❓Arabic Level 1, Activity 12: “الإِسْتِفْهَام / Interrogatives” (Face-to-Face/Online)

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Description:

In this activity, students will practice the interrogatives in Arabic. In a forum of multiple choices questions, students will understand how to ask and answer the interrogative articles in Arabic.

Semantic Topics:

what, how, which, who, where, ماذا، أين، هل، ما، من، كيف

Grammatical Topics:

Interrogative Articles

Products:  What (questions without verbs), what (with verbs)… etc.

Practices: Asking questions according to an image. filling in the blank, and choosing from multiple answers.

Perspectives: What is the importance of using the appropriate interrogative to ask a question?

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 understand the question sentences in Arabic.
  • I can ask someone simple questions in Arabic.
  • I can answer simple questions in Arabic.

Materials Needed:

Warm-Up

  1. Greet students in Arabic السلام عليكم and then share your screen with students and pull up the presentation. And don’t forget to press Slideshow.
    رحب بالطلاب باللغة العربية، ثم شارك شاشتك مع الطلاب وافتح العرض التقديمي. ولا تنس الضغط على عرض الشرائح.
  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. Next, move to slide #3, which represents the warm-up activity. Review with students أدوات الاستفهام. You will read the Arabic part and explain the English part. Read and let students repeat after you so they can practice the right pronunciation.
    بعد ذلك ، انتقل إلى الشريحة 3 ، والتي تمثل نشاط الإحماء. راجع مع الطلاب أدوات الاستفهام. سوف تقرأ الجزء العربي وتشرح الجزء الإنجليزي. “اقرأ ودع الطلاب يكررون بعدك حتى يتمكنوا من ممارسة النطق الصحيح”.
  4. In the next slide, show students examples of the position of أدوات الاستفهام in a sentence.
    في الشريحة التالية ، اعرض للطلاب أمثلة على موضع أدوات الاستفهام في جملة..

Main Activity

  1. In the main activity, students will practice أدوات الاستفهام in a multiple choices game.
    في النشاط الرئيسي ، سيتدرب الطلاب على أدوات الاستفهام في اسئلة اختيارات متعددة.
  2. They will choose the right answer from the 8 multiple choices to complete the questions.
    سيختارون الإجابة الصحيحة من الخيارات الثمانية المتعددة لإكمال الأسئلة.
  3. Your role is to read the question out loud. And the 8 choices as well.
    دورك هو قراءة السؤال بصوت عالٍ. وكذلك الخيارات الثمانية.
  4. Give students some time to find the right answer. If they struggle, you can help them by clicking on the mouse button, which will cross them to 4 wrong answers.
    امنح الطلاب بعض الوقت للعثور على الإجابة الصحيحة. إذا كانوا يعانون ، يمكنك مساعدتهم بالنقر فوق زر الماوس ، وسوف يمنعهم من الوصول إلى 4 إجابات خاطئة.
  5. Now, they can choose the right answer between the three left choices. The right answer will show up after you click on the mouse button.
    الآن ، يمكنهم اختيار الإجابة الصحيحة بين الخيارات الثلاثة المتبقية.
    ستظهر الإجابة الصحيحة بعد النقر فوق زر الماوس.

    Wrap-Up

    1. Let students take turns asking each other, ما اسمك؟ اين تسكن؟ ماذا تعمل؟
      ليتبادل الطلاب بالتناوب ويسألون بعضهم البعض ، ما اسمك؟ اين تسكن؟ ماذا تعمل؟.
    2. Ask students if they have any questions.
      اسأل الطلاب 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 understand the question sentences in Arabic.
  • I can ask someone simple questions in Arabic.
  • I can answer simple questions in Arabic.

 

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