Literature
Poems
Analysis and Interpretation component
Learning new HOTS
Explaining
cause and effect
Part 1
The Domino effect
The cause
‫הגורם‬
The effect
‫התוצאה‬
The cause - I woke up late this morning
The effect
My
children
woke up
late
They were
late to
school
They
missed the
first lesson
Explaining cause and effect
A cause is what makes
something else happen.
To find the cause, ask,
“What happened
before?”
An effect is what
happens because of
something else.
To find the effect
,ask, ”What
happened later?”
Useful vocabulary
for Explaining cause and effect
Cause
because
...‫ מפני ש‬,‫בגלל‬
due to...‫הודות ל‬
thanks to
...‫הודות ל‬
as a result of
...‫כתוצאה מ‬
- I woke up late because I was tired.
- Thanks to the snow ,We have no school
today.
- Due to the computer problems ,the tests
cannot be printed today.
- Tom couldn't walk for six months,
as a result of the accident.
Effect
This is the
reason why
‫זאת הסיבה‬
...‫ש‬
Therefore
...‫ולכן‬
So
...‫לכן‬
in order
to
‫כדי‬
as a result
‫כתוצאה‬
....‫מכך‬
Makes
...‫גורם ל‬
- I woke up late this morning, as a result I was late
to school.
- I left school early in order to help my mother.
- Reading too much makes me tired.
- Ronit went to a wedding last night. This is the
reason why she is late to school today.
- The math test was very difficult, so I decided to
learn with a friend.