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  • Egypt's upraising - online link - Marwa Elgezery
    02-25-2013
    What is happening in Egypt? Why should high school students learn about what is happening in Egypt?
  • Missoula Arabic Program Website - Mohamed Abdelsamad
    05-29-2012
    Missoula Arabic Program Website has information about the Arabic program in Missoula, Montana including photos, helpful links to resource pages, and curriculum.
  • Presenting at NCOLCTL conference - Mohamed Abdelsamad
    05-03-2012
    Mohamed Abdelsamad delivered this presentation entitled "Incorporating Egyptian Culture and Current Events into the Teaching of a Critical Language with TCLP" at NCOLCTL conference which took place in Madison, Wisconsin on April 28th.
  • School talks about the experience - Kamel Gadallah
    04-28-2012
    In this article, the school presents the experience of the students with the visiting Egyptian teacher.
  • Days of the week Song! - Alshimaa Salama
    02-06-2012
    Learning Arabic Days of the Week Song - From Arabian Sinbad - YouTube
  • Music and Freedom - Kamel Gadallah
    01-28-2012
    This powerpoint presentation introduces Arabic music and songs that speak about freedom. Please notice that pictures of the singers have links to the songs on the internet
  • Subject-Verb Agreement - Mohamed Abdelsamad
    12-19-2011
    A worksheet to practice how the form of verbs change according to their subject in Arabic.
  • A song about fruits - Mohamed El-Dwiny
    12-15-2011
    A nice song about Fruits.
  • Presentation in the University of Montana - Mohamed Abdelsamad
    11-28-2011
    This Presentation is about the Egyptian role in civilization after the Pharaonic era.
  • Months of the year activity - Ayman Abdelkhalek
    10-27-2011
    An activity to match months of the year in Arabic and English.Then classifying months to correct seasons. It is a smart notebook application( can be used on the smart board only)
  • A song about time - Mohamed El-Dwiny
    10-14-2011
    This is a funny song about the time. All the students liked it.
  • Family members - Mohamed El-Dwiny
    10-14-2011
    This is a nice song about the family members.
  • A PPT about Egyptian clothes - Ayman Abdelkhalek
    10-12-2011
    A Presentation to be used to talk about Egyptian clothes in the past and now. You should prepare separate worksheets to assess the lesson depending on your students language level
  • weather and seasons activity - Ayman Abdelkhalek
    10-06-2011
    An assessment activity after teaching the weather and seasons . It focuses on reading and writing skills.
  • A PPT about Arab food etiquettes - Ayman Abdelkhalek
    09-28-2011
    This is a presentation about Arab food etiquette based on a youtube vidoe on the same topic. Most importantly, you should adopt an interactive way ( think, pair and share, fish bowl ....etc) to discuss what students know about the topic or what students learned from the video. I added many questions as while listening activity
  • website for Arabic self learning - Ayman Abdelkhalek
    09-23-2011
    This is a very useful website I found to help students learn how to pronounce, write, acquire a lot of new vocab and play games about new words.
  • Egypt - Mohamed El-Dwiny
    09-16-2011
    This a link about Egypt.
  • A song about numbers - Mohamed El-Dwiny
    09-14-2011
    This is a link of a song about Arabic numbers from one to ten.
  • teaching landscape - Abla Mohammed
    04-30-2011
    power point and activities on teaching landscape
  • my room - Abla Mohammed
    04-30-2011
    a power point and activities on teaching items of the room
  • past forms - Abla Mohammed
    04-30-2011
    powerpoint and activities on past verbs
  • Arabic language games - Abla Mohammed
    04-30-2011
    a link on Arabic language games
  • Live Egypt and America - Ez Eldin Salem
    04-20-2011
    Through these pictures and sentences, students can speak and write about their country in Arabic. Here students write about America in the same way they read about Egypt. A song has all these words and sentences through this link:
  • Ahmad ELERAKEY April 13 - 2011 colours worksheet - Ahmad Eleraky
    04-13-2011
    Through this worksheet students will be able to write the Arabic names of colours and they will be able to connect the letters inorder to know the colours in Arabic.
