Gateway to Arabic Book One" with its wealth of practice materials teaches the skills necessary for reading & writing the Arabic language. It covers the complete Arabic alphabet in all its forms as well as the various short & long vowel sounds. It offers plenty of opportunity for handwriting practice through extensive copying exercises. By the end of this book the learner will have covered the skills needed to read any vocalised Arabic text." ...

Gateway to Arabic Book Three" builds on the skills learnt in Book Two & Extension Book One of the series & introduces new areas of grammar & vocabulary. The main focus of the book is the introduction of form one past & present tense verbs in their regular form to enable the student to move on from non-verbal sentences & take their language skills to new levels. Numerous written exercises & passages of dialogue give students the opportunity to put into practice the knowledge they have acquired." ...

The Gateway to Arabic" series is a well-structured progressive course that has been designed to teach Arabic to non-Arabic-speakers from a broad age range. As students progress in building up their knowledge of Arabic grammar & vocabulary they are able to put into practice the skills they have acquired through written drills spoken passages of dialogue & comprehension exercises. " Gateway to Arabic Book Four" builds upon the knowledge of first form regular past & present tense verbs acquired in Book Three of the series by introducing the student to the concept of first form hollow doubled root letter & hamzated verb forms. It also further develops the student's knowledge of ordinal & cardinal numbers & the rules governing them & teaches the use of numbers in telling the time as well as for counting." ...

The key theme running through this book is the weather & seasons & the student will learn to talk about the temperature & climate in various parts of the world at different times of the year. As usual passages of dialogue & extensive exercises enable the student to put into practice the knowledge he/she has acquired. ...

Gateway to Arabic Book Seven" focuses on Arabic verb forms five to ten in a comprehensive manner covering regular & irregular verbs in their various tenses. It builds upon the students knowledge of the subjunctive & jussive moods introduced in " Book Six" of the series. The key theme running throughout the book is foreign travel & the student will cover a variety of situations ranging from air travel lost luggage & currency exchange to taking a taxi & booking a hotel room. Passages of dialogue & extensive exercises enable the student to put into practice the knowledge he or she has acquired thereby reinforcing the learning process." ...

Pack One of the Gateway to Arabic Keyword Rings contains five sets of eighty key ring flashcards providing a vocabulary of over 450 words. Each word is given in Arabic English & French together with its plural form where appropriate. A transliteration of the Arabic text is also provided as well as a key to the transliteration system. Each card set is presented in full colour & the text is also colour coded according to language for ease of reference. The themes of the five sets are as follows: * Travel vocabulary* Food & drink* Buildings & places* Numbers & time (part 1)* Forty verbs & forty other key words including questioning words prepositions adverbs & useful expressions. Verbs are shown in the 3rd person masculine singular past & present tense. Each set of these handy pocket-sized cards is mounted on a hinged key ring so that cards may easily be added or removed to tailor them to the users requirements. Their portable format makes it easy to learn new vocabulary in any spare moment! Each individual card measures 84 mm by 40 mm & each set of eighty cards comes ready mounted onto a 23mm diameter hinged key ring. ...

This pack of flashcards contains 50 double-sided cards in full colour each measuring 210 by 148 mm. The pack has been designed to help students of Arabic master the intricacies of conjugating all the major groups of Form I triliteral verbs including: * Sound pure verbs * Doubled root letter verbs * Verbs with a weak first middle or third root letter * Verbs with hamza as the first second or third root letter * Split complex verbs (weak first & third root letters) * Adjacent complex verbs (weak second & third root letters). A two-sided template is provided for each verb group enabling the learner to see the pattern of the verb in the past & present tenses the jussive & subjunctive moods as well as the imperative forms. Colour coding has been used to highlight the gender differences across the verb patterns. Each group of verbs is followed by a card giving additional samples of verbs of the same template patterns for further practice. A verb index is also included. ...

Maya Angelous volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents & resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination & extreme poverty but also hope joy achievement & celebration. In the sequel to her best-selling I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou is a young mother in California unemployed embarking on brief affairs & transient jobs in shops & night-clubs turning to prostitution & the world of narcotics. ...

The world seemed to dip & darken & I smelled wet earth & thick musk & fresh blood. The wind whipped past like I was running. Running so fast the ground whizzed beneath me & the wind cut across my skin.. . Maya Delaney has always felt a close bond with nature. The woods around her home are a much-loved sanctuary
- & the pawprint birthmark on her hip feels like a sign that she belongs. But then strange & terrible things begin to happen in the tiny medical-research town of Salmon Creek (population: 200). The captain of the swim team drowns mysteriously in the middle of a calm lake. Mountain lions appear around Mayas home & wont go away. Her best friend Daniel starts experiencing bad vibes about certain people & things. One of those people is Rafe
- the new bad boy in town. What is he hiding
- & why is he suddenly so interested in Maya.. .?


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The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasnt the drink that killed him
- although that certainly helped
- it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmothers house in the winter of 1968. The Gathering" is a novel about love & disappointment about thwarted lust & limitless desire & how our fate is written in the body not in the stars."

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