GoalTell the full hour and the half hour, and use days, numbers and ages together.
New words
السَّاعَة الْوَاحِدَة (as-sāʿa l-wāḥida) · one o’clockالسَّاعَة الثَّالِثَة (as-sāʿa th-thālitha) · three o’clockالسَّاعَة الْخَامِسَة (as-sāʿa l-khāmisa) · five o’clockالسَّاعَة الثَّامِنَة (as-sāʿa th-thāmina) · eight o’clockالسَّاعَة الْعَاشِرَة (as-sāʿa l-ʿāshira) · ten o’clockوَالنِّصْف (wa-n-niṣf) · and a halfالسَّاعَة الرَّابِعَة وَالنِّصْف (as-sāʿa r-rābiʿa wa-n-niṣf) · half past four
Explanation
You know كَم السَّاعَة؟ (“what time is it?”). The answer is السَّاعَة (the hour) and a feminine “first, second, third…”: السَّاعَة الثَّالِثَة is “three o’clock”. The ordinal word is feminine because سَاعَة is feminine. Add وَالنِّصْف (“and the half”) for half past: السَّاعَة الرَّابِعَة وَالنِّصْف. To say “at”, use فِي: فِي السَّاعَة التَّاسِعَة. Now you can put together days, hours, numbers and ages. Read the examples aloud and make your own.
Layla and Karim ask about the time and the lesson.
Full hour and half hour: eight and half past eight.
Everything together: day, time and age.
Class activity
My timetable. Write a small timetable for your week with three lines, for example الدَّرْس يَوْم الِاثْنَيْن، فِي السَّاعَة الْعَاشِرَة. Use a different day and a different hour in each line, and use وَالنِّصْف once. Then read the timetable aloud and ask a friend كَم السَّاعَة؟ at different times of the day.
Practice
1
Press Listen. Is it a day or an hour?
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A day: الْخَمِيس (al-khamīs), Thursday.
2
Write in Arabic: “three o’clock”.
السَّاعَة الثَّالِثَة.
3
Read the time and write it in digits.
السَّاعَة السَّابِعَة وَالنِّصْف
7:30 (٧:٣٠).
4
Write in Arabic: “the lesson is on Monday at ten o’clock”.
