Author:
Blake Simmerman, Amber Hoye, Sara Bakari, Sara Bakari
Subject:
Languages, World Cultures, Language Education (ESL), Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Level:
Community College / Lower Division
Tags:
  • Arabic
  • Arabic Grammar
  • Future
  • Grammar
  • Past
  • Present
  • Sat
  • Set
  • Setting
  • Verb Tense
  • Verbs
  • Words
  • اجلس
  • ازمنة الافعال
  • الأمر
  • الافعال
  • العربية
  • القواعد العربية
  • الماضي
  • المستقبل
  • المضارع
  • جلس
  • فعل
  • يجلس
  • License:
    Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
    Language:
    English, Arabic

    Arabic Level 2, Activity 13: "أَزْمِنَة الأَفعَال / Verb Tenses" (Face-to-Face/online)

    Arabic Level 2, Activity 13: "أَزْمِنَة الأَفعَال / Verb Tenses" (Face-to-Face/online)

    Overview

    In this activity, students will practice using some of the verbs we use on a daily basis, with the past and imperative tenses more focused on the present tense.

    Can-Do Statements:

    • I can talk with someone using the three verb tenses.

    • I can read and write words of the Arabic verb tenses.

    • I can recognize the present tense.

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    Activity Instructions

    أَزْمِنَة الأَفعَال / Verb Tenses

    Description:

    In this activity, students will practice using some of the verbs we use on a daily basis, with the past and imperative tenses more focused on the present tense.

    Semantic Topics:

    جلس - يجلس - اجلس - سمع - يسمع - اسمع, sit, sat, setting.

    Grammatical Structures: 

    Verbs, verb tenses ،أزمنة الأفعال, past, present, and imperative tenses, Arabic idioms.

    Products: Daily Verbs, most common phrases in Arabic.

    Practices: Using slang Arabic in lieu of Standard Arabic is very common. Here students will experience using three common phrases used in everyday life in Arabic to express themselves better.

    Perspectives: The three common phrases are,

    • “Pain in the nick” “Nashba نَشْبَة”
    • “Hold your horses” “Erked إِرْكِد”
    • “Fat Chance” “Belmeshmesh بِالمِشْمِشْ”

    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 talk with someone using the three verb tenses.
    • I can read and write words of the Arabic verb tenses.
    • I can recognize the present tense.

    Materials Needed:

    Warm-Up

    1. Pull up the slideshow, and share your screen with students.
      افتح عرض الشرائح ، وشارك شاشتك مع الطلاب.
    2. On slide #4, you will read through the table showing verb tenses.
      في الشريحة رقم 4 ، ستقرأ الجدول الذي يعرض أزمنة الفعل.
    3. Encourage students to come up with a sentence from the verb examples on the table.
      شجع الطلاب على التخمين بجملة من أمثلة الفعل التي على الجدول.
    4. Explain how we can recognize the present tense.
      اشرح كيف يمكننا التعرف على زمن المضارع.

    Main Activity

    1. Take a look at the cards on the Cards File. You will send, via chat box, five cards for each student.
      ألق نظرة على البطاقات الموجودة في ملف البطاقات. سترسل في الدردشة الخاصة 5 بطاقات لكل طالب.
    2. Each student will take turns to try and act in order to describe the word that is written on the card. No talking!
      يتناوب كل طالب على محاولة التمثيل من أجل وصف الكلمة المكتوبة على البطاقة. ممنوع التكلم!.
    3. Their other classmates will try to guess the words and say them out loud in Arabic.
      سيحاول زملاؤهم الآخرون في الفصل تخمين الكلمات وقولها بصوت عالٍ باللغة العربية.
    4. Set up a 2 minutes timer. Each student will have only 2 minutes to describe the five cards.
      قم بإعداد مؤقت لمدة دقيقتين. سيكون لكل طالب دقيقتان فقط لوصف الخمس بطاقات.

      Wrap-Up

      1. Ask the students to share 1-2 of their favorite Arabic verb words!
        اطلب من الطلاب مشاركة كلمة أو اثنتين من كلمات الفعل العربية المفضلة لديهم!.

      End of Activity

    • 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 talk with someone using the three verb tenses.
    • I can read and write words of the Arabic verb tenses.
    • I can recognize the present tense.