REMEMBRANCE DAY

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              The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the British celebrate Remembrance Day. It marks the signing of the Armistice, on 11th November 1918, to signal the end of World War One.

              Remembrance Day is celebrated on 11 November. It is a special day to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars and other conflicts. At one time the day was known as Armistice Day and was renamed Remembrance Day after the Second World War.

               Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in No­vember, which is usually the Sunday nearest to 11 November. Special services are held at war memorials and churches all over Britain. A national ceremony takes place at the cenotaph in Whitehall, London.

               The first actual Poppy Day was held in Britain on Novem­ber 11. Since then, during every November, they keep the me­mory alive, who sacrificed their lives during war.

               Throughout the world the poppy is associated with the re­membrance of those who died in order that we may be free, but how many of us are aware of the reason of how and why the poppy became the symbol of remembrance. The areas of nor­thern France known as Flanders and Picardy saw some of the most concentrated and bloodiest fightings of the First World War. There was complete devastation. Buildings, roads, trees simply disappeared. Where once there were homes and farms, there was now a sea of mud — a grave for the dead where sol­diers still lived and fought. After that, only one living thing survived — the poppy flower. The poppy, flowering each year with the coming of the warm weather, brought life, hope, co­lour and consolation to those still fighting. Poppies’ seeds can lay in the ground for years without germinating, and only grow after the ground has been disturbed.

           Americans celebrate Veterans Day and there in Britain they have Remembrance Day.

 

 

 

QUESTIONS:

1. When is Remembrance Day celebrated?

2. What does Remembrance Day mark?

3. What is Armistice Day?

4. Where does the national ceremony take place?

5. What does the poppy flower symbolize?

 

 

 

VOCABULARY:

Remembrance Day — День памяти погибших в Первую и Вторую мировые войны

Armistice — прекращение военных действий, прекраще­ние огня

Armistice Day — День соглашения о перемирии

Remembrance Sunday — см. Remembrance Day

to be held on — проводиться, проходить

cenotaph — зд. памятник неизвестному солдату; кено­таф, кенотафий (погребальный памятник в виде гробницы, в действительности не содержащий тела умершего; соору­жался в том случае, когда прах покойного оказывался не­доступным для погребения)

Flanders — Фландрия (одна из провинций Нидерландов исторических)

Picardy — Пикардия (историческая область Франции)

the most concentrated fightings — самые ожесточенные бои

germinating — прорастание

Veterans Day — День ветеранов

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