Arabic Without Walls

Scene 5: Welcome and Come On In

Exercise 1: Listening Comprehension

Practice greetings, polite conversation and introducing a male friend by answering the following questions based on Unit 4, Scene 5 of the Alif Baa DVD 1 Dialogues.

The first name of the professor is
To show respect, the student addresses his professor using the title
The name of the student is
The professor invites the students to sit down by saying
The student replies to the invitation by saying
Toward the end of the scene شريف introduces the other young man to the professor. The friend's name is
After telling the professor the name of the young man, شريف further introduces him as a friend of his
(صاحبي). He then proceeds to add that his friend is a university student (طالب). The name of the university that his friend attends is
The student uses حضرتك, the polite form of "you," to address the professor. The professor, however, uses the regular second person singular masculine pronoun "you" when asking the student "How are you?"
When introduced to إبراهيم the professor replied with the polite formula تشرفنا. To match the professor's polite expression, إبراهيم responds

Exercise 2: Practice

Match the expressions from Scene 5 with the appropriate responses by selecting from the drop-down menu.