Arabic A1, Unit 16: Every day, morning and evening

Every day, morning and evening

Arabic A1 · Unit 16

GoalSay when you do things with time words, and meet a few more daily verbs.

New words

كُلّ يَوْم (kull yawm) · every dayفِي الصَّبَاح (fī ṣ-ṣabāḥ) · in the morningفِي الْمَسَاء (fī l-masāʾ) · in the eveningفِي اللَّيْل (fī l-layl) · at nightأَسْتَيْقِظ (ʾastayqiẓ) · I wake upآكُل (ʾākul) · I eatيَأْكُل (yaʾkul) · he eatsأَنَام (ʾanām) · I sleep

Explanation

A time word says when you do something. Put it at the start or at the end: فِي الصَّبَاح أَسْتَيْقِظ and أَسْتَيْقِظ فِي الصَّبَاح both work. كُلّ يَوْم means “every day”, so it fits what you do again and again. Three verbs look a little different. آكُل (I eat) has a long ā, but يَأْكُل and نَأْكُل look regular. أَنَام (I sleep) keeps its long ā: يَنَام, نَنَام. أَسْتَيْقِظ is a longer verb, and it takes the same prefixes: يَسْتَيْقِظ, نَسْتَيْقِظ.

When	Arabic	Example
in the morning	فِي الصَّبَاح	أَسْتَيْقِظ
in the evening	فِي الْمَسَاء	أَقْرَأ
at night	فِي اللَّيْل	أَنَام
every day	كُلّ يَوْم	أَعْمَل

Worked examples

A day in three lines. Read each one, then listen.

Hind

هَل تَسْتَيْقِظ فِي الصَّبَاح؟

Fadi

نَعَم، كُلّ يَوْم.

Hind

مَتَى؟

Fadi

فِي السَّاعَة السَّابِعَة.

Hind asks Fadi about his morning.

The sun comes up in the morning.

Class activity

My day on paper. Draw three boxes: morning, evening and night. In each box write one thing you do, in Arabic, for example فِي الصَّبَاح أَسْتَيْقِظ. Read your day aloud. Then ask a friend about his day.

Practice

Press Listen. Is it “he sleeps” (يَ) or “she sleeps” (تَ)?

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Write “in the morning I read” in Arabic.

The picture shows an alarm clock. Which verb fits when it rings: أَسْتَيْقِظ or أَنَام?

The picture shows the moon. Say “at night I sleep”.

Add كُلّ يَوْم to this sentence: أَكْتُب فِي الدَّفْتَر.

Daily routine: the present tense

Every day, morning and evening