A booklet of Farsi language resources

for working with primary aged

children This booklet created by 1st year Primary Education trainees at Edge Hill

University supported by Peiman and Shahin.

Thanks to Peiman and Shahin for giving their time to support EHU 1st Year

Primary Education trainees

Lauren Martin, Rebecca McMinn, Peter Lambe, Alice Porter, Shannon

O’Connor, Emily Biggerstaff, Georgia Brennan, Eden Heys, Lois Highton,

Rebecca Cleave, Elizabeth Burbridge, Jessica Astbury, Morgan Casey, Tahmina

Hussain, Ismaa Khalid, Georgia Brown, Evie Hoskisson, Kiran Hafiz

& Martin Ford

This resource uses English, Farsi and phonetic pronunciation.

It is produced in WORD format for use on Professional Practice to support Primary Trainee Teachers.

Please edit to meet your needs

Greetings

English Actions Farsi Sit down

Beshin

Stand up

Boland Sho

Hand up

Dast bala

Walk

Rah raftan

Jump

Bepar

Dance

Beraghs

Sing

Avaz Bekhan

Clap

Dast bezan

Colours

Feelings and emotions

Emergency (in case of).

Ghaza (Food)

mive (Fruit) sabzijat (Vegetables)

shokolat (Chocolate) panir (cheese)

nan (bread) pitza (Pizza)

tokhme morgh (egg) berenj (rice)

moroba (jam) mast (yoghurt)

Kare (butter) bastani (ice crea

Nushidani Ha (Drinks)

Shir (milk) ab (water)

abmive (juice) chay (tea)

Numbers Zero sefr

۰

One yek

١

Two do

۲

Three se

۳

Four chāhār

۴

Five panj

۵

Six shesh

۶

Seven haft

۷

Eight hasht

۸

Nine noh

۹

Ten dah

١۰

Eleven yāzdah

١١

Twelve davāzdah

١۲

Thirteen sizdah

١۳

Fourteen chāhārdah

١۴

Fifteen pānzdah

١۵

Sixteen shānzdah

١۶

Seventeen hefdah/hevdah

١۷

Eighteen hejdah/hezhdah

١۸

Nineteen nūzdah

١۹

Twenty bist

۲۰

Twenty One bisto yek

۲١

Twenty Two bisto do

۲۲

Twenty Three bisto se

۲۳

Twenty Four bisto chāhār

۲۴

Twenty Five bisto panj

۲۵

Twenty Six bisto shesh

۲۶

Twenty Seven bisto haft

۲۷

Twenty Eight bisto hash

۲۸

Twenty Nine bisto noh

۲۹

Thirty si

۳۰

Forty chehel

٤۰

Fifty panjāh

۵۰

Sixty shast

۶۰

Seventy haftād

۷۰

Eighty hashtād

۸۰

Ninety navad

۹۰

One Hundred sad

١۰۰

https://sites.la.utexas.edu/persian_online_resources/vocabulary-lists/numbers-1-100/ This is a link

to recordings of how to say the numbers

Subtraction tafriq

Division taqsim To add jam’ zadan

To divide taqsim kardan

To multiply zarb kardan

To subtract kam kardan

۰ ١ ۳ ۲ ۴ ۹ ۸ ۷ ۶ ۵ ١۰

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 10 9

۰

١ ۲ ۳

0

1

2

3

This booklet is the 1st in a series promoted by Action for

Refugees.

Promoting a multi-faceted, positive response to the refugee crisis that

includes learning from the experiences, skills and knowledge of all

involved.

To learn more about Action for Refugees please see the group blog

https://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/refugees/

For more information please contact

Martin Ford

Subject lead - Academic and Professional Development (APD)

fordm@edgehill.ac.uk