The texts are based closely on authentic eyewitness accounts of the outbreak of war in 1914 from the Imperial War Museum’s collection of podcasts: http://www.1914.org/podcasts/podcast-2-outbreak-4-august-1914-2/.
Austria-Hungary began mobilizing its army on 26 July 1914. As shown here, many soldiers were excited about the prospect of war. But the Austro-Hungarian Army contained men of a number of different nationalities and ethnic backgrounds, and not all of them were equally as enthusiastic. © IWM (Q 81808)
Topic: Europeans at the outbreak of the First World War
Level: B2
Time: 85 minutes
Aims:
- To review and consolidate the form, meaning and use of the past narrative tenses (past simple, past continuous and past perfect)
- To develop students’ knowledge about the outbreak of the First World War in Europe
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Comments
A great resource but needs a correction.
There is a mistake in Task 3 (choosing the right past tense). No one has Text C to gapfill with correct tenses! Student A has text B, Student B should have text C and Student C should have Text A.
Correction
Hi Nicola
I've had a look but am not clear what you mean. From what I can see
Student A has text A complete and needs to gapfill B & C
Student B has text B complete and needs to gapfill A & C
Student A has text C complete and needs to gapfill A & B
Let me know if I am missing anything.
Best wishes
Del
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