You will hear a radio interview with Haifa about a flat-share. You will hear the recording twice.
After you have listened to the audio, click ‘take quiz‘ to answer the questions. Your results will be provided after you have finished the questions.
This listening exercise is taken from: OCR 2009, Asset Languages , Intermediate Arabic [Listening], Grade 7
Listening Exercise
This post includes two quizzes that cover the Arabic names of parts of the house and common items of furniture. Soon, we will upload worksheets and sample lessons for teachers, parents and students.
My House1
This quiz includes vocabulary items that name parts of house and items of furniture.
Read the word and choose its English meaning.
Quiz 2My House 2
This quiz includes vocabulary items that name parts of the house and items of furniture.
Read the word and choose its English meaning.
Now you can do these two quizzes to check your understanding:
Read the pronoun and choose the correct image.
Personal Pronouns (images)
Look at the image and choose the correct image.
personal pronouns
adjectives 2
This quiz is to help students who are doing GCSE exams to revise their vocabulary. The quiz includes 20 adjectives and their meanings. Read the word
[adjective] in Arabic and choose the right English meaning.
Adjectives 2 Arabic
This quiz is to help students who are doing GCSE exams to revise their
vocabulary. The quiz includes 20 adjectives and their meanings. Read the word
[adjective] in English and choose the right Arabic meaning.
adjectives1
This quiz is to help students who are doing GCSE exams to revise their
vocabulary. The quiz includes 20 adjectives and their meanings. Read the word
[adjective] in Arabic and choose the right English meaning.
Adjectives 1 Arabic
This quiz is to help students who are doing GCSE exams to revise
their vocabulary. The quiz includes 20 adjectives and their meanings. Read
the word
[adjective] in English and choose the right Arabic meaning.
Read the following passage about Damascus and Listen to the audio provided. There is also a list of the key words in the passage. Structure analysis is also included. Do the quizzes below to evaluate your understanding of the passage.
Damascus the City of Jasmine
capital [عاصمة], republic [الجمهورية ], part [جزء ], mountain [جبل ], bank [ضفة], river [نهر ], orchard [بستان], inhabited [مأهولة ], position, rank, place, value [مكانة], distinguished [مرموقة ], foreign [أجنبي ], state [دولة ], science [علم ], culture [ثقافة ], Arts [فنون ], Literature [أدب ], BC [قبل الميلاد ].
Nominal Sentences
This passage is aimed to show examples of nominal sentences. As you can see that there is only one verbal sentence which starts with the verb [كانت]. The rest of the passage is nominal sentences that start with nouns. Nominal sentences are very common in Arabic. They are equivalent to English sentences with the verb’ to be’ [is, am, are] as the main verb.
examples:
In the three examples, you can see that in Arabic the equivalent to the verb ‘to be’ [is, am, are] is not present neither in speech nor in writing; it is rather understood. This is the simple structure of a nominal sentence which starts with a noun and the rest of the sentence functions as predicate [خبر] to the noun.
Nisba
This passage includes also examples of [nisba] . Nisba is the formation of adjectives that relate something or somebody to their origin. We form nisba adjectives by simply adding a doubled [ّي] to the end of the noun of origin whether it is a science, branch of knowledge, material or country.
If there is [ا] or [ة], we delete them before we add the [ّي].
Country and Nationality :
I am from Syria [أنا من سوريّا] can be written [أنا سوريّ ]. Here the letter [ألف] in the end of the word [سوريا] is deleted and the [َّي] is added to the name of the country/origin to form the nisba adjective.
examples:
Material :
This is wood [هذا خشب] . This is a wooden chair [ّهذا كرسي خشبي].
examples:
Science and branches of knowledge :
I study medicine [أنا أدرس الطّبّ]. These are my medical books [هذه كتبي الطبيَّة].
examples:
There are also many other nisba adjectives that can be formed by adding [ي]. For example:
Try to find in the passage the nisba adjectives of the following nouns:
Regular Feminine Plural
It is usually formed by deleting the [ة] in the end of the word and adding the suffix [ات]. To read more about sound plurals click here.
Try to find in the passage the plural forms of the following feminine words:
Prepositions with pronouns
In Arabic, the prepositions join with connective pronouns and are written and pronounced as one word. For example, in the passage there are three prepositions [من = from], [لــ= to, for] and [في= in] join with the feminine singular pronoun [ها] in one written form, respectively:
Try to do the four quizzes below to evaluate your comprehension.
Damascus Quiz 1
Damascus Quiz 2
Look at the image and choose the right word.
Damascus Quiz 3
Read the statement and decide whether it is true or false!
Your answer should depend on what was mentioned in the passage about Damascus.
Damascus Quiz 4
Choose the right answer to complete the sentence.
In this section, you will find short passages in the form of text messages. Here is the first one.
In this message Kareem has texted Sara to tell her that the classes in the institute were cancelled due to an emergency case. Read the message and listen to it and then do the quiz below.
Listen to the message here.
Now you can do the quiz here.
Quiz
Read the message above and choose the correct answer from A, B and C.
Names of colours in Arabic function both as nouns and adjectives. Therefore, when colours function as modifiers to a noun they follow the noun, unlike the English adjectives or pre-modifiers which occur before nouns.
أريد الكتاب الأزرق
I want the blue book.
أريدُ القُبَّعةَ البُنّيّة
I want the brown hat.
أريدُ العَلَمَ الرماديّ
I want the grey flag.
أريدُ السَّيَّارةَ الحَمراء
I want the red car.
أريدُ الزَّهرة البيضاء
I want the white flower
Colours
Read the notes about the three people Amal [أمل], Muhammad [محمد] and Omar [عمر] and do the quiz below.
Quiz
Read the notes about the three people and choose the correct answer.
Read the notes about the three people Khalid [خالد], jamal [جمال] and Rania [رانية] and do the quiz below. You can also listen to the audio before you do the quiz to improve your reading and listening.
Quiz
Read the notes above and choose the correct answer.
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