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.

Arabic 401 Midterm

The midterm has been rescheduled, by request from the students, to Thursday October 29.

Scholarships for intensive summer institute

2010 CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR INTENSIVE SUMMER INSTITUTES (CLS)
Scholarship Competition Announcement
ARABIC ● AZERBAIJANI ● BANGLA/BENGALI ● CHINESE ● HINDI ● INDONESIAN
JAPANESE ● KOREAN ● PERSIAN ● PUNJABI ● RUSSIAN ● TURKISH ● URDU
Countries may include: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Morocco, Oman,
Russia, South Korea, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, or others where the target languages are spoken.
www.CLScholarship.org
The United States Department of State is pleased to announce the upcoming scholarship competition for overseas intensive
summer language institutes in thirteen critical need foreign languages for summer 2010. The on-line application for CLS
Program awards will be available November 9, 2009, and the deadline to apply will be December 18, 2009. The selection
process will be administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) with awards approved by the
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The CLS Program is administered by CAORC and
the American Councils for International Education. Please visit www.CLScholarship.org for more information regarding the
online application and selection process.
Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) provide group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment
experiences for seven to ten weeks. Levels available for each language are as follows:
 Arabic: Advanced beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
 Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Turkish, or Urdu: Beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
 Azerbaijani, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, or Russian: Intermediate or advanced level.
The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government interagency effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying
and mastering critical need foreign languages. Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply.
Participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical
language skills in their future professional careers.
Eligibility: All applicants must be U.S. citizens. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a U.S. degree-granting program at
the undergraduate* or graduate level. All candidates must have completed at least their first year of university-level study by
the summer of 2010. Students in all disciplines including business, engineering, sciences, social sciences and humanities are
encouraged to apply. Please see detailed eligibility requirements on our website at www.CLScholarship.org.
*Only graduate students and graduating seniors are eligible to apply to the summer 2010 Persian program.
The U.S. Department of State and CAORC welcome all eligible applications and do not discriminate on the basis of race,
color, national origin, gender, age, or handicap condition.
Grant Benefits: All CLS Program costs are covered for participants including: travel to and from the student's U.S. home
city and program location, a mandatory Washington, D.C. pre-departure orientation, applicable visa fees, room, board, groupbased
intensive language instruction, program-sponsored travel within country, and all entrance fees for CLS Program
cultural enhancement activities. Note: U.S. passport fees will not be paid by the scholarship.
Sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Outreach and Selection administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Application: On-line application will be available November 9, 2009. Deadline to
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Information meeting on Thursday November 19,at 12:40pm at MUB 233 with Andrea Turpin, a representative of this program from the US State Department.