LESSON 1
ACTIVITY 1
A. Read the words in the box below.
B. Listen to the song “Viva la quinta brigada” from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyvshOYelU
C. After the song, circle the words on the map that you heard on the song.
Spain Barcelona Córdoba
Madrid France Sevilla
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A. Read the words below. Tick √ the words that you hear on the song.
B. After ticking the words, complete the sentence in the box.
Christopher Columbus
Spanish
Al-Ándalus
Medieval castle
Alhambra
Franco
The song is about ______.
ACTIVITY 3.
PRE-READING
A. Look at the flag in picture A. Name the colors and circle the symbol on the
flag. This is the flag of the Spanish Republic.
B. Look at the flag in picture B. Name the colors and circle the symbol on the
flag. This is the flag of the Popular Front.
C. Look at the flag in picture C. Name the colors and circle the symbol on the
flag. This is the flag of I ______B ______
PICTURE A PICTURE B PICTURE C
Spanish Republic Popular Front ______
2 I’m a reporter! D. Look at the words that have been underlined in the reading. Write each
word in the appropriate box.
WAR POLITICS
Spanish civil war anti-fascist
READING
E. Read the text “What were the International Brigades?”
What were the International Brigades?
The International Brigades were military units made up of anti-fascist volunteers from different countries, who traveled to Spain to defend the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.
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The International Brigades are from a lot of different countries. Complete the
table with the name of the countries. The names of the countries are in the box
below.
Nationality Country Nationality Country
French Dutch
Italians Bulgarians
Germans Irish
Poles Estonians
Soviets Mexicans
Americans Greeks
British Cypriots
Belgians Canadians
Czechoslovakians Swedes
Hungarians Austrians
Yugoslavs Swiss
Italy Austria Canada Hungary Estonia France Germany USA Greece Ireland Yugoslavia Cyprus Sweden Belgium Soviet Union Bulgary Poland Switzerland Mexico United Kingdom Netherlands Czechoslovakia
4 I’m a reporter! LESSON 2
ACTIVITY 5
A. Read the words in the black boxes.
B. Listen to the song “Viva La Quinta Brigada”.
C. Fill in the gap in the song with the appropriate word from the box. Viva La Quinta Brigada (by Christy Moore)
Ten years before I saw the light of morning
A comradeship of 1______was laid
From every corner of the world came sailing
The Fifty 2______Brigade.
They came to stand beside the 3 ______people
To try and stem the rising fascist tide International
4______'s allies were the powerful and wealthy heroes
Frank Ryan's men came from the other side. Madrid Even the olives were bleeding Franco As the battle for 5 ______it thundered on Spanish Truth and love against the force of evil
Brotherhood against the fascist clan.
Chorus:
Viva la Quinta Brigada, remember No Pasarán, the pledge that made them 6______fight Adelante was the cry around the hillside
Let us all 7______them tonight.
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Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor
From Killarney across the 8______he came
From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother Pyrenees And side by side they fought and died in 9______.
Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba gun
With Na Fianna he learned to hold his 10 _____ Spain
From Dublin to the Villa del Rio died He fought and 11______beneath the Spanish sun.
(Chorus) joined
Many 12______heard the call of Franco Irishmen
13______Hitler and Mussolini too swastika Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers facists Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew.
The word came from Maynooth, "support the 14______"
The men of cloth had failed yet again
When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire
As they sailed beneath the 15______to Spain.
6 I’m a reporter!
(Chorus)
This song is a 16______to Frank Ryan
Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too
Peter Daly, Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar
Though many 17______I can but name a few. died
Danny Boyle, Blaser-Brown and Charlie Donnelly tribute Liam Tumilson and Jim Straney from the Falls
Jack Nalty, Tommy Patton and Frank Conroy
Jim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick O'Neill.
(Chorus repeated)
ACTIVITY 6
A. Read the REGULAR VERBS in the table below.
B. Look at the regular verb “to thunder”. Read the past of the regular verb
“thunder” in the table.
C. Find the SIMPLE PAST of the other verbs in the song “Viva La Quinta
Brigada.”
REGULAR SIMPLE PAST VERBS +ed
To thunder thundered To die
To learn
To help
To fail
To bless
To sail
CONOCIMIENTO DEL MEDIO 7 - ADAPTACIÓN TRASTORNO DE SÍNDROME DE ASPERGER - ACTIVITY 7
A. Look at the list of irregular verbs on your dictionary.
B. Look at the irregular verb “to see”. Read the past of the irregular verb “to
see” in the table.
