Noughts
& Crosses For Teaching Arabic
(2
players)
Make
a large noughts & crosses grid on a piece of card. Make smaller cards, which
fit exactly into the small squares of the grid. You will need around 7 with
noughts on and 7 with crosses. Make nine more cards with pictures of the words
you want to practise (could be letters of the Arabic alphabet or other items of
vocabulary such as chair, table, house, etc). The cards with the pictures are
placed on the grid. Each player has to say the Arabic word for one of the
pictures. If correct, that picture is replaced with either a nought or cross
(whatever the player is using). Players try to choose pictures which will help
them to make a straight line of noughts or crosses, in order to win, but they
need to know the Arabic word to get the square they want! Cards can be shuffled
to different positions each game. This can be used to practise almost anything.
You could write the name of a different Surah on each square, and the player has
to recite it correctly to win the square. Although parent and child can play
together, older children love to play with another child and the parent can act
as a referee to check they have the words right.
Age:
As soon as children have grasped the basic game of noughts and crosses.
‘Pairs’ For Teaching Arabic
(2 or more players)
This
is ideal for younger children as they love this game. Depending on the
difficulty of the game you make, children as young as three can sometimes grasp
the rules of this game. Make two sets of around ten cards, each set a different
colour. On one set, write Arabic words, on the other, draw the pictures to go
with them. All the cards are placed face down on the table, the two colours
separated. The players take turns to turn over one of each colour. If the word
& picture match, the player keeps the pair and has another turn. If not,
he/she turns the cards back over (leaving them in the same place to help others
to remember their position) and another player takes a turn. The winner is the
one with the most cards when all are gone.
This
game can be adapted to almost anything. You could have English numbers on one
set, and Arabic numbers on the other. It could be used to practise colours, even
addition and subtraction (one set has sums, the other answers).
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