CONOCIMIENTO DEL MEDIO - Junta de Andalucía · CONOCIMIENTO DEL MEDIO 7 LESSON 3 9. Read these statements and find them in the song while listening. a. _____ Franco's allies were

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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

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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 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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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

LESSON 2

Italy Austria Canada Hungary Estonia France Germany USA Greece Ireland Yugoslavia Cyprus Sweden Belgium Soviet Union Bulgary Poland Switzerland Mexico United Kingdom Netherlands Czechoslovakia


LESSON 2

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

Viva La Quinta Brigada 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

4_______'s allies were the powerful and wealthy

Frank Ryan's men came from the other side.

Even the 5_______ were bleeding

As the battle for 6 __________ it thundered on

Truth and love against the force of 7 ____

8________________ against the fascist clan.

Chorus:

Viva la Quinta Brigada,

No Pasarán, the pledge that made them 9_______

Adelante was the cry around the hillside

Let us all 10______________ them tonight.

Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor

From Killarney across the 11____________ he came

From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother

And side by side they fought and died in 12________.

Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba

With Na Fianna he learned to hold his 13 _____

From Dublin to the Villa del Rio

He fought and 14________ beneath the Spanish sun.

International olives evil heroes Madrid fight Spain Pyrenees Franco died Brotherhood tribute Irishmen Spanish remember Joined gun fascists 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 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)


6. Read the lyrics of ‘Viva la Quinta brigada’ and find the SIMPLE PAST of these

REGULAR verbs.

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

VERBS SIMPLE PAST

To see

To be

To come

To make

To fight

To hear

REGULAR

VERBS

SIMPLE PAST

+ed

To thunder

To die

To learn

To help

To fail

To bless

To sail

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


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?

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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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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?

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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.

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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.


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

I have been able to…

Write √.

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.


ANEXO

INTERNATIONAL BRIGADIERS’

BIOGRAPHIES


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 battle of Jarama, 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.


What’s your name?

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Where are you from?

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How old are you? (Year 1936)

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Fred Copeman (1907 - 1983) was born in East Suffolk, England, 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 Royal Navy.

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 British Battalion 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 Battle of Teruel, he was

invalided home permanently.


What’s your name?

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Where are you from?

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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 Communist International.

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 Lincoln

Battalion of the International Brigades.


What’s your name?

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Where are you from?

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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?

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Where are you from?

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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.

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Where are you from?

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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 Battle of Brunete. Even though he had been turned down

for Communist Party membership.

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Where are you from?

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