Page 12 - primary 6 unit 5

Part 1: Marco Polo crosses the desert.

Key vocabulary:

word meaning Examples
fascinated بذجنم I’m fascinated by the beauty of nature.
wasteland زفق ضرا The desert is a wasteland.
dromedary ىتزعنا ممجنا The Arab countries is famous for dromedary.
legend جرىطسا There was a strange legend about this house.
silently تمصت Pupils must keep silently in the library.

dry sea فاج زحت The local people called the Gobi Desert “the
dry sea”.
mysterious طماغ Gobi Desert was a mysterious place.
oasis ححاو Sewa is a wonderful oasis in Egypt.
landscape ىعيثط زظنم The land scape of China was amazing

* Conjugation of verbs:

Regular verbs Irregular verbs
present past present past

roll جرحذري rolled freeze ذًجي froze
Sway مياًري swayed lose ذمفي lost

boil ٗهغي boiled
wander لٕجري wandered

seem ٔذثي seemed
last ؤذي lasted

*Important expressions and prepositions:

- look like ّث شي

- boiling hot اذج راح

- by day ارآَ

- by night لاين

- freezing cold جدٔرثنا سرال

- on the horizon كفلاا ٗف

- How long جذًنا ىك

- over the ocean طيحًنا رثع

- make a strange noise حثيرغ ءاضٕض رذصي