School trip to Ypres

"Voyage scolaire à Ypres"
French B1 writing exercise

Teacher Tristan will take his class to the historic WWI site of Ypres in Belgium.

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to take [people] somewhere", "a pupil", "a historical site", "the First World War", "a museum", "a new thing", "to learn [something] about...", "a battle", "to take place", "to explore", "a trench (World War)", "to be preserved (place)", "impressive", "a cemetery", "an emotional day", "to hope", "to better understand", "an impact", "war/peace".

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Next week, I will take my pupils to Ypres, in Belgium, an important historical site of the First World War. We will visit the museum "In Flanders Fields", where we'll learn new things about the battles which took place there. Later, we will explore the trenches that have been preserved, which will be impressive. Finally, we will go to Tyne Cot cemetery, the biggest Commonwealth cemetery in the world. It will be a very emotional day, and I hope that my pupils will better understand the impact of war and the importance of peace.

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