Healthy Food Assignment

This unit is called “Healthy Food”. Students will watch authentic videos about healthy food, food groups, Arabic healthy food recipes, and middle eastern tradition food in the target language. They will watch short videos and listen to songs that show Arab people talk and sing about food groups, healthy food, recipes, and tradition food. Students will understand the spoken language and try to recognize the new vocabularies that will be used in these authentic texts. Students will read an article about food groups in Arabic language. The students will comprehend the written information using the pictures and cognates words that is found in the text. The new vocabulary words associated with this unit will be presented to the students through …show more content…
They will be asked to connect some middle eastern food with other food from their own culture and talk about the similarities and differences between the two dishes. Students will do a survey asking several people of their family members, friends, or neighbors, and ask them about their favorite middle eastern food; then share the results with the class in Arabic language. As a final project, each student will be asked to choose one of the following methods to create a recipe for any tradition food from their own country using the target language. These methods could be creating a video, brochure, a poster, or acting out the recipe in the class using real ingredient and bring the dish to share with the class. I will ask them to include all the written description of their recipe, all the new vocabularies, all ingredients, and all the terms that they learned in the target language. Each student will present his project in front of the class and talk about …show more content…
For the home language survey, I would ask several questions that address the parents, such as their primary language, the language they use to communicate to their child, and the first language the students spoke when they started talking. I would send this survey home on the first day of the school year, along with the parent letter. The survey would provide me from the very beginning of the school year with my students’ linguistic strengths and weaknesses, and what kind of support for language is offered at home. This would also help the parents to be involved and informed about my class and build a good communication and relationship between me and the parents. I would use also IEP and student files in order to learn about my students’ linguistic background. These record provide me with accurate report of my students’ past challenges and current level of language skill. Records such as state testing and district language tests are very helpful to know more about the students’ languages levels. I would use these records because it is considered to be a third party perspective and observation, rather than a student or parent’s viewpoints that might be a little inaccurate. Also, parent – teacher conference at the beginning of the school year, or at the back to school night