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 noman sland strip of land between enemy sides over which nobody has control