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IH, Unit 7

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.