Arabic Level 4, Activity 07: “Food Flavors / نكهات الطعام” (Face-to-Face/Online)
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Description:
In this activity, students will practice food flavor in the form of asking and answering three questions about what is the flavor. the location of the plate (propositions) and the opposites flavors, and talk about their favorite food flavor in Arabic.
Semantic Topics:
Salted, sour, sweet, bitter, chili, spicy, savory, bland, مالح، حامض، حلو، مر، حار، لاذع، عديم النكهة
Grammatical Structures:
Propositions, oppistites.
Products: Food flavors
Practices: Sharing favorite food flavors.
Perspectives: Enhance food value in Middle Eastern 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 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 recognize the food flavors vocabulary in Arabic.
- I can interact with a partner to describe the opposite flavor.
- I can share my favorite flavor of food in Arabic.
Materials Needed:
Warm-Up
- with students, list the food flavors they are familiar with. in both English and Arabic
مع الطلاب ، ضع قائمة بالنكهات الغذائية المألوفة لديهم. باللغتين الإنجليزية والعربية - let students take turns reading the slide that represents the food flavors.
دع الطلاب يتناوبون في قراءة الشريحة التي تمثل نكهات الطعام.
Main Activity
- students will partner up and will be answering 3 questions based on the image they see. What is the flavor? Where do you see it? What is its opposite?
سيجيب الطلاب على 3 أسئلة بناءً على الصورة التي يرونها. مَا هِي النّكهة؟ أيْن تراها؟ ما هو عَكسُها؟. - each pair will take turns answering the questions.
يتناوب كل اثنين في الإجابة على الأسئلة. - repeat until the slides finish.
كرر حتى تنتهي الشرائح..Wrap-Up
- Ask students to share their favorite food flavor.
اسأل الطلاب، ماهي نكهتك المفضلة؟.
End of Activity
- Ask students to share their favorite food flavor.
- 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 recognize the food flavors vocabulary in Arabic.
- I can interact with a partner to describe the opposite flavor.
- I can share my favorite flavor of food in Arabic.
