Arabic Level 4, Activity 13: “Special Occasions/ المناسبات الخاصة” (Face-to-Face/Online)

• 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 and use vocabulary related to special occasions in Arabic.
• I can form sentences using vocabulary related to special occasions in Arabic.
• I can discuss cultural differences in the ways that special occasions are celebrated in different countries.