Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill 

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965

He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955

Never Surrender

One of Churchill's most famous speeches is that of June 1940: 'We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills....' It is said that, as he paused in the great uproar that greeted these words, Churchill muttered to a colleague next to him, 'And we'll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got! 

His first speech as Prime Minister, delivered to the Commons on 13 May was the "blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech. It was little more than a short statement but, Jenkins says, "it included phrases which have reverberated down the decades".Churchill made it plain to the nation that a long, hard road lay ahead and that victory was the final goal. 

I would say to the House... that I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: it is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: it is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Relative Clauses 

p.42 TB

TB p.47

Passive

Both, either, neither, all, every, none. 

Grammar Survey 

Naslag (Theory, Stepping Stones ,digitale leeromgeving (uitleg en video)

Invul oefeningen

Exercise 1: Search for relative pronouns in the video 'Never Surrender'. 

Exercise 2: Write a News story about the events that happened in the video Timeline about Dunkirk (use the passive). 250 words. 

Execise 3: Search for the words: both, either, neither, all, every, none in the 'Blood, toil, tears and sweat' speech.