Culture #48

ILR 3 · Culture & religion · radio essay · natural recording

Play the recording, then answer the questions.

Question 1 of 6What is the essay's central idea about city sounds?

Question 2 of 6What does the essay say has replaced the street vendor?

Question 3 of 6What does the "unintended chorus" of minarets suggest?

Question 4 of 6Why does the author mention that horns sometimes mean a greeting?

Question 5 of 6What does the emigrant's experience of silence reveal?

Question 6 of 6What does "the city is speaking, and we are part of its conversation" imply?

Vocabulary

مَآذِنminarets

جَوْقَةchorus

أُسْطُوَانَةcylinder

مِفْتَاح حَدِيدِيّiron wrench

مُنَبِّهَاتhorns, alarms

يُرْهِقُ الْأَعْصَابَfrays the nerves

نَسِيجfabric

يُنَادِي عَلَى بِضَاعَتِهِcalls out his goods

الْبَائِع الْجَوَّالstreet vendor

الدِّيكrooster

سَمَّاعَات الْأُذُنearbuds

أَجْهِزَة قِيَاسmeasuring devices