Read the article here and answer the questions.

1/ What are the various names of Poppy Day ? Write about the various countries and their special days.

2/ What happened on November 11th 1918 ?

3/ What do the British do to commemorate this event every 11th November ?

4/ Who decided to commemorate it ?

5/Find one more action that commemorates World War I.

6/Is the poem stanza about : the people who did not die in the war / the youth of the soldiers who died /the past days.

7/What do people wear on Remembrance Day ?

8/The motto of the British legion means : dead soldiers are the most important / living people are the most important / both living and dead soldiers must be respected.

9/Poppies are the symbols of war because : they are red / there were no flowers in the battlefields / there were many poppies after the battles in Flanders.

10/White poppies represent people’s need for peace, but they are stronger than red poppies / but they were refused by the UK Women’s Guild / but they were seen as disrespectful by some veterans.