Reading comprehension: Courage and Honor in Ukraine.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Hoy vamos a trabajar de nuevo un texto que nos va a dar otra oportunidad para reflexionar sobre dos valores prácticamente borrados de la faz de Europa: el coraje y el honor.

Zelenski.

CÓDIGOS DE COLORES:

AZUL: Traducciones.

ROJO: Aspectos gramaticales.

VERDE: Aspectos culturales.

NARANJA: Estructuras concatenadas

MORADO: Traducción y sinónimos, antónimos, etc.

Amarillo: Palabras con trampa.

Os dejo una plantilla para que, sobre la marcha, podáis ir completando con sinónimos, antónimos, etc y los significados. Espero que os sea de utilidad. Pinchad aquí para descargarla.  

President Zelenskyy's full speech to the European Parliament

Courage and Honor in Ukraine

The human virtues that are being displayed in this terrible human drama have changed public opinion.

By Peter Wehner

Politics is a stage on which the worst of human nature is often on display. But now and then, here and there, it reflects the best of human nature. And what is happening right now in Ukraine—a nation that is being mauled by a brutal regime yet still willing to stand and to fight—is proof that honor and courage matter. They can stir hearts in powerful ways, shaking them out of complacency and even cynicism.

I was reminded of this while watching, of all things, a 10-minute monologue about Ukraine delivered by the comedian Stephen Colbert on Monday night. He showed inspiring clips of ordinary Ukrainians and their intrepid president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and spoke about the heartbreak and the heroism on display.

https://www.consuladodeisrael.com/2022/03/02/como-volodymyr-zelensky-paso-de-ser-un-comediante-judio-a-ser-el-enemigo-numero-uno-de-putin/

“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a humanitarian crisis,” Colbert said, “but also it is a triumph of humanity, because despite all of Russia’s military prowess, the ordinary people of Ukraine will not back down or bow down, and the war in Ukraine isn’t working out the way Russia intended.”

The crowd erupted in cheers even before Colbert finished his sentence. The same thing happened when a picture of Zelensky appeared: The audience burst into a thunderous ovation. A video of Zelenksy saying “Glory to our allies, glory to Ukraine” was also met with rapturous applause. Colbert was moved by what he had seen; so was America, and so was much of the world.

What drove support for Ukraine were the human virtues being displayed in a terrible human drama. It was seeing ordinary people—including the young and the elderly—act in extraordinary ways to defend the country they love, against overwhelming odds. It was seeing people do the right thing at the risk of death when nearly every instinct within them must have been screaming: Do what you have to do to survive, even if survival, though not dishonorable, is less honorable. 

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerra_del_Peloponeso#/media/Archivo:Map_Peloponnesian_War_431_BC-es.svg

“For it is only the love of honor that never grows old,” Pericles said after the first battles of the Peloponnesian War, “and honor it is, not gain, as some would have it, that rejoices the heart of age and helplessness.”

Whatever fate awaits them—and right now the Russians are laying siege to cities that are home to millions—the people and the president of Ukraine have shown that love of honor never grows old, even to a world that is sometimes indifferent, weary, and cynical.

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“Today you, Ukrainians, are a symbol of invincibility,” Zelensky told his people today. “A symbol that people in any country can become the best people on Earth at any moment.”

God bless them.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/courage-honor-ukraine/623875/

Saludos.