Extra credit paper and Quiz

Marhaba 503 and 401 student

Just a reminder to those of you that are interested in taking advantage of the extra credit paper offer. You need to submit a proposal to me as to your choice of topic soon. This paper is due, as you know, on Tuesday December 11.

To my 401 students

Those of you that missed our quiz last Tuesday because of illness, and feel it necessary to be given a second chance to take the quiz, come to my office at 3:45 on Tuesday Nov.27 with a note from your doctor, to take the quiz.

Hope you had a Utla Sa'eeda

401 & 503 Quizes

Marhaba 401 students,

-Know your vocabulary (nouns & adjectives)
-Know how to make a noun definite (add Alif + Laam)
-Know how to combine nouns and adjectives to form simple phrases (noun comes before adjective)
-Know how to say the word (This) in Arabic referring to masculine vs. feminine nouns
-Remember that feminine nouns are those that end with Taa Marboota
-Remember that the adjective has to match the noun (feminine vs. masculine)

Marhaba 503 students,

Study your Mufradat from Ch. 9
Practice with Tamrine 2, p 150
You will be asked to fill in the blanks, then translate the sentences.

Final Exams

Marhaba 401 & 503 students,

To avoid any further confusion, I've decided to keep the time and date that the school's registrars office had picked for the final exams. Please go to that site to confirm that date.

Ilalliqa fi al-usboo' al-qadim

Hints to study for 503 quiz

Ahlan 503 students,

Here is what you need to know for your quiz:

_ Your Ch. 8 mufradat.
_ How to count things (one thing, two things, three things and more than ten things) paying attention to what kind of suffix or change the objects that are counted end up with in each case.
_Know your numbers (numerically and spelled out) and know how to say what comes before (qabl) and what comes after (baad) certain numbers.
_Know how to figure out a root (jathr) to a word.
_Know how to figure out a pattern (wazn) for a word.

You all have my e-mail address should you have any questions.

Hadh sa'eed

This week

Marhaba 401 and 503 students,

This is to give you an idea as to what to expect from your Arabic class this week.

503 students:

Please come to class having studied "root" and "pattern" so that you have a bit of a background knowledge of the subject. It's a dry kind of material, and though we should learn it, I don't intend to dwell on it.

Also, please bring your dictionaries to class.

Depending on how much material we're able to cover this week, I'm thinking of a possible quiz next Tuesday.


401 students:

I will be teaching two new sounds tomorrow, Faa and Qaaf. So please take a glance at those before class.

On Wednesday, I intend to introduce Kaaf, and time permitting, review all new sounds so as to prepare for a quiz on Thursday, Inshaa'llah (God Willing). These are my intentions at least, and we'll see what happens.

Your second quiz 503 students

Marhaba 503 students,

I would like to borrow back your second quiz for a moment. Could you please bring it to class tomorrow?
Also, please study your vocab (Mufradat) from chapters 5 6 7 8 for the test.

Hadh Sa'eed

Final Exams

Marhaba 401 & 503 students,

Some of you requested a date for your Arabic Final. I would like it to be on Tuesday, December 18.
If , for some reason, this conflicts with other exams or commitments, then we can bring the issue to a vote.

Ilalliqa' Fi Youm Al-Thalatha'