1. ENGLISH
4
WRITING
SPELLING
A
TALE
OF
LOVE
AND
DARKNESS
AMOS
OZ,
Vintage
Focus
:
I
can
spell
the
ending
of
a
word
correctly.
TASK
1
p.
21
We
were
not
among
the
(1)
poor__________.
Father’s
job
at
the
National
Library
brought
him
a
modest
but
regular
salary.
My
mother
gave
some
private
(2)
lesson__________.
I
(3)
water__________
Mr
Cohen’s
garden
in
Tel
Arza
every
Friday
for
a
shilling,
and
on
(4)
Wednesday__________
I
(5)
earn__________
another
four
piasters
by
(6)
put__________
(7)
empty
bottle__________
in
(8)
crate___________
behind
Mr
Auster’s
grocery,
and
I
also
taught
Mrs
Finster’s
son
to
read
a
map
for
two
(9)
piaster__________
a
lesson
(but
this
was
on
credit
and
to
this
day
the
Finsters
have
not
paid
me).
Despite
all
these
(10)
source__________
of
income,
we
never
(11)
stop__________
(12)
mak__________
(13)
econom__________.
TASK
2
p.
22
The
one
thing
we
had
plenty
of
was
books.
(…)
When
I
was
little,
my
ambition
was
to
grow
up
to
be
a
book.
Not
a
writer.
People
can
be
killed
like
ants.
Writers
are
not
hard
to
kill
either.
But
not
books
:
however
(1)
systematic__________
you
try
to
destroy
them,
there
is
always
a
chance
that
a
copy
will
survive
(…)
My
father
had
a
sensual
relationship
with
his
books.
He
(2)
love__________
(3)
feel__________
them,
(4)
strok__________
them,
(5)
sniff__________
them.
(…)
And
books
then
were
(6)
sex__________
than
books
today
(…)
TASK
3
p.
84
When
he
(1)
final__________
(2)
arriv__________
in
Jerusalem
in
1933
with
a
fear-­‐ridden
Grandma
Shlomit,
he
(3)
stop__________
(4)
wri__________
poems
and
(5)
devot__________
himself
to
commerce.
For
a
few
(6)
yea__________
he
(7)
successful__________
sold
(8)
dress__________
(9)
import__________
from
Vienna
in
the
fashion
of
the
year
before
last
to
Jerusalemite
women
who
(10)
long__________
for
the
(11)
delight__________
of
Europe.
But
(12)
eventual__________
another
Jew
(13)
appear__________
who
was
(14)
clever_________
than
Grandpa,
and
began
to
import
(8)
dress__________
from
Paris
in
the
fashion
of
the
previous
year,
and
Grandpa
with
his
Viennese
(8)
dress__________
had
to
admit
defeat
:
he
was
(15)
forc__________
to
abandon
the
business
and
his
love
of
(8)
dress__________,
and
found
himself
supplying
Jerusalem
with
hosiery
1
by
Lodia
in
Holon
and
(16)
towel__________
from
a
small
firm
(17)
call__________
Scuzupak
&
Sons
in
Ramat
Gan.
Hosiery
:
/həʊz.jə.ri/ a
word
used
especially
in
shops
for
things
such
as
socks,
tights
and
stockings