MATRIX OF ARABIC LANGUAGE UNIT – TERM ONE
Rational: the purpose of this document is for teachers to know what to teach in term one, what the students should know and what the students should be
able to do at the end of teaching this unit.The document is based on the school Scope and sequence and the Australian Curriculum of languages.
TERM: ONE
THEME: MY PERSONAL WORLD
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UNIT: MY PERSONAL WORLD
FOUNDATION
ME, MUSELF
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FAMILY
TOPIC: ME, MYSELF AND MYFAMILY
COMMUNICATING
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 SOCIALISING
Interact ( greetings/gestures) (good morning/Asalamualaikum)
Introduce themselves (My name is…….)
Express likes/dislikes (Muslim Muslim song)
Participate in songs/games (Body parts/traffic light songs, fish swims
under the sea game (vocabulary)/Rabbit rabbit where is the carrot?
Follow instructions Hand on head/ sit down
Name and Star Class chart
Learners use Arabic to express their name
- Allahu Rabbi Song – establishing identity as a Muslim in Arabic
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UNDERSTANDING
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Informing
Use visual clues to predict meaning (Tongue twister)
Make a class big book on my family
Match letters to pictures and sounds
Flashcards/Alphabet ppt on IWB (family and alphabet)
Contribute to the class big book (match labels with pictures of family)
 Creating
Play acting/ express emotions (I love my mum and my dad)
Pronounce letters of Alphabet which is similar in shape and sound
(Alphabet song)
Recite poems and songs
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 SYSTEMS OF LANGUAGE
Letters and their sounds from Alif-Jeem
Identify rhymes in spoken words (Tongue Twister for alif)
Alphabet song (correct pronunciations upto jeem)
Practise writing and identifying letters Alif to jeem
Practise writing letters with the same shape but different pronunciations ie.
Alif,baa,taa all from” the plate family” but number of dots and position
differs
Recognise writing system is from R-L
Write letters following the correct directions
Follow instructions – Quiet/ stop (traffic light song)
 Language variation and change
Greetings Role play
Greet each other with Salam (role play – mention definition of salam in
Arabic)
Understand the use of etiquette in everyday social contexts (responding to
salaam, not speaking over each other etc)
YEAR
LEVEL
UNIT: MY PERSONAL WORLD
FOUNDATION
TOPIC: ME, MYSELF AND MYFAMILY
COMMUNICATING
UNDERSTANDING
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Translating
Shake hands as welcome and farewell (as a sign of respect)
Greet used at certain times (asalaamualaikum, Good morning)
Respect within the family / parents (how to show respect through
verbal and physical examples – thankyou/I’m sorry/kissing the parents
hand)
Create bilingual signs for the classroom ( Label
chair/door/table/light/window)
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ROLE OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
REFLECTING
Use hand gestures in role play (Asalaamualaikum/shake
hand/waalykumasalaam)
Greetin older people first, responding with proper greetings
1.19 (a) Recognise Arabic is spoken by different religions and cultural communities
(Link to Religion and the Quran)