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Level A2
Movies & Television
10 words · ~12 min
Grammar focus
Entertainment vocabulary and describing what you watched
Lesson overview
Movies & Television is a level A2 lesson of 10 words: 7 nouns and 3 verbs. Its words come from 4 Arabic roots, listed below with links to each root family.
- Builds on: Music & Art (A2)
- Leads to: Reading & Writing (A2)
Word list
| Arabic | Meaning | Type | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
فيلْم fīlm | film / movie | noun | |
مُسَلْسَل musalsal | TV series | noun | س-ل-س-ل |
أُغْنِية ughniya | song | noun | غ-ن-ي |
مُغَنّي mughannī | singer (male) | noun | غ-ن-ي |
آلة موسيقِيّة āla mūsīqiyya | musical instrument | noun | أ-و-ل |
عَزَفَ ʿazafa | to play (an instrument) | verb | ع-ز-ف |
غَنّى ghannā | to sing | verb | غ-ن-ي |
رَقَصَ raqaṣa | to dance | verb | ر-ق-ص |
رِواية riwāya | novel | noun | ر-و-ي |
قِصّة qiṣṣa | story | noun | ق-ص-ص |
Themes these words belong to: Hobbies (10), Entertainment (7), Verbs (3)
Sample word cards
فيلْم
fīlm
film / movie
مُسَلْسَل
musalsal
TV series
أُغْنِية
ughniya
song
Exercises and spaced review for all 10 words
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