CLIL History

DEMOCRACIES IN CRISIS AND TOTALITARIAN REGIMES (1924-1945) ACTIVITY 3.B Listen to the first part of the recording and take notes in order to complete the chart. The Roaring Twenties listening Mass production Causes Consequences ............ ... line; standardized ............ ... an increase in ............ ........... assembled in fixed times. and a decrease in ............ ... ; radio receivers, ... ................................. , toasters, fans, irons and ............ ... Mass consumption ............ ... prosperity of people; the possibility to pay became common. mass ............ ............ ; optimism and feeling of living in an age of ............ ....... . in ............ ... ; new ............ ... techniques; department stores. ACTIVITY 3.C Match the following words to their meanings. 1. liberalistic a. condition that is difficult to endure 2. deal with b. habitual behaviours 3. hardship c. the culture of belonging to organized groups of criminals 4. segregation d. removed or destroyed completely 5. set quotas e. fixed limits 6. veterans f. the separation of a minority group from the dominant majority 7. lynchings g. punishment for a supposed offence by hanging without legal authority 8. customs h. handle, tackle 9. eradicated i. 10. gangsterism an economic system with open competition that is not controlled by the government j. people who have served in a military force ACTIVITY 3.D Listen to the second part of the recording and take notes in order to select whether the sentences are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false ones. listening 18 1. The Republican economic programme was classically liberalistic. T F 2. The Republicans raised direct taxes and cut public spending. T F 3. During the Twenties the economy boomed for everyone. T F 4. During the Twenties there was a new, deep fear of immigrants, and intolerance, and forms of segregation appeared. T F 5. Quotas for Northern European immigrants were set. T F 6. The Ku Klux Klan wanted to affirm white supremacy in USA. T F 7. Prohibition favoured the Ku Klux Klan punitive expeditions. T F 8. Prohibition was abrogated in 1933 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. T F