👨🍳Arabic Level 2, Activity 09: “مَطْعَم أَبُو العُلا / The Restaurant” (Face-to-Face/Online)
Description:
In this activity, the lab assistant will work as the waiter, and the students will be guests at a restaurant. The students will practice ordering food, discussing what is wrong with the food, and paying for their meals.
Semantic Topics:
نادل – مقبلات – طبق رئيسي – مشروبات – حلويات/حلو – محاسبة/فاتورة Waiter – Appetizers – Main Course – Drinks – Desserts – Billing
Grammatical Structures:
Excuse me, من فضلك
Products: Restaurant, coffee, tea, entrees, main dishes, drinks.
Practices: Going to the restaurant, how to order food.
Perspectives: Coffee and tea are most commonly drank daily and hold cultural importance in many countries in the Middle East. It’s customary to be offered a cup of tea when you enter someone’s home, sit down, greet neighbors, or even when visiting a tourist attraction. You could be walking down the street, and a random tea vendor, store vendor, or citizen will insist you sit down and drink with them. It’s a way of creating connections, relaxing with friends and family, and welcoming people into their culture. Thus, tea and coffee have become a symbol of Arab hospitality.
- 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 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures of the Arab world.
- Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons between the cultures of the Arab world and their own
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.
- CLTR 1.1: Analyze the cultural practices/patterns of behavior accepted as the societal norm in the target culture.
- CLTR 1.2: Explain the relationship between cultural practices/behaviors and the perspectives that represent the target culture’s view of the world.
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can understand the differences in services and dishes between restaurants in the United States and the Middle East.
- I can order food at a restaurant, including drinks, entrees, and desserts.
- I can say if I liked the food or not.
- I can ask for the check after I have finished eating.
Materials Needed:
Warm-Up
- You will ask the students, “How would you say?” Appetizers or entrees – Main dishes – Drinks – Dessert – Excuse me. They can write the meaning in Arabic on the chat box or in their notebook and show it to you.
سوف تسأل الطلاب “كيف ستقول؟” مقبلات او مقبلات – اطباق رئيسية – مشروبات – حلويات – و من فضلك..يمكنهم كتابة المعنى باللغة العربية في مربع الدردشة أو في دفتر ملاحظاتهم وإظهاره لك.
Main Activity
- You will pretend that you are the waiter for Abu Al-ola Restaurant. Ask students to be ready when their turn comes to order food.
سوف تتظاهر بأنك نادل مطعم أبو العلا .اطلب من الطلاب أن يكونوا مستعدين عندما يحين دورهم لطلب الطعام. - There will be 6 slides for your questions with images that help students to choose the type of food they would like to order.
سيكون هناك 6 شرائح لأسئلتك مع صور تساعد الطلاب على اختيار نوع الطعام الذي يرغبون في طلبه.. - After finishing the six questions, ask the students to take turns sharing their favorite Arabic dish!
بعد الانتهاء من الأسئلة الستة ، اطلب من الطلاب أن يتناوبوا على مشاركة طبقهم العربي المفضل!.Wrap-Up
- Ask students to take turns and answer individually 1 or 2 from these questions:
Do you prefer homemade food or fast food?
What do you usually like to cook?
ماهو أفضل طبق عربي لديك؟
اطلب من الطالب التناوب والإجابة على حدة 1 أو 2 من هذه الأسئلة:
هل تفضل الطعام محلي الصنع أم الوجبات السريعة؟
ماذا تحب ان تطبخ عادة؟
ماهو أفضل طبق عربي لديك؟.
End of Activity
- Ask students to take turns and answer individually 1 or 2 from these questions:
- 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 understand the differences in services and dishes between restaurants in the United States and the Middle East.
- I can order food at a restaurant, including drinks, entrees, and desserts.
- I can say if I liked the food or not.
- I can ask for the check after I have finished eating.
