World War Two pilot backs campaign to honour photographic unit

This is a list of key vocabulary and expressions from the article in order of how useful they are. The student must choose 6 items from the list to study in the lesson.

What is (someone/ something) like?

At all

Entire

Grammar - ‘By all accounts, he should have been scared.’

Otherwise

To chase (someone/ something)

A workmate

To beg 

To spot (something/ someone)

Miserable

The survival rate

To make up your mind 

Vulnerable 

To bury (someone/ something)

(To make) a sacrifice/ To sacrifice (something)

Grammar – ‘If his foreman had bent the rules and allowed him to continue working, he would have died along with everyone else.’

To head

Harsh

To take off

Would

To outpace (something/ someone)

To overlook (something/ someone)

To make out

To bend the rules

To get your own back

15 conversation-provoking questions related to the article.

1. What is a PRU pilot?

2. How did Mr Pritchard describe his role as a PRU pilot?

3. How did Mr Pritchard become a PRU pilot?

4. How are the sacrifices of PRU pilots going to be recognised in the future?

5. ‘George Pritchard is a genuine hero.’ Do you agree?

6. ‘If I had been in his situation, I would have had exactly the same attitude at the age of 16.’ Is this true for you?

7. ‘Nowadays, young people couldn’t be persuaded to go to war in the same way Mr Pritchard’s generation was.’ Do you agree?

8. ‘My country isn’t very patriotic.’ Is this true for you?

9. ‘In my school, they taught us that the British and Winston Churchill were the heroes of the Second World War.’ Is this true for you?

10. ‘Every man should have to serve two years in the army.’ Do you agree?

11. ‘When I was 16, I had no idea what I wanted to be.’ Is this true for you?

12. ‘I really enjoyed my first ever job.’ Is this true for you?

13. ‘I used to love history lessons at school.’ Is this true for you?

14. ‘We have events in my country to commemorate our war veterans.’ Is this true for you?

15. ‘We should remember to recognise the sacrifices and contributions of other people in society, not just soldiers.’ Do you agree?