Grade 5 Overview
- Review of fourth-grade vocabulary
- Alphabet and writing system
- Family members and structure
- Customs and celebrations
- Typical Foods
- Clothing
- Colors and simple adjectives
- Pets, and animals in natural settings
- Hobbies, leisure activities, likes and dislikes
- Physical attributes and conditions (tall, short, old, young, etc.)
- Feelings and personality traits
- Numbers
- Countries and their capitals
- Major geographic features (rivers, mountains, deserts, forests)
- Climate, seasons and typical weather patterns
- Product(s) native to country/ies
- Major natural resources, commercial products, services, and industries of an Arabic-speaking country
- Food
- Clothes
- Arabic Musical Instruments
- Market and Marketplace stories (Folktales)
Fifth Grade:
Unit 1: Knowing the Arabic speaking World: Egypt, UAE and Qatar
Unit 2: Hobbies and Sports
Unit 3: Food we eat
Unit 4: Marketplace
“Can-Do” Statements/Learning Outcomes
Communication:
I. Interpersonal Mode
Students can converse, provide and obtain information, express feelings, emotions, and ideas, and exchange opinions in Arabic.
By the end of Grade 5 students can:
- Understand and use basic, age-appropriate courtesy expression and gestures, and make age-appropriate introductions, presenting classmates, family members and friends.
- Ask and answer simple questions related to familiar and age-appropriate topics (family, school, daily routines and events, familiar objects and possessions, animals, food, clothing, celebrations, etc.)
- Express needs, interests, likes and dislikes in brief conversations.
- Express feelings and emotions in simple phrases.
- Express basic agreement and disagreement, and give basic reasons.
Students can understand and interpret writing and speech on a variety of topics in Arabic.
By the end of Grade 5 students can:
- Listen and understand simple information when accompanied by pictures and graphs.
- Read and understand some learned or memorized words and phrases.
- Recognize people, objects, monuments, and places based on oral descriptions.
- Comprehend main events and identify main characters in illustrated children’s stories or stories presented orally with visuals.
Students will present information, concepts, and ideas to listeners and/or readers on a variety of topics in the language studied.
By the end of Grade 5 students can:
- Introduce their families.
- Write lists which name things and animals they like and do not like.
- Present information about their favorite animals.
- Write about themselves using learned phrases and memorized expressions.
- Perform poems, songs, dances, short skits, simple plays, etc.
- Give show-and-tell presentations.
- Produce and present illustrated stories, posters, and age-appropriate reports.
- Describe with words and memorized expressions the main character in the story that the teacher is reading to the class.
Students can demonstrate an understanding of the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied and the relationship between them.
By the end of Grade 5 students can:
- Participate in age-appropriate cultural activities, games and songs.
- Identify customs that are of interest to children (celebrations, traditional foods, aspects of family life, social interaction, and religious practices).
- Identify simple patterns of behavior, interactions, and customs in various familiar settings.
- Describe the products needed to carry out daily routines and meet basic needs within a community, region, or culture in which Arabic is spoken (housing, stores, foods, transportation, health care, public services).
- Identify products that were native to a community, region, or country in which Arabic is spoken.
- Describe and explain the significance of the products associated with an important civil, religious, or regional holiday or celebration within an Arabic-speaking community or culture.
- Identify the major natural resources, commercial products, services, and industries of a country in which Arabic is spoken.
- Recognize the currency of a country in which Arabic is spoken.