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Exercise: Act out the text in Hebrew while looking at the
English text.

The Class Clown

There is a clown in every group, at every age, throughout the
entire world – in the workplace, in the family, or in school.
There is always someone who tells jokes, makes everyone laugh
and looks at everything that happens from an entertaining point
of view. There are children who are clowns only sometimes –
for example, children who in class become entertainers, but
within the family are the mature, responsible brother. The
clown is an important role, and in the jokes and jests there is
sometimes much truth. In the royal courts in medieval times,
the king had a clown: the court jester. He told jokes and said
things that no man aside from him would dare to tell and to say.
It seems to me that this is the case in the classroom as well: the
teachers allow the class clown to behave in an unusual manner.
There are also coercive clowns, who are always trying to draw
the attention of their surroundings. Clowns like these are a bit
annoying.

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