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Introduction: In town for a visit
Unit One: Getting to Know the City of Evanston
Section 1: City Vocabulary (Part 1)
Task 1: Describe a city you have visited
Task 2: Expand your Vocabulary on the City
Task 3: Reading text with fill-ins
Section 2: City Vocabulary (Part 2)
Task 1: Mind map: expanding vocabulary
Task 2: Match pictures and text
Task 3: Describing pictures
Section 3: The Weather in Evanston
Task 1: Expand your vocabulary
Task 2: Questions about the weather in Evanston
Task 3: Questions about Temperature
Unit Two: More on Evanston
Section 1: The History of Evanston
Task 1: Reading text about the history of Evanston with multiple choice questions
Task 2: Reading text about recent history of Evanston with discussion questions
Task 3: Reading text about racial composition with discussion questions
Section 2: What to See or Do in Evanston
Task 1: Visiting a museum
Task 2: Going out for ice cream
Task 3: A new idiomatic phrase
Task 4: Plan a two-day visit to Evanston
Summary Section: My Home Town
Task 1: Collecting facts
Task 2: Writing a description
Introduction Vocabulary
Sample Page
Chapter 1: Jerusalem’s chronicles
Unit One: Ancient Jerusalem
Section 1: Four Hundred Years in Five Minutes
Task 1: Video: overview on Jerusalem’s history
Section 2: Jerusalem’s History
Task 1: Table: history outline with questions
Task 2: Match English and Hebrew vocabulary
Task 3: Text: From King David to Herodes with multiple choice questions
Task 4: An excerpt from the Talmud
Section 3: The Destruction of the Second and Last Temple
Task 1: Text: time preceding the Temple’s destruction, matching clips with descriptions
Task 2: Match English and Hebrew vocabulary
Task 3: Text: The Years after The Temple’s Destruction with questions
Unit Two: Christianity, Islam and Judaism
Section 1: Three Religions in Jerusalem
Task 1: Three sites and three religions
Task 2: Match pictures and text
Unit Three: Christianity, Islam and Judaism
Section 1: From the Ottoman Empire until 1967
Task 1: Text with fill-in the blanks from word bank
Task 2: Summarize key information from newspaper article
Section 2: From the British Mandate until the 1948 War
Task 1: Movie “A Tale of Love and Darkness” with content questions
Section 3: The Six-Day War
Task 1: Iconic picture and a quote from a newspaper with a question
Summary Section: Reactions to the History of Jerusalem
Task 1: 300-word essay
Chapter 1 Vocabulary
Chapter 2: City of poems
Unit One: Tourists, Yehuda Amichai
Section 1: Biography of Yehuda Amichai
Task 1: Match English and Hebrew vocabulary
Task 2: Biography: Yehuda Amichai, find key facts
Section 2: Thoughts about Tourists
Task 1: Vocabulary review
Task 2: Answer questions about your experience as a tourist or a resident
Section 3: Poem by Yehuda Amichai, “Tourists”
Task 1: Read the poem and answer the following questions
Unit Two: How to Explain Jerusalem, Yonatan Blumenfeld
Section 1: About Yonatan Blumenfeld
Task 1: Match English and Hebrew vocabulary
Task 2: Read the text about Yonatan Blumenfeld and write 5 questions you would like to ask him
Section 2: Yonatan Blumenfeld’s Poem: “How to Explain Jerusalem to a Stranger’s Mind?”
Task 1: Watch and read Blumenfeld’s poem in Hebrew and English
Task 2: Answer the questions about the poem
Summary Section: Reactions to Yonatan Blumenfeld’s Poem: “How to Explain Jerusalem to a Stranger’s Mind?”
Task 1: 300-word essay
Chapter Vocabulary
Chapter 3: Jerusalem the city of (3) religion(s)
Chapter 4: Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem
Task 4: An excerpt from the Talmud
