Learn what you will use today.تعلّم ما ستستخدمه اليوم.
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Unit 1 · Introductions and essential sentences
Unit 2 · Time, numbers, and daily routines
Unit 3 · Shopping, locations, and directions
Unit 4 · Work and professional communication
Unit 5 · Travel and everyday services
Unit 6 · Digital life and technology
Unit 7 · Experiences and stories
- Talk about life experiences
- Separate the experience from when it happened
- Describe what was happening when something else happened
- Talk about past habits that have ended
- Put the events of a short story in order
- Say how long something has continued
- Say what is done and what is not done yet
- Describe a feeling and what caused it
- Show which of two past events came first
- Report what someone said
Unit 8 · Opinions, plans, and solving problems
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Ask where a place isاسأل عن مكان
Shopping, locations, and directionsLesson 6 · A1 · 10 minutes
In this lesson
Politely ask where a nearby place is.
The idea, simply
Start with Excuse me, then ask Where is …? The most polite form with strangers is Could you tell me where the station is? Notice that is moves to the end.
Examples
Excuse me, where is the station?
Where is the nearest pharmacy?
Is it far from here?
Lesson words
- whereأينWhere is the office?
- nearestالأقربWhere is the nearest bank?
- placeمكانThis is the right place.
- mapخريطةCheck the map.
Lesson exercises
- Put the words in the correct order.
- Complete the gap: Where ___ the nearest bank?
- Choose the correct English sentence.
- How do you start when you stop a stranger to ask?
- Politely ask where a nearby place is.