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War Memories
Lesson 3
Unit 11 Conflict and Compromise
What comes to your mind when talking about wars
Brainstorm
bomb
trench
being wounded
civilian
general
frontier /fr n t r/
machine gun
Skim and choose titles for the stories
Brave Patient
A Happy Ending
Death of a Village
No More Fighting
Story A
Story B
Story C
When choosing the best title for a narration, we may take the main idea, the topic, the ending, main characters and their qualities into consideration.
Introduce Story A according to your chart.
Share and edit
Polish your own chart with different-colored pens
Why did the man show his identification papers to a soldier
Think and share
Making inferences
You need to draw or guess information or ideas which are not specifically or strongly stated by the author. It is a reasonable and logical guess based on what the author says.
Story A Background information (Vietnam War)
My Lai Massacre
U.S. soldiers killed as many as 500 unarmed villagers on March 16, 1968.
Story A Vietnam War
Why did the man show his identification papers to a soldier
To demonstrate that he was a good and innocent man.
To show that he was not the person they were looking for.
To survive
Introduce Story B according to your diagram.
Share and edit
Polish your own chart with different-colored pens.
Why did they choose to celebrate Christmas in temporary peace
Think and share
Story B Christmas truce in 1914
Why did they choose to celebrate Christmas in temporary peace
Long-established tradition
Looking for comfort, especially during the bitter and lonely cold.
Longing for the end of the war.
Using the time to collect the bodies of the fallen in no-man’s land.
Line 30 “he was fed up to the neck…”
You can put yourself in the situation.
Cultural background
Line 26 “no-man’s land”
Introduce Story C according to your mind map.
Share and edit
Polish your own chart with different-colored pens
Think and share
Why did the soldier throw the watch back at him
Why did the nurse and the soldier cry together at the end of the story
Think and share
Why did the soldier throw the watch back at him
The war caused permanent physical and mental damage to the soldier. Any award was useless, because it was not going to help him walk. Feeling helpless, he threw it back.
He had both his legs blown off.
A purple heart and a watch
material award
permanent injury
To be number 20, 000 to come through this hospital
being lucky but not proud
The soldier felt angry at the reason for being awarded.
Think and share
Why did the nurse and the soldier cry together at the end of the story
“I really admire him for that…”
Admired him for bravely exhibiting his attitude
“It sort of said what this war was all about to me.”
Felt sympathy for him and felt sick of wars
Think and share
Work in pairs
Raise another two inference questions for Story C and provide possible answers.
War Memories
Make wars become memories forever!
Review the passages and discuss in pairs what war memories each person had in story A, B and C.
The farmer, Do Choc
The soldier
The nurse
The host
Good morning. You are watching…and I’m…
Today we’ll be talking about…
To better understand it, we'll talk with…, who is…; as well as…, who…. Finally, for a perspective from a …, we'll also have …on our show.
We’re going to start with…Mr/Mrs…, would you tell us…
…
Concluding words
Do chuc
The soldier
Thank you for having me…
…
The nurse
Talk show
Ongoing wars and conflicts in the world today
Military action in the Russo-Ukranian conflict
Civil War in Afghanistan, in Syria
Discussion
What is the impact of wars
What attitude should we take towards wars
The world is not free of conflicts and peace needs to be defended.