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LESSON 1

ACTIVITY 1

A. Read the words in the box below.

B. Listen to the song “Viva la quinta brigada” from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyvshOYelU

C. After the song, circle the words on the map that you heard on the song.

Spain Barcelona Córdoba

Madrid France Sevilla

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ACTIVITY 2.

A. Read the words below. Tick √ the words that you hear on the song.

B. After ticking the words, complete the sentence in the box.

Christopher Columbus

Spanish

Al-Ándalus

Medieval castle

Alhambra

Franco

The song is about ___________________________________.

ACTIVITY 3.

PRE-READING

A. Look at the flag in picture A. Name the colors and circle the symbol on the

flag. This is the flag of the Spanish Republic.

B. Look at the flag in picture B. Name the colors and circle the symbol on the

flag. This is the flag of the Popular Front.

C. Look at the flag in picture C. Name the colors and circle the symbol on the

flag. This is the flag of I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ B _ _ _ _ _ _ _

PICTURE A PICTURE B PICTURE C

Spanish Republic Popular Front ______________

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D. Look at the words that have been underlined in the reading. Write each

word in the appropriate box.

WAR POLITICS

READING

E. Read the text “What were the International Brigades?”

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.

Spanish civil war anti-fascist

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ACTIVITY 4.

The International Brigades are from a lot of different countries. Complete the

table with the name of the countries. The names of the countries are in the box

below.

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 Yugoslavia Cyprus Sweden Belgium Soviet Union Bulgary Poland Switzerland Mexico United Kingdom Netherlands Czechoslovakia

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LESSON 2

ACTIVITY 5

A. Read the words in the black boxes.

B. Listen to the song “Viva La Quinta Brigada”.

C. Fill in the gap in the song with the appropriate word from the box.

Viva La Quinta Brigada (by 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 olives were bleeding

As the battle for 5 __________ it thundered on

Truth and love against the force of evil

Brotherhood against the fascist clan.

Chorus:

Viva la Quinta Brigada,

No Pasarán, the pledge that made them 6_______

Adelante was the cry around the hillside

Let us all 7______________ them tonight.

International

heroes

Madrid

Franco

Spanish

remember

fight

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Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor

From Killarney across the 8____________ he came

From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother

And side by side they fought and died in 9________.

Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba

With Na Fianna he learned to hold his 10 _____

From Dublin to the Villa del Rio

He fought and 11________ beneath the Spanish sun.

(Chorus)

Many 12____________ heard the call of Franco

13__________ Hitler and Mussolini too

Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers

Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew.

The word came from Maynooth, "support the 14_________"

The men of cloth had failed yet again

When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire

As they sailed beneath the 15___________ to Spain.

joined

Irishmen

swastika

facists

Pyrenees

gun

Spain

died

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(Chorus)

This song is a 16__________ to Frank Ryan

Kit Conway and Dinny Coady too

Peter Daly, Charlie Regan and Hugh Bonar

Though many 17_________ 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)

ACTIVITY 6

A. Read the REGULAR VERBS in the table below.

B. Look at the regular verb “to thunder”. Read the past of the regular verb

“thunder” in the table.

C. Find the SIMPLE PAST of the other verbs in the song “Viva La Quinta

Brigada.”

REGULAR VERBS

SIMPLE PAST +ed

To thunder thundered

To die

To learn

To help

To fail

To bless

To sail

died

tribute

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ACTIVITY 7

A. Look at the list of irregular verbs on your dictionary.

B. Look at the irregular verb “to see”. Read the past of the irregular verb “to

see” in the table.

C. Find the SIMPLE PAST of the other verbs in the song “Viva La Quinta

Brigada.”

IRREGULAR VERBS

SIMPLE PAST

To see saw

To be

To come

To make

To fight

To hear

ACTIVITY 8.

A. Look at these pictures.

B. Circle the verb that matches the picture.

to sail to fly to dance to fight

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C. Find online pictures for the following verbs: to die, to fail.

to sing to see to talk to hear

to die to fail

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LESSON 3

ACTIVITY 9

A. Read the statements below.

B. Read the song (activity 5) and underline the statements below.

C. Listen to the song once again.

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.

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ACTIVITY 10

Match and write these questions to the corresponding statements from the

previous activity.

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?

ACTIVITY 11

A. This song is a tribute to some Irishmen from the International Brigade.

Find their names in the song “Viva La Quinta Brigada”.

B. Write their names in the box below.

C. Check your answers with your classmate.

Frank Ryan,

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LESSON 4

ACTIVITY 12

A. This is a pretend interview: In this interview, 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?

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.

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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

ACTIVITY 13

A. Work with a classmate.

B. Select and read the biography of a brigadier.

C. Answer the questions in activity 12.

LESSON 6. ACTION!

ACTIVITY 14

A. This is a ROLE-PLAY.

B. Practice the interview with your classmate and act it out. It will be

recorded for your Dossier.

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ASSESSMENT

1. DOSSIER (PORTFOLIO)

- File the work from activities 4, 5, 12 and 14 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

I’m working

on it!

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 suitable pitch to make questions.

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.