THe D-Day Landings.ppt

Lecturer: Wang Zhengling
War and Peace
Module 6
The D-Day Landings
Fast reading
Passage 1: How Operation Overlord started and
ended.
Passage 2: How the soldiers of pany
crossed the English Channel and
their contribution to D-Day.
Passage 3: Nearly sixty years later after the
Second World War, what the
survivors of D-Day and people all
over the world did to remember the
heroes who died in D-Day.
Match the words with their meanings
a. occupy
b. attempt
c. abandon
d. drown
e. survivors
f. exhausted
g. condemn
1. to die in water
2. very tired
3. make an effort to plish sth.
4. people who are not killed in an accident
5. take possession of and established troops in (a country, position, etc.)
6. go away from (a person or thing) not intending to return; desert
express very strong disapproval
Detailed reading
True or False questions
Britain declared war on Germany before Germany invaded Poland.
Operation Overlord was the battle to invade Germany.
Troops from three countries took part in the D-Day landings.
The most dangerous place was Omaha Beach.
F
F
T
T
5. The US manders ordered to abandon the invasion.
6. Finally the soldiers made a breakthrough.

D-Day landings were the beginning of the Second World War.
8. Operation Overlord played an important part in the Second World War.
F
T
F
T
Choose the correct answers to the sentences.

1. Troops from the following countries except ______ took part in the D-Day
landings.
A. the United States B. Poland
C. Britain D. Canada
B
2. The situation at Omaha Beach was so bad that _______.
A. many soldiers were killed before they
even got off the boats.
B. no ship could cross the English
Channel
C. the D-Day landings were a breakthrough
failure
D. the US manders thought about
abandoning the invasion
D
3. Boat 5 was hit ______ from the beach when
crossing the English Channel.
A. one kilometer B. five kilometers
C. a few meters D. forty-five meters

4. The soldi