Going Somewhere, What do you use for transportation?

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Lesson Profile

Student Level

College / University

Target Language

Arabic

Teaching Context

Hybrid / blended

Target Proficiency Level

Novice

Topics

Travel,

Other

Performance Descriptors

Basic factual conversation in highly familiar contexts
Answer simple, direct questions
Introduce oneself and exchange greetings
List, enumerate, identify
Use short, memorized phrases
Use formulaic expressions
Understand basic notices
Complete basic forms

Objectives and Standards

Objective 1

Activity 1:Students will be able to say and read the new vocabulary words: car, ship, bicycle, train, plane

Objective 2

Activity 1: Students will be able to recognize and say the letter: S & TA

Objective 3

Activity 2: Students will be able to say and read the new words: hantour, horse, camel

Objective 4

Activity 2: Students will connect with activities in the Arabic countries related to these 3 words

Objective 5

Activity2: Students will learn the verb ride and answer Yes/No questions related to it.

World-Readiness Standards

Communication

1.3 Presentational: Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.

Cultures

2.1 Practices: Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.

Connections

3.1 Other disciplines: Learners build, reinforce, and expand their knowledge of other disciplines while using the language to develop critical thinking and to solve problems creatively.

Comparisons

4.2 Cultures: Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.

Communities

5.1 School and beyond: Learners use the language both within and beyond the classroom to interact and collaborate in their community and the globalized world.

California Standards

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Common Core Standards

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Performance Assessment (Final Project/Assessment)

Performance Task 1 - Interpretive

Students in Activity 2 homework will present 3 words to each letter they took and share it with the class

Performance Task 2 - Presentational

Students will go to voicethread and answer the question: Which Arabic countries has camels and why?

Performance Task 3 - Interpersonal

Teacher asks yes/no questions to see if the students can interpret the meaning of the new vocabulary

Functions, Structures, Vocabulary and Culture

Functions

Answer Yes No questions
Letters: S, TA, Ha

Structures

Verb Ride in the present tense

Vocabulary

Activity1: car, train, bicycle, plane, train
Activity2: hantoor, camel, horse

Rubrics

Task 1 - Interpretive

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Task 2 - Presentational

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Task 3 - Interpersonal

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Activities

Opening Activities / Setting the Stage

Opening Activities / Setting the Stage
Activity 1: Asynchronous lesson:
LE4 a. I ensure that at least 90% of what I say and/or materials I share with my students are in the target language. c. I use a variety of strategies to make language comprehensible. PF2 b. I provide feedback that is close in time to demonstrated performance.
Teacher starts the lesson by short video about the key words. Students listen to the video from minutes 1:30 to 3:45 minute.
After the video the teacher introduces the active words and repeat them .
Teacher share the video from 4:20 to 6:10 to revise the words a second time in a song.
Teacher shares the picture cards give students few seconds to guess the words, then the words related to them. Teacher will introduce the letter Sa and Ta.
Homework, students will read the words and match it with the meaning and the transilitation.

ACTIVITY 2: SYNCHRONOUS LESSON:
PF2A provide my students with frequent descriptive feedback
Teacher will share a PowerPoint presentation through Hangout.
1.As a warm up activity, we will revise the key word from last week lesson by listening to sound of means of transportation and guess what it is.
2.Students will look at pictures and match them with the right vocabulary words.
3. Teacher will share 3 pictures of the new vocabulary word, one at a time, say the word, Student will listen and repeat the new vocabulary words: Hantoor, Hesan, Jamal, then watch a youtube on each animal. You tube related to the Arabic countries.
4.The teacher asks the students to repeat the key words again , then note a new letter:H to the students.
5.The teacher asks the students Yes/No questions related to the verb ride. Did you ride a horse? Yes/No
6 Exercise:Students match pictures with words, students participate and shares their answers.
7.Student as an interpretive assessment send a homework document to the teacher that includes words that have the letter: H, T, and S
8.the second homework, is a formative assessment in the presentation mode: students to got voice thread and record the answer to the question: Which Arabic country/ countries has camels and why?

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