In this activity students will learn how to respond to greetings, how to greet and how to chat shortly with other persons.
Description:Students will practice using the appropriate greeting based on the time of the day and who they are speaking to, and also will practice saying their names and asking about it.NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:I can greet and say goodbye to someone:In the morningIn the afternoon\evening\nightBefore bedtimeBased on who I am speaking with, I can use a culturally appropriate greeting.
This blog is from an American woman living and working in Saudi Arabia. It includes information about living and working in Saudi Arabia as well as her travels elsewhere in the Middle East. This particular section of the blog includes lessons on Arabic, which are all transliterated. Conversations that are transliterated and translated, vocabulary lists, and cultural information are all included. The lessons include one on bread, one on time and the concept of time, and one on New Year's Resolutions.
This site contains numerous audio, and video files, grouped by topic, of subjects speaking Jordanian colloquial Arabic. There are also a few images and informational links interspersed throughout the site. Each video is available for download and accompanied by an Arabic transcript and an English translation. Videos are based on every day topics like greetings, farewells, shopping, and transportation.
In this activity, students will practice asking someone they meet where they are from and their nationality. Students will start by asking each other what country they are from, and then each student will be given a country card at random. Students will then practice asking and answering questions about various nationalities.
This site houses a large number of very brief audio files in which native speakers say brief, useful, every day phrases in a number of conjugations. Phrases include things like "How much is this?" "How are you?" or simply reciting useful vocabulary and also cover numbers and time. Each phrase is spoken in 8 or 9 dialects from the regions of North Africa, the Levant, and the Persian Gulf. Every phrase is accompanied by a transcript.
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.
Some students struggle with how to address people with different forms of "you" based on formality and familiarity with the person. This activity allows students to decide how they will talk to someone based on the name tag they have on. The expectation is that they will introduce themselves, then ask one or two simple questions using the correct conjugation and form of address.
Students will have a "Meet and Greet Party." They will pretend to be someone else, like "Shakira" and introduce and greet another person. This will help them practice introducing themselves, greeting someone, and answering how they feel. They will also learn greetings for different times of the day.
Students will have a "Meet and Greet Party." This will help them practice introducing themselves, greeting someone, and answering how they feel. They will also learn greetings for different times of the day.
In this activity, students will practice introductions and pronunciations with tongue twisters. Students will also go through an orientationfor labs by viewing a presentation and playing a game of Kahoot.
Students will have a “Meet and Greet” party where they will pretend to be the person on their card, such as Heidi Klum. They will introduce themselves and greet other people, taking into account the times of day and their feelings review the different greetings
Students will have a “Meet and Greet” party where they will pretend to be the person on their card, such as Heidi Klum. They will introduce themselves and greet other people, taking into account the times of the day and their feelings review the different greetings.
Students must try to formulate questions related to the topics on the bingo card. This is to help the students get to know each other in their target language.
Spanish-speaking people tend to be very polite. They greet each other politely and ask how they are doing. In this seminar you will become familiar with these phrases and be able how to use them in a conversation with a new friend.ACTFL StandardsCommunication: Interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational.Cultures: Relating Cultural Practices to PerspectivesComparisons: Language ComparisonsCommunities: Lifelong learningLearning TargetI can recognize greetings when spoken in Spanish.Habits of MindThinking and communicating with clarity and precisionCritical Thinking SkillConstruct Meaning
In this activity, students will have the opportunity to practice greetings and introductions by practicing vocabulary appropriate for certain times of the day and practicing formal/informal greetings.
In this activity, students practice introducing themselves to new people.
In this activity students will play a game to review greeting, nationalities and time phrases. Throughout the quiz, there will be some supplementary discussion questions to help further reinforce concepts covered in class.
Students will be introduced to appropriate greetings based on the time of day. They will practice using the correct phrases and greetings they learn. Students will then practice recognizing and reading hiragana through the hangman game.