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Dorothy Lawrence: A Woman at War

This lesson is about Dorothy Lawrence, a British woman who disguised herself as a man and travelled to the front line during the First...

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In Flanders Fields

This lesson looks at John McCrae’s poem In Flanders Fields. It provides students with practice of reading and analysing a poem, with a...

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Alfred Leete's Kitchener poster
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Joining the British Army in the First World War

This lesson examines the motives and men who volunteered to fight for the British Army during the First World War, and features a letter...

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Letters Home

This lesson looks at letter-writing during the First World War. It gives students practice identifying and using present simple and...

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Life in the trenches

This lesson is about daily life in the trenches during the First World War. It provides students with the opportunity to listen to...

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Migration and the First World War

This lesson is about migration during the First World War. It provides students with information about where, why and when people...

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Military exemption

This lesson is about the process men had to go through in order to be excused from military service during World War I. The role play...

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Numbers and the First World War

This lesson is based on significant numbers related to the First World War. This lesson can also be used as a number revision activity...

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Soldiers from the Caribbean in the First World War

This lesson is about West Indian Soldiers during the First World War. It provides students with information about the history of the...

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The outbreak of war

This lesson uses information gaps to create a speaking activity in which students recount three different eyewitness accounts of the...

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The Brocklesby brothers
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The soldier and the pacifist

This lesson is about two brothers, one a soldier who fought in the Battle of the Somme, the other a conscientious objector who was...

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Wilfred Owen

This lesson is based around the poem Exposure by the First World War poet Wilfred Owen. Exposure vividly depicts the experience of the...

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Women in War: Propaganda and Reality

Students will look at some propaganda posters from the First World War portraying women in different roles. This will be used to start...

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Zeppelin raids

This lesson is about the first ever air attacks on Britain, which occurred during the First World War. It provides students with reading...

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