A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
This video can be used a teaching resource for listening and reading Activities. It was recorded with slow pace reading to meet the needs of speakers of other languages who are studying Arabic. The audio quality and image quality of the Arabic script were also made HD to meet all purposes and needs.
A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens (In Arabic)|| قصة مدينتين : تشارلز ديكنز
A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
This quiz can be used as a reading exercise of simple sentences. It can also be used to introduce and test colour words. The teacher/ parent can assess the progress of the learner using this quiz.
This quiz is for beginners. It depends on the illustration with each question. In addition to the prepositions of place, this quiz includes colour words, too.
Prepositions of Place
Look at the image and complete the sentence with the correct preposition.
This quiz is to help students who are doing GCSE exams to revise their vocabulary. The quiz includes 20 verbs and their meanings. Read the word [verb] in Arabic and choose the right English meaning.
This quiz is to help students who are doing GCSE exams to revise their vocabulary.
The quiz includes 20 verbs and their meanings.
Read the word [verb] in Arabic and choose the right English meaning.
Lisan, Asfaar will be providing quizzes for GCSE students. The quizzes will be designed for revision of GCSE vocabulary mainly. The quizzes will cover the word list required for the GCSE’s exams. The quizzes will cover all the vocabulary list published by Edexcel exam board.
We will publish more relevant quizzes to help GCSE students and teachers alike.
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This quiz is to help students who are doing GCSE exams to revise their vocabulary.
The quiz includes 20 verbs and their meanings.
Read the word [verb] in Arabic and choose the right English meaning.
This set of cards is similar to the previous one in terms of content, that is the names of vegetables and fruits in Arabic. However, this set is designed to improve the basic reading skill. The learner, instead of having to choose from three images, the technique is reversed and they have to choose from three words.
This set is better used after the first set has been used and the learner is familiar with the images and sound and to a reasonable extent with the written word. In this set the child will link the written aspect of the language to the sounds more than to the images.
It is recommended that parent/teacher use ‘yes-no’ question technique with set of cards. For example, the teacher can start with the card below, asking ‘maa haðaa?‘ ‘What is this?’ [ما هذا؟] while pointing to the image and continues asking but now pointing to each of the three words [distractors]:
‘a haðaa xiyar?’ Is this a cucumber?
‘a haðaa εnab?’ Is this grapes?
‘a haðaa baðenjan?’ Is this aubergine?
If the learner does not know how to respond to such questions, the parent / teacher can then answer the first few cards to show how to respond using ‘yes’ ‘naεam’ [نعم] and ‘no’ ‘ laa’ [لا]. Facial expressions and intonation are essential in this stage; both facial expressions and intonation enhance the learning process because they function as mnemonics and because they are part of the communicative competence.
This is an example card
Here is a gallery of some sample cards. To download the whole set as a PDF with high resolution scroll down the page.
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This collection of cards is similar to the previous one . However, this collection is different in the skill it tackles though it includes the same content as the previous one. In this collection, the reading skill is given a priority to the photo-memory and auditory skill.
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This is a collection of cards for playing and testing. These cards can also be used to introduce new words of vegetables and fruits and revising the ones the learners already know. Actually, they are designed to teach rather than to test. Each card includes one word naming a vegetable or a fruit along with three images of three food items. The learner is supposed to make guesses with the first few cards. After several attempts with a few cards the learner will figure out that some images are repeated in a way that they are left with one option to match the word with the new image. This is called indirect teaching or learning. The learner is not being spoon-fed the information but the information is being put in a certain way that they have to workout the sequence and relation between the words and the images. To achieve the teaching objective, it is recommended that the teacher/parent ask questions about the three items even if the learner knows the answer straight away. Naming the other two items on the same card will be an introduction for the coming slides. Hence, the learner is learning new items through graduation and repetition. The names of the fruits and vegetables are indirectly and gradually introduced and then repeated in a systematic way that the learner will not make an effort to guess the next answer. Some cards are made to surprise the learner and invalidate the image orders they may have got familiar with to guess the answer and therefore, the learner will focus on the language aspect rather than their mere calculation of the sequence and order of the images.
For example consider cards [1,2,3]:
Card 1 reads: [تفاح ] apples and the three images are [spinach, apples and mushroom]
Card 2 read : [سبانخ ] spinach and the three images are [carrots, mushroom and spinach]
Card 3 reads; [فطر ] mushroom and the three images are [ mushroom, carrots, and cucumber].
The word [فِطر ] mushroom occurred twice in card 1 and card 2 as an image and a sound (if the parent/teacher does as recommended above) before it occurs as the question in card 3 where the learner has to link the script to the image after he/she has heard the word from the teacher/parent twice.
The gallery below shows samples of the cards. To download the whole collection as a PDF file with high resolution scroll down to the end of this page.
apples
spinach
mushroom
carrots
cucumber
onions
dates
green pepper
This collection can be downloaded for a donation (1.00 to £3.00) . Choose the amount you would like to pay for this collection. Once it is downloaded teachers/parents can print as many copies as they want.
This PDF is a collection of forty cards designed as postcards with a stamp to make it more exotic and attractive to learners. The collection can be used to teach young and adult learners the names of fruit and vegetables. The collection can be used as well to empower the memory and enhance the photo memory.
This collection of word puzzles ( crosswords and word search) is very good for group and pair work classroom activities. The collection includes various versions of the same puzzle. This can help teacher print and use different puzzles for each group in the classroom.
Below is a gallery of the content of the collection. In the end of this page there is a link to download the collection as a PDF.
Names of the days Arabic & English
First worksheet to revise the days and have a short dialogue
First Puzzle
Second Puzzle
Third Puzzle
Fourth Puzzle
Fifth Puzzle
Sixth Puzzle
Seventh Puzzle
Eighth Puzzle
Puzzles Solved
First Puzzle (word search)
Second Puzzle (word search)
Third Puzzle (word search)
Fourth Puzzle (word search)
Puzzles Solved
This collection can be downloaded for a donation from (£0.01 to £3.00). Choose the amount you would like to donate following the link to PayPal. Once it is downloaded, teachers/parents can print as many copies as they want.
This is a collection of word puzzles ( 8 crosswords and 4 word search) is very good for group and pair work classroom activities. The collection includes various versions of the same puzzle. This can help teacher print and use different puzzles for each group in the classroom.
