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Name……Surname…..
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Listening
Fill in the gaps
1. Put the words below in the correct order; the first one is given.
Winston Churchill: We shall fight Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTw3_PmKtc (2.24)
When Napoleon lay at Boulogne for a year with his flat-bottomed boats and his Grand
Army, he was told by someone. "There are bitter weeds in England." There are certainly a great
many more of them since the British ________ Force returned. (…)
I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the
best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able
to defend our Island home, to ride out the _____ of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if
necessary for years, if necessary______ .
At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's
Government every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation.
The British _____ and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their
need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the
utmost of their strength.
Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may
fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi_____ , we shall not flag or fail.
We _____ go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our
Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing
grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never
_____ , and even if, which I do not for a _______ believe, this Island or a large part of it were
subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the
British______, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its
power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
(1) Boulogne (2) Fleet (3) shall (4) Expeditionary (5) moment (6) alone (7) surrender
(8) Empire (9) rule (10) storm
Use of English
Fill in the gaps
2. Complete the following text by choosing an appropriate word from the list
below. The first word is given
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D-Day: the Normandy Landings
The Normandy landings were a massive joint services operation, with naval, aerial and
paratroop elements supporting the main amphibious assault. They required specific
meteorological conditions: a late-rising full moon, a receding tide, good visibility, sparse cloud
cover and low winds. The unreliable _________weather made this an elusive combination. After
one postponement, the operation was scheduled for 6 June 1944; even then conditions were less
than ideal, with blustery seas and 50 per cent cloud cover.
The operation began on the morning of 5 June, when minesweepers cleared ten lanes
through German minefields in the English Channel. They were followed by an armada of nearly
5,000 vessels. That night, alerted by a coded message broadcast on the BBC, French Resistance
groups sabotaged rail and communication links. A massive deception operation was mounted,
creating the impression of an attack on the Pas de Calais with fake radio broadcasts and radar
deception measures. Dummy paratroop drops were staged all over Normandy: a double-bluff
designed to reinforce the German focus on Calais.
Meanwhile in eastern Normandy, British and US aeroplanes were bombing ______
emplacements and dropping glider- and ________ borne troops; despite heavy losses, 6th Airborne
and the US 82nd and 101st Airborne achieved most of their objectives. Finally, at 5.30am on 6
June, nearly 200 Allied ships began bombarding German defensive positions along 80km (50
miles) of coast. The bombardment lasted two and a half hours, continuing as the first landings
began.
The coastline chosen for the invasion, running from Carentan in the west to Caen in the
east, was divided into five beaches. At the western extreme was Utah, near the estuaries of the
Rivers Taute and Vire at Carentan. To the east, the coast was impassable for several kilometres;
the next available landing site, more than six kilometres of shingle and sand dunes, was
designated ________ beach. Both were assigned to the US 1st Army - Utah to 7th Corps and Omaha
to 5th Corps.
West of Omaha, a 30km stretch of beach ran from Arromanches to the estuary of the
River Orne at Ouistreham, north of Caen; this was divided, west to east, into_____, Juno and Sword
beaches. These were assigned to the 2nd Army, with 30th Corps taking Gold and 1st Corps
taking Juno and Sword. ________ were _________ for low tide: 6.30am at Utah and Omaha, an hour
later in the east.
Disoriented by Allied deception operations, the Germans had not taken the overnight
operations seriously enough to alert Rommel or Hitler, both asleep in Germany. As a result, their
ability to repel the landings was fatally compromised; four tank divisions under Hitler's personal
command were not mobilised until late afternoon, and played no part in the first day's battles.
The landings were further secured by air and ______ support. Even the near disastrous
Omaha landings - where high flying bombers had left much of the coastal artillery intact - ended
with the establishment of a precarious beachhead. _____ outcome of the landings was a tribute to
the care with which they had been prepared.
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ff7_dday.shtml]
(1) Channel (2) Normandy (3) Omaha (4) Gold (5) naval (6) gun (7) parachute (8)
scheduled (9) Landings (10) The
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3. Read Roosevelt’s biography and fill the boxes with the correct sentences. The
first sentence is given.
Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York--now a national historic site--he attended Harvard
University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt.
Following the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he
greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a
Democrat. b
In the summer of 1921, when he was 39, disaster hit-he was stricken with poliomyelitis.
Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through
swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to
nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New
York.
He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. ☐ In his first
"hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to
business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and
homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
By 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen and
bankers were turning more and more against Roosevelt's New Deal program. ☐Roosevelt
responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new
controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the
unemployed.
In 1936 he was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular
mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key
New Deal measures. ☐ Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy.
Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the
Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action
against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of
the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When
France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great Britain all possible aid
short of actual military involvement.
☐
Feeling that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations between the
United States and Russia, he devoted much thought to the planning of a United Nations, in which,
he hoped, international difficulties could be settled.
