😮Arabic Level 1, Activity 08: “المَشَاعِر / Feelings” (Face-to-Face/Online)

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Description:

In this activity, students will practice how to describe their emotions about something, they will be shown multiple pictures, and they will describe their feelings when seeing the pictures. They will also practice what to say when visiting someone sick.

Semantic Topics:

سعيد – حزين – جوعان – بردان – مريض – متوتر – خائف – مرهق – متحمس، happy, sad, feelings, emotions, cold, tired.

Grammatical Structures: 

التاء المربوطة للمؤنث، feminine mark

Products: visiting someone sick, talking about feeling.

Practices: What to say when meeting or visiting someone sick?, Expressing emotions in Arabic ex. انا عطشان, انا مريض, انا حزينة

Perspectives: What is the importance of visiting someone sick in middle-eastren and islamic culture?

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 describe my feelings in Arabic.
  • I can understand and use the phrases of emotions for either feminine or masculine.
  • I can use the appropriate phrase with someone sick.

Materials Needed:

Warm-Up

  1. Greet students in Arabic, and then share your screen with students and pull up the presentation. And don’t forget to press on the Slideshow.
    رحب بالطلاب باللغة العربية ، السلام عليكم جميعاً ، ثم شارك شاشتك مع الطلاب وافتح العرض التقديمي. ولا تنس الضغط على عرض.
  2. Move to the next slide with the “Can-Do Statements” and read each Can-Do statement in English.
    انتقل إلى الشريحة التالية “عبارات Can-Do” واقرأ كل عبارة Can-Do باللغة الإنجليزية..
  3. Let students take turns reading through the expressions and their meanings. Encourage them to take a picture with their phone or screenshot on their laptops in order to use it for the main activity.
    دع الطلاب يتناوبون على قراءة التعبيرات ومعانيها. شجعهم على التقاط صورة بهواتفهم أو لقطة شاشة على أجهزة الكمبيوتر الخاصة بهم لاستخدامها في النشاط الرئيسي.
  4. Move to next slide, which represents a question for the main activity. Read with students (How do these pictures make you feel?) Remind them to use (ة) if a female was giving her answer.
    بعد ذلك ، انتقل إلى الشريحة التالية، والتي تمثل سؤالاً للنشاط الرئيسي. اقرأ مع الطلاب (كيف تشعرك هذه الصور؟) ذكّرهم باستخدام (ة) إذا كانت التي تجيب انثى.

Main Activity

  1. Students will be shown different images and answer their feelings in Arabic when seeing the image, using the feminine and masculine forms.
    سيتم عرض صور مختلفة على الطلاب والإجابة على مشاعرهم باللغة العربية عند رؤية الصورة. باستخدام المؤنث والمذكر.
  2. Students will take turns saying what they feel.
    يتناوب الطلاب على قول ما يشعرون به.
  3. They can choose from the multiple choice at the bottom of each picture. Or they can use different expressions as they feel.
    يمكنهم الاختيار من بين الاختيارات في أسفل كل صورة. أو يمكنهم استخدام تعبيرات مختلفة كما يشعرون.
  4. For you, it is okay to use English to help them memorize the meaning of certain expressions
    بالنسبة لك ، لا بأس باستخدام اللغة الإنجليزية لمساعدتهم على حفظ معنى بعض التعبيرات.

    Wrap-Up

    1. You will give simple information for students to take away with them.
      ستقدم معلومات بسيطة للطلاب ليأخذوها معهم.
    2. On the wrap-up slide, briefly read with students what they should say when visiting someone in the hospital or when seeing someone sick.
      في الشريحة الاخيرة ، اقرأ باختصار مع الطلاب ما يجب عليهم قوله عند زيارة شخص ما في المستشفى أو عند رؤية شخص مريض.

    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 describe my feelings in Arabic.
  • I can understand and use the phrases of emotions for either feminine or masculine.
  • I can use the appropriate phrase with someone sick.

 

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