Online Resources

Digital textbooks for secondary courses in Mandarin Chinese and Arabic. Each lesson is built around a video featuring native speakers. The dialogue is then broken down line by line, with embedded audio to enable students to listen and repeat as often as needed. Each new word or phrase is presented individually in an audio vocabulary list, and language and grammar notes explain what the student is hearing and why. Cultural notes on each lesson complete the experience.

Arabic, Chinese, and ESOL STEM units for grades K-5.

Curriculum maps and thematic units for Arabic and Chinese based on the Understanding by Design framework. Includes units for elementary, middle, and high school.

Aswaat Arabiyya provides listening materials and accompanying activities from television stations throughout the Arab world.

Chinese curriculum maps for grades K-3.

Each unit may be downloaded as a Word or PDF document. The Word version will allow you to make and save changes for use in your classroom.

Britsh Council's lesson plan focuses on teaching about the Chinese zodiac.

This University of Oxford website contains resources for teaching Chinese at elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. It contains many listening activities for a variety of levels.

The University of Texas--Austin has created this website for Arabic teachers to gather resources about a wide variety of Arabic cultural and linguistic elements. It includes discussions of dialect and music among many others.

Resources for K-12 teachers of Arabic about religion, history, culture, geography, government, visual culture, and pop culture.

Assembly plans, lesson plans, activities, and resource sheets from British Council.

A variety of resources for less commonly taught languages (Arabic dialects and Mandarin both included). Searches can be conducted by level, age, and several other factors.