Infonews n°214 du 09/05/2004

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A la Une this week, an invitation to share what you do in your
classes with your colleagues at Cyber-Langues 2004 this summer. Then the
News are about the last episode of Friends and the end of this mythical
serie. Last week, some new countries joined the European Union : discover
the Union, its projects, and the new member countries. At the end of the
month, it's Mother's Day: start preparing it now! Then find two resources
ofr primary school, three for secondary school, and several about teaching
practice, including Berlin ExpoLingua.
have a nice week!

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A la Une
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"…et dans vos cours, comment utilisez-vous les TIC?"
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In the News
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Goodbye to 'Friends'
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European Union
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Europa Quiz (from Brigitte Parry in EUN Newsletter)
Maps and country info
Europe Day teaching Unit (from Claude Covo Farchi)
European Youth parliament (from Brigitte Parry in EUN Newsletter)
eLearning Contest from European Schoolnet (from Brigitte Parry in EUN
Newsletter)
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Mother's Day
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Mother's Day: What You Need to Know (from LII New This Week, May 6)
Mother's Day Activity Pages (from SchoolExpress Newsletter)
Happy Mother's Day! (from Teacher Lesson Plans Vol. 6, Issue 18)
Internet Scavenger Hunt: Happy Mother's Day (from Teacher Lesson Plans Vol.
6, Issue 18)
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Resources for Primary School
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Pop-up Butterflies ( from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, May 7th)
End of year Certificates and memories ( from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer,
May 7th)
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Resources for Secondary School
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Voice of Youth from UNICEF
Texting (from Annie Gwynn)
Voice of America (from LII New This Week, May 6)
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Teaching Practice
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Site de l'académie de Paris
Poetry of Learning
Dr. Fred Jones' Tools for Teaching : Escaping the Paper Grading Trap (from
Teacher Lesson Plans Vol. 6, Issue 18)
Summerhill : Free for All (from Teacher Magazine Update, April 2004)
EXPOLINGUA Berlin


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A la Une
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"…et dans vos cours, comment utilisez-vous les TIC?"
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Cyber-Langues 2004 à Orleans du 24 au 26 aout 2004
Pour la cinquième année consécutive, le colloque Cyber-Langues va réunir
tous les acteurs de l'école qui souhaitent échanger sur les nouvelles
pratiques, les expérimentations en cours, et sur ce que chacun met en
oeuvre très concrètement pour intégrer les TIC à sa pratique de
l'enseignement des
langues.
Les interventions et les échanges présenteront ce que VOUS faites
réellement en cours, avec vos élèves.
Vous avez expérimenté des activités qui ont bien marché. Venez nous les
faire découvrir !
Inscrivez-vous sur le site avant le 15 mai 2004 dernier délai.
http://cyberlangues.online.fr
N'hésitez pas à nous contacter si vous hésitez sur la forme à donner à
votre présentation.
cyberlangues@online.fr
Vous pouvez nous aider à diffuser largement l''info en imprimant un flyer
téléchargeable ici : http://cyberlangues.online.fr/2004/flyer2004.doc
et en le déposant dans les casiers de vos collègues de langues et dans les
CRDP, CDDP , IUFM et autre lieu de passage :-)

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In the News
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Goodbye to 'Friends'
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The famous TV series Friend has just ended. It is an essential moment in
the life of many people, and I think something worth mentioning to your
students. The New York Times suggest a teaching session around the news
article "Goodbye to 'Friends' ". See the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20040507friday.html
The lesson plan has been temporarily removed but you may find things to
work from (biographies, Phoebe's songs, etc.) on some other sites. I listed
some of those I found useful at:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/themes/friends.htm

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European Union
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Europa Quiz (from Brigitte Parry in EUN Newsletter)
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EuropaQuiz is an online interactive site where students car learn lots of
information about the countries of the new EU. The game consists in trying
to get as many votes as possible to be elected president of the EU.They win
votes each time their answer is correct, and loose them for each wrong
answer.They can play until June 13th, and the game is available in 20
languages!
The 25 best players will win a stay in Strasbourg with one person of their
choice, to witness the election of the new president during the first
session of the European parliament.
http://www.europaquiz.org/

