ARABIC SYRIAN COURSE SPEAKING EXERCISES First Edition February 1985 DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTERCONTENTS Module 2--Lessons 5-8 4" Module 3--Lessons 9-12 seeeeee 25 Module 4--Lessons 13-16 ssesessesseeeecseeseeeeeenes 42 Module 5--Lessons 17-20 ee pececcereesrses 156) Module 6--Lessons 21-24 os poco Module 7--Lessona 25-28 . Module 8--Lessons 29-32 +2 96 Module 9--Lessons 33-36 sss. seeeeees 106 Module 10--Lessons 37-40 « eee : seeee 116 Module 11--Lessons 41-44 sesseseseseeeeeeee oe seeee 125 Module 12--Lessons 45-48 ..... 00g seeee 135 iiiMODULE 1 --- LESSONS 1-4 ACTIVITY At Over the weekend you met a Lebanese student studying at MPC. You have made arrangements with your instructor and the student and have brought hin to the class for a chat in SD. 1. Introduce the student to your instructor. 2. Introduce the student to the class. 3. Ask your friend to tell the class briefly why he is in America. 4. Give the floor to the class to address questions in SD to the visitor at the rate of two or three questions per student. 5. Thank your new friend for coming to your class and invite him to come for a cup of coffee and a piece of cake with the class at the NCO club. ACTIVITY A2 You (as a class) are at the NCO club with your Lebanese visitor. You are going to ask him what he wants to have--coffee, tea, or cake. Then you will talk to him informally about any subject of interest to you: life in Lebanon, differences in culture, language, schools, and so on. The student who plays the role of the Lebanese may be changed as often as desirable. ACTIVITY a3 1. You get on a bus and you see an empty seat next to a young woman. You ask for the seat. You get the seat. You carry on a short conversation with the young woman. 2. You go into a lawyer's office but you don't have an appointment to see the lawyer. Talk to the secretary. 3. Samira asks what happened to your friend Salim; she hasn't seen him for awhile. Salim happens to be on vacation. Carry on a short con- versation with Samira along the suggested line. 4, You invite Farida to come for lunch with you. You tell her that you have invited an Arab student studying at MPC and he speaks SD. carry on a conversation with Farida along the suggested line.