LESSON 1

1. Listen to the song ‘’ and write as many words as you understand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyvshOYelU

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2. Can you guess what the song is about? Tick √ the words that you hear.

 Christopher Columbus  Spanish  Al-Ándalus  Medieval castle  Cordoba  Spain  Alhambra  Franco

3. Read.

What were the ? The International Brigades were military units made up of anti-fascist volunteers from different countries, who traveled to Spain to defend the in the between 1936 and 1939.

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4. Where were the International Brigades from? Look at the box and complete.

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

LESSONYugoslavia 2 Cyprus Sweden Belgium Soviet Union

Bulgary Poland Switzerland Mexico

United Kingdom Netherlands Czechoslovakia

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5. Listen to the song again and complete with the words in the box.

Viva La Quinta Brigada Christy Moore International Ten years before I saw the light of morning A comradeship of 1______was laid olives

From every corner of the world came sailing evil The Fifty 2______Brigade. heroes They came to stand beside the 3 ______people

To try and stem the rising fascist tide Madrid

4______'s allies were the powerful and wealthy fight Frank Ryan's men came from the other side. Spain Even the 5______were bleeding

As the battle for 6 ______it thundered on Pyrenees

Truth and love against the force of 7 ____ Franco 8______against the fascist clan. Chorus: died

Viva la Quinta Brigada, Brotherhood

No Pasarán, the pledge that made them 9______tribute Adelante was the cry around the hillside Irishmen Let us all 10______them tonight.

Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor Spanish

From Killarney across the 11______he came remember From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother Joined And side by side they fought and died in 12______.

Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba gun

With Na Fianna he learned to hold his 13 _____ fascists From Dublin to the Villa del Rio He fought and 14______beneath the Spanish sun. swastika

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(Chorus) Many 14______heard the call of Franco 15______Hitler and Mussolini too Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew. The word came from Maynooth, "support the 16______" The men of cloth had failed yet again When the Bishops blessed the in Dun Laoghaire As they sailed beneath the 17______to Spain. (Chorus) This song is a 19______to Frank Ryan Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too , Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar Though many died I can but name a few. Danny Boyle, Blaser-Brown and Charlie Donnelly 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)

4 I’m a reporter! 6. Read the lyrics of ‘Viva la Quinta brigada’ and find the SIMPLE PAST of these REGULAR verbs.

REGULAR SIMPLE PAST VERBS +ed To thunder

To die

To learn To help

To fail

To bless

To sail

7. Read the list of IRREGULAR verbs on your dictionary and find the SIMPLE PAST of these verbs that also appear in the song.

IRREGULAR SIMPLE PAST VERBS To see To be To come To make To fight To hear

CONOCIMIENTO DEL MEDIO 5 8. Look at this pictures, find the verbs in activities 6 and 7 and copy them.

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9. Read these statements and find them in the song while listening.

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. Match these questions to the corresponding statements from the song.

. 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?

CONOCIMIENTO DEL MEDIO 7 11. This song is a tribute to some Irishmen from the International Brigade. Find and write their names. For example, Frank Ryan.

Then, compare your answers with your classmate.

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12. Back to the past.

a. 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?

CONOCIMIENTO DEL MEDIO 9 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.

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 , 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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13. Work in pairs. Read the biography of a brigadier and answer the given questions.

LESSON 6. ACTION!

14. Practice the interview with your classmate and act it out. It will be recorded for your Dossier.

CONOCIMIENTO DEL MEDIO 11 ASSESSMENT

1. DOSSIER (PORTFOLIO)

- File your works 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 √. I have been able to… Well Ok Not very well

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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 the gestures and suitable pitch to show agreement or disagreement. 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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ANEXO

INTERNATIONAL BRIGADIERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

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Robert Martin Hilliard had a short life (1903 - 1937). He was a republican from a Protestant business family, boxing champion, atheist, journalist, Church of Ireland (Anglican) priest, communist and brave soldier.

He was from Moyeightragh, Killarney (Ireland). He was educated at Cork Grammar School and Mountjoy School, Dublin. He studied at Dublin University (Trinity College) in 1921.

From an early age, he was interested in republican politics. He we involved in the last stages of the Irish Civil War (1922-1923).

R.M. Hilliard was also a noted athlete and boxer. He won an Irish Championship in 1923, and was British and Irish Universities' Champion. He was the Irish representative in the Bantamweight division in the 1924 Olympic Games.

