A Week on the Kibbutz
Diary pages by Noa, who spends a week with her cousins on a kibbutz in the Jezreel Valley, from the cowshed and the avocado orchard to Friday dinner in the dining room.
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1Monday
2Dear Diary, I am spending a week with my on a kibbutz in the Jezreel . Today my uncle Amos took us to the at six in the morning. I have never seen so many cows! The smell was terrible at first, but after an hour I didn't it.
3Wednesday
4Today we helped in the avocado . We the avocados that fell on the ground and put them in boxes. My back hurt, but we laughed all the time.
5Friday
6Tonight the whole kibbutz ate dinner together in the big dining room. I sat next to an old woman who came to the kibbutz seventy years ago. She told me that in her time, children slept in a special house, not with their parents. I can't that!
📘 Glossary
- cousins - the children of your aunt or uncle
- valley - a low area of land between hills or mountains
- cowshed - a building where cows live
- notice - to see or become aware of something
- orchard - a place where fruit trees grow
- collected - picked up and gathered together
- dining room - a big room where people eat together
- imagine - to make a picture of something in your mind
Questions
Finding details
1. Where is the kibbutz?Making inferences
2. Noa writes: "after an hour I didn't notice it". What does this tell us?Word meaning
3. In Monday's page, the word "terrible" means…Finding details
4. What did the children do in the avocado orchard?Making inferences
5. Was the work in the orchard only hard? Explain with words from the text.Reference words
6. In Friday's page, the word "She" in "She told me" means…Finding details
7. Where did children on the kibbutz sleep a long time ago?
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