There are constant stories in the news about children living in warzones. Choose one such story that you have heard or read about on the news or in a newspaper or on a reliable website. Write a 3–4 sentence radio or TV news item presenting this story. Read your news item aloud.
Here are the opening sentences of articles written by students.
The body of an unidentified little boy has been found on a beach on the Greek island of Kos. It is believed that the child drowned in a failed attempt to sail from Turkey to Greece …
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Lord Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War in 1914, was the face on the famous World War I recruiting poster, ‘Join Your Country’s Army’!
In 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Alfie Knight, a nine-year-old Dublin boy, had a very innocent vision of war and of how he could play his part in it. He wrote a letter to Lord Kitchener asking if he could join the army. This letter is now on display in the Imperial War Museum in London.
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In a terrifying night of bombing and shelling in the city centre, two children have been reported killed in an apartment block that collapsed following a mortar attack...
Dear Lord Kitchner,
I am an Irish boy 9 years of age and I want to go to the front I can ride jolley quick on my bicycle and would go as despatch ridder I wouldint let the germans get it. I am a good shot with a revolver and would kill a good vue of the germans. I am very strong and often win a fight with lads twice as big as mysels. I want a uneform and a revolver and will give a good acount of myself. Pleese send an anencer
Yours affectionately Alfie Knight
A despatch rider
was a military messenger who delivered urgent messages between headquarters and the army at the front.
