DISCOVERING ******** (pp.38-43)
BEFORE YOU READ (pp.38-39)
Interact with students and try to elicit an interpretation of the picture. Try not to correct your students’ responses at this stage.
KEY
1- The “blue helmets” / U.N’s peacekeeping troops.
2- They are working for the United Nations Organisation.
3- They are from Algeria
4- The buildings are destroyed because of the war.
5- The soldiers’ chief duty is to re-establish/restore peace in the area.
6- Suggested answer: Yes, I would like people all over the world to live in
peace/ to make peace.
a- The horrors of modern warfare have made Man think about the
preservation of human life.
b- It could not stop stop/It was incapable of stopping fascism because it had
no power of its own.
c- It is the Security Council of the U.N. that can settle disputes.
d- Possible title: The United Nations: Its Branches and its Functions