a-g Arabic 1B Syllabus and Pacing Guide

 

Course# 7123 E.2

Location: Canvas

Instructor: Aishatu Muhammad

Email: amuhammad@cwcharter.org

Class time: Monday 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

Prerequisites: None

Grading: 5 credits

Learning materials: Textbook, workbook, notebook, pencil, eraser, and a two pocket folder.

 

Attendance: Attendance is required.  The Truancy Policy applies to in-person and online classes.  An unexcused absence may be counted as a truancy.

 

Parental Support: : Your child will meet with the instructor once a week.  Your child may need some support from you at home with their reading. Please use this pacing guide to help your child complete the assignments each week. We are a team in your child’s education and your child’s success depends on all members giving 100%.

 

Course Overview: 

This course is for students taking Arabic as a foreign Language. The course is designed to introduce students to the basic knowledge of the Arabic Language and skills to communicate with Arabic-speaking people. Students will demonstrate competency by being able to communicate orally and in writing. Students will learn the Total Physical Response (TPR) method of communicating in Arabic. 

Course Goals and/or Major Student Outcomes

• Students will be able to read and write in Arabic for a variety of purposes.
•  Students will gather, analyze and apply the knowledge learned to real-life situations.
•  Students will understand the history and cultures of the Arabic-Speaking people.
•  Students will have gathered experience and knowledge in the Arabic Language and culture.

Course Objectives

• Students will acquire listening, reading and writing skills in the Arabic language.
• Students will learn the total physical response (TPR) method of communicating orally in Arabic. 
• Students will learn the essential elements of Arabic grammar and usage.
• Students will learn about the cultures and customs of Arabic speaking people.

Unit 2 - Cinema, body parts, health, number up to 100, consonants, family members, buying groceries, classroom objects, figures, clothing.

Syllabus and pacing guide

Lesson	Writing and Pronunciation	Grammar and Usage	Cultural Notes
Family Celebrations - How Was the Wedding?	Tanwin, elision	Basic sentence structure, the possessive construction, perfect tense verb form, agreement between nouns/adjectives	Family relations in Arab families
An Interview	Dialogue, Vocabulary, & Exercises	Nominal sentences, common prepositions, possessive suffixes, saying to have	Rules of communication – titles, family names, genealogical naming
Travel - Your Passport, Please	Dialogue, Vocabulary, & Exercises	Imperfect tense, verbal sentences, agreement between subject/verb, object pronouns suffixes	Airport customs, antiquities
Travel - At the Hotel	Dialogue, Vocabulary, & Exercises	The root system of verbs, using an Arabic dictionary, numbers 0-100, asking about quantity with kam and bikam	Hotels, tourists, and entertainment customs
Second Review and Reading Passage #1	Vocabulary	Rules of gender/number/person, sentence construction, verb form, possessives, adjectives

Key Assignments Unit 2 

TPR (Total Physical Response) actions

Students will demonstrate mastery of four units in Total Physical Response (TPR) by showing the teacher the correct responses to his/her commands during two oral tests:

1. Oral Test Topic – Cinema, body parts, health, numbers up to 100, consonants.
2. Oral Test Topic – family members, buying groceries, classroom objects, figures, clothing.

Family album

Students will prepare and present an album of themselves as well as family members that includes a discussion of culture and activities.

Assessment

A-g courses require a proctored final exam or significant project each semester.

Written final

Students will identify pictures using correct grammar and usage and write a comprehensive autobiography that demonstrates appropriate use of sentence structures.

Comprehensive Oral Final:

In order to receive credit for second semester Level one, and to be recommended to Level two, all Level one foreign language students must pass an oral proficiency exam successfully. To prepare for the exam, students should practice aloud at home or with an advanced language student. The more practice the better the opportunity for success.

