Category: History

What do you know about V. Woolf and the women’s right to vote in the UK?

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By Unknown – Harvard University library & Vintage Photos of a Young Virginia Woolf Playing Cricket (Ages 5 & 12), Public Domain, Link

Watch the video online presenting V.Woolf and the topic of the Suffraggettes.

Write a short presentation about how the right to vote was introduced in the UK, search online  find information about  your country. Is there any  difference?

Here is the link to my short presentation:

https://spark.adobe.com/video/JTord64bgBxso

 

Why do you think  Virginia  Woolf wrote about ” Shakespeare’s sister” ?

Let’s remember

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On 27 th January we  are going to remember the liberation of the concentration camp of  Auschwitz.

The Penny Black

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Learn about the first stamp

The Victorian  age was marked by many changes and it is important to  learn about the origins of the first stamp which is linked to the social, technological changes which took place during the long reign of Queen Victoria.

Watch the video and be ready to refer about it. What do you know about the mail system in Italy? When did it develop? Why do you think  new means of transport and the stamps are so important in the history of Britain? 

 

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Anne Frank

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My dear students,

I would like you to read some pages from the  famous Diary  written by a young teenager- Anne Frank. If you have the time, just check online and listen to her voice, but I know that some of you will prefer to read it.

I read it when I was your age and  I discovered the  hopes of a person who wanted to live and  enjoy life. She did not  survive the bad experience in the  concentration camps but she is still with us, thanks to her diary.

Here you can find an interesting document about the voice of this  girl who is still talking to us  in the  XXI century:

 

Here you can find some texts in English taken from her Diary : read them and if you have the time try to tell me about your experience in reading them. Post your ideas  or write to me by  explaining why we must  read  Anne’s book.  What kind of message does she have for us today?

WW1: Voices against War

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Stop the War :  the voice of Vera Brittain in Britain

Watch these two videos  about  Vera Brittain:

https://youtu.be/Nwh5x25Ny_w

 

You can find more information online about this woman who spent most of her life to fight war as a solution to solve problems among nations. She published her autobiography and also poems:

 

More resources online about WW1 and  Vera Brittain

http://www.lagrandeguerra.net/ggverabrittain.html

http://mattinopadova.gelocal.it/padova/cronaca/2014/08/15/news/un-angelo-veglia-su-edward-e-l-anima-della-sorella-vera-1.9766547

WW1 Remembering the Past

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Watch the video about WW1: write down some notes about the main events that took place from 1914 to 1918- use these questions to help you

  1. How and why did it start?
  2. Which events marked the end of the war?
  3. Where did the war take place? Why?
  4. Which countries were involved in the war?

 

Check   sources with  images about  WW1

https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/world-war-i-in-photos/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewtucker/important-photos-to-help-us-remember-the-outbreak-of-worl?utm_term=.vjG3xQmaY#.fe2xE5AoG

https://greatwarphotos.com/

More resources online

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/

http://www.grandeguerra100.it/

https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Virtual  Exhibitions online

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/research/online-exhibition/index-online-ww1-exhibition.htm

5 November in British History

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Listening and  Viewing  Activity in English

 

Do this  listening and  viewing activity online.  Did you know about this  event?

Link online: https://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_high_intermediate.php?id=17083

Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night
Step 1

Watch the video. Try to understand the main meaning of the video.

Step 2

Watch the video a second time and then do the activities and questions about it.

Halloween : a long story that started in Ireland ….. is continuing now

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Read and learn about  Halloween in this short  presentation online: how do you  celebrate Halloween in your town/ country?

Now watch the cartoon and be ready to say what happened to the young Berenstain Bears:

 Now watch online about the  easy dessert that you  can make to celebrate Halloween:

Global Issues: Apartheid and South Africa

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What do you know about  Apartheid in South Africa? When did it start and why?

Have you ever read any books or  short  stories by the novelist  Nadine  Gordimer?

Search online and find out more information about her and her country .

Now watch these two videos about  Nadine  Gordimer :   in the first video she talks about   the issue of  racism

 

 

 

English Literature Corner: read the short story

” The Moment  before the Gun Went Off“

  1. What happens in the story?
  2. Were you surprised when you finished reading it?
  3. What does this story tell us about the man and the boy?

9/11

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What do you know about  September  11th? You were not born and maybe you do not know much about this event which changed the history of the world.

Every year people in the USA and all over the world remember what happened on this day. One of the main landmarks of New York- the  Twin Towers- were destroyed and  thousands of people died in a terrorist  attack on 11th September  2001.

Now watch and listen to this poem by the poet  Billy  Collins : it is about those who died in this  sad event. Every year their names are repeated and remembered and the place is now  a Memorial where people from all over  the world  go to when they are in New York.

Since that day the world has changed and we have become  afraid of  people we do not know but we will never forget