New Resources

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New resources:
Arabic Secondary Curriculum
Secondary Curriculum poster: This poster summary can be shared with students, parents and stakeholders.
Arabic Elementary Curriculum
Elementary Curriculum poster: This poster summary can be shared with students, parents and stakeholders.

WordClouds: 16 tips to use WordClouds in languages. A special gift for Mrs Hamdy and her students at Springbrook High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. I hope your students find them useful Mona.

Write a story using the words.
Create descriptive word clouds to cover descriptions of themes, characters in a reading or novel. (6th form and A Level).
Use word clouds to brainstorm ideas and concepts.
Use word clouds to highlight expectations during peer-assessment and feedback.
Assess learner knowledge by having them create word clouds.
Create a word cloud and have students create a story from what they see in the cloud. They can then make a word cloud of their own story.
Put words in a word cloud that will be part of spelling tests, reading, writing, speaking and listening activity.
Have students create a word cloud that highlights the countries of the Arab World.
Have students create a word cloud of important words they have learned.
Put both the English and Arabic word into a word cloud. Have students find a way to connect the words. This could be redoing the Wordle with a tilde between words so the go together. It could be colour coding the words using the advanced edit feature. Perhaps they just draw lines between them.
Create a word cloud of introductory words for discussion by students in class.
Have students create a word cloud of food/clothing etc… items from the a country in the Arab World.
Put your lesson plan into a word cloud to create a word cloud of what you will be learning about.
Entire class creates a word cloud in reaction to a topic.
Create a class word cloud that highlights class expectation. This can be done by students.
Post students first names to create a class or group word cloud.

Class display

Ideas for using WordClouds

WordClouds are beautiful and fun to work with, and the students love them. Initially you could ask the students "What is the WordCloud about?" You could then generate some comprehension questions and ask the students to use the WordCloud, in pairs, and answer the questions. For higher thinking order, students can generate comprehension questions for their peers. WordClouds can also be used as prompts and aid for speaking, writing and listening activities. To create WordClouds please visit www.wordle.net

Film Caramel activity book. Caramel PowerPoint
Free 15 video-based lessons (with transcripts) from North Carolina
Arabic language learning library
GCSE Speaking book. A great contribution by interlingo.co.uk
Arabic Pictionary Vocabulary Book
A gift for your learners, they can write the topic titles and label the pictures as they study them.
Activity Book for beginners
This is an activity book for beginners. There are many resources to support activities in the book in the 'Primary Resources' section of the website.
Arabic GCSE Speaking Book This GCSE speaking book is a good resource to Arabic GCSE students and candidates.
Generic language sheet A good resource for speaking and writing activities.
Writing for beginners A useful activity booklet to teach Arabic alphabet.
Speaking and prompts
Birthday and wedding party
Book and film review
Clothes and fashion
Email about good news
Special event at school
Family and friends
Hobbies and activities in all three tenses
A holiday resort
The Internet
My town and area
Jobs education and future career
Sports leisure and work
Sports day at school
Sports
Summer camp
Tourism
Tourism in the Arab World
An unforgettable family holiday
My favourite book/film
Generic language and grammar activities
Useful language
Grammar

Arabic A level Resources

A2 Arabic: These topics are specific to A2 Arabic

Qindeel Umm Hashim Book Summary
Kalila Wa Dimna Book Summary
Al Liss Wal Kilab Book Summary
A2 Essay writing Qindeel Umm Hashim 1
A2 Essay writing Qindeel Umm Hashim 2
A2 Essay writing Qindeel Umm Hashim 3
A2 Essay writing Qindeel Umm Hashim 4
A2 Essay writing Kalila wa dimna 1
A2 Essay writing Kalila wa dimna 2
A2 Essay writing Kalila wa dimna 3
A2 Essay writing Kalila wa dimna 4
A2 Essay writing Al Liss Wal Kilab 1
A2 Essay writing Al Liss Wal Kilab 2
A2 Essay writing Al Liss Wal Kilab 3
A2 Essay writing Al Liss Wal Kilab 4
A2 Al-Mutanabbi 1
A2 Al-Mutanabbi 2

AS Arabic:

Writing 1
Writing 2
Writing 3
Writing 4
Writing 5
Writing 6

AS and A2 Arabic: These topics apply to both AS and A2 themes and topics.
Essay writing Arab society 1
Essay writing Arab society 2
Essay writing Arab society 3
Essay writing Arab society 4
Essay writing Art and culture 1
Essay writing Art and culture 2
Essay writing Art and culture 3
Essay writing Art and culture 4
Essay writing Media 1
Essay writing Media 2
Essay writing Arab history 1
Essay writing Arab history 2
Essay writing Arab history 3

Writing for beginners By Taoufiq Cherkaoui

Example activities using music in the class. Songs are a great way to learn Arabic and learn about Arab culture, music and different dialects. These songs are available on youtube.
Megri Brothers 'Laylee Taweel' (Morocco) By Taoufiq Cherkaoui
Fairouz 'Habbaytak Bel Sayf' (Lebanon) By Taoufiq Cherkaoui
Souad Massi 'Ya Raoui' (Algeria) By Taoufiq Cherkaoui
Dahmane Al-harrachi 'Ya Rayah win msafer' (Algeria) By Taoufiq Cherkaoui

Resources shared by teachers:
Happiness By Suzanne Mohamed
Ayman and Sarah By Suzanne Mohamed
Nelson Mandela By Suzanne Mohamed
Culture Quiz By Taoufiq Cherkaoui
Lady Bird Revision Game By Taoufiq Cherkaoui
Vocabulary and sentence Game By Taoufiq Cherkaoui
New Year Resolutions By Sergio Palas

Using play dough in the class to learn Arabic alphabet and writing for beginners, thanks Dr Al Muntasir.

1001 inventions is a great website with award winning productions and resources relating to Arab and Muslim contributions to world civilisations. Please click on the picture to access the website. Muslim civilisation stretched from Spain to China. From the 7th century onwards, men and women of different faiths and cultures built on knowledge from ancient civilisations, making breakthroughs that have left their mark on our world.

Please click on the picture to access the education section of the 1001 inventions website.

The education section of www.1001inventions.com has plenty of very useful free resources with endless possibilities of extra curricular links with many other subjects and Arabic.

1001 inventions in association with Jameel Foundation resources for schools and teachers: Please remember that these documents are free to use and cannot be sold.
Secondary Activity Book English Version
Primary Activity Book English Version
Secondary Activity Book Arabic Version
Primary Activity Book Arabic Version
Primary Activity Book1001 inventions Teachers' Guide
Perfume
Abbas Ibn Firnas
Seeing in the Dark
Plants
Figuring out phenomena
Pharmacy