Adapted for educational purposes from האיש הירוק
Advanced Beginning TIVSOL Lesson Plan, Phone exercise:
Which Restaurants Plan to be Open During Tisha B'Av (SUNDAY, AUGUST 3rd) or Afterwards?
Objective: To develop and reinforce conversational skills in an advanced beginning Hebrew as a Foreign Language class of 8 to 12 students.
Time: 1.5 hours
The activities presented here will reinforce the concepts from a previous lesson of: days of the week; telling time; differentiating pronunciation of Tesha and Tsha .... ; planning a conversation (10-15 minutes) The activities presented here will introduce the conversational paradigm for asking a store its planned hours for a particular day (15 minutes) The activities here will give the students a chance to work in pairs to plan a conversation, conduct a spontaneous(1 O minutes), constrained conversation (25 minutes) ; record information (5 - 1 O minutes); present findings to the class (15 minutes)
Media: Students will bring a cell phone to class or arrange to share one.
Hand out #1 : This can go on the whiteboard and might inspire its own lesson :)
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| Hebrew version from hebcal.com |
Hand out #2: List of stores with two possible headers--Will your restaurant be open on the 9th of Av? If not, do you plan to open after the fast?
Pedagogical goals: To increase confidence in speaking and in using a planned conversation. To grasp the importance of choosing words that are more understandable over the telephone and to use the telephone in a guided environment. To add an additional conversational paradigm to the students' inventory.
Procedure: Hand out color-coded items so that native speakers of the same language do not have the same color.
Using Handouts #1 and #2, identify upcoming course days and holidays; engage students in call and response; engage students in individual response; have students ask each other. Explain the notion that store hours vary. Group students in pairs based on the color coded items OR have a more experience class self- assign. I will conduct a spontaneous phone conversation in front of the class.
Note 1: to prevent בתול זמן, be honest about the impetus for the call by indicating that your Hebrew class is planning for a future visit.
Note 2: It may be possible to start the exercise online. In that case all you have to do is confirm with the store that the hours listed on the webpage are correct.
Note 3: It's often helpful to rehearse possible prompte from whatever voicemail menu that you will encounter.
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Walk around room assisting students in writing up their planned conversation. Have the most confident pair conduct a spontaneous phone conversation for the class Walk around room assisting students in conducting a phone dialogue Make sure that students are recording their answers and write up a grid on the board.
Have the students come to the front of the class to record their answers (this can be done en masse or one pair at a time, depending on the time remaining in class) Have the students present their findings
Closing activity: Post the finished product to the Facebook page or a shared Google document.
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| Photos by mkg (for Passover planning)    |
This Silver Spring, Maryland synagogue has
the 1980 printing available for private or communal use.
The Sabbath and Festival edition from the
Rabbinical Assembly of America - The United Synagogue of America, (c) 1946, 1973
Corresponding to Wednesday, May 21, 2025
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Today is thirty-nine days, which are five weeks and four days of the Omer .
Barukh atah, A-donai E-loheinu, Melekh Ha-ʿolam, asher qid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu ʿal S'firat Ha-ʿomer.
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to count the Omer.
39: Ha-yom tisha u’sheloshim yom, shehaym chami-sha shavuot va’arba-a yamim la-omer .
OR
39: Ha-yom tisha u’sheloshim yom, shehaym chami-sha shavuot va’arba-a yamim ba-omer ba-omer .
Intention, Thanks to Morah G in Morah B"s Kitah א : We count down to the number of days until the end of school (17 days left), but we count up to the number of days to receiving the Torah .
URLs
https://www.ou.org/holidays/transliterated_version_of_sefirat_haomer/
https://www.chabad.org/holidays/sefirah/omer-count_cdo/jewish/Count-the-Omer.htm#lang=heb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_of_the_Omer#
https://jewishsoulart.com/index.html
Reviews: https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/sjp187/middlebury_summer_language_program_hebrew/
https://nilmad.blogspot.com/search?q=Purim
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| Wikitionary entry |
This play list has all four blessings, so that you can hear them!
Thoughts here on Conquering Darkness with Light: Purim after October 7 by Dana Kessler and Albert Robinson (March 20, 2024)
idea from student A
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and ק is for cane
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screenshot from The Aleph Beis Song by Rabbi Shalom Gold of the Old City of Jerusalem.
https://youtu.be/_kfSHI1XiVQ?feature=shared
From @jewishinteractive
URLs
Online Curriculum and Lesson Planning Resources
Updated Summer 2024
By Wilhelmina Gottschalk, Religious School Director
Ohr Kodesh Congregation, Alvin Browdy Religious School
Jewish Education Project - https://educator.jewishedproject.org/
Best for: Finding an individual lesson plan
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מורה מרים Morah Miriam |
Tishrei (Hebrew Calendar Song) by Yakov Hadash ©2014
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXsKjYYwEBo
תִּשְׁרֵי חֶשְׁוָן כִּסְלֵו טֵבֵת
שְׁבָט אֲדָר נִיסָן
אִיָּר סִיוָן תַּמּוּז אָב אֱלוּל
Hebrew calendar from hebcal.com in English
The months are all two syllables except for Av (August or so).
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from https://www.wgbh.org/lifestyle/2022-04-14/a-brief-history-of-the-maxwell-house-haggadah
Videos:
https://images.shulcloud.com/14396/419839.mp3 לֹא־תְבַעֲר֣וּ אֵ֔שׁ בְּכֹ֖ל מֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם בְּי֖וֹם הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃ {פ}
https://images.shulcloud.com/14396/419845.mp3 וְכׇל־חֲכַם־לֵ֖ב בָּכֶ֑ם יָבֹ֣אוּ וְיַעֲשׂ֔וּ אֵ֛ת כׇּל־אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוָּ֖ה יְהֹוָֽה׃
Hayom yom huledet, hayom yom huledet, hayom yom huledet - Le ___ . Chag lo/la sameach, ve'zer lo (boy)/la (girl) poreach! Hayom yom huledet le ___. | היום יום הולדת, היום יום הולדת, היום יום הולדת -- ל___. חג לו/לה שמח, וזר לו/לה פורח! היום יום הולדת ל___. |
Translation:Today is the birthday, today is the birthday, today is the birthday - of [whoever's birthday it is]. May he/she have a happy holiday and may a bouquet bloom for him/her! Today is the birthday of [whoever's birthday it is]. היום יום הולדת, היום יום הולדת, היום יום הולדת ___ ל חג לו/לה שמח, וזר לו/לה פורח היום יום הולדת ____ ל | |
Where are you from? (LISTEN)
United States - artzot habrit ארצות-הברית
