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TEACHING MATERIAL

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“NORTHERN IRELAND”

WORKPLAN on „NORTHERN IRELAND

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|Aspects |Students’ WORKING |

| |MATERIAL |

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|TOURISM |Worksheet 1 |

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|“A JOURNEY THROUGH NORTHERN IRELAND” |Worksheet 2, Internet, brochures from a |

| |travel agency |

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|“THE CONFLICT” – a historical overview |Worksheet 3, Internet, |

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|“CAL” |Worksheet 4, book “Cal” |

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|Writing Task (Long Text) |Worksheet 5 |

|Practice for the written Matura | |

Worksheet 1

TOURISM

Tasks:

1. In groups of four discuss on various aspects of tourism and try to find answers to the following questions:

• Which types of tourists / travellers are there? Which different characters might travel agencies often be confronted with?

• What do you prefer as far as travelling is concerned? What kind of tourist / traveler are you?

2. Present your findings in class!

Worksheet 2

A JOURNEY THROUGH (NORTHERN) IRELAND

1. Get together in groups of 3 and imagine you worked for an extraordinary travel agency which is specialized on organizing very special trips to (Northern) Ireland. This year your travel agency wants to concentrate on chefs, teachers and adventurers.

Choose one of these professions and organize a special journey for them.

a. Which destinations might they be interested in?

b. What kind of special needs might they confront you with?

Make use of the Internet and photographs I have provided you with!

2. Create a website including your findings from the Internet, photographs, etc.!

Worksheet 3

NORTHERN IRELAND

1. Choose five words from the box and make up short stories about how these items might be connected with Ireland!

to starve English / Irish marriages seventeen US presidents U2

Dracula pot of gold snakes shamrock

Holy Trinity leprechaun horses shepherd

2. Northern Ireland from a historical point of view!



1. Read through the text about the historical development of the „troubles in Northern Ireland“ and create a HISTORICAL TIMELINE in which you include all important incidents that have had an impact on the country’s situation throughout history. Use any programme you want, except WORD!

2. Include photographs, quotations etc. as well! Therefore you can / should make use of the Internet!

3. If you were a Nationalist (for example “Gerry Adams” from the Sinn Fein party) / Loyalist, who tries to explain the situation to foreigners in a speech, who / which incidents in history would you make responsible for the problems in Northern Ireland? Who / What would you blame? Make a list!

4. Be prepared to present your speech in class!

5. Individual work: Imagine you were a teacher. Which 10 questions would you ask your students to make sure that they know all important facts about the conflict in Northern Ireland. Write the questions down and choose one of your colleagues who you want to ask your questions!

Worksheet 4

CAL by Bernard Mac Laverty (1983)

CHAPTER ONE

1. Read the first page:

• Who is the “he” in the book?

• What else do you get to know from the first page?

2. What is it that makes Cal jump at the name Marcella when it is mentioned in the library? Can you find a reason?

3. p. 13: “He studied her face, trying to read into it whether or not she was the Marcella. He could not take his eyes off, not because of what she was but because of what he might have done to her…”

Guess what he might have done to her!

4. Why does Cal feel sick when his mate Crilly calls on him?

p. 18: “Cal lay on the bed smoking. What did Crilly want? He had hoped he’d been forgotten, passed over because he was useless. He felt sure that it was all going to start again.”

5. p. 27: Cal and Shamie receive a warning to be burnt out. What does it tell you about their environment and about the political situation in Northern Ireland?

CHAPTER TWO

1. Describe the relationship between Cal and his father!

2. Why does Cal accept the job on the Mortons’ farm?

CHAPTER THREE

1. How do Cal’s friends put him under pressure to engage in terrorism?

2. What could the mucking out of the cowshed be a symbol of?

3. Why is the house burnt down?

CHAPTER FOUR

1. Why are the Mortons so scared when they see light in the cottage?

2. The Mortons offer Cal to live in the cottage. What are the practical reasons? What attitude does it express? (Think about the political situation.)

3. Describe the relationship between Cal and Marcella.

CHAPTER FIVE

1. What do we get to know about Marcella’s relationship to her husband?

2. Write a police report of Cal’s arrest. Give reasons why he was arrested and how he was found.

AFTER READING ACTIVITIES

1. Create a spider diagram of Cal’s relationships in the novel. Make use of

MIND MANAGER!

