Thursday, April 9, 2015

Hi classmates!

Today in the class of Social Sciences we have started a new unit, unit 7: THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS.
To start the unit, Paqui has written the index of the unit on the blackboard and then, we have copied it. The index of the unit is:

1. World War One. 

• Causes and outbreak
• Features
• Stages
• the peace treaties and consequences of the war

     2.  The Russian revolutions.

• Tsarist Russia
• The 1917 revolution
• The Civil War and the creation of the USSR
• Stalinism

Paqui has said that the second point of this unit won't be included in the first exam of the term, this point will be included in the second exam with the next unit.

When we have finished to copy the index of the unit, Paqui has started to explain the first part of the point 1: causes and outbreak. 

The causes of the World War One were: 

• Rivalries between different European powers such as United Kingdom and Germany, France and Germany and Austria-Hungary against Russia. 
• Confronted military alliances: The Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy) and the Triple Entente (United Kingdom, France and Russia) 

In this cause Paqui has tried to show us a video about military alliances, but she hasn't been able due tocan't problems with the internet. So, I'm going to add this video in my journal, I hope that you enjoy!

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history/videos/world-war-i-alliances?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false

• Arms race: There were big investments in weapons, soldiers and war plans to be ready for war ("Armed peace").
• Exacerbation of nationalism: It's a general tendency of exaltation of the own virtues, contempt towards foreigners and racism.

source: http://www.bedford.gov.uk/council_and_democracy/civic_and_ceremonial/history/world_war_1_by_numbers.aspx

In today's class we have copied a lot of new vocabulary, let's see:

-Tsar:Zar                                                        -To collapse: hundirse

-Tsarist: Zarista                                              -Military alliance: alianza militar

-Stalinism: Estalinismo                                  -To commit oneself: comprometerse

-Trench: trinchera                                           -Committment: compromiso

-Rivalry: rivalidad                                          -To foresee: preveer

-Unsolved: irresuelto, no resuelto                  -Armis race: carrera de armamentos

-Armed peace: La paz armada                        -Exacerbation: exacerbación

-Contempt: desprecio                                      -On the brink of: a punto de

-Pre-bellic: prebélico                                       -Gunboat: acorazado

-Tug of war: tira y afloja                                  -tugboat: remolcador

At the end of the lesson Paqui has given us homework for Monday: copy the second slide of the presentation and the exercise 1 of the page 59 and she has advised us to start the art project!

And that's all, see you on Monday.

Bye!!