Thursday 16 August 2012

SE2 – ‘Crazy Story’ The Persian Alphabet

Supplementary Exercise 2 – ‘Crazy Story’ The Persian Alphabet

آ ا The Almeidas (alef) take a journey - Carla takes a sombreo & goes to the sea, where she finds 4 sailing boats racing.

ب In the 1st boat sits a brother from Bethel (be) - he dropped one black baseball under his boat. (be) = one dot underneath

پ In the 2nd boat sits Peter (pe) he had 3 keys with him. (pe) = 3 dots underneath.

ت In the 3rd boat sits shy Teddy bear (te) – you can only see 2 eyes over  the boat (te) = 2 dots above.

ث In the 4th boat is the Service Committee - (se) 3 brothers standing tall  (se) = 3 dots above.

Next is the Sea Horse Marathon

ج The 1st seahorse is called Jim (jim) he wins so he has a medal. He has one dot under to show he’s in first place.

چ The 2nd seahorse is called Charlie (che). He has 3 angels who work for him. 3 dots under.
ح The 3rd seahorse is Henry (he). He has no friends – no dots.

خ The 4th seahorse comes from Iran and is called khubi (khe). He always gets lost so he has 1 dot on top so we can find him.

The Almeidas are hungry:

د So they use dollars (dâl) to buy delicious donuts.

ذ Their favourite donut is called Zâlmeida (zâl) because it has one dot of cream on top.

ر Rrrodney (re) rrreally likes rrred rrrasberry donuts and ..

ز Zany zebras (ze) with one dot on top. (ze) = one dot on top.

ژ Zhessica (zhe) hates the above 3 Zâlmeida, raspberry donuts & zany zebras. (zhe) = 3 dots on top.

Out on the sea is a cruise ship with famous passengers onboard:

س Frank Sinatra (sin) Cleaning his 3 teeth

ش Shirley Temple (shin) with 3 lollipops on her 3 teeth

ص Sotiri (sâd) stands alone…

ض but Zeus (zâd) has a bee on his neck. (zâd) = 1 dot above.

ط Tiger (tâ) Woods was playing golf. At left is a picture of his golf club.

ظ He hit the ball so hard that is zoomed (zâ) out into the …

ع (ein) عالم (âl am = universe) and it …

غ (ghein) hovered above Gholam Reza’s head. (ghein) = 1 dot above.

ف who was eating fairy floss (fe) and drinking… (fe) = 1 dot above.

قهوه ق ghaveh (coffee) with 2 lumps of sugar…(ghâf) = 2 dots above

ك while cooking kababs… (kâf)

گ on top of the grill (gâf) = a line on top

Meanwhile back on Earth:

ل lovely Lauren (lâm) rowed out to the cruise ship with…

م marvelous Marianne (mim) who is looking for…

ن naughty Nigel (noon) to give him a cap. (noon) = 1 dot on top.

و Vivacious Vanessa (vâv) said: “Oo (vâv) … Nigel is not here. He left in a …

ه Hurry on a helicopter, heading for Hawaii.” (he)
ههه ه (all 4 forms of ‘he’)

ي Yelling: “She loves me yeh, yeh, yeh.” (ye)
بیتل  two Beatles are dead – under the ground (ye) = 2 dots under
(‘ye’) can be found in both these forms in the middle of words)