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European and International OrientationMiddelbare schoolvwoLeerjaar 1

This lesson contains 32 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

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Remembrance day
11-11-2018

Why is it so specal this year? 

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Letters home

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Letters

Slide 4 - Mind map

During the First World War, how long did letters normally take to get from London to the British soldiers in France?
A
2 to 4 days
B
2 to 4 weeks
C
2 to 4 months
D
2 to 4 years

Slide 5 - Quiz

In the middle of the War, how many letters did British soldiers read every week?

A
11 thousand
B
1 million
C
11 million
D
1 hundred

Slide 6 - Quiz

What did people at home never send to the soldiers in France?

A
bananas
B
warm socks
C
cans of fizzy drinks
D
books

Slide 7 - Quiz

How often did someone else check a soldier’s letter home?

A
Always
B
Sometimes
C
Never
D
It is not sure

Slide 8 - Quiz

When they wrote home, soldiers could not write about

A
religion
B
love
C
information useful to the enemy

Slide 9 - Quiz

When a soldier wrote home, he was not allowed to write

A
his name
B
his address
C
the date

Slide 10 - Quiz

When a soldier wrote home, he was not allowed to

A
worry or upset his family.
B
make jokes.
C
ask about the weather.

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Life in the trenches
The photograph shows a German soldier cleaning his feet in a trench. His socks are hanging up to dry. During the First World War, soldiers dug trenches to live and sleep in.

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Which adjectives do you think describe life in a trench?
quiet                dry                dirty safe                 noisy    comfortable      clean    crowded
                   uncomfortable dangerous                  empty

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How easy would it be to write a letter in a trench?

Slide 19 - Open question

Read the letter from a soldier called Tom to his brother Albert. Do you think that Tom’s life is hard?



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Grammar
In his letter Tom uses two present tenses:

Present Simple to describe a routine, fact or feeling. 
We sleep very little at night.
Present Continuous to describe an activity happening now. Right now we’re having a rest.

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Read the letter again and find two sentences using present simple and two using present continuous.


Write them in your note book: 
Present simple                                                     Present Continuous


Example: We wake up early every morning. 

   
Example: Are you working hard at school?

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Task 4 – Missing words

To censor: to change or delete something

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Here is another letter from Tom. 
Tom’s officer read it and decided that some words might upset Tom’s family, so he crossed them out. Work with a partner and decide where the missing verbs go.

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Missing words: is crying, don’t protect, feel, are dying, miss, freezes

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Censoring a letter
Now join with another pair to make a group of four. This time it is your turn to censor a letter, but you have to work as a group and you can only cross out five words. What will you choose? When you have all agreed, tell the rest of the class about your decision.

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Tom

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Class discussion
Was if fair to censor Albert's letter. How did it make you feel?

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Imagine that you are a soldier in a trench
Write a letter home using the present simple and the present continuous to describe your everyday routine, feelings and experiences

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How did this lesson make you feel?

Slide 31 - Mind map

Lesson from the British Council adapted by Susan Corrigan 

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