Poppies

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

These are POPPIES

Learn

• 11 November is Remembrance Day
• It is celebrated in the UK and in Canada
• What is Remembrance Day? 
• Why do people wear poppies?

Watch the film and find out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28RvhnK6X_I

What is Remembrance Day?
(answer in English)

Why do people wear poppies?
(answer in English)

Watch the Video

Watch the Video about the First World War

The man is talking really fast - you won't understand everything he says, so watch the pictures. video 

• When was this war
• What was new about it
• What are trenches
• Name three countries that were in the War

In Flanders Fields

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

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

Qyiu

Read the Poem 
Use an online dictionary to help you understand it

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