(2) This week I learned by heart the first volume of the Modern ArabHistory.(3) Last Monday I paid one third of the price of my country house and I willpay the two remaining thirds at the beginning of this week, in addition tointerest of nine per cent.(4) At the beginning of this year I began the first lesson in the Arabiclanguage. In the first hour the teacher taught us how to pronounce theletters and in the second hour how to write them.(5) The government decided to raise the tax on imported goods by 7 percent, starting from the fifth month of the year 2005.(6) Eight per cent of the inhabitants of the city are foreigners of 22 differentnationalities, and four per cent of them are from countries not belongingto the European Union.(7) Will you come on Saturday or Sunday? I will come on Sunday morningor in the afternoon, God willing.(8) The 65th su ̄rah of the Holy Quran is called Su ̄ratu t
̇-t
̇ala ̄qi (‘TheDivorce’), and the 89th su ̄rah is called Su ̄ratu l-fag ̆ri (‘The Dawn’).(9) Fasting in the month of Ramad
̇a ̄n is one of the five pillars of Islam.(10) What time is it now?
(11) The time now is 13 minutes past three p.m. (in the afternoon).
(12) It is ten minutes past eleven a.m. (before noon).
(13) It is quarter past seven a.m. (in the morning).
(14) It is five minutes past eight a.m. (in the morning).
(15) It is quarter to ten a.m.
(16) It is twenty (a third) to ten.
(17) It is twelve (o’clock) noon.
(18) Last Saturday a foreigner fell from the window of (on) the second floor
and broke both his legs.(19) I read about the ordinal numbers on page thirty-one in the Arabic
language grammar book.281Ordinal
numbers,
fractions,
expres-
sions of
time,
calendars