UNIT 8. Session 2

BLOODY SUNDAY

Listen to the song 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'. Having listened to it. What event is the song referring to? Do you know anything about it? 10'

I can't believe the news today

I can't close my eyes and make it go away

How long, how long must we sing this song?

How long, how long?

'Cos tonight

We can be as one, tonight

Broken bottles under children's feet

Bodies strewn across the dead-end street

But I won't heed the battle call

It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall

Sunday, bloody Sunday

Oh, let's go!

And the battle's just begun

There's many lost, but tell me who has won?

The trenches dug within our hearts

And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart

Sunday, bloody Sunday

How long, how long must we sing this song?

How long, how long?

'Cause tonight

We can be as one, tonight

Tonight

Wipe the tears from your eyes

Wipe your tears away

I'll wipe your tears away

I'll wipe your bloodshot eyes

Sunday, bloody Sunday

Wipe your tears

Sunday, bloody Sunday

And it's true we are immune

When fact is fiction and TV reality

And today the millions cry

We eat and drink while tomorrow they die

The real battle just begun (Sunday, bloody Sunday)

To claim the victory Jesus won (Sunday, bloody Sunday)

Sunday, bloody Sunday

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Watch the following video on 'Bloody Sunday'. Give the definition for some concepts appearing and complete the timeline on the events happening that day. 15'

CONCEPTS:

Bloody Sunday:

The Troubles:

Whitewash:

Irish Nationalists:

Irish Unionists:

Massacre:

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Use the much-repeated question on the song HOW LONG? and write a paragraph using information about the video and relative expressions to talk about how do you think about the actual conflict. You can also relate it to other problems such as Brexit, Scotland etc. 10'