Oral Presentations

اعزائي الطلاب في 401:

Please use your textbook as a guide when you write your presentation. Follow all the grammatical rules you've learned thus far, and make sure that your spelling is correct. Don't forget to use short vowels, and other markers when necessary. Practice a lot with peers and in front of a mirror :)In your at least one paragraph piece, you will tell me and the class about yourself. That can include your family, your friends, your neighbor, things you do and they do, your house, your town.....Though you're not required to memorize it, please feel free to do so. It will help your grade.

Please check the previous blog for instructions on how to prepare for class on Tuesday.

اعزائي الطلاب في 503:

Please use your textbook as a guide when you write your presentation, as if this were a take-home exam. You need to use good and correctly spelled vocabulary. Make sure you follow the grammatical rules, and use a good variety of those rules to produce a well written piece. It should be no less than a page long. Though you are not required to memorize it, you are encouraged to, and that will help your grade. You may bring cue cards if you wish. Please make me a separate copy to read along. The theme is an "experience". It could be something that happened to you, or someone else, or even something you anticipate happening.

Please visit the previous blog for instructions on how to prepare for class on Tuesday.

For after عيد الشكر

Arabic 401:

Those of you that have Al-Kitaab; our next textbook, please bring it to class. We will start working with it all this week. Those of you that don't have it yet, we'll try to manage by making printed copies, and sharing.

Arabic 503:

I will give you the following question, in Arabic, to answer in class. Please come having prepared the answers. Please translate these questions :

1-How was your Thanksgiving, did you go home, and where is home?
2-Who came to that dinner? was it just family members, or were there friends too?
3-How many individuals were there?
4-Was the meal served as a lunch or dinner?
5-What time did you have that meal?
6-What part of the meal was your favorite?
7-What day did you return to the university?
8-Did you travel by plane or car?

Today's class

اهلا يا شباب

Arabic 401:

A few of you stayed after class to talk about today's lesson. It was apparent from their questions, that they needed to go back and study the rules pertaining to the Sun letters and moon letters. It is crucial to understand this section, so that the next step of understanding همزة الوصل can be achieved.

Arabic 503:

Please study the two pages of today's lesson المضارع المنصوب, and come to class on Tuesday with questions if you have any. Also, please write down only the answers to تمرين 9 and bring them to class.

Quiz on Tuesday

مرحبا اعزائي الطلاب

Arabic 401:

For your quiz, please practice writing two-word phrases while you review Drill 12 on page 118.

Did you know that the word "And" in Arabic is expressed by the letter "Waw" "و" ?

Don't forget to memorize the alphabet and number charts, just the way they are in the book.


Arabic 503:

To prepare for your quiz, practice with `تمرين 1 صفحة 169 for your vocabulary ألمفردات, and verbs الافعال from page 168. When you practice, try to conjugate the verbs.

What you can do for class onTuesday

أهلا يا طلاب في صف 401

Please come to class having memorized your alphabet chart, your number chart and your الحروف الشمسية -الحروف القمرية chart.

اهلا يا طلاب في صف 503

For those of you that are retaking the exam, please find below the instructions that were given in class:

-For the first section:
Take each sentence and translate it. Then go back and change the pronoun, going down the list to do ALL pronouns, and conjugate the verb accordingly. For the second sentence for example, you do "their" first, then change that to "his, her...". You will end up with 8 sentences for each sentence of this section.

-for the second section:
More of the same.1- Samira is the pronoun "she" Start with that and do sections A, B, C. Then go down that list, replacing "she" with ALL the other subjective pronouns, conjugating the verbs accordingly. 2- For I have a car, after you do this section, go down the list replacing the possessive pronouns, one by one, in each of the A,B, C sections.

-For the next section, "Translate", translate it first just the way it is. Go back and replace the "you, male" pronoun with All the other subjective pronouns, conjugating the verbs accordingly. Also, replace the number "5" by other numbers from 1-10, and the number "11" by any number from 11-100, and pay attention to how the word "book" changes.

If you accomplish all this, and do it CORRECTLY, you will receive a passing grade in the range of "D".

No need to do the last section, but I advice you to learn these numbers.

If you have any questions, you know how to contact me.

Best of luck.