Wartime Farm -- Irena -- 2011014 We talked about the "wartime farm" documentary. Corrections: point of view/perspective/aspect: The three historian described the war from the point of view of farmers. (My original sentence was: They cut into a special angle to describe the war. ) sense of emergency vs. the thread was real: the latter is better under the context. The threat was real for the farmers ("for" is better than "to"). after the war broke (out): either "break" or "break out" works here. block vs. blockade: blockade is a noun. The German troops tried to block the arrival of the food. They tried to enforce a blockade of food that was arriving to Britain. siege: It is more used as a noun. The German siege in form of U-boats along the British channel. Our lesson is in form of conversation. race against time: not "race of time". plant vs. plow vs. plough: "plant the seed". "plough/plow the seed" does not make sense (plow means to break the clay of the soil). reap the crops livestock: no "s" as in livestocks. raise livestock: focus on raising livestock. My grandfather had a piece of land. He planted the crops. He did watering and fertilizing regularly. He used natural pesticide and repellents. end up dying vs. end up dead: not "end up being dead". naval history: not "great shipping/sailing history". Mediterranean sea: not "Mediterranean ocean". vocabulary: use "vocabularies" if you have "computer vocabulary", "history vocabulary", "medicine vocabulary" and refer all of them as vocabularies. vocabulary: drills & practice drills booby traps historians explorations Kraken decimated Phrases: grazing animal diary cows The Germans never set foot on English soil. The invasion never progressed onto the English soil. drainage of water Pronunciation: sheep: I tend to mistakenly speak it as "ship". (also, not sheeps). pigsty: "sty" as "stai", not "sti". Others: Marco Polo was born at Korčula island, which now belongs to Croatia.