C. Find the SIMPLE PAST of the other verbs in the song “Viva La Quinta
Brigada.”
IRREGULAR SIMPLE PAST VERBS To see saw
To be
To come
To make
To fight
To hear
ACTIVITY 8.
A. Look at these pictures.
B. Circle the verb that matches the picture.
to sail to fly to dance to fight
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to sing to see to talk to hear
C. Find online pictures for the following verbs: to die, to fail.
to die to fail
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ACTIVITY 9
A. Read the statements below.
B. Read the song (activity 5) and underline the statements below.
C. Listen to the song once again.
a. ______
Franco's allies were the powerful and wealthy.
b. ______
Adelante was the cry around the hillside.
c. ______
Tommy Woods, age seventeen, died in Cordoba.
d. ______
Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco.
e. ______
From every corner of the world came sailing The Fifty International Brigade.
10 I’m a reporter! ACTIVITY 10
Match and write these questions to the corresponding statements from the previous activity.
. Where did The Fifty International Brigade come sailing from?
. Who were the powerful and wealthy?
. Which was the cry around the hillside?
. Where did Tommy Woods die?
. Who heard the call of Franco?
ACTIVITY 11
A. This song is a tribute to some Irishmen from the International Brigade.
Find their names in the song “Viva La Quinta Brigada”.
B. Write their names in the box below.
C. Check your answers with your classmate.
Frank Ryan,
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ACTIVITY 12
A. This is a pretend interview: In this interview, you are a Spanish reporter
during the Spanish Civil War who works for the newspaper ABC in
Madrid under the Republican Union. You have to go to the battlefield to
interview some international brigadiers.
These are the questions that you have prepared.
. What’s your name?
. Where are you from?
. How old are you?
. Where did you study?
. Did you go to the University?
. Did you participate in another war?
. What did you do before the Spanish War?
. When did you arrive to Spain?
. Which side do you support in the Spanish War?
B. Read this extract from the biography of the Irish brigadier Frank Ryan and
find the answer to the previous questions in the underlined words.
Frank Ryan (1902, at Bottomstown, Elton, Co. Limerick—June 10,
1944, Dresden) was a prominent member of the Irish Republican Army and
leader of Irish volunteers on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
12 I’m a reporter! His parents were National School teachers at Bottomstown with a taste for
Irish traditional music, and they lived in a house full of books. He attended
St. Colman's College. From then on he was devoted to the restoration of the
Irish language.
He studied Celtic Studies at University College Dublin, where he was a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) training corps. He left before graduating in order to join the IRA's East Limerick Brigade in 1922. He fought on the Republican side in the Irish Civil War, and was wounded and interned.
After graduating he was a teacher of the Irish language at Mountjoy School in
Dublin, but journalism was his vocation. His day job was editing Irish
Travel for the Tourist Board, while he also edited The Volunteer for the IRA.
In 1936 Ryan travelled to Spain with about 80 men to fight in the International
Brigades on the Republican side. He served in the Lincoln-Washington
Brigade, rising to Brigadier. He was attached to the staff of the 15th
International Brigade in charge of publicity - writing, broadcasting and visiting the front line to see conditions first-hand. He was seriously wounded in March 1937, and returned to Ireland to recover.
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ACTIVITY 13
A. Work with a classmate.
B. Select and read the biography of a brigadier.
C. Answer the questions in activity 12.
LESSON 6. ACTION!
ACTIVITY 14
A. This is a ROLE-PLAY.
B. Practice the interview with your classmate and act it out. It will be
recorded for your Dossier.
14 I’m a reporter! ASSESSMENT
1. DOSSIER (PORTFOLIO)
- File the work from activities 4, 5, 12 and 14 in the Dossier.
- Review and rearrange the material.
- Present the Dossier to a classmate and explain which items are more
valuable to you and why.
2. SELF-ASSESSMENT WORKSHEET
Write √
Well Ok I’m working Not very I have been able to… on it! well
LISTENING Recognize when someone speaks in the past about themes that I know. Understand the global sense and some specific vocabulary of a song. SPEAKING Sing songs that I have heard before imitating the sounds and rhythm. Reproduce short sentences that I have practiced before.
TALKING Use suitable pitch to make questions.
Keep the visual contact with the person that I’m talking to.
READING Read and understand short sentences and simple character’s biography. Distinguish the main parts of a biography.
WRITING Understand and use language patterns in the past. Write an interview following a model.
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