ARABIC SYRIAN COURSE Module 2 Lessons 5-8 November 1982 DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTERABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS MODULE, f. m MSA pers. pl. sD sing. feminine masculine Modern Standard Arabic person plural syrian singular iiCONTENTS MODULE 2 OBJECTIVES ... Beene eee eens 1 LESSON ASKING AND TELLING TIME ..... Objectives .. 5 Grammatical Features .. : © Transformation of MSA sounds: = to re o Use of , and % in telling time. Difference of sound in the SD and MSA conjunction 5. © Use of the prefix prepositions ~ and — , © Prefix indicating immediate future tense. © Pronominal suffix with oJ . © Verbs: measure I defective verb + and measure VII verb sj=! , Communicative Exchanges . Frame I ..eeeeeeee Explanatory Notes ..........5 Drills . . 7 ween il Communicative Exchanges ......... 19 Frame II . . wees 19 Explanatory Notes . 21 Drie te os Classroom Exercises ..., + 29 Homework .. . . 35 Summary ... . . 38 Reference Grammar + 40 Evaluation ....... . 42 Enrichment .... . 44 Vocabulary .. . 46 LESSON 6: ASKING AND TELLING DATES . + 48 Objectives oe . oe 48 Grammatical Features ., ore oe eee) © Short forms of demonstratives is», sas and *Yys and the preposition ot © The use of the particle s+ to express the present continuous form. aii