Lesson 15 Date: Monday, December 15th to Friday, December 19th Team teachers

Lesson 15

Date: Monday, December 15^th to Friday, December 19^th

Team teachers: Mrs. Ali & Mrs. Al Sakhawy

Grades: 6, 7, & 8

Culture: Learn about holidays in the Arab world by Listening to two Arabic songs about holidays, and learn some new Arabic words

Objectives:

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  Sharing with students their celebration of Christmas.
  
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  Giving them an idea about holidays in the Arab world : Muslim and Christian.
  
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  Listening to Arabic Music and learning a song in Arabic about Christams and holidays in general
  
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  Through this song they will be introduced to new Arabic words : Rab , Al Eid .Farha , agmal , gameela , zekra , ba3d , Ghanoo , oolou , Barkou , hanou. Leylet , Shajara,
  

ashab , welad , al hedaya ….etc

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  Giving them the lyrics of the song written in English.
  

Materials:

1. 
   Overhead projector
   
2. 
   Videos of the songs
   

Standards:

1. 
   Interpersonal communication
   
2. 
   Understanding culture and social interaction
   

Procedures:

1. 
   First We will congratulate them in Arabic for the Christams “ EId Saeed “ Happy holidays.
   
2. 
   Then we will tell them that Christmas and Eastern is celebrated in the Arab world and talk about how they are celebrated.
   
3. 
   Asking them to tell us how they celebrate both.
   
4. 
   Also , we will mention that Muslims also celebrate two holidays : Bireme and breaking the fast Eid and will explain what these two holidays are .
   
5. 
   We will start listening to a beautiful song about Christmas and explain what it says
   
6. 
   Finally we will listen to a song that talks about celebrations about Eids in general
   
7. 
   We will ask them while listening to write down the words that they could identify
   
8. 
   We will listen to their responses and explain what these words are
   
9. 
   They will write down the words they have learned: Al Eid and whatever words they will respond to. If not then we will give them some of the words mentioned above
   
10. 
    The lyrics of the two songs will be given to them and they will be asked to choose one to practice
    
11. 
    They will also listen and learn that there are different Arabic dialects and that the ones they have listened to are Egyptian and Lebanese
    

Closure:

• 
  Asking some students to stand up and read the lyrics they have listened to
  

Homework:

• 
  Choosing one of the two songs and learning it over winter break.
  

Al Eid (holidays) Arabic Songs

1^st song: “Ahlan Be-El-Eid” ( A song about holidays in general)

Lyrics:

Ahlan Ahlan Bel Eid

Marhab Marhab Bel Eid

Ahlan Ahlan Bel Eid

Marhab Marhab bel Eid

H h H

H h H

H h H

H h H

(All the above is to be said twice)

El Eid Farha

Choir: Ya salam

W Agmal farha

Choir: Ya salam

El Eid Farha

W Agmal Farha

Tegma3 Shamel Areeb w be3eed

Sa3dena Feeha

Bey khaleeha

Zekra gameela

Leh ba3d El Eid

(Twice)

Ghanou Ma3aya ghanou

Oolou waraya oolou

Kater ya rab fee a3yadna

W atrah feeha el Baraka w zeed

Gana El Eid

Ahoo gana El Eid

Twice

2^nd Song: Leylet Eid ( Arabic Christmas Song)

Lyrics:

Leylet Eid Leylet Eid

Al leyla leylet Eid

Zeena w nas , sout Ajras 3am betren be 3eed

Leylet Eid Leylet Eid

Al leyla leylet Eid

Sout welad thyab jdad w bokra al hob jdeed

(All this is said twice)

3am yetlaoo Al ashab

Lihdaya khalf al bab

Fe shajara fe Al dar

W yedooroo Welad esghar

W al shajara saret Eid

W El Eid swara fel eed

W el eed t3laa fel shajara

Ghenye w 3anaeed

Chorus will say the first part once

Ya maghara kelha byoot

Telme3 metll yaoot

Kief jebtee 3al dar

Thalj sharayet w emar

W meen eli jaye be3eed

W 3am beyrosh moowa 3eed

Yede bwab al nas w yemshee

W al kheir 3alaynaa yezeed