Daily Life

Your day in Arabic 🌅

This module is about **daily life**: the times of day, the things you do, and the places you go. As before, every word is shown three ways: the **script**, the **sound** (a simple transliteration in brackets), and the **English**. Arabic reads from **right to left**.

Times of day 🕐

The parts of the day: - **يوم (yawm)** = day - **صباح (sabah)** = morning - **مساء (masa)** = evening - **ليل (layl)** = night

Match each word to its meaning

Everyday activities 🍽️

Some common things you do each day (all in the "he" form): - **يأكل (yakul)** = he eats - **يشرب (yashrab)** = he drinks - **ينام (yanam)** = he sleeps - **يذهب (yadhhab)** = he goes

Match each verb to its meaning

Spot the verb

Which word means "he eats"?

• يأكل (yakul)
• يشرب (yashrab)
• ينام (yanam)
• يذهب (yadhhab)

Places 🏫

Two places that fill a day: - **مدرسة (madrasa)** = school - **بيت (bayt)** = house / home So يذهب إلى المدرسة (yadhhab ila al-madrasa) means "he goes to school".

Spot the word

Which word means "school"?

• مدرسة (madrasa)
• بيت (bayt)
• صباح (sabah)
• يوم (yawm)

Actions, not things

Select the THREE words that are activities (verbs).

• يأكل (yakul)
• يشرب (yashrab)
• ينام (yanam)
• صباح (sabah)
• مدرسة (madrasa)
• يوم (yawm)

A day in order

An interactive activity.

How the writing works 🔤

Arabic is written from **right to left**, and the letters **join up** into cursive words. There are **no capital letters**. It is an **abjad**: the letters are mostly consonants, and short vowels are shown by small marks added above and below when needed.

Describe a day

An interactive activity.

The right word

Using the transliteration, complete: "morning" is _____, "school" is _____, "he eats" is _____, and "he sleeps" is _____.

Daily life summary

Arabic is written from _____ to left. The word for day is _____, and the word for school is _____. To say he eats, you use _____.