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LIFE CHALLENGESEsther Esses

Intermediate Level, Stage 3

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Contact the author, Esther Esses at [email protected]

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Please use the questionnaire that you have been given to prepare a list of at least 5 components that you would want to see in a course book for the 9th grade.

1. Think about and list at least 3 types of tasks that you would expect to find in this course book. Add any additional comments.2. Turn to the teacher sitting next to you. Compare your lists of components and tasks, and any comments you have made.3. Be prepared to share your lists and your insights with the whole group.

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LIFE CHALLENGES is the title of a new course book for the 9th grade, for the religious and charedi sectors.

Write down any words, phrases or ideas that occur to you when you think about the title

LIFE CHALLENGES

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Look at the symbols on the book cover and on the poster.How do you think these symbols relate to the title of this book.

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Components

Course BookTeacher’s GuideListening CDReading CDTests CD

Text Types Activitiesshort stories reading activitiespoems grammar practice

weather reports games

advertisements writing tasks

dialogues surveys

magazine articles listening tasks

recipes

newspaper articles role plays

interviews

diary entries literary language

lab reports

questionnaires oral projects

maps

graphs

discussions and debates written projects

flow charts

instructions (for writing tasks, for grammar tasks, for games)

LIFE CHALLENGES

l is a course book for students in the charedi and religious sectors, at Intermediate Level, Stage 3, and is pending approval of the Ministry of Education.

l This book is suitable for religious and charedi classes preparing for the Bagurt exam as well as the Bet Yaakov schools preaparing for the external Ministry of Education test (chutzim).

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Review and Practice of Grammar Structures

A variety of exercises to review the Present Simple, Past Simple, Future Simple and Present

Progressive tenses. An index will include grammar rules and explanations in English and in L1.

Summer Fun

In this unit you are going to

talk and write about summer activities, using the past simple

use information presented in a bar graph

conduct a survey1 and create your own bar graph

learn about the dangers of the sun and how to protect yourself from them

do an experiment with the rays of the sun

read and write letters to a newspaper editor

present short dialogues with a partner

read and respond to a poem and a story

identify and answer questions about the life challenges presented in this unit

challenge yourself: Prepare a project about summer activities

play a game to reinforce vocabulary and language patterns taught in this unit

The Wonderful World We Live In


test your knowledge about famous places around the world

use information presented in a histogram bar graph

create a histogram bar graph to display your knowledge of places around the world

talk and write about travel, using the first and second conditionals

learn about famous places around the world and in Israel

use adjectives of comparison to describe famous places

read about plans for taking a trip


read, listen and respond to a weather report, a magazine article, a story and a poem

identify and answer questions about “life challenges” presented in this unit

challenge yourself: Prepare a project about protecting the environment


Table of Contents

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Your Family is First


talk and write about family responsibilities, using the past progressive

use information presented in the form of a line graph

create your own line graph

read and discuss letters and answers from an advice column

write letters asking for and giving advice

read, discuss and write about challenges of family life

discuss, read and write about and listen to experiences relating to different positions in

the family

read about and express your opinion concerning working mothers

read and respond to stories, poems and interviews relating to family issues



challenge yourself: prepare a project relating to family issues


Sweet Revenge


listen to a radio broadcast about the beginning of World War II

read and answer questions about brochures of Holocaust museums

read and create your own pie chart using given information

read an interview with a Holocaust survivor

listen to a conversation between two young Yeshiva boys during the Holocaust


learn about passive voice in all tenses

read 4 newspaper reports

learn a Song that was written by a holocaust survior

read book reviews, poems a story and a diary entry

write a diary entry


challenge yourself -Project about a Ghetto


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Summer Fun

UNIT 1

IN THIS UNIT YOU ARE GOING TO:

l talk and write about summer activities, using the past simplel use information presented in a bar graphl conduct a survey1 and create your own bar graphl learn about the dangers of the sun and how to protect yourself from theml do an experiment with the rays of the sunl read and write letters to a newspaper editorl read and respond to a poem and a story l identify and answer questions about the life challenges presented in this unitl challenge yourself: Prepare a project about summer activities

1. Discuss with a classmate the places you went to and didn’t go to in the summer. Examples:

I went to the Western Wall.I didn’t go to a farm.

2. The 28 students of class nine of Bet Simcha School made a bar graph showing the places or people the students went to visit in the summer. Some of the students went to more than one place. Discuss the graph with a classmate.

How many students went to visit their

grandparents?

Twelve students went to visit their

grandparents.

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placespeople time part of the day

Nachman Levi

1. a. You are going to hear a radio broadcast about a class trip to a wadi. Copy the sentences into your notebook. Tick the items that you think you will hear in the news broadcast.

b. Listen and circle the number of the sentences that have correct information, according to the broadcast.

2. In each of the statements below there is some wrong information. Listen to the broadcast again and find the mistakes in each sentence.

