Video Worksheet
Unit number: 12 Topic: Eating and drinking
Video: Mahmoud talks about his
favourite food
Go to the Mastering Arabic website to play the
video of Mahmoud talking about his favourite
food and dishes.
See if you can answer these questions:
1 What does Mahmoud like to eat?
2 What does he not really like?
3 What is his favourite dish called?
4 Can you name some of the ingredients?
Try to pick out the key information.
Extension activity
✔ Tick the foods Mahmoud mentions in the video.
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π°ün Hn 8 ºëdn 2
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RqQonGC 10 ¢†«Hn 4
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n 12 ¢ùWpÉ£Hn 6
✔ See the following page for a full transcript, a translation, notes and answers to the
comprehension questions and Extension activity.
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Transcript
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Translation
Hello! I like grilled fish, but I don’t like fried fish.
As well I like chicken, and pasta with Italian tomato sauce.
I don’t like desserts and cake very much because I prefer fruit.
My favourite dish is Sayyadiyya [from the Arabic sayyd, ‘fisherman’].
Sayyadiyya is pieces of fish in the oven with tomatoes and onions. With
the fish there is red-coloured rice [‘rice whose colour is red’]. This dish is
from the city of Port Said.
Notes
✔ It is common to use al- (the) when talking in general terms. You will find many
instances of this in the video, for example:
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q q G ÉfCG (an u˛ibb as-samak al-mashwı) I like [the] grilled fish.
∂ª°ùdG ÖMC
π°üÑdGh ºWɪ£dG ™e (ma´a a†-†am†im wal-baßal) with [the] tomatoes and [the] onions
11 10 8 7 5 3 1
You should have ticked the following:
Answers to Extension activity
and cake. 3 Sayyadiyya. 4 Fish, rice, tomatoes, onions.
1 Grilled fish, chicken, pasta and fruit. 2 Fried fish, desserts
Answers to comprehension questions
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