Setting the Scene

If you have purchased the book, ‘Have You Prayed?’ then these worksheets/activities are perfect for your child. They have been uniquely designed to be used in conjunction with the books. The aim behind these worksheets/activities is to further enhance your child’s learning experience. These activity sheets are absolutely FREE! Get downloading!

Below you will find everything you need to get you started. Try and work through each worksheet in the order they appear. After reading through the learning outcomes below, you can start by clicking and downloading the flash cards. Before you begin any activity with your child, it’s important that you pre-teach any vocabulary that will appear.

 

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the time your child completes these worksheets and activity sheets, they should be able to:

1. Use the word ‘Ayna’ to ask questions.
2. Use the definite article ‘Al’.
3. Replace people’s names with the correct pronoun.
4. Use the verb “Kaana” when speaking about different people.
5. Answer with ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ in Arabic.
6. Answer if you’ve prayed or not.

New verbs:

• He prayed – صَلَى
• He saw – رَأى
• He was – كَانَ
• He forgot – نَسِيَ
• He became – أصْبَحَ

 

SETTING THE SCENE:

Begin the activity by pretending to search for something whilst looking really confused. Ask your child,

“What am I doing?”

Your child should say,

“Your looking for something.”

Now, repeat this one more time, but this time call out someone’s name (preferably someone who your child knows who isn’t in the room), then ask your child,

 “What am I doing?”

Your child should say,

“Your looking for so & so…”

Congratulate your child for their excellent work and say, “Well done!” Ask your child, “What do we say when we are looking for someone or something?” Your child should reply, “Where (is)”.

Finish off by telling your child the word for ‘where‘ in Arabic is ‘ayna‘.

NEXT TASK: Pre-teach Vocabularly

FLASH CARDS

THINGS YOU SHOULD DO:

• Be sure to show your child each picture and pronounce the word clearly in Arabic.
• Get your child to repeat after you a few times until your satisfied that they can pronounce the word properly.
• Ask your child to spell each word in Arabic whilst looking at the flash card to ensure they can distinguish the letters in their different forms.
• Dear parent, notice that none of the words in the flash card pack have (ال) – meaning ‘the‘ – at the beginning. By adding the (ال) – pronounced ‘al‘ – at the beginning of each word, it changes the meaning slightly.

For example: بيتٌ – a house becomes البيتُ – the house.

• Try practicing the above point as an additional exercise with your child for each word from the flash cards below.

 

FLASH CARDS (click on link to download)

1. a park 
2. a car
3. a hospital
4. a house
5. a bus
6. a classroom
7. a school
8. a bedroom
9. a toilet
10. a bed
11. a table
12. a book
13. a mosque

 

 The book is on the bed.

 

Dear parent, now we will move onto learning about prepositions. It’s not important that you mention the word ‘preposition’ to your child or that they know how to say it in Arabic. Instead, we are more interested at this stage that your child learns and understands their usage and meanings. Prepositions come in front of nouns and pronouns and they help us understand the relationship between the noun and another word in the sentence. In short, they can be used when describing where somebody or something is. Look at the images below:

Tell your child to look at Pic A and ask them what they see? If your child simply replies, “A ball and a box”, be sure to congratulate them and explain that the ball is ‘in’/’inside’ the box. You can use other natural examples such as placing your hands inside your pockets and asking your child, “Where are my hands?”. You can also place your finger in your mouth and ask, “Where is my finger?” or perhaps place a teaspoon in a mug and ask, “Where is the teaspoon?”. In Arabic, the word for ‘in’ is في pronounced “fee”. Get them to pronounce it after you a few times ensuring that they have the correct pronunciation.

Now ask your child to look at Pic B and ask them what they see? Follow the same example above. If you would like to continue asking your child questions to check their understanding, place a pen on top of a table and ask, “Where is the pen?”. You can also place your hands on top of your head and ask, “Where are my hands?”. In Arabic, the word for ‘on’ is على pronounced “alaa”. Get them to pronounce it after you a few times ensuring that they have the correct pronunciation.

 

Let’s take a look at an example:

NOTE: Notice how each word in the examples above have ‘al’ at the beginning. This is very important to note when making sentences. Now, ask your child to work through the exercise below and select the correct preposition.

 

Get your child to make sentences by  looking at the image and then selecting the correct preposition.

 

ACTIVITY 01

Okay, so your ready to play the ‘Ayna’ Game. ‘Ayna’ is how your pronounce the word ‘where’ in Arabic. We use it for asking there whereabouts of people and things. Place the character on each of the 6 different images and ask your child, “Ayna + (name of place)?”. Be sure to change the intonation of your voice when asking the question. It should be very obvious that you are asking a question and not merely saying a statement. Your child should reply using the following formula:

Character’s name + in + name of place

If your child forgets how to spell a word, there is no harm in allowing them to take a look at the spellings on the flash cards to refresh their memory.

The Ayna Game – Part 01

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The Ayna Game – Part 02

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The Ayna Game – Part 03

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WORKSHEETS