Arabic

This is a unit plan with six lessons 90 minutes each to achieve the following goals:
Students can identify kind of shelter they live in
Students can identify rooms in Arabic
Students can ask and answer about the place of family member in the house using: Where is....?
Ex. where is mum?
She is in the kitchen
Students can identify items in each room
Students can express need for missing items
Students ask and answer about the items they need
Students can ask and answer using prepositions of place.

In this lesson :
1- Students will be able to recognize and say the Arabic names of the following colors: red, green, blue, yellow, black, white, brown, gray and the words Alwan/lawn (colors) in Arabic
2- Students will be able to express what colors they prefer and their favorite one in Arabic.

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: 1- Read today's date. 2- Explore the art of Arabic Calligraphy. 3- Learn about it Cultural and historical importance. 4- Create a calligraphy piece.

By the end of the lesson students should be able to do the following tasks:

Speaking
• Describe their school.
• Talk about some activities they do at school.
• List places and tell when they go to them (revision of days and time).
Reading
• Read names of rooms in the school.
• Read some names of their teachers.
Writing
• Spell and copy words they are learning / do a spelling bee.

In this lesson, students will:
1- Students will be able to recognize and say the Arabic names of the following body parts: head, hand, stomach, chest, leg, foot and the word body in Arabic
2- Students will be able to much pictures of body parts to the words in Arabic.

• Students will be able to say some of the jobs in Arabic.
• Students will be able to ask and answer questions using “what do you want to be in the future?
• Students will be able to differentiate between the masculine and feminine form of the jobs.

Objective - By the end of the lesson students will be able to:

- review the colors in Arabic and learn the word (blond).
-learn the verbs (touch- say) and adjectives (tall- short)in Arabic.
- identify some body parts in Arabic.
-describe their hair.

Objectives:
Students learn about the history and meaning of cartouches.
Students create their own cartouche.
Students learn how to write their names in hieroglyphics and Arabic on a cartouche.

Resources to be used:
http://www.artyfactory.com/egyptian_art/cartouche_lesson/cartouche_less…
http://www.virtual-egypt.com/newhtml/glyph/glyph.html

• Identify the three main languages used in the school.
• Recognize what music and PE are in Arabic.
• Recognize some activities related to Music and P.E.
• Form sentences using different sports.
• Name the main objects they use in the classroom.
• Ask where objects are in the classroom.
• Compare between a students' life in the US and in Egypt.
• Compare between Egyptian public schools and classrooms and American Public schools and classrooms.