Course: Modern Hebrew - Conversation for Advanced Students

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Course title Modern Hebrew - Conversation for Advanced Students
Course code JUD/1IV4K
Organizational form of instruction Exercise
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English, Hebrew
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Uličná Lenka, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Friedmann Mosche Peer, Mgr.
Course content
1. Ha-moadon ha-ivri (Hebrew club) where students will present short news from Israeli politics, cultural and social life. The next aim of the presentations is to acquire knowledge about political and cultural facts regarding the state of Israel. 2. More complex role plays and situations which support remembering vocabulary and syntactic structures in modern spoken Hebrew 3. Listening and comprehension of authentic sequences from Israeli television which provide students with information regarding the life and history of the State of Israel and with an overview of various sociolinguistic registers 4. Creative writing within which students compose more complex narratives in various genres 5. Learning by means of Israeli songs which help activate and fix the lexis Key topics discussed in the course: Israeli politics and culture (politics, culture, ethnic and religious minorities, higher education), creation of written and oral narratives in various sociolinguistic registers

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The ability to use Modern Hebrew in both oral and written form
Students are not only able to react appropriately in everyday situations, but they can also analyse and evaluate some phenomena in Israeli society, they are able to use adequate grammatical structures which are appropriate in regard to the situation, they can use common verbs in the present, past and future tense, they can speak about themselves and their surroundings, about their future plans, political and cultural life, their closer surroundings which they are able to compare to life in Israel. They manage to communicate in a more elaborate way in situations that require knowledge about Israeli social context. They are able to use lexis and syntax in an appropriate way in these situations.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
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.
Recommended literature
  • Doprovodné internetové stránky.
  • http://www.dictionary.co.il.
  • http://www.my-hebrew-dictionary.com.
  • http://www.safa-ivrit.org.
  • BOLOZSKY, SHMUEL. (2008). 501 Hebrew Verbs. Hauppauge.
  • ETZION, GIORE. (2009). The Routledge Introductory course in Modern Hebrew. Routledge, New York ? London .
  • CHAYAT, S., ISRAELI, S., KOBLINER, H.. (2007). Hebrew from Scratch (Ivrit min haHatchala). Jerusalem: Academon.
  • LAVY, JACOB. (1992). Langenscheidts Taschen-wörterbuch Hebräisch-Deutsch, Deutsch- Hebräisch. Berlin ? München .
  • LEVY, JA´ACOV. (1995). Oxford English - Hebrew, Hebrew - English Dictionary. Jerusalem.


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