Intermediate Level (New Active Vocabulary - 1000 words):

Students who complete this level will be able to:

Speak:
in conversation on any topic - 20 sentences per speaker

Read:
Press releases and articles - in journalistic style in elementary Hebrew-30-35 sentences
Short story partially adapted to elementary Hebrew-70-100 sentences
General comprehension-based on key words, syntactic structures, and morphology-of poetry, midrashim, or biblical verses

Write:
Forming tables from text
Personal or historical chronological report-15 sentences
Theoretical analysis of reasons, results, and purposes-20 sentences

Listen:
General understanding of simple TV or radio news-2 items
Comprehension of dialogue in standard Hebrew-25 sentences per speaker
Comprehension of the main ideas of a simple song based on a single hearing

Recognize and use the following structures:

Morphology:
Normal formation of gerunds in the active conjugations and in the common paradigms; several irregular formations of gerunds
Future tense in the conjugations pa'al, pi'el, hiph'il, hitpa'el (shlemim);
( in pa'al)
Common paradigms in the active conjugations, and
Declension of all prepositions with singular noun suffixes (etzel, bishvil, l'yad)
Declension of all prepositions with plural noun suffixes (el, al)
Declension of prepositions with irregular suffixes (beyn, m')
Past participles of pa'al (shlemim and )
Common Hebrew suffixes and patterns of non-Hebrew words
The possessive

Syntax:
Placement of construct-states (smichut) in sentences
Placement of gerunds in sentences
Formation of expressions and clauses of cause, time, purpose, result, comparison, contrast, concession
Actual conditional clauses
Copulas