BBC 6 Minute English - The Christmas Truce

BBC 6 Minute English - The Christmas Truce Vocabulary goodwill - cooperative attitude centenary - one hundred year anniversary truce - agreement between people to stop fighting, with no winner or loser unofficial - not authorised by people in authority trenches - big holes dug by soldiers from which they attacked the enemy fraternise - to meet people socially fed up with - (informal) bored and annoyed by carol - religious song (generally used for Christmas songs) broke the ice - contacted people they don’t know in a way which made them feel more relaxed no-man’s-land - strip of land between enemy sides over which nobody has control