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Lecturer(s)
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Friedmann Mosche Peer, Mgr.
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Uličná Lenka, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. PowerPoint presentations as topics for conversation (Israeli feasts and holidays, a city in Israel, religion, population) with the aim of creating a narrative in a foreign language on an appropriate level and which deal with everyday activities put into a wider social context. The acquisition of knowledge regarding cultural life and everyday situations in the State of Israel and an awareness of intra-cultural differences present another aim of the presentations.) 2. Practising the verbal system in the form of board games which intend to practise all hitherto introduced verbal classes in the present, past and future tense 3. Role plays which intend to improve the use of grammatical structures and lexis in modern spoken Hebrew 4. Reading and summarizing of simple authentic texts which are supposed to provide students with information about the cultural and public life in contemporary Israel 5. Activation of hitherto learnt grammatical structures in the context of colloquial modern Hebrew and slang using brainstorming and clustering Key topics discussed in the course: Israeli culture with an emphasis placed on social context
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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The ability to use Modern Hebrew in both oral and written form
Students are able to deal with everyday situations according to the environment (e.g. meeting acquaintances and new people, simpler transactions in the office), they are able to use appropriate grammatical structures that are adequate in the situation, they can use common verbs in the present, past and future tense and speak about themselves, their surroundings which they can compare to life in Israel. They manage to communicate in situations which require knowledge about the social context in Israel.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Systematic Observation of Student
Active participation in the seminars, preparation for the seminar and an appropriate performance. Composition of a short (10 minutes) presentation on any topic which is presented to colleagues. Every student can ask questions which must be answered in an adequate way.
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Recommended literature
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Doprovodné internetové stránky.
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http://www.dictionary.co.il.
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http://www.my-hebrew-dictionary.com.
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http://www.safa-ivrit.org.
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BOLOZSKY, SHMUEL. (2008). 501 Hebrew Verbs. Hauppauge.
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ETZION, GIORE. (2009). The Routledge Introductory course in Modern Hebrew. Routledge, New York ? London .
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CHAYAT, S., ISRAELI, S., KOBLINER, H.. (2007). Hebrew from Scratch (Ivrit min haHatchala). Jerusalem: Academon.
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LAVY, JACOB. (1992). Langenscheidts Taschen-wörterbuch Hebräisch-Deutsch, Deutsch- Hebräisch. Berlin ? München .
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LEVY, JA?ACOV. (1995). Oxford English ? Hebrew, Hebrew ? English Dictionary. Jerusalem.
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