Days of the Week

Sunday [الأحد]
Monday [الإثنين]
Tuesday [الثلاثاء]
Wednesday [الأربعاء ]
Thursday [الخميس ]
Friday [الجمعة]
Saturday [ السبت]

Some related expressions

day [يوم ] , plural [ أيام]
today [اليوم] ( remember to refer to [الـ] as the definite article which makes the word ‘day‘ means ‘today‘.
tomorrow [غداً ]
the day after tomorrow [بعدَ غدٍ ]
yesterday [أمسِ، البارحة ]
the day before yesterday [أول أمسِ ، أول البارحة ]
last night [الليلة الماضية ، ليلة أمس ، ليلة البارحة ]
tomorrow night [ليلة غد ]

The best way to introduce days of the week is to use a calendar. Start with the word ‘today’ and repeat the simple sentence ‘ today is …‘ [اليوم ….] pointing to the day on the calendar sheet you are using. Ask the students to answer the simple question ‘ What day is today?‘ [ ما هو اليوم؟]. When you become sure that the students have understood what you are saying, extend by replacing ‘today’ with ‘yesterday’ or ‘tomorrow’. Go on till you do two past days and two next days. By this stage your students will have learned five days.

If your students have already studied the numbers, it is very helpful to refer to the names of the days and their relation to numbers.

Sunday [الأحد] = one [واحد ]
Monday [الإثنين]= two [اثنين ]
Tuesday [الثلاثاء]= three [ثلاث ]
Wednesday [الأربعاء ]= four [أربعة ]
Thursday [الخميس ]= five [خمسة ]

It is important to remind the students that days in Arabic can be prefixed with the definite article [الـ], Unlike days in English.

Also, in Arabic, it is optional to use the word ‘day’ [يوم] with the name of the day, unlike the names of the days in English because the word ‘day’ is already suffixed to the name of the day.

example: يوم الثلاثاء or الثلاثاء

Here is a collection of word puzzles ( crosswords and word sear

ch). It is very good for all types of classroom activities, including pair and group work. The collection includes various versions of the same puzzle which helps teachers print and use different versions of the same topic for each group in the classroom.