حل درس نموذج ثاني Instant text messaging اللغة الإنجليزية الصف الثامن
حل درس نموذج ثاني Instant text messaging اللغة الإنجليزية الصف الثامن
Unit 7
Globally Connected
Instant text messaging
Lesson 7
Salaam, sho a5bark el yawm?
ana b5air, shu etsawee?
Ana fee al mall ma3a ahlee
zain ashoofek ba3dain
ARABISH
A rabish, also called Arabizi, is an alphabet used to communicate in Arabic on the Internet and to send text messages. It uses characters such as letters, numbers and punctuation from English to write Arabic letters and sounds, and it is used when using the real Arabic alphabet is
not possible.
Since the 1990s, PCs, the Internet, emails and text messaging have become very popular in the Arab world. At frst, this technology could only use Roman script (English characters). So, Arabic- speaking users started using the English alphabet to communicate with each other in Arabic.
To use Arabish, you choose the English character that matches the sound of the Arabic letter you want to write. For example, for khaleej, you use ‘5’ to represent the ‘kh’ sound – so the Arabish word is written 5aleej. Since Arabic has more sounds and letters than English it is necessary to use numbers and punctuation marks to write the Arabic sounds that English doesn’t have. For example, you can use 3 to represent the ‘a’ sound in ba3dain, which means ‘later’, and 3′ is used to represent the ‘gh’ sound in 3’ada, which means ‘lunch’.
Reading
1 Read the article below and answer the questions.
1 What is Arabish?
2 Why and when do people use Arabish? 3 Give three examples of things that can be ‘characters’.
4 Translate the message on the mobile phone screen into English.
1 Arabish is a modern text language that is popular with young people in the Arab world. It
uses English letters to represent Arabic sounds.
2 People use it to communicate short text messages when the real Arabic script is not available
3 Letters, numbers and punctuation marks are three examples of ‘characters’.
Salaam, sho a5bark el yawm?
ana b5air, shu etsawee?
Ana fee al mall ma3a ahlee
zain ashoofek ba3dain
Speech bubble 1: Hi, how are you today?
I’m great! What are you doing?
Speech bubble 2:
I’m at the shopping mall with my parents. Ok, see you later.
3 Discuss the questions with a partner.
1 Do/would you ever use Arabish? Who do/ would you send messages in Arabish to?
2 Which sounds does Arabic have that English doesn’t?
Did you know?
The English alphabet comes from Roman script (writing) which originated in Ancient Greece in the 7th Century BCE. The letters in the English alphabet are called ‘Roman characters’. The numbers used in English are called ‘Arabic numerals’ because they were frst used by Arab mathematicians in Baghdad in the 10th Century BCE.
Writing 21st
Write a text message (20-30 words) using Arabish. Exchange messages with a
partner and translate your partner’s text message into English.
Complete the summary with suitable words and phrases from the box.
3 Write the following messages in good English.
1 CU 2nite – don’t B L8
2 can U pick me up at 6?
3 where R U?
4 im w8ing for U at bus stop
5 wot R U doing 2day?
6 Gr8 joke! LOL!
4 Write a text message to a friend and reply to his or her message. Use as many abbreviations as possible from Activities 2 and 3.
See you tonight-don’t be late!
2 Can you pick me up at six?
3 Where are you?
4 I’m waiting for you at the bus stop.
5 What are you doing today?
6 Great joke! Laughing out loud!
