What School Is Like
Learn the Greek words for school: the teacher, the lesson, the book and more. Every word comes with its script, a transliteration to help you say it, and the English meaning.
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School in Greek 🏫
This topic is about **school**. Every word comes with its **Greek script**, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning. Greek is written **left to right** in its own alphabet.
Key words 📖
Learn these school words:
Match each Greek word to its English meaning
- σχολείο (scholeio)
- δάσκαλος (daskalos)
- μαθητής (mathitis)
- βιβλίο (vivlio)
- school
- teacher
- student
- book
Which word?
Which Greek word means 'a teacher'?
- δάσκαλος (daskalos)
- μαθητής (mathitis)
- βιβλίο (vivlio)
- τάξη (taxi)
How the script works 📝
Two things about Greek script. First, Greek uses its **own alphabet** (alpha α, beta β, gamma γ...), the ancestor of our Latin one, written **left to right**. Second, a small accent called a **tonos** marks the stressed syllable, as in μάθημα (mathima). Learn each word with its transliteration to help you say it.
School words
Select the TWO words connected with school.
- μάθημα (mathima)
- εξέταση (exetasi)
- θάλασσα (thalassa)
- μητέρα (mitera)
Match each Greek word to how it is said
- τάξη
- στυλό
- εργασία
- μαθητής
- taxi
- stylo
- ergasia
- mathitis
How do you say it?
The school σχολείο is said _____. The teacher δάσκαλος is said _____. A book βιβλίο is said _____. A lesson μάθημα is said _____.
Order the school day
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Which word?
Which Greek word means 'an exam'?
- εξέταση (exetasi)
- στυλό (stylo)
- τάξη (taxi)
- μαθητής (mathitis)
Complete the sentence
At school σχολείο (said _____), a student μαθητής (said _____) studies a lesson μάθημα (said _____) with a teacher δάσκαλος (said _____).
A school day
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Use what you know
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Well done 🌟
You have met the key Greek school words: σχολείο (scholeio, school), δάσκαλος (daskalos, teacher), μαθητής (mathitis, student), μάθημα (mathima, lesson), βιβλίο (vivlio, book) and εξέταση (exetasi, exam). Keep practising the alphabet and the transliteration together.