Презентация, доклад по английскому языку English children in the Second World War (6 класс)

started?

I was seven years and nine months old.
When did you hear the war started?

Our parents switched on the radio to listen to the Prime Minister at 11 a.m. Sunday morning on the 3rd of September in 1939.

up in the war?

We didn’t have TV’s or computers, only radios. We always played outside: skipping, hide-and-seek, hopscotch and shuttle cock.

What jobs did your Mother and Father have?

My father was a milkman with a horse and a cart. My mother used to help him.

The war began during the summer holidays. In September schools were closed because there were no shelters. But there was the Home Service. We studied two mornings or afternoons a week in one of the children’s houses. When the shelters were built, the children returned to school. At school we used to have air raid and gas mask drills. We stood in a line in the school yard and march into a big air raid shelter.

There was little food in the shops and there were big queues. We were lucky we kept hens, so we were alright for eggs. We also kept pigs so we were alright for meat and bacon.

you wear?

Girls didn’t wear trousers or jeans. We wore dresses, blouses and skirts or shorts. I got my first pair of jeans when I was fourteen, after the war. We made clothes from some old ones and old parachutes.

there was an air raid?

When we had an air raid, we would go down and sit in our air raid shelter. Air raids were the most frightening thing for us during the war time. They were something you never forget. When the bombs fell down, it was awful. You could only hope that the shelter would save you. When a large bomb fell down, the shelter jumped and you didn’t know what you would see when you left the shelter. During the bombing I saw a lot of the city destroyed forever. I was too young to understand that my parents’ city was being destroyed little by little. The church where they were married was hit by a bomb and burnt down. Our friends’ houses and shops were destroyed one by one. It was terrible.

you do in your spare time?

I played outside a lot, visited relatives
and my Mum used to take me to pick up blackberries when they were in season.

life change?

There was little petrol. Buses stopped at about 9 p.m. and there were no cars. The trams could run later because they ran on electricity. Walking out in the dark was very difficult and dangerous because drivers couldn’t see you.

in the forces?

My brother Ron was. Joan, his wife, worked in the Admiralty as a telephone operator. My cousins Stan and Geoff were in the army.

war was over and how did you react?

I was in the cinema when they stopped the film and said that the war was over. Everybody stood up and started dancing. Nobody wanted to see the end of the film. Everybody went out onto the streets dancing, singing, clapping hands and cheering. It was great.