  • The treasures of ancient Egyptian Part 1 - Manal El Gammal
    04-06-2011
    This is a link to a documentary movie speaks about the ancient Egyptian civilization. The narrator is Omar Sharif
  • The treasures of ancient Egyptian Omar sharif Part 2 - Manal El Gammal
    04-06-2011
    This is the link to the second part of the documentary movie speaks about the ancient Egyptian civilization. The narrator is Omar Sharif
  • The treasures of ancient Egyptian Omar sharif part 3 - Manal El Gammal
    04-06-2011
    This is the link to the third part of a documentary movie speaks about the ancient Egyptian civilization. The narrator is Omar Sharif
  • The treasures of ancient Egyptian Omar sharif Part 4 - Manal El Gammal
    04-06-2011
    This is the link to the fourth part of the documentary movie speaks about the ancient Egyptian civilization. The narrator is Omar Sharif
  • many movies on different arabic cultural aspect s - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    it's a link on the arabic different cultural aspects also the history of the arabic science and culture
  • revision - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    it's a powerpoint on revising alphabet
  • ancient Arab science - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    a cultural presentation on the ancient Arab science
  • baby shower - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    a cultural presentation on Arabic baby shower
  • turkish coffee - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    a cultural presentation on turkish coffee
  • teaching colors - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    a zipped folder for teaching colors and some activities
  • Arabic as acritical language - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    a cultural presentation on why Arabic is a critical language
  • meals - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    a presentation on teaching meals
  • Months & seasons - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    a zipped folder on teaching months and seasons
  • my house & geometrical shapes - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    a zipped folder on teaching the parts of the house and geometrical shapes
  • parts of the body & parts of the face - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    a zipped folder on teaching parts of the body and parts of the face
  • pronouns - Abla Mohammed
    03-25-2011
    activities on revising all the kinds of pronouns
  • Arabic Alphabet - Samy Hendawy
    03-03-2011
    This is a worksheet of all the Arabic letters
  • Goha - Abla Mohammed
    02-25-2011
    presentation about the most famous cartoon charcter in arab world
  • animal and adjective s - Abla Mohammed
    02-25-2011
    presentation about the name of the animals and using adjectives
  • possissive pronouns - Abla Mohammed
    02-25-2011
    a presentation about the possissive pronouns in arabic
  • feminine and masculine - Abla Mohammed
    02-25-2011
    a presentation on male and femal forms in Arabic
  • months of the year - Abla Mohammed
    02-25-2011
    a presentation about month of the year
  • activities on possissive pronouns - Abla Mohammed
    02-25-2011
    some activities on the possissive pronouns
  • male and female forms activities - Abla Mohammed
    02-25-2011
    activities about male and female activities
  • activitiy on animal names - Abla Mohammed
    02-25-2011
    activity on the animal names >singular and two forms (Mofred - Mothna )
  • a revision unit - Abla Mohammed
    02-25-2011
    a revision unit on months of the year and animal names
  • listening activities - Abla Mohammed
    02-25-2011
    a listening activities unit
  • arabic language learning and teaching - Abla Mohammed
    02-25-2011
    a link about every thing in arabic
  • House - Samy Hendawy
    02-18-2011
    A powerpoint presentation about the rooms in a house.
  • The Arab countries flags - Manal El Gammal
    02-09-2011
    This is a song for the Arab countries flags
  • Capital cities in the Arab countries - Manal El Gammal
    02-09-2011
    This is a website for the Capital cities in the Arab countries
  • Sight seeing in the Arab countries - Manal El Gammal
    02-09-2011
    This is a you tube about beautiful places in the Arab world
  • The Arab World - Ez Eldin Salem
    01-27-2011
    Here's a wonderful video for the 22 Arab countries with Arab music.
  • Fulla and the Arab World - Ez Eldin Salem
    01-27-2011
    Fulla had a journey all over the 22 Arab countries.
  • Nature Vocab - Ez Eldin Salem
    01-27-2011
    Through this song, you can teach your students many vocabulary of nature in Arabic.
