Arabic Level 4, Activity 13: “Special Occasions/ المناسبات الخاصة” (Face-to-Face/Online)
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Description:
In this activity, students will practice talking about special occasions through Middle Eastern culture and their own culture. they will practice forming a sentence and have a discussion about the cultural difference when it comes to special occasions.
Semantic Topics:
birthday, Eid al-Adha, Eid al-Fitr, anniversary, graduation, wedding, eid Mubarak, Ramadan Mubarak, celebration, special occasion, party. عيد ميلاد ، عيد الأضحى ، عيد الفطر ، ذكرى ، تخرج ، زفاف ، عيد مبارك ، رمضان مبارك ، احتفال ، مناسبة خاصة ، حفلة.
Grammatical Structures: Noun phrases, Verb conjugation, Adjectives, Comparatives, and Connectives.
Products: The various cultural products associated with special occasions in Middle Eastern culture.
Practices: Fostering cross-cultural understanding and appreciation by discussing and comparing special occasions.
Perspectives: The activity will enable students to gain insight into the values and beliefs that shape how special occasions are celebrated in Middle Eastern culture and their own culture.
- 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.
Materials Needed:
Warm-Up
- Ask students, to share some special occasions that they celebrate in their families and how they celebrate them.
اطلب من الطلاب مشاركة بعض المناسبات الخاصة التي يحتفلون بها في أسرهم وكيف يحتفلون بها.
Main Activity
- the main activity will be in 4 steps. The first one will be “How would we say… in Arabic?”, and ask students how to say, birthday, anniversary, Eid Al-fitr..etc?
سيكون النشاط الرئيسي في 4 خطوات. الأول سيكون “كيف نقول .. بالعربية؟” ، واسأل الطلاب كيف يقولون: عيد ميلاد ، ذكرى ، عيد الفطر..إلخ؟. - Then, 2nd step, each student will need to choose a sentence and form it in Arabic! for example, “I love celebrating Eid al-Fitr with my family.”, “We have a graduation party for my little sister next week”.
بعد ذلك ، سيحتاج كل طالب إلى اختيار جملة وصياغتها باللغة العربية! على سبيل المثال ، “أحب الاحتفال بعيد الفطر مع عائلتي” ، “لدينا حفلة تخرج لأختي الصغيرة الأسبوع المقبل”. - In 3rd step, students will create a short paragraph describing their favorite special occasion. 3 – 4 sentences.
في الخطوة الثالثة ، سينشئ الطلاب قطعة قصيرة تصف مناسبتهم الخاصة المفضلة. 3 – 4 جمل. - In the 4th step, ask the student to share one cultural difference in the ways that special occasions are celebrated in different countries.
في الخطوة الرابعة ، اطلب من الطالب مشاركة اختلاف ثقافي واحد في طرق الاحتفال بالمناسبات الخاصة في البلدان المختلفة.Wrap-Up
- ask students What are your favorite occasions and how do you celebrate them?
اسأل الطلاب ما هي مناسباتك المفضلة وكيف تحتفل بها؟
End of Activity
- ask students What are your favorite occasions and how do you celebrate them?
- 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 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.
