v-Arabic : Virtual Arabic
v-tivity : virtual activity
Realia: Real life authentic items
Virtual Realia
Digitized objects and items from the target culture which are brought into the classroom as examples or aids and used to stimulate spoken or written language production.
Language Realia
Realia is a term used in education to refer to certain real-life objects. In education, realia are objects from real life used in classroom instruction.
In education, realia include objects used by educators to help students to understand better other cultures and real life situations. A teacher of a foreign language often employs realia to strengthen students' associations between words for everyday objects and the objects themselves.
In foreign language instruction, the term realia has a broader meaning, which includes photos of objects from a country where the target language is spoken.
Wikipedia
BBC Arabic (Learning English) has a dedicated bilingual radio programme aimed at teaching English to native Arab speakers. As an Arabic learner yourself, you may benefit hugely from listening to this interactive programme where the host (an Arabic speaker) interviews a guest (an English speaker) in English about a particular news item. The interview is then interpreted in Arabic immediately by the host.
اليوم فى بي بي سي أكسترا إنجليش دوج يتحدث إلى رشا عن عدد الطلاب فى الفصول الدراسية فى المدارس البريطانية
Today Doug and Rasha are talking about class sizes.
Here in Britain state schools have a class size of 30 students. But is that too many?
Many teachers say that it is, but not everyone agrees. In some schools with large classses the teacher is helped by a classroom assistant. In this way individual students get more attention.
We asked people what they thought the ideal class size is.
Here are some of their comments:
- I don’t think one person can look after 30 children properly and give them the right amount of attention.
- I think class sizes should be smaller, probably about 15 students.
- I would say that 30 is too big.
BBC Arabic (Learning English) has a dedicated bilingual radio programme aimed at teaching English to native Arab speakers. As an Arabic learner yourself, you may benefit hugely from listening to this interactive programme where the host (an Arabic speaker) interviews a guest (an English speaker) in English about a particular news item. The interview is then interpreted in Arabic immediately by the host.
In this podcast, Sam and Doug are talking about the role of English as a global language.
The 21st of February is UN International Mother Language Day, a day which promotes linguistic diversity and multilingualism. Being multilingual means that you are able to speak different languages.
A is for Allah is the name of a Muslim-themed double album for children byYusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) released on July 11, 2000 through Resurgence UK Records.The musician used the song as a vehicle to teach his daughter, Hasanah, the 28-letter Arabic alphabet. This kind of Islamic music is also known as nasheed.The album had been in the works since 1994, although the title track dates back to 1980, when it was written after the birth of his first child. (Wikiped
Annahar (جريدة النهار), a leading Arabic-language daily newspaper from Lebanon, offers its readers a free virtual daily newspaper that you can read online using flash technology.So far, I found this the most authentic and life-like Arabic realia available online for Arabic learners and teachers as well as for native Arabs worldwide.This virtual tool will not only help you improve and perfect your reading skills, it will also keep you abreast of the latest current affairs in the Arab world in particular and international affairs in general.The newspaper content provides fresh and up-to-the-minute news and information for its readers.
Faris is happy participating in housework, until peers in the neighborhood tell him this is women’s work. They also laugh at him because he plays with his female cousins. Faris decides to refuse to continue to work in the house and tries to order his mother to prepare his food, but he later notices that his father participates in housework. Finally, Faris realizes that he must do what he thinks is right and ignores his friends comments as he prepares a birthday cake at the end of the story.
فارس يشارك بسعادة في الأعمال المنزلية حتى يخبره أقرانه في الحي أن هذا من أعمال النساء. و يسخرون منه لأنه يلعب مع بنات أعمامه. يقرر فارس رفض الاستمرار في العمل في المنزل و يحاول أن يأمر والدته بتحضير طعامه و لكنه يلاحظ بعد مدة أن والده يشارك في أعمال المنزل. و في النهاية يدرك فارس أنه يجب أن يفعل ما يعتقد انه الصواب و يتجاهل تعليقات أصدقائه بينما هو يحضر كعكة عيد ميلاد في نهاية القصة.
Publication Date 2002
Languages Arabic, English العربية, الانجليزية
Contributor
The Tamer Institute for Community Education, Ramallah - Palestine
Unfortunately, the list of subjects that have been studied by the diploma holder is very small to read. I will copy them (with the translation) into this post in the near future.
Summary
While on his way to school, Bakkar goes to the temple and draws a picture of Horus to present in the school’s competition. Bakkar finds a little bird crying because its baby fell from the nest and is trapped. Bakkar helps the bird and carries the baby back to the nest. The wind blows Bakkar’s drawing away and he walks to school feeling very sad, especially when he sees all his friends presenting their work. But then we learn that good deeds always pay back when we find the bird bringing Bakkar’s drawing back to him.
Publication Date: 2002, Author - Amr Samir Atef, Publisher: High National Committee for “Reading for All Program” - Egypt
قسم اللغة العربية بجامعة طوكيو للدراسات الأجنبية = Department of Arab Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
This is the title of an Arabic Language Centre at a Japanese University - it’s actually the only thing I was able to make sense of since the whole site is in Japanese.
Today Doug and Rasha are talking about class sizes.
In this podcast, Sam and Doug are talking about the role of English as a global language.
A is for Allah is the name of a Muslim-themed double album for children by 