  • Bazaar worksheet - Samy Hendawy
    01-22-2011
    This a worksheet that helps students learn the words of Bazaar
  • Arabic vocabulary by Ahmad EL ERAKY 18/1/2011 - Ahmad Eleraky
    01-18-2011
    Arabic vocabulary sheets. students can practice writing arabic words. It helps them also to recognize letters
  • Animals according to the Alphabet order - Manal El Gammal
    01-10-2011
    This is a you tube represents the Animals according to the Alphabet order
  • animal song - Manal El Gammal
    01-10-2011
    the Arabic version of the animal song
  • what the Arabs have given to the modern world part 1 - Manal El Gammal
    01-06-2011
    This is a link to the first part of an English an English movie speaks about inventions the Arabs made in the middle ages.
  • what the Arab gave to the modern world part 2 - Manal El Gammal
    01-06-2011
    This is the link to the second part of the movie speaks about the inventions the Arab made in the middle ages
  • Very interesting websites - Abla Mohammed
    12-16-2010
    it's a web sites about Arabic resources http://www.creativeeducationandpublishing.com/scholastic.html
  • Arabic letters with Pictures By Ahmad Fouad EL Eraky December 12/8/2010 - Ahmad Eleraky
    12-08-2010
    Arabic letters with pictures. It can be useful as flash cards.
  • Arabic Letters 2 by Ahmad Fouad EL Eraky - Ahmad Eleraky
    12-08-2010
    Arabic letters. It can be useful as flash cards
  • Vowels - Manal El Gammal
    12-03-2010
    This is website for the Arabic vowels with every letters
  • The alphabet - Manal El Gammal
    12-03-2010
    A very old song for the Arabic alphabet
  • Farm animals - Samy Hendawy
    11-17-2010
    a power point presentation about farm animals with different games
  • Wild animals - Samy Hendawy
    11-17-2010
    a power point presentation about wild animals with different games
  • Interactive lesson about Dating and marriage with cultural highlights - Ahmed Mohamed
    11-15-2010
    My students this month are studying a unit about dating and marriage in the Arab world. I used this activity that was introduced to us in Washington DC training session . It worked like magic try it.
  • wedding and dating interactive lesson - Ahmed Mohamed
    11-14-2010
    I introduce students to the wedding ceremonies in the middle East and key vocabulary for different stages of marriage.I also highlighted the unique cultural content.
  • Talking about dream husband wife - Ahmed Mohamed
    11-14-2010
    I introduce students to the wedding ceremonies in the middle East and key vocabulary for different stages of marriage.I also highlighted the unique cultural content
  • Describing people - Ahmed Mohamed
    11-14-2010
    Descibing people . Game " wanted By the police" accompanied by a reading passage. Also there is a listening comprehension.
  • parts of the body - Ahmed Mohamed
    11-14-2010
    talking about parts of the body
  • the weather - Manal El Gammal
    11-09-2010
    this is a you tube for words for the weather vocabular
  • weather vocabulary - Manal El Gammal
    11-09-2010
    this is a you tube for the weather vocabulaty
  • Ramdan in Egypt - Manal El Gammal
    11-09-2010
    Ramdan in Egypt
  • a an old song for the numbers - Manal El Gammal
    11-09-2010
    this is an old song for the numbers
  • cairo in the time of breakfast in Ramdan - Manal El Gammal
    11-09-2010
    this is a documentary a bout Cairo in Ramdan on the time for breakfast
  • Arabic Job Vocabulary - Manal El Gammal
    11-09-2010
    some job vocabulary
  • Arabic Calligraphy - Manal El Gammal
    11-09-2010
    Arabic Calligraphy used as for making pictures
  • days of the week - Manal El Gammal
    11-04-2010
    power point presentation about the days of the week
  • Link for re-teaching material - Abla Mohammed
    10-28-2010
    I've heard of this resource and finally took a look at it. The Khan academy is a free resource for re-teaching concepts. It may be good to refer students here who need help after you have already taught the lesson. Check it out to see if it can fit in your class in some way.
  • Good site for everyday activities - Ibrahim Elkadi
    10-28-2010
    This site will simply help you to design everyday activities for your classes. It supports foreign languages and all other subject areas. It is good when you want to integrate culture with Arabic or Chinese language teaching.
  • Arabic alphabet drill (through Daad) - Al Amir Hassan
    10-27-2010
    The teacher through this lesson tries to check up on the students' understanding of both their knowledge of the different positions of each letter and their ability to connect the sounds with the letters they represent.