The following list comprises the exam:

• Arabic alphabet and numbers script
• Greetings
• Dates, time, weather
• Personal information: age, name, hometown, family • Daily, leisure activities
• Courtesy expressions
• Numbers 1-100
• Basic objects in home and school
• People, physical characteristics
• City activities – cinema, dining out, asking for information, shopping and at the train station/airport

Instructional Methods and/or Strategies

Students will demonstrate mastery throughout the course by completing the following activities: 

• Dialogues

• Grammar and usage
• Pronunciation practice • Vocabulary activities • Language exercises
• Cultural notes
• Writing practice

Assessment Methods and/or Tools

Evaluation of student performance is based on individual abilities, interests, and talents. Methods by which student progress is assessed will be through a variety and/or combination of methods. The methods available include but are not limited to the following:

• Monthly review of work by education specialist (credentialed teacher) 
• Portfolios
• Parent facilitator and education specialist observation
• Student demonstrations
• Student performances
• Student grades
• Student work samples
• Written Examinations and Oral Examinations • Projects 

Course Materials

Textbooks

Mastering Arabic 1 with Online Audio Third Edition

Jane Wightwick (Author), Mahmoud Gaafar (Author)

Hippocrene Books 3rd edition (March 2, 2021)

 

Mastering Arabic 1 Activity Book, Second Edition

Mahmoud Gaafar 

Hippocrene Books Second Edition (February 1, 2015)

Al-Asas for Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers: Part 1, Beginner Level(With Online Audio Content (Arabic for Non-native Speakers-professional) (Arabic Edition)

Fawzieh Ahmad Bader

Noorart, Inc 3rd edition (July 1, 2010)

Grading

I will determine the grade based on the following:

 

20%     Oral Test

15%      Workbook checks

20%     Cultural project

25%     Student course book samples

20%     Final Exam/written and oral 

 

    Grade Scale:

 

    A+ 100% ~ A 93-99%  ~   A- 90-92%

    B+ 89%  ~  B 83-88%  ~   B- 80-82%

    C+ 79%  ~  C 73-78%  ~   C- 70-72%

    D+ 69%  ~  D 63-68%  ~   D- 60-62%

A-g Arabic 1/B Pacing Guide

 

Syllabus

Weeks	Live Instruction Focus (60 minutes weekly )	Textbook Pages	Workbook pages
1/13/25	Review and Introduction	Unit 6-12
1/27/25	Asking for Information Past tense An Interview Dialogue, Vocabulary, & Exercises Family Celebrations - How Was the Wedding?	Unit 13 page 167 - 177	Page 54-55
2/3/25	Past tense joining sentences Dialogue, Vocabulary, & Exercises Family relations in Arab families	Unit 13 page 178-183	Page 56-57
2/10/25	Singular and plural nouns Numbers 11-100 Dialogue, Vocabulary, & Exercises Rules of communication – titles, family names, genealogical naming	Unit 14 page 184 -190	Page 58-59
2/24/25	Weather, Dialogue, Vocabulary, & Exercises Rules of communication – titles, family names, genealogical naming	Unit 14 page 191 - 201	Page 60-61
3/3/25	Oral Test Topic – Cinema, body parts, health, numbers up to 100, consonants.		Cultural Project Family album Students will prepare and present an album of themselves as well as five family members that includes a discussion of culture and activities.
3/10/25	Second Review and Reading Passage	Unit 15 page 202 - 210	page 62-65
3/17/25	Time Dialogue, Vocabulary, & Exercises Travel - Your Passport, Please	Unit 16 page 211 - 220	Page 66-67
3/31/25	Negative statements Present tense Dialogue, Vocabulary, & Exercises Airport customs, antiquities	Unit 16 page 220 - 227	Page 68-69
4/7/25	Comparing things Days of the week Verbs,Comparing past and present Dialogue, Vocabulary, & Exercises Hotels, tourists, and entertainment customs	Unit 17 page 228-244	Page 70-73
4/14/25	Oral Test Topic – family members, buying groceries, classroom objects, figures, clothing.
4/21/25	Education and Business Plural pattern Nouns Hamzah Word order and verbs	Unit 18 page 245-261	Page 74-76
4/28/25	Future plans Months Forms of the verbs	Unit 19 pages 262-273	Pages 78-81
5/5/25	Review and further study	Unit 20 pages 274-288	Pages 82-85
5/12/25	Comprehensive Oral Final: In order to receive credit for second semester Level one, and to be recommended to Level two, all Level one foreign language students must pass an oral proficiency exam successfully. To prepare for the exam, students should practice aloud at home or with an advanced language student. The more practice the better the opportunity for success.
5/19/25	Written final Students will identify pictures using correct grammar and usage and write a comprehensive autobiography that demonstrates appropriate use of sentence structures.