Quirky comics: Arabic – bad day – level 1
This beginner text is about a girl who encounters a sequence of bad events while trying to get to school.
The Quirky comics video texts support the teaching of 'Understanding texts' outcomes in the Modern Languages K-10 Syllabus. This can be done in many ways, including:
- Students can use the provided transcripts to read the stories aloud and record themselves perform the stories as plays.
- They can summarise, sequence, extend and change the beginning or ending of the stories.
- They can write profiles of the characters and then put them in different situations.
The texts can also lead to communicative 'Interacting' or 'Creating texts' tasks, such as, telling a nurse why you don’t feel well or writing an invitation to a birthday party.
Watch 'Arabic – bad day – level 1' (1:54)
(Duration: 1 minutes 54 seconds)
Frame 1-1
Girl with two hair buns: إنها الساعة السادسة صباحا"! ! لدي اليوم امتحان مهم للغة العربية.
Frame 1-2
Girl with two hair buns: أين حقيبتي؟
Frame 1-3
Girl with two hair buns: في السلة؟ كلا
Frame 1-4
Girl with two hair buns: في الخزانة؟ كلا
Frame 2-1
Girl with two hair buns: اّه! ها هي! حقيبتي تحت سريري! إنها الساعة السابعة الاّن
إنه وقت الفطور
Frame 2-2
Girl pouring cereal: لا يوجد حبوب للافطار
Frame 2-3
Girl pouring milk: ليس هناك حليب.
Frame 2-4
Girl with two hair buns and pink cat: . هناك خبز محمص! عظيم
Frame 3-1
Fly inside orange juice: يا للهول! هناك ذبابة في عصيري.
Frame 4-1
Girl with two hair buns: . هناك هدوء تام إنها الساعة الثامنة. أنا ذاهبة إلى المدرسة.
Frame 4-2
Girl with two hair buns walking: الضمائر: أنا ، أنتَ ،هو ، هي ، نحن ،أنتم، هم.
Frame 4-3
[Girl with two hair buns steps on dog poop]
Girl with two hair buns: ! يا للقرف
Frame 5-1
[Red bus driving off]
Girl with two hair buns: !يا للكارثة
Frame 5-2
Girl with 2 hair buns: توقف!
Frame 5-3
Girl with 2 hair buns walking: إن الوقت متأخرٌ. إنها الساعة التاسعة.
Frame 6-1
Girl with 2 hair buns: . لا يوجد أحد هنا
Frame 6-2
Girl with 2 hair buns: أين الجميع؟
Frame 6-3
Painter: إنه يوم الأحد.
Frame 6-4
Girl with 2 hair buns: الأحد؟
[End of transcript.]
Syllabus
Please note:
Syllabus outcomes and content descriptors from Languages K-10 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2019