  • Helping the students to improve - Abla Mohammed
    10-27-2010
    I've heard of this resource and finally took a look at it. The Khan academy is free resource for reteaching concepts. It may be good to refer students here who need help after you have already taught the lesson. There is a full Check it out to see if it can fit in your class in some way.
  • Classroom objects ppt - Samy Hendawy
    10-18-2010
    A presentation that helps you present the classroom objects in Arabic
  • Classroom objects mini dictionary - Samy Hendawy
    10-18-2010
    A mini-dictionary of the classroom objects in Arabic
  • "What is behind the boxes?" review game - Samy Hendawy
    10-18-2010
    A competitive game to review the words students learned before: family, body parts, classroom objects, etc.
  • Body Parts powerpoint - Samy Hendawy
    10-18-2010
    A presentation that helps present the body parts in Arabic
  • Head parts ppt - Samy Hendawy
    10-18-2010
    This is a presentation that helps you teach the parts of the head in Arabic
  • Body parts-Mini-dictionary - Samy Hendawy
    10-18-2010
    A mini-dictionary of the words of body parts in Arabic
  • Body Parts worksheet - Samy Hendawy
    10-18-2010
    An activity to assess students learning of body parts
  • fruits ppt - Samy Hendawy
    10-18-2010
    a presentation that shows the fruits in Arabic
  • Days of the week by Ahmad EL ERAKY October 2010 - Ahmad Eleraky
    10-11-2010
    This is a power point lesson about the Days of the week in Arabic, which I used to help my students in Pratt community school read the Days of the week in Arabic.
  • Worksheet: Arabic names for vegetables and fruits - Ez Eldin Salem
    10-06-2010
    This is a worksheet for the Arabic names of some vegetables and fruits. I have designed spaces in which the students can practice writing the Arabic words for each item. Also the full TASHKIL is provided. Pictures are included. My students liked it very much.
  • Enjoy Cairo - Ezzat Gadelmola
    10-05-2010
    This a powerpoint presentation about Cairo day and night. It's very helpful to show our students our capital city.
  • Family powerpoint - Samy Hendawy
    10-05-2010
    A powerpoint presentation about family members
  • Colors - Samy Hendawy
    10-05-2010
    A powerpoint presentation about teaching colors.
  • Classroom objects in Arabic - Samy Hendawy
    10-05-2010
    A power point presentation about teaching classroom objects in Arabic
  • Mini-dictionary: Classroom objects - Samy Hendawy
    10-05-2010
    Classroom objects in Arabic and English
  • Mini-dictionary of letters and words - Samy Hendawy
    10-05-2010
    Mini-dictionary of letters and the words starting with these 9 letters: alif, baa, taa, thaa, jeem, haa, khaa, daal, zaal
  • Mini-dictionary: Family - Samy Hendawy
    10-05-2010
    Mini-dictionary of words for family and greetings
  • Introduction dialogue - Samy Hendawy
    10-05-2010
    a dialogue of first meeting in Arabic
  • The Arab World - Samy Hendawy
    10-05-2010
    A presentation about the Arab world and the importance of Arabic
  • Learn Arabic & English - Samy Hendawy
    10-05-2010
    These are links that help students learn Arabic and other links that help them learn English
  • Test Activity: Animals - Ez Eldin Salem
    10-04-2010
    Match the Arabic animal names with the pictures.
  • Transportation in Egypt - Ezzat Gadelmola
    10-04-2010
    My students asked me to tell them about transportation in Egypt. This is a powerpoint presentation about this cultural topic.
  • Arabic calligraphy - Ezzat Gadelmola
    10-04-2010
    This is a good website to teach students how to write Arabic letters and calligraphy.
  • Pilgrimage - Ezzat Gadelmola
    10-04-2010
    After a month or so, we may start talking about the pilgrimage as one of the most important cultural events in the Arabic world. Here is a link to a video about pilgrimage, and it is in English.
  • Months of the year - Ezzat Gadelmola
    10-04-2010
    A link to a song about Arabic months of the year
  • Colours in Arabic - Ezzat Gadelmola
    10-04-2010
    This is a good song about colours in Arabic.
  • Family members - Ezzat Gadelmola
    10-04-2010
    A good song to teach family member vocabulary in Arabic.
