English Recordings

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Well, it doesn't take so many time for me to read English books because I don't practice myself in this way at all, and that's the truth.

I'm trying to put in my mind only short interesting parts of the different text stories.

Where do I borrow them?

Everywhere! So, perhaps, even here in this forum right now!

Of course, there is a really increased difficulty in relation with the brain job for recording the texts into my memory, that's the problem, but then when it eventually have become parts of me I at least feel like it was a single way - so quick though rude )) like placed in sacks and dumped in the stall.

I don't know exactly why but reading a whole book's content looks a digression on the effective path of language study, maybe, because of it doesn't give me getting used to the feeling that it can now be completely my own store of accumulated lore

Over the top
In order to attack the enemy, men had to climb over the parapet of the trenches and they had to cross No Man's Land. On July 1st, 1916, the French and British military forces launched an attack on the German army in the Somme. It was disastrous. On the first day alone, the British lost 60,000 men. The battle ended on November 14th, over 1.3 million men were killed and the Allies just won 6 miles of territory. This is how one officer described "going over the top" with his soldiers at the Somme: "You try to calm everybody and try not to show how terrified you are. Then you start the countdown: ten, nine, eight…You blow the whistle . You climb out of the trench and through the hole in the barbed wire . You lie there for everyone to get out . Some of them are already dead or wounded . Then you stand up and start running , across No Man's Land , towards a line of machine guns, with artillery firing all around."
boots
grenades
rifle
stell helmet
ammunition pouch
water bottle
cooking equipment
gas mask
puttees
bayonet

Soldiers usually had tea, biscuits and tinned beef for dinner. Daily life involved the Stand-To-Arms, meaning to be on high-alert for enemy attack. Soldiers had to clean and inspect their weapons, fill up sandbags, dig trenches, consolidate the trench floor and the walls, fix communication cables, put up barbed wire, transfer supplies, food rations and new equipment, observe enemy activities and movements, go patrolling, remove the dead bodies and the wounded from the trenches and from no man's land. They had to live with the constant danger of enemy attacks, shrapnel shells and snipers, the sound of artillery bombardments which sometimes resulted in soldiers suffering from a breakdown (mental collapse) known as "shell shock", the death or injury of close friends and the dangers of poison gas attacks. Men had to rest and sleep during the day, they enjoyed playing card games and they wrote letters or postcards to their families.
the trench
No Man's Land
sandbags
barbed wire
periscope
soldier on watch
metal tin
haversack and kit
trench duty
rat
letters and diary

Weapons
Every soldier had his own rifle*. It could fire fifteen rounds in under a minute and hit someone over a thousand metres away. A bayonet* was fixed to rifles and used in one-on-one fighting. Grenades* were thrown into enemy trenches. Officers had their pistols*. Machine guns* fired up to 600 bullets in a minute. Artillery field guns* could fire shells* as far as 6 km.
a tank
an aeroplane
an artillery field gun
a machine gun
a pistol
a rifle
7. bullets
8. a grenade
9. a shell
10. a bayonet

The First World War
Life on the front line
On the Western Front, the war was fought in trenches, where soldiers lived all day and night. In the middle was No Man's Land, so-called because it did not belong to either army. Soldiers crossed No Man's Land when they wanted to attack the enemy. The trenches were dirty, muddy and smelly. There were many dead bodies buried nearby. Millions of rats infested the trenches. There was also a big problem with lice that tormented the soldiers every day. As a result of wet conditions and poor hygiene, some soldiers suffered from "trench foot".

trench foot
lice
muddy
smelly
buried

A German gorilla, meant to be Kaiser Wilhem II, is carrying a woman who represents the Statue of Liberty. He is carrying a club which has the word "Kultur" written on it. The message is that the Germans are taking America's liberty and culture. They are evil and destructive. This poster also means humanity is lost during war.

This Italian / French propaganda poster shows a caricature of Kaiser Wilhem II. He is biting into the world. The message is that he wants to conquer the world and destroy it.

A man is wearing leather boots. His waistcoat is decorated with the British flag. He’s the fictional personification of Britain. The soldiers in the background are those who already enlisted in the British army. They stand ready to fight under the command of their country. This is a recruiting poster made by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. This was necessary because at the beginning of the war, the British army was a volunteer army: no man could be forced to join. Soldiers had to enlist voluntarily. The poster functions on guilt: young men should feel guilty of not helping their country in times of need.

As they are travelling on board a ship, Prospero and his daughter Miranda are stranded on an island after a big storm …Later on, other people arrive. There’s a wedding at the end.

Three witches tell a man that he will become king. He believes in the prophecy, and his wife, who wants power, makes him do terrible things to make the prophecy come true . She eventually becomes crazy.

The Prince of Denmark ‘s father is murdered and his widow marries the murderer. This is unbearable ! The prince can’t accept it.

These two beautiful young people live in Verona and are deeply in love with each other, but their families are enemies and their parents don’t want them to get married. They decide to disobey them….

3 love stories are told in this play. Part of the action takes place in a forest at night. There are fairies and animals, and there’s a lot of magic too.

The main character is an ambitious and ugly hunchback who decides to marry the wife of King Henry VI who has just died. He is a villain who is ready to do anything to seize power , even kill 2 innocent children!

Iago, a villain, manages to persuade the Moor of Venice that his wife , Desdemona is unfaithful. The husband who becomes more and more jealous, refuses to believe Desdemona who is innocent, and kills her.

In the 15th century, a young English king defeats the French, marries the French king’s daughter and becomes his heir : the 2 kingdoms will be united…

A German gorilla, meant to be Kaiser Wilhem II, is carrying a woman who represents the Statue of Liberty. He is carrying a club which has the word "Kultur" written on it. The message is that the Germans are taking America's liberty and culture. They are evil and destructive. This poster also means humanity is lost during war.

This Italian / French propaganda poster shows a caricature of Kaiser Wilhem II. He is biting into the world. The message is that he wants to conquer the world and destroy it.

A man is wearing leather boots. His waistcoat is decorated with the British flag. He’s the fictional personification of Britain. The soldiers in the background are those who already enlisted in the British army. They stand ready to fight under the command of their country. This is a recruiting poster made by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. This was necessary because at the beginning of the war, the British army was a volunteer army: no man could be forced to join. Soldiers had to enlist voluntarily. The poster functions on guilt: young men should feel guilty of not helping their country in times of need.

A man is probably making a rifle. There is a flag behind him with a soldier holding a gun. They are both in the same position. One man is working hard at home, and one man is working hard at war. The message is that your jobs at home are as important as those at home. It's telling the workers you may not be at the war front, but you are still helping by making weapons.

Lord Kitchener is pointing his right hand at the persons who are looking at the poster and he is saying that he wants them to join the army. It is a personal message to young men in Britain. It is very persuasive.

There is a man (supposed to be Uncle Sam) who is pointing at the reader saying, "I want you in the Navy and I want you now". He is wearing the colours of the American flag. His hat is decorated with stars on a blue background. The poster tries to make young men join up for the army because the phrase "I want you" makes the men think that they are actually wanted and needed. It is a very personalized message.