These Multiple-Choice exercises for testing vocabulary and grammar skills accompany the Fundamental Arabic Textbook and the Dialogues Textbook I: Words of Everyday Use. The book consists of three parts: a) The exercises (128 exercises); b) The corrections (512 sentences); c) A lexicon of the terms used in the exercises (670 entries). The grammar references are taken from A New Approach to Teaching Arabic Grammar. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2009. The three parts of the book are distinct but could be used simultaneously: first, by doing the exercise; then checking the correction, and, if necessary, by looking up in the lexicon a word or several words contained in the exercise for the meaning and/or the right pronunciation. Abdallah Nacereddine taught Arabic at the United Nations in Geneva for over twenty-two years, while directing his own Institute for Arabic Language Teaching in Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, and Zurich. He led Arabic language courses at the League of Arab States and in conjunction with the Arab-Swiss Chamber of Commerce and recently taught at the International Labour Office. His teaching materials are the result of this experience and have been thoroughly tested in class. He is the author, in particular, of Fundamental Arabic Textbook (2nd ed., 2011) and A New Approach to Teaching Arabic Grammar (2nd ed., 2010).
About the Author: From the remote mountains of Algeria where he was born to Switzerland, where he lives today, Abdallah Nacereddine has spent his lifetime traveling and lived in many European countries, Asia and the U.S. He was a teacher of Arabic at the United Nations, Geneva, from September 1976 to March 1999. Previously he did all kinds of jobs, while traveling for 25 years, from one city, one country or from one continent to another, and, at the same time, studying by himself. Self-taught, with little formal schooling, he has always taught somewhere, sometime or another, as he started to teach the Holy Koran to children of his own age, or younger or older, when he was only twelve years old, after he had learned it himself by heart. He taught himself the English language. If you wish to know more, I invite you to read his fascinating autobiography in 2 volumes, 1360 pages. Preface - Press Release or Press Release. www.a-nacereddine.com