Hitler in films

Films are an excellent way to learn history while at the same time seeing a three dimensional world you can feel, touch and comprehend. Here are a few suggestions of Youtube and a picture of a recent film the Downfall, depicting the last days of Hitler in his bunker. Comment on them please.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VRv8id8Wjs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cFTJ9q5ztk&feature=related

Weimar Republic

What is the woman doing? Why? Who was that soldier you did not yet recognise in a WWI German uniform? Use the two webpages to answer the questions and to know about Weimar Germany and the beginning of the Nazi Regime


http://www.teachersparadise.com/ency/en/wikipedia/w/we/weimar_republic.html
http://www.johndclare.net/Weimar_revision.htm
copy all the information in the second document and show it to your teacher

Stalin webpages

In the second page there is the possibility of listening to a real audio archive of Stalin.



http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/stalin/study.html
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/

Rome a settlement

Using your coursebook and this image:
Create a document to send to your e-mail account or the teacher's
1. Provide reasons for the city of Rome being here.
2. Read the Legend in :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_of_Rome
http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/a/mythslegends_3.htm
3. Comment on the validity of such a legend.
4. You can also investigate about the city of Cádiz in Spain, with another similar Foundation Legend.

Gotham city?

Is this an image of Gotham city? Look carefully.

Gotham city/ Settlement

On December 1st, as we were having our classes on AIDS' day, a student asked me why we were doing that, he said it had nothing to do with Geography. My final answer was that Geography means asking questions about the world around us
In this new topic we can ask a very basic question Why is this city/village there?
Let's do it with Gotham. Why was Gotham built there? Can you see any similarities to other cities? Why are there skyscrappers in Gotham? And why is crime an issue in Gotham?

Exams

You probably know by now that History exams are usually connected to:
a. Causes: Why did that happen?
b. Events: What happened? How did it happen?
c. Consequences. What effect did those events have in history? or in people's lives?

Bilingual exams worry about your ability to express these causes, the events and the consequences, both in written and in oral form. So you are expected to create short texts 25 to 100 words: writing.
You must be able to understand some texts: reading.
And you are also expected to use some especific vocabulary.
In this particular exam I woul like you to comment a photograph or any sort of illustration like a comic strip, similar to the one we saw today.
I hope you like these comments.