Arabic III

Students continue to develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The content is focused on issues and challenges that relate to the lives of high school students. Themes and topics go beyond daily life situations into social issues related to the world around them. As part of the curriculum, students will be able to read and understand simplified texts that relate to issues that are of interest to Arabs as manifested in pop songs and poetry. Students will comprehend simple to more complex songs and video texts that revolve around familiar topics and be able to express views in simple terms about issues that rotate around the self and the people around you. Students will handle a number of uncomplicated communicative tasks relating to social situations and be able to read and understand basic instructions and standard messages and expressions such as those found on menus, maps and road signs. They will also understand main ideas in texts that are highly contextualized. Topics include additional and more sophisticated aspects of personal and family life, teen culture, future plans and choices and the environment.