Students will practice talking about events and holidays. They will discuss the ways in which they celebrate events with family and friends in the past. Students will also be able to identify how other cultures celebrate local or national holidays. They will recommend places to celebrate birthdays or go on dates in their city, and practice how to talk about past friendships or relationships.

Critical Language Service offers playlists with video lessons that explain the material in Alif Baa, Al-Kitaab 1 (through lesson 11), and a series on Egyptian vocabulary. Videos designed for the Alif Baa series focus on stories to illustrate new vocabulary while the series designed for Al-Kitaab explains grammatical concepts introduced in the books, and demonstrate proper pronunciation. They also offer a playlist of 60 cartoon episodes in Arabic.

CultureTalk - Arab World features a very extensive selection of filmed interviews with people from different countries in the Arabic speaking world. While some interviews are in English, the vast majority are in Arabic. Translations and usually transcripts are provided for all non-English video clips. Topics include family, food, education, religious and cultural customs, work, art, sport, travel, etc. The regions covered are the Levant, North Africa, Egypt, and Mauritania, with an Iraqi section on the way.

CultureTalk - Arab World features native speakers from across the Arabic-speaking world giving filmed interviews, in Arabic and sometimes English, on selected topics. Text-based translations and transcriptions are often provided as downloadable documents for most Arabic videos. The videos engage a number of region/country-specific topics, including cultural traditions, religion, politics, and sports.

CultureTalk - Arab World features native speakers from across the Arabic-speaking world giving filmed interviews, in Arabic and sometimes English, on selected topics. Text-based translations and transcriptions are often provided as downloadable documents for most Arabic videos. The videos engage a number of region/country-specific topics, including cultural traditions, religion, politics, and sports.

“Dunia Fi Lubnan” is an online Arabic interactive storybook developed by Alefb multicultural center for children with support from Qatar Foundation International through a Curriculum Development grant.

The storybook is a fully illustrated interactive story, and includes interactive comprehension quiz questions prompted by "Nahla the bee" in English, playful drills to test reading, writing and comprehension, and cultural games from which the learner can accumulate points to earn a surprise gift from Alefb. The story of Dunia, stretched out over 22 fully illustrated pages, tells a tale about a young girl who tries to overcome her fear of speaking Arabic. Along the way, users are exposed to several interactive self-correcting drills, audio files, cultural authentic documents tackling a wide variety of learning topics based on the themes and lessons within Dunia's story. Animations, sounds, glossaries pages and English translation tools all provide helpful hints and aid the learner in staying engaged. “Dunia Fi Lubnan” is an integrated educational material in that it uses both Modern Standard Arabic, الفصحى and colloquial العامية.

The interactive and multimedia components are designed in part to enhance regular curricula for teaching Arabic as a foreign language to children, teens and even adults, individually or in a classroom setting.

When all of the modules are completed, learners will have acquired new vocabulary, reinforced their reading, writing and comprehension skills, and been exposed to different practices, products and perspectives of the Arabic culture. Learners will be able to write a simple postcard using vocabulary from the following topics: Greetings, Feelings, Activities, Countries and Places, Colors, Food, Things and Family/Friends.

This Family and Friends Module 5 of 16 in the ESL course brings class discussions close to what students know and are familiar with. There is extensive discussion on vocabulary of the different relationships and titles of family members. Activities give students adequate practice with the vocabulary. One-paragraph and three-paragraph writing samples are modeled for the writing assignment.  

In this activity, students will practice rejecting or accepting formal invitations to an afternoon or evening get-together. Also, as a group they will have to select one of the invitations templates. Students will have to exchange ideas and organize them in order to successfully complete this activity.

Developed by the Washington Latin Public Charter School, this thirteen slide Power Point presentation displays several pictures regarding everyday leisure activities. Organized by the initial slide's statement - "I like..." - each subsequent slide introduces, in Arabic, a particular activity that occurs throughout the world, such as sports, social events, reading, and so on. Some pictures also feature Arabic advertisements and brands.

In this story, Lou goes to an air show at the local airport, and the Three Friends are inspired by the fast flying jets and their cool maneuvers to create high flying kites

This story is about the incredible flying circuses in the pioneering days of flight.

At Ruth's birthday party the friends play with balloons and bubbles that float in the air.

This story follows the Three Friends as they celebrate the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station and build their own space station.

The friends are inspired while cleaning their rooms to return to their fantasy space story and imagine how their robot and alien characters could clean up space junk.

When the Three Friends and Mo visit the zoo, they are inspired by animals that fly like hawks and eagles, little birds, bats, butterflies, and dragonflies to make winged costumes.

National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story Fly and Float, a story about seaplanes.

Gather your little ones for a special Halloween-themed story time with the National Air and Space Museum. Museum educator Ann Caspari reads an original story and leads us in a craft.

In this story, the three friends and Mo are inspired by the Memorial Day Parade.

Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story "Homebuilt Airplanes," which tells the story of three friends who build their own airplane out of items in their home.

The Three Friends have trouble playing a flight video game and then have more fun creating play cockpits where they can pretend to be pilots.