Arabic Level 2, Activity 01: “مُراجَعة ما سَبَق / Review” (Face-to-Face/Online)

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Description:

In this activity, students will review how they can introduce themselves and refresh their memory with Arabic long vowels and short vowels.

Semantic Topics:

الحروف – الحركات الطويلة – الحركات القصيرة – المدود

Grammatical Structures:

Long vowels – short vowels

Products: Long and short vowel memorization.

Practices: Recognizing the long and short vowels using Arabic cultural Ads. Practice writing and pronouncing long and short vowels.

Perspectives: The importance of long and short vowels in pronunciation and understanding the sentence.

NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards:

  • Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations or correspondence in Arabic to provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
  • Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret spoken and written Arabic on a variety of topics.
  • Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of Arabic and their own languages.

Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:

  • COMM 1.1: Interact and negotiate meaning (spoken, signed, written conversation) to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
  • COMM 2.1: Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
  • COMP 1.1: Observe formal and informal forms of language.
  • COMP 1.2: Identify patterns and explain discrepancies in the sounds and the writing system in the target language.

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

  • I can introduce myself to others.
  • I can recognize the Arabic alphabet and write them.
  • I can memorize long vowels and short vowels in Arabic.

Materials Needed:

Warm-Up

  1. Pull up the presentation and share your screen with students.

افتح العرض وشارك شاشتك مع الطلاب

2. Ask students to introduce themselves by saying their names? majors? Why are they taking Arabic 102? And what are they hoping to do with it?

اطلب من الطلاب ان يعرفو بأنفسهم، الاسم، التخصص، لماذا يدرسون العربية؟ ماهي توقعاتهم من المادة؟ 

3. Start by introducing yourself by answering the questions.

ابدأ انت اولاً بالتعريف عن نفسك واجابة هذه الاسئلة .

Main Activity

  1. Moving to the slide representing the main activity, you will show students a couple of images, and they have to say what it is and where the long vowel is.
    (I’m going to show you some images; it is your job to tell me what this image is in Arabic. Where is the long vowel? سأريكم بعضاً من الصور وعليكم أن تقولو ماهي الصورة وأين حرف المد في الكلمة؟ أو ماذا تُمثّل؟ )
  2. To engage students more, ask them if they want to write it down on paper with a marker or in the chat box. لإشراك الطلاب بشكل أكبر ، اسألهم أيضًا عما إذا كانوا يريدون تدوينها في ورقة بقلم أو في مربع الدردشة.
  3. Challenge them to write the word with short vowels and long vowels.  تحداهم لكتابة الكلمة بالحركات القصيرة والمدود
  4. You can do the first image as an example. أَرْنَبْ
  5. On slide 11, students will read some Ads in Arabic and try to find long and short vowels. you don’t have to use all the ads in there.

بعد ذلك سوف يقرأ الطلب بعضاً من الإعلانات المشهورة في العالم العربي، اطلب منهم أن يجدو المدود لكل كلمة ، ليس عليك استخدام كل الاعلانات، اختار منها ما يناسب طلابك ووقت النشاط

Wrap-Up

  1. Ask each student to write any word from their memory with الحركات and share it.
    اطلب من كل طالب كتابة أي كلمة من ذاكرتهم مع الحركات ومشاركتها.
  2. Then, ask them if they have any questions.
    ثم اسألهم إذا كان لديهم أي أسئلة.

End of Activity

  • Read Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate
    their confidence.
    (Use thumbs up/thumbs down or download our student cards.)
  • Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation.
  • Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future activities!

NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:

  • I can introduce myself to others.
  • I can recognize the Arabic alphabet and write them.
  • I can memorize long vowels and short vowels in Arabic.

 

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