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9.8: Dialog - At Home

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Learning Objectives

In this section, you will be able to:

  • Name different rooms and household items in your home.
  • List the furniture and the household items in your home.
  • Describe your house or apartment.

Dialog 1

Watch the video about a dialogue between a brother and his sister. The sister entered the house and began asking questions to her brother. Read and listen to their conversation.

Dialog 1
English Transliteration Arabic

Hello Tarek, where are you?

Layla: Marhaban Tareq, ayna anta?

ليلى: مرحباً طارِق أَيْنَ أَنْتَ؟

Hello, I am in my office.

Tareq: Ahlan, ana fi ghurfat maktabi

طارِق: أهلاً أنا في غرفة مكتبي

What do you study?

Layla: Madha tadrusu?

ليلى: ماذا تدْرُسُ؟

I study Arabic.

Tareq: Ana adrusu 'arabiyya

طارِق: أنا أدرسُ عَربيّ

Where is my father?

ayla: Ayna abi?

ليلى: أَيْنَ أبي؟

He is watching TV in his room.

Tareq: Abi yushaahidu tilfizyoon fi ghurfatihi

ِطارِق: أبي يُشاهِدُ تِلفزيون في غُرفته

Where is my mother?

Layla: Ayna ummi?

ليلى: أينَ أُمي؟

She is in our house's garden with my grandfather and grandmother.

Tareq: Hiya fi hadeeqat baytina ma'a jaddi wa jaddati

طارِق: هِيَ في حَدِيقَةِ بَيْتِنا مع جَدّي وَجَدّتي

Where is my brother Hasan?

Layla: Ayna akhi Hasan?

ليلى: أيْنَ أَخي حَسن؟

Hasa is drinking green tea in the kitchen.

Tareq: Hasan fi al-matbakh yashrabu shayan akhdar

طارِق: حسن في الْمَطْبَخ يَشربُ شاياً أخضراً

Let's drink green tea with Hasan.

Layla: Haya nashrabu shayan akhdar ma'a Hasan

ليلى: هَيا نَشربُ شاياً أخضراً معَ حسن

Yalla, to the kitchen. Tareq: Yalla, ila al-matbakh

طارِق: يلا، إلى المطبخ

Ok Layla: Hasanan

ليلى: حسناً

Activities

Query 9.8.1
Query 9.8.2

Reading

Sally Khalil is writing an email to her mother describing her new apartment near the university and attaching a picture of it.

Reading
Reading

السَّلامُ عَلَيْكُم ماما

ٌهذه صورة غرفتي، أَسْكُنُ في شقَّةٍ صغيرَةٍ وَجديدةٍ قريبَةً من الجامعةِ. في شقتي مَطبَخ صغير. فيه ثلاجةٌ وفِرْنٌ أبيضٌ وطاولةٌ صغيرةٌ وكُرسيٌ. في غُرفةُ الجلوسِ تِلْـفِزيون كِبير وَمَكتَب وَشبَّاك كَبير. وفي غرفةِ النَّوم سَريرٌ صَغيرٌ وخِزانَةٌ وحَمّامٌ أَنا أًحِبُّ شَقَّـتي ِوالْحَمْدُ لله

عنوانُ شقتي الجديدة: عِشرون (٢٠) شارع برود وي مدينة لوس أنجلوس، ولاية في كاليفورنيا. مع السلامة

اِبْنَتُكِ سالي

Arabic

As-salamu alaykum, Mama

Hadhi sura ghurfati, askunu fi shuqatin saghiratin wa jadidatin qaribatan min al-jami'ati. Fi shuqati matbakh saghir. Fihi thalaja wa firn abyad wa tawila saghira wa kursi. Fi ghurfat al-julus tilfizyoon kabir wa maktab wa shubbak kabir. Wa fi ghurfat an-nawm sarir saghir wa khizanah wa hammam. Ana uhhibu shaqati wal-hamdu lillah

Unwan shaqati al-jadida: 'ishroon (20) shari' Broad Way madinat Los Angeles, wilayat fi California. Ma'a as-salama.

Ibnatuki Sally

Transliteration

Alsslam Aliekoum Mom.

This is my apartment picture. I live in a small, new apartment close to the university. In my apartment, there is a small kitchen. It has a refrigerator, a white oven, a small table, and a chair. In the living room, there is a large TV, a desk, and a window. And the bedroom has a bed, a closet, and a bathroom. Thank God, I love my apartment. My new apartment address: Twenty Broadway Street, city of Los Angeles, California state. Goodbyes,

Your daughter Sally.

English

Activities

Query 9.8.3
Query 9.8.4
Query 9.8.5
Activity # 1

Take turns and read the text aloud with your partner.

Activity # 2

Your family moved to a new house. You called your grandmother on Face-Time. As both of you are on video, you give her a tour around the house and talk to each other. Describe the house to your grandmother, show her the rooms and the furniture, and give her the house address.


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