🗺️Arabic Level 4, Activity 04: “where is? / أين؟” (Face-to-Face/Online)
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Description:
In this activity, students will practice describing where different objects are in relation to each other. They will also practice using prepositions to describe locations on the map.
Semantic Topics:
Location, map, where, to, from, on, under, with, for, above, in, behind, about, الى، من، على، تحت، مع، فوق، مكان، اين، خريطة
Grammatical Structures:
Prepositions
Products: maps, location
Practices: Using hand movements/gestures to demonstrate directions.
Perspectives: the importance of effective describing and using prepositions.
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 describe the location of an object.
- I can ask about something missing.
- I can find a place on the map.
Materials Needed:
Warm-Up
- take turns with students reading the prepositions table and its meaning.
تبادل الأدوار مع الطلاب في قراءة جدول حروف الجر ومعانيها.
Main Activity
- students will take turns reading the question on the slide, (where is… ), they have to explain it in Arabic and then answer in a full sentence.
يتناوب الطلاب على قراءة السؤال على الشريحة ، (أين …) ، وعليهم شرحه باللغة العربية ثم الإجابة في جملة كاملة. - the correct answer will show up after your click.
ستظهر الإجابة الصحيحة بعد نقرك. - repeat until the last slide of the main activity.
كرر حتى الشريحة الأخيرة من النشاط الرئيسي.Wrap-Up
- Each student answers one question about where is the country located on the map. try to read the question and then they answer.
يجيب كل طالب على سؤال واحد حول مكان الدولة الواقعة على الخريطة. حاول قراءة السؤال لهم ثم اجعلهم يجاوبون.
End of Activity
- Each student answers one question about where is the country located on the map. try to read the question and then they answer.
- 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 the location of an object.
- I can ask about something missing.
- I can find a place on the map.