  • Fruits - Ezzat Gadelmola
    10-04-2010
    A good song to teach names of fruits in Arabic.
  • Arabic numbers - Ezzat Gadelmola
    10-04-2010
    Teaching Arabic numbers using youtube
  • The First Arabic Lesson - Abdelrady Hussein
    10-01-2010
    In this lesson I will teach students how to introduce themselves in Arabic. I will also help them write their names in Arabic (a first achievement that will give them a great deal of confidence and encourages them to learn Arabic).
  • Power point - Wael Elkhateeb
    09-30-2010
    Egypt the essence of the past and the soul of the present.
  • Family - Samy Hendawy
    09-21-2010
    This presentation teaches students the Arabic words for family members.
  • Arabic alphabet - Ezzat Gadelmola
    09-20-2010
    Here is a link to the Arabic alphabet famous song
  • Arabic greetings - Ezzat Gadelmola
    09-20-2010
    Here is a link to the famous song Alsalamo Alaykom (Arab greeting)
  • Arabic books and softwares - Abla Mohammed
    09-19-2010
    This website contains Arabic Cartoons, videos, dictionaries and software.
  • Arabic numbers and Arabic months on youtube - Abla Mohammed
    09-12-2010
    A youtube video for learning Arabic numbers and Arabic months
  • Download youtube videos - Ez Eldin Salem
    09-08-2010
    Dear all, This site enables you to download videos from Youtube easily. Just write the link of the video in the URL space. Then click (download FLV). You will choose where to download the video on the computer, and then your video will start download. For those of you who do not have flash player to play the downloaded videos, you can download the flash player from my resources.
  • Flash player - Ez Eldin Salem
    09-08-2010
    From here you can download the flash player.
  • Write Arabic Quickly - Ez Eldin Salem
    09-08-2010
    This site solves the problem of not having the Arabic keyboard in your class. Just write in English and the computer turns your words into Arabic automatically. For example if you write: Salamo Alikom, the computer writes it in Arabic.
  • Tashkil with Arabic - Ez Eldin Salem
    09-08-2010
    This site solves the problems with Tashkil for those who do not have an Arabic keyboard. One thing special about this keyboard is that it writes the Tashkil as well as the Arabic letters.
  • Powerpoint: Pronouns - Abla Mohammed
    09-05-2010
    A lesson about pronouns. I use the names of the good students in it as a reward, and to motivate the other students.
  • Work Sheet - Samir Gibrail
    05-26-2010
    This is a work sheet anyone can use to let his students practice Arabic Language in a good way. Samir Gibrial
  • Verbs - Samir Gibrail
    05-22-2010
    This document deal with the present tense verb conjugations.Samir Gibrial,AMES Utah,May 2010
  • Months of the year - Samir Gibrail
    04-25-2010
    This is the months of the year in Arabic and English. Samir Gibrial. AMES / UTAH
  • Dialogue - Samir Gibrail
    04-25-2010
    This short dialogue teaches some culture aspects to Arabic 1 students. Samir Gibrial
  • Arabic Awareness Week Part One - Samir Gibrail
    01-22-2010
    At AMES, Utah we arranged an Arabic Awareness Week to promote the Arabic Language and speak about the Middle East culture. Also to speak about the TCLP program.This is the second day at night we invited a lot of people to share this this occasion with us. Samir Gibrial
  • Arabic Awareness Week Part Two - Samir Gibrail
    01-22-2010
    Dr Church speaks about the TCLP program
  • Arabic Awareness Week Part Three - Samir Gibrail
    01-22-2010
    Arabic culture and Dance
  • Arabic Awareness Week Part Four - Samir Gibrail
    01-22-2010
    I tried to encourage my students to dance, so I decided to dance in front of them Samir Gibrial AMES , Utah.
  • CGS Center for Global Studies Open House - "Nari Narien" dance performance - Hossam Sarhan
    10-23-2009
    Hossam Sarhan's students performed the Egyptian song 'Nari Narien' at an Open House in front of nearly 150 parents and students who will attend the Center for Global Studies next year.
  • TCLP Teachers Film Story - Bishoy Demian
    09-19-2009
    This is a film story about the wonderful TCLP orientation. I tried with the few photos I have to cover most of our events in Washington DC.

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