What’s Going On In Israel?

Pre-Intermediate Hebrew

Goals:

• Building the ability to create with the language and break out of set patterns

• Deepening understanding of key grammatical structures

• Integrating social and cultural topics in a critical and accessible way

Topics:

• Review and expansion: cooking, food, restaurants and shopping, travel and trips, nature, interesting places in Israel.

• Professions, providing services, work-related expressions.

• Introduction to local society – who’s here, where people live, geopolitics and occupation, current events, holidays.

• Notable figures in Israeli society/culture. Signs and slogans from protests. Demonstrations. Graffiti.

• Introduction to the political system and parties. City/village/moshav/kibbutz. Center vs. periphery. LGBTQ+ culture and history.

• About the Hebrew language – who speaks it, where, how, and its history. Attitudes toward other languages.

• Stereotypes in Israel and debunking them.

Language Material:

• Further development of: past tense, imperative, irregular nouns, inflected prepositions, conjunctions

• Past progressive, conditional sentences, introduction to future tense