English classes with Mitzi - 

Hi Everyone,
This is it! The last online assignment! - one more chance to practice writing a composition! Here's the assignment:

There are cities in the world where it is illegal to use a cell-phone in a public place like a restaurant, in a library, on a bus or train, or in a store. In Israel, people speak on cell-phones whenever and wherever they want. What is your opinion? Should there …

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Hi Everyone!
It was very nice to see you all today! We're nearly finished now. We have time for a bit more practice before you all take the G exam and amaze the authorities by getting 100!

Now that that's settled, here's the next assignment:

Next week, Israel will be holding elections for the Knesset. It will be a national holiday, and most people will not have to go to work. Some people think …

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Hi Everyone,
I have now finished grading the first compositions for G, and I have sent each of you a message with your grade for the composition. The second topic was given in class on Tuesday. It is: "Should literature be part of the English Bagrut Exam program?" A few of you handed in the composition at the end of the lesson, but if you didn't, you must post it to the forum by Sunday. …

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Hi Everybody,
Only Yulia gave me her log today. The rest of you should have it ready for next Sunday. After that it will be considered late, and you will lose points! You may send questions about a phrase or a sentence, but I will not check whole tasks any more. Look at the corrections you have, and check your grammar carefully before deciding that the task is ready for the log.

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Hi Everyone,
Before I realte to each individual composition, I am posting some very common mistakes that I have seen in most of the compositions posted so far. Please check your own composition, and fix the mistakes you see after reading this message. If you haven't posted a composition yet, read this first.
I will relate to individual compositions this evening. Please read through the entire …

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Hi Everyone,
I made a mistake and sent the assignment in a mail message! In case you didn't get it, here it is again!

By now you should have finished 3 assignments for the story "The Ransom of Red Chief". These assignments should be done in order. If you have any questions, just send me a message and I'll explain.
Now it's time to know about the author …

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Hi Everyone,
This assignment is due no later than 22:00 on Saturday night. Remember: Not doing this assignment on time is the same as missing a lesson.

Here is an article which gives you some background about Saki, the author of The Open Window, and about the time period in which the story was written. Please read the article ( using your dictionary to help you understand words …

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Hi Everyone,
For this assignment, you will follow one of the links below and finish reading the story, "The Open Window". Assuming that in class you managed to fill in the first two lines of the prediction worksheet, just read the story to the end and fill in the third line of each section of the worksheet.

1. http://btflatt.tripod.com/stories/saki2.htm
2. …

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Hi everyone,
The first thing to do is to complete the task we began in class on Tuesday. For those of you who didn't come to the lesson , here is the assignment:
In this poem, Rudyard Kipling describes the qualities of his idea of "a Man". We can understand sometimes by the words in the poem and sometimes by inference, the qualities of someone the poet would consider "a …

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