1. A group of ninth grade girls went on a hike.2. Three boys were found safe in a wadi near the Dead Sea.3. The police found the boys and took them to the hospital.4. The boys hiked in the wadi for half an hour without hats and with very little water.5. The boys are now resting safely at home.

3. a. The news about the boys lost in the wadi appeared in the newspaper. Scan the article below for names of people, places, time and parts of the day. Prepare a chart in your notebook and write the words in the correct columns.

1. Some boys hiked1 in the wadi for hours without hats. 2. Four boys became separated2 from the rest of the class.3. The ninth grade class hiked in a wadi near Safed.4. The hike lasted for seven hours.5. The teacher became dehydrated3 because he did not drink enough water.6. A helicopter pilot found the boys and took them to the hospital.

Beep beep beepGood evening, this is Kol Yisrael from Jerusalem and this is the nine o’clock news.At 7 o’clock this evening, two boys were found safe in a wadi near the Dead Sea. The boys became separated from their ninth grade class while on a hike. They hiked in the wadi for hours without hats and with very little water. The two boys were almost dehydrated when the helicopter pilot found them and took them to Hadassah Hospital. The boys are now resting safely in the hospital, and will soon be able to return home.And now here is the next news item.

Listening Script

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CENTURY NEWS

Two boys, Nachman Levi and Tomer Biton, were found safe yesterday after a three- hour search. Class nine of Tiferet High School was on a hike near the Dead Sea. The class arrived at the Dead Sea at 8 o’clock in the morning. They prayed and then swam in the sea. After that they ate breakfast. They began their hike in the wadi at 9:30. The students saw many interesting plants and animals on the hike. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon the teacher stopped the class for a lunch break1 and a rest. When the class continued, Nachman and Tomer became separated from the group. They walked slowly because

Two Boys Found Safe After Three-Hour Search

they were very tired. The class arrived at the end of the trail2 at 4 o’ clock. The teacher noticed that the two boys were not with the group. He called the police immediately. The police sent a helicopter and two police cars. Three hours later the helicopter pilot saw the two boys sitting behind a big rock3. They were almost dehydrated. The helicopter took them to Hadassah Hospital for an examination4.

Tuesday, August 10th

b. Read the newspaper article.

5. a. Copy the sentence beginnings in column A in your notebook, and match their endings in column B.

A B1. Class nine of Tifereet High School2. The class arrived at3. They began their hike4. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon5. Nachman and Tomer6. The police sent7. The helicopter pilot found them

a. in the wadi at 9:30.b. became separated from the group.c. was on a hike near the Dead Sea.d. 8 o’clock in the morning.e. a helicopter and two police cars.f. and took them to Hadassah Hospital.g. they stopped for a lunch break and a rest.

b. Answer these questions in your notebook.

1. What did the teacher do that was very helpful?2. List three things that Nachman and Tomer did that were very dangerous1.3. In your opinion2, what was the most dangerous thing that the boys did?

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Unit 1

Literature Corner

1. Read the poem and complete the tasks that follow.

1. How do you feel after reading this poem? Are you happy? Sad? Serious? explain2. Write at least three sentences to answer the question: What will you do with today?3. Write your own poem. Copy the model and fill in the blanks in your notebook.

A POEM

THIS DAYBy Leah Kotkes

This dayWill never return

This dayIs a once in a lifetime gift

This day Is yours to mold1

This dayIs yours to hold

This dayCan be whatever you want it to be

This dayIs open for negotiation2

What will you do with today?

A SHORT STORY

1. Copy these sentences into your notebook and complete them with words from the bank. Look up words that you do not understand in your glossary.

almost n closed n expression n arrived n left n waves n heavy n screamed

1. This hat is not light-weight, it is very ___.2. Please hurry up, it is ___ time to go.3. Mother ___ the door and went to work.4. The girl had an angry ___ on her face when her sister took her toy.5. Our friends from New York ___ in Israel last week.6. I ___ school at 3:00 yesterday.7. We love to jump and swim in the ___ of the sea.8. The children ___ loudly as they played in the park.

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Summer Fun

2. In the following true, short story, Sarit spends a day at the beach with family and friends. Think about the things Sarit says and does. Would you do things differently from Sarit?

3. Read Part One of the short story. As you read, think about the question before each section.

PART ONEWhy was Sarit late?

“Hey! Wait for me!” Sarit yelled as she came running to the bus. The bus driver almost closed the door on her, but she got there just in time.“Sarit,” her mother asked her, “why were you so late?” “Oh, I couldn’t find my new MP3 with all the new songs on it. I wanted to make sure to take it to the beach.”“Did you bring little Yossie’s ball?”“Oh, no, I forgot it!” Sarit said sadly.Mother looked at her with an angry expression, but she only said, “That’s all right.”Then Sarit went to the back of the bus where all her friends sat waiting for her.The bus traveled for an hour and a half to the Ashdod beach.

by Esther Esses

THINK AND RESPOND PART 1

1. Why was Sarit late? 2. What did Sarit bring, and what did she forget to bring?

AT THE BEACH

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What was the first thing Sarit did when the bus arrived at the beach?

