Questions for the Oral.
Where do you live?
Where do your grandparents come from?
Do you have any relatives who live overseas?
Have you been overseas?
Which countries have you visited?
Which country did you like and why?
What do you think of the changes, which are taking place on the kibbutz?
Does you school go to Poland?
Did you participate in the delegation?
What did you learn from this experience?
What do you think of 12th graders going to Poland?
What kind of school is Megiddo High?
What are the rules and regulations at your school?
What would you like to change?
What is your major?
Did you have to do a project and what did you do?
What do you think of the matriculations or bagruts?
Do you know when your draft date is?
Do you know where you are going to serve in the army?
Why do you want to serve there?
Would you like to be on a base near or far away from home?
What do you think of youngsters who take a year off?
What do you think of youngsters who do not serve in the army?
What do you like to do in your spare time?
How do you spend your weekends or holidays?
Do you think there should be curfews for teenagers as in the States?
Which books have your read lately?
Which movies have you seen lately?
Should parents limit the amount of time their children watch telelvison?
Do you participate in any sports or physical activity?
Do you have any special hobbies?
Do you work at all in the afternoons?
What kind of music, movies, and television do you like?
Do you have a part time job?
How long have you been working at your present job?
Do you think teenagers should work?
Do you do any volunteer work?
Can you play any musical instrument?
How do you plan to spend your time after you finish high school?
Why do you think so many youngsters take off a year to travel after the army?
What do you think this traveling gives them?
Have you though about the kind of career that you’d like to have?
Do you belong to a youth movement or in the past?
What do you think the advantages of youth movements are?
Stopping By WoodsOn A Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
I printed a picture from Gene's wonderful illustrated Frost site http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/1487/index.html and put it on the board. We brainstormed words about the picture - cold, winter, snow, trees (and woods) and so on. Then I passed out the poem.
1. Read it aloud - so they heard the rhythm, the wind, the "s" sounds etc.
2. Read each stanza again - and understood it. (They didn't know every word, but did understand the idea.)
3. Assignment - Write sentences about the picture / poem. The really weak ones wrote "Snow is cold." etc. The stronger ones got to things like "The snow is cold in winter, I saw it in the dark woods.
" I also told them of seeing Frost on TV, reading one of his poems at Kennedy's inauguration. (In Massachusetts there was a snow storm, so no school that day.) (I was in the 5th grade, but I didn't tell the kids that...) I think one of the important things I achieved here was that they studied a poem by Frost, exactly like all the stronger classes
Oral Bagrut.
Vocabulary for the Interview.
Army
infantry navy
intelligence a paratrooper
an elite unit artillery
air force armor\tank corps
a recruit medical corps
anti-aircraft entertainment corps
engineering corps the military police
a psychological tester a soldier teacher
a field school instructor combat duty
military service reserve duty
to sign on for academic deferent program
to be recruited to be drafted
the draft board to take a pre service course
an instructor duty
obligation draft date
basic training an officer’s course
national service controversy
to take a year off religious
secular pacifist
a mechanic engineering corps
o Kibbutz\Moshav
communal life equality
principles an allowance
a committee standard of living
branches of work the fields
industry agriculture
the orchards a factory
to breed animals to grow crops
to take care of social pressure
cultural activities a boarding school
to undergo changes privatization
the diary the chicken houses
o School
to graduate matriculation exams
social activities levels\streamed classes
subjects major
elective subjects compulsory subjects
extra-curricula activities tight schedule
cultural committee youth groups
a youth leader peer-group pressure
a day school high\junior school
staff principal
final project regional school
to integrate inter-disciplinary
division disadvantages
learning centers a home room teacher
social studies arts
science language
Israel Studies academic studies
o Spare\Free, Liesure Time\Future Plans
to take\get a license to have a good time
to go on a trip to travel overseas
to further my studies to improve grades
to take an entrance exam to complete army training
to matriculate from school to go abroad
to hang out with to watch\view television
hobbies I have been Ving
youth movement youth leader
values scouts
summer camps to take off a year
a special year
o Delegation to Poland
an integral part to go on a delegation
concentration camps torture
survivors guides
Jewish identity awareness of horror and tragedy