2. From his prison cell Cal is writing a letter to Marcella to explain things.

3. There is a lot of symbolism in the novel. Think of images like the slaughterhouse, the mucking out of the cowshed, the mending of the fence. What do they stand for? Which other symbols can be found?

Worksheet 5

PRACTICE for the WRITTEN MATURA

LONG TEXT

TOPIC: Ireland

Michael Stone

Rogue’s Gallery

Michael Stone uses bright reds, oranges and purples in his paintings. He’s always liked bright colours, but there’s also a bit of black humour, as if he’s asking amateur psychoanalysts to interpret his paintings as the work of a violent, tormented man. In fact, Stone is one of Northern Ireland’s best-known Loyalist gunmen. He has been a hate figure for many Catholics since his brutal attack on Belfast’s Milltown cemetery in March 1988.

Television cameras filmed the horror as he opened fire, killing three people and injuring many more, including pensioners and children, at the funeral of three IRA members shot dead by the SAS (Special Air Service) in Gibraltar. He later admitted his part in three other murders and many terrorist offences and received six life sentences. Stone walked free from the Maze prison last July after just 12 years, one of the last prisoners to be given early release under the terms of the Good Friday agreement [1]

Born in Belfast, Stone joined the Tartans, a Loyalist group, when he was 13. At 16, he had already joined the Ulster Defence Association and spent time in prison for the possession of firearms. He got the idea for Milltown after an IRA bomb killed 11 people in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in November 1987. He knew there was a chance he wouldn’t get away, and it was the police who saved him as he was being beaten and kicked after his attack.

The brush and easel might seem a surreal choice for a man once much more familiar with gun and grenade. But he says he always liked art, and ironically, prison gave him the time to paint.

Now his work hangs in some of Belfast’s most expensive riverside apartments and businesses.

“I was in solitary confinement for a year after Milltown watch […], and prisoners were allowed to paint their cells any colour, but mine was like a rainbow because I was always wiping my brushes on the wall. I suppose the colours were a reaction against the dull surroundings,” he adds. Metallic colours represented the prison bars.

Stone is still painting. He realizes there is a certain morbid curiosity about his work because of his violent past, but he says others’ perceptions are beyond his control.

“I know people think that the hands that painted these pictures killed people. Yes, I regret taking life, and that is with me every day. I wanted to kill top Republicans, not others. I can’t go back on that, but I am glad there is peace. I support the principles of the Good Friday agreement, but many things are not working out in practice.”

He spends a certain amount of time each week teaching art to teenagers in poor areas of Belfast […] “Sure, I’m like some Rambo character to them when they first meet me, and they ask questions about what I did. But I just tell them it isn’t big and clever to kill people. Then we get down to work. There aren’t a lot of jobs in their area, but they’re good kids, and they’ve got to be encouraged to make the most of what they have.”

Stone’s paintings are not openly political, but some deal with events in the news. He points to a large piece, called Good Friday Agreement, where a seated figure, representing Unionism, balances on a pendulum of orange and green, illustrating the difficulties beneath the surface.

Around this are silver and gold masks and hands, which, he says, represent the silent majority, both Protestant and Catholic, who want peace, but are troubled by how the agreement is shaping up. All the symbols appear to be breaking out of a cell-like room, signalizing how hard it is to fit all the ideals of Unionism and Nationalism into narrow confines.

(Source: Spotlight 8 / 2001; adapted by Mag. Claudia Murauer)

QUESTIONS:

I. Questions on the text: Answer as detailed as possible!

1. Which crimes has Michael Stone committed in his life so far and how does he feel about his

violent past now?

2. What does “There is a certain morbid curiosity about my work” mean? What is Michael Stone

talking about here?

3. What does the text reveal about Stone’s way of becoming a famous artist and his paintings?

II. Questions beyond the text: Answer as detailed as possible!

1. What do you think about prisoners being allowed to spend their time painting or practising any

other kinds of pleasant leisure activities?

2. Would you want to be taught by a “murderer” like Michael Stone? Explain your opinion!

3. Would you define “the troubles” in Northern Ireland as a political or religious conflict?

Explain!

TEXT PRODUCTION

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

Create the article which could have been found in “The Guardian” after the massacre on Milltown cemetry in 1988. Of course, your article should not only contain information about the incident itself. So feel free to add anything a journalist could make use of to write a detailed and informative article (history, reasons for the massacre, characterisation of the culprit, etc.)

You must also find a suitable headline! ~ 250 words

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