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Israel And Hamas Reject Amnesty ReportIsrael and Hamas have rejected an Amnesty International report into the 22-day Gaza conflict that started on December 27, 2008. The 117-page document accuses both sides of war crimes. Amnesty says: "The scale and intensity of the attacks on Gaza were unprecedented." The report observes that: "Some 300 children and hundreds of other unarmed civilians who took no part in the conflict were among the 1,400 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces." Other accusations include Israel’s use of weapons that should never be used in built-up areas like Gaza. Amnesty accused Hamas of killing three Israelis in rocket attacks during the conflict. Israel invaded Gaza to stop Hamas firing rockets on Israeli towns. Israeli officials believe Amnesty International is naturally biased towards Hamas. A military spokesman said the report clearly showed the human rights group siding with Hamas, and called it “unbalanced”. He said it was “a distorted view of the laws of war that does not comply with the rules implemented by democratic states battling terror." Israel insisted it did “everything humanly possible” to reduce the risk of civilian casualties. Officials accused Hamas of committing war crimes, saying they used children as human shields. A Hamas spokesman told reporters: "Hamas rejects all the accusations made against it in Amnesty's report," because Amnesty "haven't met or heard from any of Hamas' leaders". WARM-UPS1. WAR: Walk around the class and talk to other students about war. Change partners often. Sit with your first partner(s) and share your findings. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. 3. RULES OF WAR: What rules should there be in war? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners and talk about your ideas. Change again and share what you heard.
4. NO MORE: Students A strongly believe that one day, countries will stop going to war; Students B strongly believe countries will always fight wars. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 5. ATTACK: What would you do if your town was attacked? Talk about these things with your partner. Change partners and share what you heard.
6. WEAPONS: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word ‘weapons’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. BEFORE READING / LISTENING1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
3. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one. combination is possible):
WHILE READING / LISTENINGGAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.
LISTENING: Listen and fill in the gaps.Israel and Hamas have rejected an Amnesty International ______________ day Gaza conflict that started on December 27, 2008. The ______________ accuses both sides of war crimes. Amnesty says: "The scale and intensity of the attacks on Gaza were unprecedented." The _________________: "Some 300 children and hundreds of other unarmed civilians ______________ in the conflict were among the 1,400 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces." Other accusations include Israel’s ______________ that should never be used in built-up areas like Gaza. Amnesty accused Hamas of killing three Israelis in rocket _________________ conflict. Israel invaded Gaza to stop Hamas firing rockets on Israeli towns. Israeli officials believe Amnesty International is ______________ towards Hamas. A military spokesman said the report clearly showed the human rights ________________ Hamas, and called it “unbalanced”. He said it was “a distorted view of the laws of war that does ______________ the rules implemented by democratic states battling terror." Israel insisted it did “everything humanly possible” to ________________ of civilian casualties. Officials accused Hamas of committing war crimes, saying they used children _________________. A Hamas spokesman told reporters: "Hamas rejects all the accusations ______________ in Amnesty's report," because Amnesty "haven't met or heard from any of Hamas' leaders". AFTER READING / LISTENING1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionaries / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘war’ and ‘crime’.
2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…? 4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings. 5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:
STUDENT WAR CRIMES SURVEYWrite five GOOD questions about war crimes in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.
DISCUSSIONSTUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
LANGUAGEIsrael and Hamas have rejected an Amnesty International report (1) ____ the 22-day Gaza conflict that started on December 27, 2008. The 117-(2) ____ document accuses both sides of war crimes. Amnesty says: "The scale and intensity of the attacks on Gaza were unprecedented." The report observes that: "Some 300 children and hundreds of other (3) ____ civilians who took no part in the conflict were among the 1,400 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces." Other accusations include Israel’s (4) ____ of weapons that should never be used in built-(5) ____ areas like Gaza. Amnesty accused Hamas of killing three Israelis in rocket attacks during the conflict. Israel invaded Gaza to stop Hamas (6) ____ rockets on Israeli towns. Israeli officials believe Amnesty International is (7) ____ biased towards Hamas. A military spokesman said the report clearly showed the human rights group (8) ____ with Hamas, and called it “unbalanced”. He said it was “a distorted view of the laws of war that does not comply with the rules implemented (9) ____ democratic states battling terror." Israel insisted it did “everything humanly possible” to reduce the (10) ____ of civilian casualties. Officials accused Hamas of committing war crimes, saying they used children as (11) ____ shields. A Hamas spokesman told reporters: "Hamas rejects all the accusations made against it in Amnesty's report," because Amnesty "haven't met or (12) ____ from any of Hamas' leaders". Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
WRITING:Write about war crimes for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ HOMEWORK1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about war crimes. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson. 3. THE MIDDLE EAST: Make a poster about the Middle East. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things? 4. RULES: Write a magazine article about the rules of war. Include imaginary interviews with soldiers and victims of war. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s). 5. LETTER: Write a letter to an Israeli or Hamas leader. Ask them three questions about Gaza. Give them three reasons why they should work for peace. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions. ANSWERSTRUE / FALSE:
SYNONYM MATCH:
PHRASE MATCH:
GAP FILL: Israel and Hamas reject Amnesty reportIsrael and Hamas have rejected an Amnesty International report into the 22-day Gaza conflict that started on December 27, 2008. The 117-page document accuses both sides of war crimes. Amnesty says: "The scale and intensity of the attacks on Gaza were unprecedented." The report observes that: "Some 300 children and hundreds of other unarmed civilians who took no part in the conflict were among the 1,400 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces." Other accusations include Israel’s use of weapons that should never be used in built-up areas like Gaza. Amnesty accused Hamas of killing three Israelis in rocket attacks during the conflict. Israel invaded Gaza to stop Hamas firing rockets on Israeli towns. Israeli officials believe Amnesty International is naturally biased towards Hamas. A military spokesman said the report clearly showed the human rights group siding with Hamas, and called it “unbalanced”. He said it was “a distorted view of the laws of war that does not comply with the rules implemented by democratic states battling terror." Israel insisted it did “everything humanly possible” to reduce the risk of civilian casualties. Officials accused Hamas of committing war crimes, saying they used children as human shields. A Hamas spokesman told reporters: "Hamas rejects all the accusations made against it in Amnesty's report," because Amnesty "haven't met or heard from any of Hamas' leaders". LANGUAGE WORK
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