Learning Journal #4

[Aisha Farooq]

For weeks four and five, the learning tasks were to tell time in Urdu and expand my vocabulary when it comes to discussing the extended family.  The way we achieved the first goal was that we went over basic terms that indicate times such as dawn, sundown, midnight, evening, and afternoon.  Once we established this basic terminology, we worked on how we could tell when a quarter to an hour and or when its half an hour is complete. We practiced telling different times on a clock. In addition to this, we also worked on my learning task dealing with the vocabulary associated with family.  We also worked on translating the names of relatives from English to Urdu so I learn to call them in them by their proper names in Urdu. I learned how to differentiate between my dad’s side and mom’s side and how the names are different.  The way I will evaluate if I have mastered these tasks is by showing a picture of my extended family to Zaka and naming all of them in Urdu. I will test if I have mastered the component of time by telling Zaka the various times I have learned by each minute and the hour.