Students will practice asking each other questions on various topics. The warm-up will allow students to practice dates, months, and holidays.
In this activity students will practice identifying the days of the week and sharing their weekly schedule with their peers.
In this lesson, students will learn review days, months, and seasons. They will also learn weather vocabulary and limited clothing vocabulary.
This unit is a teacher-facilitated, interactive lesson designed for a 3-hour course. For shorter class times, you may use the scheduled break as an ending point and resume the rest of the lesson the following day.
Calendar/Weather
Though this website focuses on providing tours to Egypt, it offers an extensive list of words in the Egyptian dialect in both Arabic script and in transliteration. The word list includes the kinds of words you might need to know when traveling, such as "Go straight please" and "I need room service." Each word is transliterated and accompanied by an audio file. There is also an article about history of the Arabic language and the Egyptian dialect. Photo galleries on the site could be used as part of classroom instruction.
This webpage presents a list of vocabulary words associated with seasons, days of the week, months, and the different types of calendars used in the Arabic-speaking world. The words are presented in chart format, and list the word in Arabic, English translation, and English transliteration.