Are You Going to a Remembrance Day Service on November 11?

Here are a couple of exercises online for some background information on Remembrance Day (what else is it called?):

1. Take dictation from the following Vocaroo audio, check it with a partner, and post it on your blog:

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2. Listen to the following WWI diary entry, following along with the text with blanks below, and post the missing words on your blog:

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Sunday, December 19
No words can adequately describe the conditions. It’s not the (1) _____________ we’re fighting, but the weather. Within an hour of moving off, we were up to our knees in mud and (2) _____________.
The mud gradually got deeper as we advanced along the trench.
We hadn’t gone far before we had to duck; the enemy were sending over their evening salute of shells.



Pals battalion: Harry (centre left, marked in blue ink) joined the Second Birmingham Battalion alongside friends from home. Most of them died by the end of the war


To move forward, I had to use both elbows for leverage, one each side of the trench. After about one and a half hours of this, we reached the firing line. Later, I groped my way to our dugout. What a (3) _____________.
Imagine a (4) _____________ underneath the ground, whose walls are slimy with moisture. The floor is a foot or more (5) _____________ in rancid-smelling mud.*
3. Check out on Youtube.com, and perhaps learn to sing Canada's Royal and National Anthems; O God Our Help in Ages Past; Eternal Father, Strong to Save; and O Valiant Hearts, Who to Your Glory Came.
4. Watch the following video of the most famous poem of Remembrance Day. What is its title? Google for it. Discuss your thoughts with a partner.

* You can check your answers below:

Check out the whole story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2491760/Harry-Drinkwaters-lost-diary-Great-War.html#ixzz2k3teZJKM