As the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while
at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
[http://www.whitehouse.gov]
a. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed.
b. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920.
c. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt directed
organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war.
d. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took
place.
e. They feared his experiments, were appalled because he had taken the Nation off the
gold standard and allowed deficits in the budget, and disliked the concessions to labor.
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Use of English
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
4. Match the following words to their corresponding definitions
Issue
Battlefield
Threshold
Weapon
Disease
Whirlpool
To delay
Buoyancy
Deliberately
Rapid
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
a place in a river where currents of water spin round
an important topic
illness
a place where a battle is being fought
the entrance to a building or a room
an object used for fighting
to not do something until a later time
strength
intentionally
happening in a short period
Check your understanding
5. Are these statements true or false?
1. Japanese air squadrons bombed the island of Oahu on december 8th, 1941.
2. JFK was killed in Chicago. (VE) The “thirteen days” started in October 28, 1962 (VD)
3. George VI’s daughter is the actual queen of England.
4. Churchill held during WWII an appeasement policy.
5. The Iron Curtain Speech is seen as the Cold War’s starting point.
6. Match the following sentences with the correspondent author
1. I have directed that all measures be taken for our defence.
2. The weather in this country is practically unpredictable.
3. There never was a war in all history easier to prevent .
4. For the second time in the lives of most of us we are at war.
5. It is unthinkable that we should refuse to meet the challenge.
Roosevelt (1) Churchill (2) George VI (3) Eisenhower (4).
7. Multiple choice
1. He was Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied Forces in Western Europe during the
Second World War:
a.
Winston Churchill
b.
Dwight Eisenhower
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c.
d.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry Truman
2. We read an inscription written in Latin. It was about:
a.
William the Conqueror
b.
Dwight Einsenhower
c.
No mission impossible
d.
Remembrance Day
7. What was the code name given to Germany’s plan to invade the USSR?
a. Operation Sea Lion
b. Operation Barbarossa
c. Operation Wolfenstein
d. Operation Crossbow
4. What happened at Dunkirk in May 1940?
a. British forces retreated across the English Channel
b. The French army lost a major battle
c. American forces invaded France
d. German forces were defeated in a large naval battle
5. The phrase “iron curtain,” coined by Winston Churchill, means
a. The development of iron-plated armour for tanks and battleships during the Cold War.
b. An intellectual “iron curtain” that kept the Soviet Union (and Soviet states) isolated
from the political, social and economic influences of Western Europe.
c. An ideological “wall” that kept Eastern Orthodox Christianity from spreading to
Western Europe.
d. An actual walled partition between Communist and capitalist countries in Europe.
Answer the following questions:
1. Think back over the Day of Infamy Speech and write all FDR’s expressions you
remember. For each of them give a short definition. The first should be: infamy.
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1. What is the meaning of the D-Day attack in Europe? Why is the operation called “Overlord”?
OR
Write a short review of the movie you saw this week. The review should contain: the plot, the
reasons you suggest it (or not), the link with your CLIL history course.
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Name……Surname…..
VD
Listening
Fill in the gaps
1. Put the words below in the correct order; the first one is given. One does not fit.
President Reagan’s Address at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany,
6/12/1987
And now the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be coming to understand the importance
of freedom. We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness. Some
political __________ have been released. Certain foreign news broadcasts are no longer being
jammed. Some economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from
state control.
Are these the __________ of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they _________ gestures,
intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to __________ the Soviet system without changing it?
We welcome change and openness; for we believe that __________ and security go together, that
the advance of __________ liberty can only strengthen the cause of __________peace. There is one sign
the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of
freedom and peace.
General __________ Gorbachev, if you __________ peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this
gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
(1) Soviets (2) token (3) Secretary (4) prisoners (5) world (6) seek (7) wall (8) beginnings
(9) strengthen (10) freedom (11) human
Use of English
Fill in the gaps
2. Complete the following text by choosing an appropriate word from the list
below. The first word is given. One does not fit.
The Berlin Wall
3. The Berlin Wall was actually two walls.
The 27-mile portion of the barrier separating Berlin into east and west consisted of two
concrete walls between which was a “death strip” up to 160 yards wide that contained hundreds
of watchtowers, miles of anti-vehicle trenches, guard _____ runs, floodlights and trip-wire
machine guns.
4. More than 100 people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
The Centre for Research on Contemporary History Potsdam and the Berlin Wall
Memorial Site and Documentation Centre report that at least 138 people were shot dead, ________
fatal accidents or ________ suicide after failed escape attempts across the Berlin Wall. Other
researchers place the death toll even higher. The first victim was Ida Siekmann, who died on
August 22, 1961, after attempting to leap to a West Berlin street below her fourth-floor East
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Berlin apartment window. The last fatality occurred in March 1989 when a young East German
attempting to _____over the wall in a hot air balloon crashed into power lines.
