A Letter from the Trenches

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Aims

Mud, rats, boredom and letters home: what daily life was really like in a First World War trench. Past tenses and empathy for B1 students.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. News10 min

    In the news: The story

    Read a 144-word news story: Mud, rats and letters home: daily life on the Western Front

  1. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Words to know

    6 items

  2. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: The letter

    2 discussion questions

  3. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Coping

    3 discussion questions

  4. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Then and now

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

mudratboredcoperoutinesay very little

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