late - post: Remembrance Day

Here are a couple of exercises online for some background information on Remembrance Day (what else is it called?):

1. Take dictation from the following Vocaroo audio, check it with a partner, and post it on your blog:

After volunteering us an army private following the outbreak of World War 1 in 1914, former German school boy Harry Drink-water 25, joined a pal;s battalion so-called because the men were encourage to joined up with local friends and work colleagues. 

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1. Listen to the following WWI diary entry, following along with the text with blanks below, and post the missing words on your blog:

Sunday, December 19
No words can adequately describe the conditions. It’s not the (1) German's we’re fighting, but the weather. Within an hour of moving off, we were up to our knees in mud and (2) water.
The mud gradually got deeper as we advanced along the trench.
We hadn’t gone far before we had to duck; the enemy were sending over their evening salute of shells.

Pals battalion: Harry (centre left, marked in blue ink) joined the Second Birmingham Battalion alongside friends from home. Most of them died by the end of the war

To move forward, I had to use both elbows for leverage, one each side of the trench. After about one and a half hours of this, we reached the firing line. Later, I groped my way to our dugout. What a (3) site.
Imagine a (4) room underneath the ground, whose walls are slimy with moisture. The floor is a foot or more (5) deep in rancid-smelling mud.*