For our second week looking at numbers we revised the words for the numbers up to ten.
Aon, dhà, trì, ceithir, còig, sia, seachd, ochd, naoi, deich.
Remember you can watch this clip here to hear how the numbers are pronounced if you need some help.
We also learned a couple of phrases relating to age.
Dè an aois a tha thu? (Jay an ish a ha oo) - What age are you?
Tha mi ......... bliadhna a dh’aois (Ha me ......... blee-an-ye a gish) - I am ......... years old.
We have added the phonetics as a rough guide to help you out with pronounciation, but hearing the words is a far better way to get the sounds correct. Sometimes it isn’t entirely possible to write how the sound sounds in English, like in the word ‘dh’aois’ above. The Gaelic ‘dh’ sound is softer than an English ‘g’ and is not a sound that has a comparable sound in English. Also in the word ‘aois’ we have written it as ‘ish’ phonetically, but the ‘i’ sound made by ‘ao’ in Gaelic is a longer sound. Maybe more like, ‘iiiish’. Just think of how you hear our school ‘Taobh na Pàirce’ pronounced and that might help you with the ‘ao’ sound.
Despite the difficulties in writing phonetically we thought it may be better to sometimes add them in when we don’t have a sound file to link to, especially when the spelling doesn’t give a non Gaelic speaker any clues about how it should be pronounced!
At craft time we made a picture collage of our own ages using a selection of materials - tissue paper, sequins, feathers....
Our songs were the same as last week. Firstly...
Aon, dhà, trì, ‘s toil leam fhìn tì,
(One, two three, I like tea)
‘S toil leam fhìn, ‘s toil leam fhìn
(I like, I like)
Briosgaid agus tì.
(A biscuit and tea)
Ceithir, còig, sia, sia anns a’ chidsin
(Four, five, six, six in the kitchen)
Ag òl cupa tì
(Drinking a cup of tea)
Tì agus briosgaid
(Tea and a biscuit)
Our handouts are available to download here if you missed this session of Cròileagan and would like your own copy.
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