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This blog is for my students at Bleiker High School in Asker, Norway. Here I will post things I think you may find interesting. Sometimes they are related to what we are learning about in class. Other times they have to do with English as a language and as a subject. Please jump in and be part of the conversation!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Need some help with your Northern Ireland / Terror on the Tube presentations?

The BBC's excellent Newsround service for younger readers and foreign-language English learners has useful information about The Troubles in Northern Ireland and about the July 7th, 2005, terror attacks on the London Underground. Here are the links:

Northern Ireland and The Troubles

The July 7th Attacks

Other links (check back, I will be updating these!):

The Omagh Massacre, the last major incident of The Troubles, carried out by the so-called "Real IRA" just weeks after the Good Friday Agreement was signed

A timeline of the 2005 London Tube bombings  from Wikipedia

And a few more...

Symbols used in murals in Northern Ireland, by both Loyalist (Protestant) and Republican (Catholic) groups

Photos of murals in Northern Ireland

And more...
A BBC presentation on the Tube Bombings,  including facts about the bombings and about the police investigation that followed.

The blog our "Terror on the Tube" sound file comes from.  This is the story of "Rachel", who we met through the sound file on the Tracks website. Here she adds more detail, and uses some words that aren't appropriate in a school textbook!

The Guardian's page on the attacks.  The Guardian is a large British newspaper. Here they have collected hundreds of articles about the attacks and the aftermath.

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