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LEARNING GUIDE 2 - BILINGUALISM

ENGLISH AREA – TENTH GRADE
School

Student’s name: Group: 10____

Subject: Political Sciences Review Time: 1 hour
Topics: Cold War
Colegio Term: Second

TIME: 1 session

Learning strategies

Use Background Knowledge Underlining

Make Inferences Use Imagery
Use Real Objects Use Selective Attention
Find/Apply Patterns Cooperate

Resources: Portfolio, Notebook and School supplies, web support, Monolingual Dictionary:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dictionary.htm.

SESSION 1 – POLITICAL
SCIENCE REVIEW

Content and Language Learning Goal: By the end of the lesson students will
have a clearer idea of the concept "Cold War" through related reading and
speaking exercises in order to strengthen communicative fluency in related topics.

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I. GET THE PARTY STARTED

1. LET’S BREAK THE ICE

Your teacher will show you a Kahoot game

related to the Cold War. Be attentive to the
questions and answers as you will have to
complete the definitions of the words in our flash back
session below.
https://create.kahoot.it/details/896d3f11-6ed2-44c8-
8815-90ab908403f9

Use Background Knowledge : Think about what you already know about a topic to help you learn more about it.

2. FLASH BACK

2.1 Define the words in the chart, based on the previous Kahoot
game or your general knowledge, check the web if needed:

Word Definition
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Yalta Conference
Postwar
Iron Curtain
Marshall Plan
Civil War
First World Country
Second World Country
Third World Country

2.2 Taking into account the vocabulary about cold war you have learnt, write three sentences
related to the cold war and the current context of society.
 _________________________________________________________________________
 _________________________________________________________________________
 _________________________________________________________________________
Now, share the sentences you wrote and explain its relation with today's society
with your classmates.

3. MY WAY

Class Goals:

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 By the end of the lesson students will have a clearer idea of the concept "Cold War"
through related reading and speaking exercises in order to strengthen communicative fluency in
related topics.
Now, set your own goal!
Establish your learning goal bearing in mind the following parameters: what, what for and how:
By the end of this lesson I will _______________________________________________
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_______________________________________________________________________________

Your teacher will act as an input and interaction facilitator. Feel free to ask questions and participate in order to review
the topics.

4. AROUND THE WORLD

Reading and Use of English part 6

- Read the text with the gaps first (before the questions)
- Read one paragraph at a time and try to find the answer immediately.
- Read very closely the sentences before and after each gap.

Exercise:
You are going to read a text about the Cold War. Five sentences have been removed from it.
Choose from the sentences A to F the one which fits each gap. There is one extra sentence which
you do not need to use.
Cold War History

During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union
fought together as allies against the Axis powers. 1.
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Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and
concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s tyrannical
rule of his own country. For their part, the Soviets resented the
Americans’ decades-long refusal to treat the USSR as a
legitimate part of the international community as well as their
delayed entry into World War II, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Russians. 2.
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Postwar Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe fuelled many Americans’ fears of a Russian plan
to control the world.3. __________________________________________________________
In such a hostile atmosphere, no single party was entirely to blame for the Cold War; in fact, some
historians believe it was inevitable.

The Cold War: Containment

By the time World War II ended, most American officials agreed that the best defense against the
Soviet threat was a strategy called “containment.” In his famous “Long Telegram,” the diplomat
George Kennan (1904-2005) explained the policy: The Soviet Union, he wrote, was 4. ________
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As a result, America’s only choice was the “long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of
Russian expansive tendencies.” “It must be the policy of the United States,” he declared before
Congress in 1947, “to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation…by outside
pressures.” This way of thinking would shape American foreign policy for the next four decades.
Did you know? The term 'cold war' first appeared in a 1945 essay by the English writer
George Orwell called 'You and the Atomic Bomb.'

The Cold War: The Atomic Age

The containment strategy also provided the rationale for an unprecedented arms build-up in the
United States. In 1950, a National Security Council Report known as NSC–68 had echoed
Truman’s recommendation that the country use military force to contain communist expansionism
anywhere it seemed to be occurring. To that end, the report called for a four-fold increase in
defense spending.
In particular, American officials encouraged the development of atomic weapons like the ones
that had ended World War II. Thus began a deadly “arms race.” 5. ________________________
_______________________________________________. In response, President Truman
announced that the United States would build an even more destructive atomic weapon: the
hydrogen bomb, or “superbomb.” Stalin followed suit.

A. After the war ended, these grievances ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual
distrust and enmity.
B. “a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the U.S. there can be no
permanent modus vivendi [agreement between parties that disagree].”
C. In 1949, the Soviets tested an atom bomb of their own.
D. Meanwhile, the USSR came to resent what they perceived as American officials’ bellicose
rhetoric, arms build-up and interventionist approach to international relations.
E. Nevertheless, the two countries were finding ways to solve their differences and make a
long lasting peace.
F. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one.

Learning Strategy: Underlining: this strategy helps you find and

remember important words and ideas.

B. Underline the important ideas in the previous text and share them with the whole class.

II. HERE I GO AGAIN.

Watch the following video about the Cold War and answer the questions below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsDrYh2Af5Y

a. Which are the two super-powers left after World War II? And which are their
characteristics?
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b. What is the NATO? And which is its role in the war?

______________________________________________________________________
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c. Why were wars in Vietnam and Korea fought?

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d. Why did the Cold War end? And which events mark its end?
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III. WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS.

Learning strategy: Cooperating: Work with others to complete tasks, build confidence, give
and receive feedback

Interview three people using the following questions. Then, share your classmates' answers

 Do you understand the concepts of Capitalism and Communism? Explain.

 How are these 2 economic theories related to Cold War?
 Which vocabulary related to the Cold War did your learn in this session?

IV. I WILL SURVIVE.

Self-evaluation

Write the introduction of an essay based on the following question:

Is it okey for countries like the United States or Russia to invade other territories?
Remember that an introduction of an FCE Essay must:
- Paraphrase the question using different words in order to demonstrate that you have a wide
range of vocabulary.

oFor this, underline the key words in the question and find synonyms to use them in the
introduction and essay.
- State briefly your opinion. (Your opinion is developed in the 2 nd and 3rd paragraphs so you just
have to mention it)
- Introduce the topic

For presenting the topic you can use:

o Rhetorical questions Find examples at:
o Interesting quotations https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xUSWS0l
o Statistics nmOWgmNvQX_szMW5OCDE3GYWK/vie
o Address the reader directly. w?usp=sharing

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Before writing it check the official FCE writing rubric and analyze how the instructions
above help you gain points.

Mark your own text according to the Cambridge Scale from 0 to 5 in each criteria.

REFERENCES:

 Cambridge. (2008). Assessing Writing Performance – Level B2. Retrieved Feb 21, 2021, from
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/images/168062-cambridge-english-first-for-schools-fce-for-
schools-writing-assessment-scales.pdf
 FCE Exam Tips (n.d.) FCE Reading and Use of English Part 6 Tips. Retrieved Feb 21, 2021,
from https://www.fceexamtips.com/reading-6-and-7
 Geo History (n.d.). The Cold War - Summary on a Map. Retrieved Feb 16, 2022, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsDrYh2Af5Y
 Grivas Publications (2016). IELTS Academic. Ed. GRIVAS PUBLICATIONS.
 History.com Editors (n.d.). Cold War History. Retrieved Feb 16, 2022, from
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cold-war-history

Administrador de programa: Tatiana Huertas Zamora

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