Uniforms in the British Empire

British artillery

soldier

Indian infantry

soldier

Scottish boy soldier

British fighter pilot

Women roles in WW1

Women’s Army

auxiliary worker

Voluntary Aid

detachment nurse

Ambulance driver

War doctor

Is this a reliable

website?

Checking pieces of information

and thinking about it/ reconsidering it

Read your article, but don’t panic!

• The Dictionary guy checks the words on wordreference.com (pay attention

to the context)

• The Secretary writes your ideas (the ideas of the whole group!)

• The Time Keeper checks the time

=> The group works together

Your assignment (=mission)

• Complete the « Vocab corner »

• Introduce (=present) the document (help : the « AP » in your notebook)

+ don’t forget to say if it’s a reliable source or not (and why)

• Sum up (=recap) the ideas of the author in four sentences

• Conclude (link the article to the video we watched)

Observe these letters

Can you find : the sender, the receiver, the dates and the places?

Complete the padlet with : the salutations, weather conditions,

living conditions and feelings?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-first-world-

war/part-one/10273499/first-world-war-letters-home.html

Early July 1914

August 4-9th 1914

November 1914

April

1915

April 30th 1915

Dec

emb

er13th

1914

May 1915

Stephen Brown to his mother

Jack Symons (10th Nov. 1915) to his friend Berthttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/letters-first-world-war-1915/trenches-knees-water/

Lloyd Maywood Staley to his sweetheart Mary Beatrice Gray

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rstaley/wwlettr1.htm

Frank Earley to his father

https://aggsliterature.wordpress.com/wwi-letters-home/

Sailor Teddy Ashton to his sister Gertie (May 6th 1916)http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/letters-to-loved-ones

Albert Edwin Rippington to his friend Ernest

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/letters-first-world-war-1915/injury-look-pretty-picture/

Richard Frederick Hull to his friend Gerald, June 19th 1915 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/letters-first-world-war-1915/trenches-awful-time/

To go further…

• Go back to the first website and read other letters by Lloyd M. Staley

• You can also have a look at:

• http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/letters-first-world-war-1915/

• http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/letters-to-loved-ones

• https://aggsliterature.wordpress.com/wwi-letters-home/

Last recommendation

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkWxMG-JDk4