dimanche 22 novembre 2015

November 11-a Day to Remember...

 NOVEMBER 11
Listen and react!
 

 IN THE UK
HAPPY POPPY DAY !

Click on the link below and answer the questions.
 
ACTION 1
for the 6th Graders

Look at the drawing [=dessin] above
and answer the questions.

1° What can you see?
2° What is its botanical name?
3° Which years can you read?
Write them in full letters.
4° Which historical event does "1945" evoke?
5° So, what do British people celebrate on Nov.11?

ACTION 2
 for the 6th Graders

Make a poppy.


ACTION 3
for the 9th Graders
[See Action 1 link]

1° What is "Remembrance Day?
2° Why is it on Nov.11th?
3° Where does the ceremony take place in London?
4° Which symbolic flower is used and worn by people
on this day? Why?
5° Which military song traditionally begins the two minute silence and which sounding ends it?
6° What is the poem that is recited 
just after the two minute silence? Copy it.
Explain it in French in your own words.

ACTION 4
for the 9th Graders

Read the document below
 and answer the questions.


 1° What is the document?
How do you know? 
(Give clues from the text)
2° What is the title of the document?
3° What is represented on either side of the title?
4° How many parts does the document have?
5° Which type of phrase starts these parts?
Copy them.
6° Who is the document about?
How do you know?
(quote the text)
7° What is it about?
How do you know?
(quote the text) 
8° Why do you think this document was written?

   ACTION 5
 for the 10th Graders

IN THE US

 ACTION 6
 for the 10th Graders

Look at the document below
and answer the questions.

1° What is the document?
2° What is it for?
3° Who is it for?
4° When and where is the event?
5° What time is the event planned 
to start and end?
6° Why is this event organized?
7° Who organizes it?
8° How can you contact the event organizers?
9° Which activities are offered to the public?
10°How do the Americans call "Remembrance Day"? 

Read and react!

 

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