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Numbers 0–10, family, “my / your”

Unit 9 · Part B · Arabic A1 (Beginners)
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Numbers 6 to 10

Arabic A1 · Unit 9
GoalCount from six to ten and read the numerals ٦ to ١٠.
New words
سِتَّة (sitta) · 6 · sixسَبْعَة (sabʿa) · 7 · sevenثَمَانِيَة (thamāniya) · 8 · eightتِسْعَة (tisʿa) · 9 · nineعَشَرَة (ʿashara) · 10 · ten
Explanation

Now continue the list: sitta, sabʿa, thamāniya, tisʿa, ʿashara. The Eastern numerals go on too: ٦ ٧ ٨ ٩. Look at ٧, which looks like a V, and ٨, which looks like a V upside down. Ten has two digits, ١٠, one and then zero, written from left to right. Say all the numbers in order from ṣifr to ʿashara. The sounds ʿ and th come back in sabʿa, tisʿa, ʿashara and thamāniya.

DigitEasternSayWord
6٦sittaسِتَّة
7٧sabʿaسَبْعَة
8٨thamāniyaثَمَانِيَة
9٩tisʿaتِسْعَة
10١٠ʿasharaعَشَرَة
Worked examples
Count from five to ten. Press each card.
Count the stars: there are seven, sabʿa.
صِفْر0 · ٠·سَبْعَة7 · ٧·ثَمَانِيَة8 · ٨
A short phone number is read digit by digit: 0, 7, 8 is ṣifr, sabʿa, thamāniya.
Class activity

Number cards. Make eleven small cards. On one side write a digit, Western or Eastern, and on the other side the Arabic word with its vowels. Shuffle, take a card, and say the number. Check the back. Then count backwards from ten to zero.

Practice
1
Press Listen. Is this number smaller or bigger than six?

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2
Write the number 9 as a numeral and as a word.
3
Which word is ١٠?
4
How many cups are there? Say the number in Arabic.
5
Read these numerals aloud and say them in Arabic.