English activities - Life on the front - A total war

1.       Listening: text about soldiers’ life on the front.

a)      Name at least two new weapons that were used in World War I

b)      What happened to the wounded soldiers?

c)       What did soldiers have to do everyday?

d)      Describe an offensive in a few words.

2.       Answer these questions about ‘A total war’

a)      How was World War I called a hundred years ago?

b)      Why did it affect the entire population?

c)       What advancements made this war to be the first war that caused a great refugee movement?

d)      What was made in the factories during the war? Who worked in them?

e)      Where was hunger harder, in the cities or in the countryside?

f)       What was the main country that gave loans to the allies?

g)      Name two ways in which the governments censored anti-war opinions.

h)      What was the objective of the 1916 poster?