Poppies

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, mavo
• Leerjaar 3

Remembrance Day

In this lesson you will:

- know what is celebrated on the 11th of November

- learn more about Remembrance Day & WWI

- know the meaning of poppies

Big Ben

The bells of Big Ben toll at the 11th hour of November 11

( Remembrance Day) 

each year to commemorate the end of the First World War

These are POPPIES

What is Remembrance Day?
(answer in English)

Why do people wear poppies?
(answer in English)

In Flanders Fields

• was written during World War I
• is one of the most famous English poems
• is often recited on Remembrance Day
  
  

Quickly "scan" the poem

What images (beelden) do you see?

In Flanders fields 

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: 

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Major John McCrae – 1915

Flanders = Vlaanderen (Belgie)

lark = leeuwerik

dawn = zonsopkomst

foe = vijand

torch = fakkel

What is Flanders Fields about?
Antwoord in het Nederlands