5. More than 5,000 escaped by going over and under the Berlin Wall.
The first defector to escape across the Berlin Wall was 19-year-old East German border
guard Corporal Conrad Schumann, who was immortalized on film as he leapt over a 3-foot-high
_____ of barbed wire just two days after East Germany sealed the border [see picture below]. As
the Berlin Wall grew more elaborate, so did escape plans. Fugitives _____ in secret compartments
of cars driven by visiting West Berliners, _____ secret tunnels and crawled through sewers. The
_____ Bethke brothers pulled off the most spectacular escapes. Eldest brother Ingo escaped by
floating on an inflatable mattress across the Elbe River in 1975, and eight years later brother
Holger soared over the wall on a steel cable he fired with a bow and arrow to a rooftop in West
Berlin. In 1989 the _____ flew an ultra-light plane over the wall and back to pick up youngest
brother Egbert.
[http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-berlin-wall]
(1) fly (2) four (3) barrier (4) hid (5) roll (6) suffered (7) committed (8) dug (9) pair (10)
dog (11) three
Reading
Practicing language skills
3. Read the following article and fill the boxes with the correct sentences. The first
sentence is given.
November 22, 1963
On Nov. 22, 1963, the writers Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis both died, at 69 and 64,
respectively. b
Jack Lewis’s death on the 22nd has preoccupied me. It is also involving me in some
correspondence, ☐ Alas! That ceased to be some ten years ago. (…) But we owed each a great
debt to the other, and that tie with the deep affection that it begot, remains. He was a great man
of whom the cold-blooded official obituaries only scraped the surface, ☐ (…) He was to do
space-travel and I time-travel. (…) I was wryly amused to be told that “Lewis himself was never
very fond of The Screwtape Letters” – his best seller (250,000). ☐ I wondered why. ☐
(J. R. R. Tolkien, from a Letter to Michael Tolkien, The letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, London,
George Allen & Unwin 1981, 359).
a. in places with injustice.
b. News of their deaths was overshadowed by the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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c. as many people still regard me as one of his intimates.
d. Now I know – says they.
e. He dedicated it to me.
Use of English
4. Match the following words to their corresponding definitions. One does not fit.
1. Albeit
2. Van
3. Backdrop
4. Withdrawal
5. Embroil
6. Outlaw
7. Forebear
8. Quarantine
9. Boast
10. Currency
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
Ancestor
Involve
Although
The general conditions of an event
Act of keeping something in good condition
The act of moving away
A covered vehicle with no side windows
The money used in a country
To make illegal
A period of time when a person is kept away
Something a person talks a bout in a very proud way
Check your understanding
5. Are these statements true or false?
1. The Marshall Plan promised aid pretending them back within 25 years.
2. The Berlin Uprising started with the strike of construction workers.
3. Prague Spring was broadcast via Radio Free Europe.
4. Lyndon Johnson was interested in domestic policies.
5. The power of the powerless is a book written by Lech Walesa
6. Match the following sentences with the correspondent author. One does not fit
1. We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution
2. You live in a defended island of freedom. But your life is part of the main
2. We begin bombing in five minutes
4. Se mi sbaglio mi corrigerete
5. The Soviets turned their ships around
(1) Sting (2) John Paul II (3) Reagan (4) JFK x2 (5) Billy Joel
7. Multiple choices
1. Why does Kennedy say in his Inaugural Address “in your hands (…) will rest the final
success or failure”?
a. Because people need to listen to the speech
b. To make it clear that people are responsible
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c. So they know what he means in the speech
d. So they will join hands in the audience
2. Why does Kennedy (in the same speech) say, “Ask not what your country can do for
you”?
a. Because people need to work for progress
b. Because he is going to set more taxes
c. Because the President is the leader of the country
d. Because he wants people to vote for him
3. The Soviet Union’s reaction to the 1968 revolt in Czechoslovakia was to:
a. Permit limited political and economic reforms in Czechoslovakia
b. Withdraw Soviet troops from Eastern Europe
c. Send Soviet troops to occupy Czechoslovakia
d. Bring the matter to the attention of the United Nations
4. From the perspective of North Vietnamese, the war in Vietnam in the 1960’s was a
battle between:
a. Fascism and liberalism
b. Nationalism and imperialism
c. Republicanism and totalitarianism
d. Theocracy and monarchy
5. “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended
across the continent”. What is the main idea of this quotation?
a. The Soviet Union will support communist revolutions in Southeast Asia
b. The Soviet Union has helped the nations of Eastern Europe improve their standard of
living
c. The democratic nations of Western Europe have stopped the expansion of Soviet
influence in the world.
d. The Soviet Union has expanded its influence throughout Eastern Europe.
Answer the following questions:
What where the main points of Mr. Khrushchev’s secret speech? Why do you think he gave this
speech?
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2. Evaluate the impact of Reagan’s policies on the end of the Cold War.
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