A/B Living in the trenches The Great War

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4

The Great War 1914-18

11 november Poppy Day

You get some pictures to discuss.

The pictures are about the The First World War.

Fighting   Cleaning   Cooking   
Sleeping   Writing letters and diaries   

Doing chores   Relaxing

 

Task 1: Discuss in pairs or small groups:                  Daily life in the trenches

Look at the activities in the box. Discuss. You have to discuss the questions together with the pictures. 

1.  What do you think what soldiers did every day in the trenches?

2. Roughly how long do you think they spent on each activity.

3. What else do you think they did? 

Task 2: listening

a. You’re going to listen to two old soldiers recalling their daily lives in the trenches.

Before you listen, try and complete the sentences – what do you think the soldiers will say?

1. The average day in the ordinary bit of the trenches was just by the way .

2. Our life was this: from the beginning of the day until the night, we were .

3. Sometimes we received a few .

b. Now listen to the two soldiers speaking and check your answers. 

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-trench-life

Task 3 - discuss in pairs

1.Are you surprised by what the soldiers said? Why?

Task 4 – reading a soldier’s diary

a. Read the diary entry of a soldier describing a day in the

trenches. Is his description of life in the trenches similar to

what you heard in Task 2? Why?/ Why not?

Put in the order of the text.

https://learningapps.org/watch?v=p3xmv2d7322

werkblad

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answers on the left bottom corner

werkblad

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lessonplan + keys

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/A_day_in_the_trenches_lesson_plan_updated.pdf