After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Brigade was formed to fight on the Republican side. The 15th. Brigade was recruited from volunteers from English-speaking countries in late 1936. There are conflicting accounts of whether R.M. Hilliard joined a British or an Irish contingent composed mainly of republican (IRA) veterans.

At the , south of Madrid in February, the Spanish Republican Army was helped by the International Brigade in trying to halt Nationalist (pro- Franco) troops attempting to cut the road from Madrid to Valencia. Hilliard was one of four men with only light weapons who fought against tanks to cover their colleagues' retreat. All of this group were killed, Robert surviving his wounds for just five days in an improvised field hospital.

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. What’s your name? ______. Where are you from? ______. How old are you? (Year 1936) ______. 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? ______

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Fred Copeman (1907 - 1983) was born in East , , in 1907. Copeman was sent to Watts Naval School to prepare for a life at sea. After two years, he was duly enlisted in the .

Shortly after being discharged from the Royal Navy, Copeman became a member of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement. He organised pickets and demonstrations at Employment Exchanges.

Along with many other Communist Party members, Copeman decided to join the defence of the Second Spanish Republic. He left for Spain on 26 November 1936, where he joined the of the International Brigades. At the Battle of Jarama, in February 1937, Copeman was wounded in the arm and head.

Copeman made what appeared to be a complete recovery and, on his return to the battalion, became commander. Later, just before the , he was invalided home permanently.

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. What’s your name? ______. Where are you from? ______. How old are you? (Year 1936) ______. Where did you study? ______. Did you go to the University? ______. What did you do before the Spanish War? ______. When did you arrive to Spain? ______. Which side do you support in the Spanish War? ______

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Harry Haywood (1898 - 1985) was born in Nebraska, the United States of America.

Harry Haywood began his revolutionary career by joining the African Blood Brotherhood in 1922, followed by the Young Communist League in 1923. Soon after in 1925, he joined the Communist Party, USA. Afterwards, Haywood went to Moscow to study, first to the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in 1925, then to the International Lenin School in 1927. He stayed until 1930 as a delegate to the .

Haywood was General Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, but he was active in issues involving working class Whites as well.

Haywood's military career included service in three wars. During World War I, he served with a Black United States regiment. In the Spanish Civil War, like many Americans there, he fought for the Popular Front with the Abraham of the International Brigades.

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. What’s your name? ______. Where are you from? ______. How old are you? (Year 1936) ______. 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? ______

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Jock Cunningham (1903 - 1984) was born in Coatbridge, Scotland. He worked as a miner.

He was a British volunteer in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He became a battalion and brigade commander.

In February 1937, in the Battle of Jarama, one report says that he "left hospital with a fever to go and fight". Along with Frank Ryan he rallied the remnants of the British battalion in a defensive action which held the line outside Madrid, thereby blocking Franco's attempt to seize the capital.

Cunningham was hospitalised from March 15 until May 1937 after which he was promoted to Captain. He was sent back to Britain in August 1937 and didn't return to Spain.

. What’s your name? ______. Where are you from? ______. How old are you? (Year 1936) ______. What did you do before the Spanish War? ______. When did you arrive to Spain? ______. Which side do you support in the Spanish War? ______

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General Eoin O'Duffy (1893 - 1944) was a politician, a soldier, a commissioner of the police force and a sports administrator. He became President of the National Athletic and Cycling Association and of the Handball Association.

He was elected the 2nd. President of the Olympic Council of Ireland, where he served from 1931 to 1935. In that capacity he headed the small Irish team which travelled to Los Angeles for the 1932 Olympics.

Having been Director of an Irish Fascist organisation ("Blue Shirts"), O'Duffy in 1936 organised an Irish Brigade to go to Spain to fight on the Nationalist side, "in defence of Christianity". The 700 men returned a year later not having participated in much fighting.

. What’s your name? ______. Where are you from? ______. How old are you? (Year 1936) ______. What did you do before the Spanish War? ______. When did you arrive to Spain? ______. Which side do you support in the Spanish War? ______

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George Montague Nathan (1895 - 1937). During the First World War, he fought in the British Army on the Western Front.

He was a British volunteer in the International Brigades in Spain.

He later became Chief of Staff of the XV International Brigade and was killed on 16 July 1937 at the . Even though he had been turned down for Communist Party membership.

. What’s your name? ______. Where are you from? ______. How old are you? (Year 1936) ______. Did you participate in another war? ______. What did you do before the Spanish War? ______. Which side do you support in the Spanish War? ______

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