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Sunday 9 November 2014

Ypres (1)
(Level: Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate / B1 to B2 / ** to ***)

Here is first a short film (partly in Dutch with English subtitles) (*) in three parts that is really worth watching before any visit to Ypres! 

In this programme you can get to know more about Ypres such as: 

  • its strategic position on the Front Line (hence its complete destuction);
  • the incredible number of unexploded bombs, mortars, grenades... which are still being collected today in the fields around by the Belgian explosives disposal service;
  • the chemical weapons which were used there for the first time;
  • the Menin Gate, the military cemeteries and the Last Post;
  • ...


Part 1





Part 2




Part 3





(*) It was originally a programme by VPRO Televisie which you can also watch by clicking HERE






Here is now an interesting short film comparing war-torn Ypres to a now fully reconstructed city (*) 






(*) Ypres: Now and Then (from the University of Oxford's First World War Poetry Digital Archive)




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