Where is it not OK to take a selfie?
How Do you answer these questions?
A) Do you have any memorial sites in your city?
B) What's the significance of this place?
C) How should people behave in those places?
D) Should people be punished for disrespecting those spaces?
A) Do you have any memorial sites in your city?
B) What's the significance of this place?
C) How should people behave in those places?
D) Should people be punished for disrespecting those spaces?
Read the headline of this article.
What are your thoughts on the question in the headline?
Check the vocabulary and explanations below then read the rest of the article and answer the questions.
to take issue with something/someone = to strongly disagree with something or someone
a douche = an offensive word to describe someone
a backlash = a strong negative feeling by a large group of people
to chastise = to criticise
to draw a distinction = to show there is a difference between two things
a 180 degree turn = a reversal in opinion
1. How does the journalist describe the selfies at the website in the first two paragraphs of the article?
2. Where did Shahak find the 12 selfies he used on this project where were the photos taken?
3. What trick did Shahak use on his website with the pictures?
4. Why do you think he titled the website Yolocaust?
5. Why did Shahak decide to make the website?
6. How did he finally choose the images for the site?
7. Did he ask for approval from the owners of the pictures?
8. How could the people in the pictures have their picture removed?
9. Which does Shahak think is more 'provocative': the person taking the selfie or the Holocaust scene in the background?
10. Explain Breanna Mitchell's experience after posting a selfie from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
11. Who is Peter Eisenman and what is his opinion of the Yolocaust site. What does he compare his memorial in Berlin to?
12. Why does Peter draw a distinction between the memorial site and burial sites at Auschwitz?
13. What are Bjoern Hoecke's views on the Berlin memorial?
14. What does Shahak say is the responsibility of young people these days?
15. What is Shahak's final message in the article?
Extra questions:
A. How do you think the people who took the selfies felt seeing their images depicted this way?
B. How would you feel if someone changed your pictures in this way?
C. What is your opinion on the modified images at the Yolocaust website?
The Yolocaust site closed a week after opening. Have a look here for more information: https://yolocaust.de
Send your comments to [email protected]
What are your thoughts on the question in the headline?
Check the vocabulary and explanations below then read the rest of the article and answer the questions.
to take issue with something/someone = to strongly disagree with something or someone
a douche = an offensive word to describe someone
a backlash = a strong negative feeling by a large group of people
to chastise = to criticise
to draw a distinction = to show there is a difference between two things
a 180 degree turn = a reversal in opinion
1. How does the journalist describe the selfies at the website in the first two paragraphs of the article?
2. Where did Shahak find the 12 selfies he used on this project where were the photos taken?
3. What trick did Shahak use on his website with the pictures?
4. Why do you think he titled the website Yolocaust?
5. Why did Shahak decide to make the website?
6. How did he finally choose the images for the site?
7. Did he ask for approval from the owners of the pictures?
8. How could the people in the pictures have their picture removed?
9. Which does Shahak think is more 'provocative': the person taking the selfie or the Holocaust scene in the background?
10. Explain Breanna Mitchell's experience after posting a selfie from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
11. Who is Peter Eisenman and what is his opinion of the Yolocaust site. What does he compare his memorial in Berlin to?
12. Why does Peter draw a distinction between the memorial site and burial sites at Auschwitz?
13. What are Bjoern Hoecke's views on the Berlin memorial?
14. What does Shahak say is the responsibility of young people these days?
15. What is Shahak's final message in the article?
Extra questions:
A. How do you think the people who took the selfies felt seeing their images depicted this way?
B. How would you feel if someone changed your pictures in this way?
C. What is your opinion on the modified images at the Yolocaust website?
The Yolocaust site closed a week after opening. Have a look here for more information: https://yolocaust.de
Send your comments to [email protected]