AC9LA2U01 Years 1 to 2 Languages

Content descriptor recognise and imitate the sounds and rhythms of Arabic

Elaborations

• • Elaboration mimicking the 28 letter sounds of the alphabet and the 3 short and long vowels
• • Elaboration observing the mouth and tongue position when forming sounds such as خ، ح، ث، ذ
• • Elaboration playing with sounds such as onomatopoeia, for example, animal noises, بق بق بيق
• • Elaboration putting 2 fingers on the throat to help produce the sound of letters أ ، هـ ، ع ، ح ، غ ، خ
• • Elaboration repeating the names of letters and reproducing their sounds with the short vowel ‘a’ ‘fat-aa الفتحة’, for example, ضاد – ضَ، صاد – صَ، قاف - قَ
• • Elaboration listening to a sound and circling the corresponding Arabic letter in a range of games such as snap, matching cards or ‘sound bingo’
• • Elaboration developing pronunciation, phrasing and intonation skills by singing, reciting and repeating frequently used words and phrases, noticing that statements and questions have different intonation, for example, غناء الحروف ، غناء الأرقام