Teaching in the Target Language:

The Key to Linguistic and Cultural Proficiency

Maggie Chen

Iman Hashem

Brandon Zaslow

Mandarin in Schools Conference

Los Angeles, November 1, 2014

California World Language

Project

Lets Learn Arabic

Meeting and Greeting

in the Arab World

Objectives • By the end of this session, you will be able to

– Recognize that there are 22 Arab countries whose Arabic is the main language. Those countries have some similarities and differences in traditions, beliefs, and practices.

– recognize cultural practices (protocols and manners for greeting people the same and across genders) and products (various types of clothes) of the Arabic-speaking world

– You will recognize how Arabic is written from write to left.

– Listen to the video and state what type of greetings is used by each person in the video and how the man greeted the women and women greeted women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWRyeSRFSuo

What do you know about the Arabs?

Are the Arab the Same of different?

Guess the country where this picture is taken.

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أعرف ماذا ماذا أريد أن أعرف ماذا تعلمت

تعالوا نتعلم التحية باللغة العربية

Let’s learn greeting in Arabic

Ahlan wa sahlan

ahlan

Your Turn

Ahlan wa sahlan

ahlan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWRyeSRFSuo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWRyeSRFSuo

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFL1q13YqXw أهال وسهالً : دارين

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxHObDQjTLI أهال وسهالً موال

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsss-V0cLTo أهال وردة

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb5B6mmFwO4

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq15cDIx-RI أهال وسهال نورتي الدار فيروز

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkIXsMpiL54 يا مرحبا بزوارنا يامرحبا

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp9CZD1g_0w مرحبا يا حبايب

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK35qJtOMw4 مرحبا أروى

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmwin0wcvVM السالم عليكم بالسوداني https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq0k4iI8PQM حكيم

؟َمن َأنِت

... َأنا اأُلستاذة ِإميان

...... َأنا

؟َمن َأنَت

... نإميا َأنا اأُلستاذة

......َأنا

..

! َتَشرَّفنا

Greeting Salaam سالم

Go around the class and greet at least 4 of your classmates

• Start by using any type of greetings we have learned

• Say I “name” who are you

• Answer “I name”

• Say tasharrafna to each other

• Say goodbye and meet another classmate

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أعرف ماذا ماذا أريد أن أعرف ماذا تعلمت