hani Shaker within the next three weeks.
4. مصر ولبنان وسوريا والعراق والخليج.
Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi and the Emirati.
5. After more than three decades of absence, the Egyptian superstar Hani Shaker stands again in front of the camera but this time in the new Syrian series “The School of Love”.
Translation of Key words:
إنتاج – production
عقود – decades
التمثيل — acting
تشجيع – encouragement
مساندة – support
الإعلان – announcement
بيانٍ صحافي – press release
موضحاً – clarifying
Stay tuned for upcoming posts.
Have a nice day!
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