BEGLA- 135- UNIT- 14 ( Make Peace Not War ) English in Daily Life

 

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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