An Alphabet Exercise

Well, since I've been away from this blog too much, might as well add another post while I'm at it.

This coming exercise is a really good one for your English...Ya Rab!! I always give it to my students 3ashan yit akidu in ana Teacher_Ghilsa begad, mish hizar!!

Just choose a letter from the alphabet (you know what alphabet means, don't you, wala ha nibtidee nezam KG1?! alif, be, te...yea..that's the alphabet)and make a complete sentence with each word of the sentence beginning with that letter.

Let me get you started...let's take the letter 'C' for example. Can you make a sentence with each word beginning with 'C'?

masalan:

Cars Can't Catch Cold. (el cars ma takhodsh bard?!!)...
Ok, Ok....so it's not the greatest sentence in the world, but hey! Give me a break! It's got what I need to make a proper sentence:

A subject (car)
A verb (can't/auxillery verb & catch main verb)
An object (cold)

3ayzeen eh aktar min keda??

Tanee? mashee...mana fadyalkom el neharda!

Let's choose the letter 'G'


ya3nee mish sama3 7ad be oul...'ana ya miss, wenabee ana!!'

hat ouloulee: Girgis Gab Gargeer and I will tell you GHALAT!! English please!!!

How about this sentence: Green Gardens Grow Greatly
(ya salam 3aleki ya Teacher_Ghilsa....da eh el music da!!)

Subject (Garden)
Verb (Grow)
Object (Greatly/used as an adjective)

Yala...you still got 24 letters to choose from! Ibtidu with letter 'X'...hahaha!!

How many STUPID people do you know?

Hi....last time I was feeling miserable!! Now, I'm just angry...grrrrrrrrrr!!!

Be seraha, be seraha...I don't ever like to call people STUPID, but the truth is that some people are indeed stupid...el donya keda...feha el GHABEE wa feha el MISH GHABEE AIWE...but I really wonder if anyone, wa ana awil wahda, is intelligent.

Other words that you could use instead of saying STUPID:

1. He's a jerk.
2. He's an imbecile.
3. He's a moron.
4. He's thick-skulled. (like mokho tekheen)
5. He's a nit-wit.
6. He's a pudding-head. (hahaha! mokh mehalebeya khalis!!)
7. He's dumb.(silent 'b')
8. He's an idiot.
9. He's fat-headed. (Like thick-skulled)
10. And of course...he's an ass! (or we can be kinder and say he's a jack ass (homar...heeehawww, heeeehawww!!)

ya 3inee...el ragel itshahwar khalis...bas yestahil bardu!!

Feeling Miserable

Teacher_Ghilsa is feeling MISERABLE today. She's so sad and feeling ill. Why? Because too many people:

1. are wackos
2. can stab you in the back
3. can break your heart
4. wouldn't know a good thing if it hit them in the face
5. are pompous snobs
6. can't face the music
7. can't stand up to responsibility




1. crazy, sick in the head
2. when some one betrays you in anyway while you were not aware, then he has stabbed (the action of hurting someone with a knife) you in the back.
3. ye 7atem albak
4. (I like this expression). It means, 7ata lou el wahid galu eh...7ata min el sama2, he/she would not appreciate it.
5. Pompous ya3nee aleet...wa snob bardu aleet
6. lama 7ad lazem ye wageh haga bas mish 3ayez...(mish, mish ader...la howa mish 3ayez)
7. Same meaning almost as number 6. But just a more formal way of saying it.