Students will watch three videos about coffee shops in Egypt and read one article in English. One video on ahwa Al Fishawy in Cairo (an old but touristic cafe) and two on more traditional local coffee shops. Using a shared Google Sheet the class as a whole will compare and contrast the similarities and differences between Egyptian coffee shops and American coffee shops like Starbucks; particularly the types of activities which take place and how many activities require numbers. Each student will make his own sheet and then contribute to the class sheet. Students will use Arabic numbers to sum up the columns and make numerical comparisons. In class analysis will lead students to reflect on the role that gender plays in where leisure time is spent, the different levels of tobacco consumption in public places the Middle East vs in the US, and the role that numbers play in coffee shop activities in the US vs Egypt. At the end of the activity students will turn in their individual sheets via Edmodo. After completing the Google Sheet students will reflect on images and data by answering the questions on the Visual Comprehension Guide and posting their finished sheets to a shared Google Folder in Google Drive.

Students will use their observations from the videos and the article to contribute to the Google Sheet and to answer reflective questions in the Visual Comprehension Guide.

Students will teach an authentic drum beat to their classmates, (learned prior to this module from a YouTube video ), and count out the rhythm. All students will drum on their tablets using the app Darbuka Rhythm so as to hear the real sound of the drums. The student acting as the teacher must be able to successfully get his classmates to perform the rhythm and count it out in Arabic at the same time. Each student will teach a different rhythm. Student performance will be assessed informally during the activity.

Finally, students will work together to make their own video designed to teach other learners of Arabic as a foreign language, how to count to ten in Arabic through drumming on the darbuka with the app Darbuka Rhythm and other Arabian instrument apps such as Oud HD. Students will name the rythms they present, use gambits such as يلا (lets go), بسرعة (quickly), الآن (now), الآن سأقدم لكم (now I will present to you), هذا/ هذه (this is), and أتمنى استمتعتم به (I hope you enjoyed it) . They may also include written examples of the numbers like the video below, giving students a chance to demonstrate their writing skills. The finished videos will be posted to the school’s Twitter account under the hashtag #learnArabic and students will endeavor to respond to any written responses they get in Arabic over the course of the school year. The videos will be assessed by a rubric.

***This video was made 100% on an iPhone.