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I'm a Reporter! LESSON 1 1. Listen to the song ‘Viva la quinta brigada’ and write as many words as you understand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyvshOYelU ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 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 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. CONOCIMIENTO DEL MEDIO 1 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 2 I’m a reporter! LESSON 2 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 swastika He fought and 14________ beneath the Spanish sun. CONOCIMIENTO DEL MEDIO 3 (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 Blueshirts 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 Peter Daly, 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. 6 I’m a reporter! LESSON 3 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. ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 8 I’m a reporter! LESSON 4 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 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. (…) 10 I’m a reporter! LESSON 5. FINAL TASK 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 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. 12 I’m a reporter! ANEXO INTERNATIONAL BRIGADIERS’ BIOGRAPHIES CONOCIMIENTO DEL MEDIO 13 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
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