CLIL History

THE LONG POSTWAR (1944-1973) ACTIVITY 4.C Analyze the bar graph and answer the following questions. 1. What types of data are represented in the graph? 2. What is the general trend in the graph? 3. Why is 1968 the last year indicated in the graph? Troops 600,000 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 500,000 400,000 300,000 100,000 25,000 15,000 5,000 500 US troops in Vietnam Countercultures and Flower Children Large segments of the American society, mainly young people, were against the Vietnam War. In 1964 many anti-war protests began taking place in American universities, and a counterculture based on peace, love and community caught on with the younger generations. This phenomenon had its roots in the literary nonconformist movement of the Beat Generation of the Fifties and gave rise to the hippie culture. The hippies, often called flower children , lived in communities where they used drugs, especially marijuana and LSD (a potent hallucinogenic drug), with the aim of exploring altered states of the mind and expressing themselves through music and psychedelic art. They taught and practised free love and naturism, followed eastern religions and philosophies, and rejected all the values and different attitudes of their parents generation. The iconic event of the hippie generation was the concert that took place in Woodstock, New York, in August 1969. About 500,000 young people gathered there peacefully for three days, celebrating peace and listening to the music of some of the most important singers and groups of that period, like Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. ACTIVITY 4.D Read the text Counterculture and Flower Children and find the words which mean the following. 44 1. ... ... : an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon expressed by groups whose values and norms of behaviour oppose those of the social mainstream of the period 2. ... ... : the practice of going without clothes 3. ... ... : members of the counterculture of the Sixties 4. ... ... : a substance that induce sensations that appear real but are created by the mind 5. ... ... : someone who lives and thinks in a way that is different from other people 6. ... ... : the artistic expression of the inner world, that may come in various forms. It can be inspired by experiences and hallucinations that follow the ingestion of drugs such as LSD 7. ... ... : very famous because it represents a particular time 8. ... ... : medicines or other substances which have physiological effects