Category Archives: High School – Beginners

High School – beginners – HOMEWORK

For 20/12/17

Look at the test you did in class, check the answers on the blog

GCSE 171215 – BEGINNERS Assessment 1

 

For 13/12/17

1-WRITE +LEARN words and grammar from this blog in the small jotter

2-Look at 5 first Hebrew Podcasts, work on your reading until HEY

3-revise for test (words + learn LEERKOD verb in phonetics)

4-Lashon Nakiya novel. Record yourself reading it in English. You will then have the Hebrew text, the English translation (hereunder for those who left it in class), a recording in Hebrew (recorded in class), and a recording in English.

Lashon Nakiya-Translation

So you can now:

a-Listen in English and read in Hebrew

b-Listen in Hebrew and read in English

c-Listen in Hebrew and try to  followin Hebrew

d-Listen in Hebrew and close your eyes

And again in any order until you feel you understand when you just hear the Hebrew.

 

For 06/12/17

1-WRITE +LEARN words and grammar from this blog in the small jotter

2-add Hebrew to computer keyboard/Iphone

3-Look at 1st group verbs – try to do this exercise on 1st group verbs (the version with phonetics)

Exercise – 1st group verbs

4- reading: work on the first 3 ‘steps’

5- look at the podcast lessons

6-  The novel we are working on:

The beginning sounds like this:

[beeHad haleylot, vaanee yashen baHadar-avodatee, vheene metsaltsel hatelefon. Herametee et hashfoferet: halo]

And that means:

One of these nights, and I am sleeping in my study, and here rings the phone. I lifted up the receiver: hello.

 

High School – beginners – RULES

29/11/17 – HEBREW VERBS

Verbs have a core of 3 ‘root letters’. There are 7 groups of verbs.

 

29/11/17 – A first group verb

1st Group (‘PAAL’) – regular verb

1st group verbs are usually used to express a simple action.

Example:   LEERKOD = To dance

The L at the beginning means ‘to’

The root letters are R K D – these letters always stay; what goes around the 3 letters depends on who dances and when.

FUTURE PRESENT PAST
I (m)

I (f)

Erkod

Erkod

Anee roked

Anee rokedet

rakadtee

rakadtee

You (m)

You (f)

Teerkod

Teerkedi

Ata roked

At rokedet

rakadta

rakadt

He

She

Eerkod

Teerkod

hoo roked

hee rokedet

Rakad

Rakda

We (m)

We (f)

Neerkod

Neerkod

anaHnu rokdim

anaHnu rokdot

Rakadu

Rakadnu

You (m pl)

You (f pl)

Teerkedu

Teerkedu

Atem rokdim

Aten rokdot

Rakadtem

Rakadten

They (m)

They (f)

Eerkedu

Eerkedu

hem rokdim

hen rokdot

Rakdu

rakdu

 

29/11/17 – Subject Personal Pronouns

Hebrew Sound Meaning
אני [ani] I
אתה

את

[ata]

[at]

You (masculine)

You (feminine)

הוא

היא

[hoo]

[hee]

He

She

אנחנו [anaHnu] We
אתם

אתן

[atem]

[aten]

You (masculine plural)

You (feminine plural)

הם

הן

[hem]

[hen]

They (masculine)

They (feminine)

 

15/11/17 – verb TO BE in the present

There is not verb TO BE in the present, for example to say I AM BIG we just say ‘I BIG’ [ani gadol] אני גדול