“Yeah! We’re here!” All the girls shouted.Each girl grabbed* her bag and left the bus quickly. Sarit ran to the water with her friends. She didn’t have time to help her mother with the little children. Meanwhile Mrs. Lev, Sarit’s mother, took the three younger children, Leah, aged four, Aliza aged five and little Yossie, two and a half, off the bus. She had to pull the carriage* off the bus. She also had to take a heavy bag of clothes and a bag of food off the bus. Within seconds Sarit was already near the water with her friends. “Sarit,” her friend Vered said. “Let’s go straight* into the sea.”“Great!” Sarit answered.“Wait, I see there is a black flag over there, but look, there is also a red one near that umbrella,” Batya said.“I don’t care. I just have to get into the water,” Sarit answered.“I’m not going in. It’s too dangerous.” Batya said.“Oh, you’re a baby.” Sarit said. “Come on, Vered.”Batya looked on at the side of the water as the other two girls dashed* into the sea. A big wave came down on them. Batya screamed, “Get out of the water fast.”“No, that was fun! Don’t worry, we’ll be careful,” Vered called.The girls continued dodging the waves as Batya watched from the beach.

Unit 1


3. What did Sarit think was important? Find the words from the text that show what was important to Sarit and what was not important. 4. Why didn’t Batya want to go into the water?

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Summer Fun

PART TWO

1. Copy these headings into your notebook. Write the words from the bank under thecorrect heading. Look up words that you do not understand in your glossary.

push n sand n settle n toys n relax n towel n joined

looked up n looked around n panicked n worried

VerBs NoUNs

2. Read Part Two of the story. As you read, think about the question before each section.

PART TWOWhat was Mrs. Lev doing?Mrs. Lev put all the bags onto the carriage. Little Yossie held on to the carriage as Leah and Aliza ran ahead. It was difficult for her to push the load* in the sand. Mrs. Lev finally found a place under an awning*. She settled the girls and little Yossie with some sand toys and sat down to relax. The girls played with their brother for about half and hour and then they wanted something to eat. After they washed their hands, Mrs. Lev gave each child a sandwich. She also washed and ate. After they finished eating, they drank some juice and had some fruit. Then Mrs. Lev gave each child a bag of potato chips.


1. What was Mrs. Lev and the children doing while Sarit was in the sea?2. List what the children ate.

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What did Sarit want when she came back from swimming?Just as they finished, Sarit came running back from the sea.“Mom, I’m hungry. What’s for lunch?” Her mother handed her a sandwich and told her to wash her hands. Sarit washed her hands quickly and began eating. She kept talking about the great time she had in the water. Mrs. Lev finally said, “Sarit, I want to go for a little swim in the water. Could you please watch the children while I go?”“Of course, Mom. Go right ahead. I’ll take good care of the children. Oh, by the way there is a black flag up, but there is also a red flag near the umbrella, it’s not so bad!”Mrs. Lev took her towel, walked to the sea and went in for a swim. Sarit began playing with her sisters and little brother. Suddenly her friends joined her. The older girls began talking and soon Sarit forgot about the three little children.

What did Mrs. Lev do when she returned from the sea?“Sarit, how are the children?” Sarit’s mother asked.“Oh, they’re OK.” She answered without looking up. “Listen, Mom, Vered and Batya and I were talking about meeting tomorrow...”

Unit 1

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Mother looked around and saw Leah and Aliza playing ball, but little Yossie was nowhere in sight.“Where is Yossie?” she asked.“He’s right over here,” she said as she pointed to the place where Yossie had been playing.“Ah, ah, I saw him here a minute ago,” she said in a surprised voice.“But he’s not here now! We have to find him. Maybe he went to the water. Oh, my poor little Yossie! Sarit, you go to the right near the sea and I’ll go to the left. Leah, Aliza you stay here with Sarit’s friends in case little Yossie comes back.” Mrs. Lev told the girls.Mrs. Lev panicked, she was really scared. Her little boy was lost. She had to find him quickly. What if he was in the water!

How did Sarit feel? Sarit felt terrible. It was her fault* little Yossie was lost. Where should she go? What should she do? If she had been more responsible this would not have happened1.She began running and looking for Yossie.Ten minutes later mother came back to check on Leah and Aliza. They looked worried too. Sarit also came back without the little boy. They were all so worried and they didn’t know what to do.

Summer Fun

3. What did Sarit want when she came back from swimming?4. What did her mother want?5. Who joined Sarit?6. What did Sarit think was important? Find the words from the text that tell what Sarit thought was important.7. What was the first thing Mrs. Lev did when she returned from the sea?8. Why didn’t Sarit *notice that Yossie was not playing close by?

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