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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
Exploring Jerusalem – a MENA Languages Course Site

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

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