Today topic- BEGLA- 135- UNIT- 14- Make Peace Not War- English in Daily Life- IGNOU Subject
INTRODUCTION
- Many people have the habit of writing diary on daily basis.
- In this chapter students will be able to develop the ability of writing diary entries.
- Will be able to learn to Listen and comprehend facts, make inferences from the text.
- Giving a speech is an art.
- We will discuss how to write and deliver a speech in a proper manner.
READING COMPREHENSION
- Anne Frank was a German-born Jew.
- She was a victim of the holocaust.
- During her period of hiding from the Nazis, she wrote a diary which was later found and published.
- She died in Feb.
- 1945 in one of the concentration camps at Belsen.
- During her time in hiding, she had kept a diary (which she called Kitty).
- Here, is an excerpt from it.
She wrote a diary which was later found and published
Wednesday, 3rd May, 1944
Dear Kitty, First, just the news of the week.
- I, too, am gradually beginning to believe that the invasion will come.
- As you can easily imagine we often ask ourselves here despairingly: 'what, oh what is the use of the war? Why can't people live peacefully together ?
- Why all this destruction ?'
- The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far.
- Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world ?
- Oh, why are people so crazy?
- I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war.
- There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.
- In my diary-I treat all the privations as amusing.
- I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.
- Every day I feel that I am developing inwardly, that the liberation is drawing nearer and how beautiful nature is, how good the people are about me, how interesting this adventure is! Why, then, should I be in despair ?
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