READING AND0 SPEAKING Hope for the future
Do you know the name Chernobyl? Do you know where it is? Find out about it on the Internet. Discuss with the class.
Read the introduction to Palina - the girl with two families.
Where does Palina come from?
When was she born? future
Why didn't her future look good?
3. Read Life in the village of Polessye.Are the sentences true or false(X)? Correct the
false ones
l. Palina was born the same year as the disaster.
She grew up on a farm.
She was an only child.
Eight experts from Minsk came to her school.
There was a forest near the village.
The experts paid for the children to have holidays abroad.
Palina wanted to go to Ireland because she could speak English.
4. Read Life in Ireland. Answer the questions.
l. How did Palina communicate with the family?
Why was she so surprised in the shopping mall?
Was her English fluent at the end of the holiday?
How often did she visit the Irish family?
Read Palina today. why is Palina lucky? What reasons can you find?
Read the sentences. Who do you think said each one?
‘It’s difficult to sell any of our produce these days.’
‘We aren’t going to pick any more mushrooms.
‘Would you like have a holiday in Ireland?
‘I’m a bit worried about going’
‘Welcome to Ireland. We hope you'll be happy here’.
“Let’s play in the garden!
‘We’ll pay for your education’. .
‘One day I'm going to return as a doctor.
What do you think?
The disaster danged the lives of everybody in the village.
How do you think life changed?
What do you learn about Palina and her family that suggests that they were poor?
Do you think Palina was ever homesick?
Roleplay
Work in groups and think of questions to ask Palina about her life. In pairs take the roles of Palina and the interviewer. Ask and answer questions, begin like this.
Paulina
In the early hours of April 26 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred in the Ukrainian city of Chernobyl.
Two years later and two hundred miles away, Palina Yanachkina was born in the village of Polessye, in northern Belarus. Like many others in her village she had a lot of health problems and her future didn't look good. Then a holiday in Ireland changed everything.