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)

Arabic bad day level 1

(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

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Category:

  • Arabic K–10 (2019)
  • Stage 1
  • Stage 2
  • Stage 3

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