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The trench system

The trench system. CLIL- THE FIRST WORLD WAR. 1. The western front. 2. The western front. ELVIRA VALLERI - CLIL - THE FIRST WORLD WAR. 5. 6. A typical day for a soldier on the front line. Big attacks were rare, so most days were filled with uneventful routine.

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The trench system

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  1. The trench system CLIL- THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1

  2. The western front 2

  3. The western front

  4. ELVIRA VALLERI - CLIL - THE FIRST WORLD WAR 5

  5. 6

  6. A typical day for a soldier on the front line • Big attacks were rare, so most days were filled with uneventful routine. • The average day began with ‘stand to’ before dawn. • Gathering their weapons, soldiers took a place on the ‘fire step’, and as the sun rose, fired towards enemy lines in a daily ritual called the “morning hate”. • After breakfast, the men worked on chores, from sentry duty to trench maintenance, spending their spare time catching up on sleep or writing letters CLIL - THE FIRST WORLD WAR 7

  7. A typical day for a soldier on the front line • The ‘stand to’ was repeated at nightfall before groups were sent into the treacherous and deadly No Man’s Land • Others fetched rations, went on sentry duty, or left the firing line altogether. In all, most battalions rarely spent more than five days a month in the line of fire. CLIL - THE FIRST WORLD WAR 8

  8. The western front during the First World War CLIL - THE FIRS WORLD WAR 9

  9. CLIL - THE FIRS WORLD WAR 10

  10. Western front 11

  11. ELVIRA VALLERI - CLIL - THE FIRS WORLD WAR 12

  12. Description CLIL - THE FIRS WORLD WAR 13

  13. Vocabulary 14

  14. Vocabulary 15

  15. LETTERS FROM THE TRENCHES • Twelve and a halfmillionlettersweresent to the Western front every week. • Lettersonlytooktwo or threedays to arrive from Britain • Soldiers wereencouraged to writeletters to friends and family in Britain. • Most of themdecideditwould be betterto concealthe horrors of the trench warfare 16

  16. Private/ letter of H.F Leppard of East Grinstead to hismother, December 19/th 1914 - the letterwasnotcensored (IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM London) • «The soldiersat the front need more rest. While in the trenches the water isgoing over ourkneesmost of the time The war isgoing to last some time yet, and might be anothertwelvemonthsbeforeis over. The war is(sic) hasonly just begun and it’sgoing to be a war of exhaustion. After the regular armieshavedonetheir work itmeansthatall the youngladsat home beingtrained and disciplinedwill take ourplace in the field. The soonerpeopleunderstandthis, the better, itwill be for the nation» CLIL - THE FIRS WORLD WAR 17

  17. Letter/Private- Stanley Terry wrote a letter to his family, November 1915. The letterwasnotcensored • «Wehave just come out of the trenches afterbeing in for sixdays and up to ourwaists in water. Whilewewere in the trenches one of the Germancame over to our trench for a cigarette and thencame back again and he wasnotfiredat. • We and the Germansstartedwalkingabout in the open between the two trenches, repairingthem, and therewas no firingatall. I thinkthey are allgettingfed up with it.» 18

  18. Rudolf Bidding/ letter, april 1915 • «I have not written to you for a long time, but I have thought of you all the more as a silent creditor…It is indeed not so simple a matter to write from the war, really from the war. • The further I penetrate its true inwardness the more I see the hopelessness of making it comprehensive for those who only understand life in the terms of peacetime, and apply the same ideas to war in spite of themselves…It is as fishes living in water would have a clear conception of what living in air is like.When one is hauled out on to dry land and dies in the air, then he will know something about it. So it is the war…But it is a silent teacher and he who learns becomes silent too» 19

  19. Vocabulary • To conceal………………….. • To censor………………………… • Lad………………………………….. • Inwardness……………………………. • To haul…………………………….. • Conception …………………………. 20

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