Maps and country info
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see also this page for a map and more country info
http://searcheurope.com/countries/

Europe Day teaching Unit (from Claude Covo Farchi)
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see this teaching unit from Paris
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/europe.php

European Youth parliament (from Brigitte Parry in EUN Newsletter)
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To discover how young people may become involved in the decisions, and
discover the convention for the youth. If it is too difficult in English,
the pages are also available in French!
http://www.eyp.org/intro.htm

eLearning Contest from European Schoolnet (from Brigitte Parry in EUN
Newsletter)
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Your students have created something online, you have taken part in a
project or designed a page or a site for your students :register for the
elearning contest before september 1st, and win fame and a price! For more
information, go to:
http://www.elearningawards.eun.org/ww/fr/pub/elearningawards2004/index.htm
EUN Contact : chris.coakley@eun.org

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Mother's Day
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Mother's Day: What You Need to Know (from LII New This Week, May 6)
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Offers historical facts and figures about Mother's Day, links to
information about famous mothers, and several ideas for celebrating the
holiday.
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa020506a.htm

Mother's Day Activity Pages (from SchoolExpress Newsletter)
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Click here to download the free Activity Pages for this week and the
archives for past weeks.
http://www.schoolexpress.com/news5hg7.php

Happy Mother's Day! (from Teacher Lesson Plans Vol. 6, Issue 18)
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Make this holiday one that everyone will remember with these lessons,
activities, more.
http://www.educationworld.com/holidays/archives/mothersday.shtml

Internet Scavenger Hunt: Happy Mother's Day (from Teacher Lesson Plans Vol.
6, Issue 18)
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What do you know about the history of Mother's Day?
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/hunt/hunt033.shtml

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Resources for Primary School
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Pop-up Butterflies ( from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, May 7th)
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To combine English, biology and handicraft... this handicraft is to show
how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly and discover the buterfly life cycle.
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/

End of year Certificates and memories ( from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer,
May 7th)
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This site allows you to reward your students with certificates, American
style...
http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/endofyear/certificates060399.html

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Resources for Secondary School
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Voice of Youth from UNICEF
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Discover this new feature on the UNICEF website. There is a discussion
board where young people can discuss the issues that are important to them,
read online news, and find lots of useful information to organise a
campaign or a project, use the media, etc.
http://www.unicef.org/voy/

Texting (from Annie Gwynn)
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an interesting learning activity
http://www.its-online.com/newsletter/teachers/may-survive.asp
+ and online
http://www.its-online.com/newsletter/activities/sms-teach.asp

Voice of America (from LII New This Week, May 6)
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Track U.S. news in 45 languages through the Voice of America (VOA), "an
international multimedia broadcasting service funded by the U.S.
government. VOA broadcasts 1,000 hours of news, informational, educational,
and cultural programs every week to an audience of some 87 million people
worldwide. VOA programs are produced and broadcast ... through radio,
satellite television,
and the Internet." Includes schedules, a pronunciation guide, Webcasts,
free e-mail updates, and more.
http://www.voanews.com/

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Teaching Practice
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Site de l'académie de Paris
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Sur le site de l'académie de Paris
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/
on trouve:
- un parcours d'apprentissage original
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/differentaustralia.php
- une page très complète sur la publicité
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/pub.php
- le weblog pour les last news
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/lastnews.php

Poetry of Learning
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Brigitte Parry discovered this site from an India school. Read this article
and see the site which allows the students to discover the solar system
through poems:
http://www.nalandainstitute.org/aspfiles/poetry.asp
See also the resources in:
http://www.schoolnetindia.com/

Dr. Fred Jones' Tools for Teaching : Escaping the Paper Grading Trap (from
Teacher Lesson Plans Vol. 6, Issue 18)
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The more adept you become at building work check into teaching, the more
responsibility students take for quality control, and the more your
evenings are freed up for lesson planning.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/jones/jones008.shtml

Free for All (from Teacher Magazine Update, April 2004)
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The legendary student-centered English boarding school Summerhill still
exists--and it's as eccentric, and as illuminating, as it ever was.
http://www.you-click.net/GoNow/a15864a102202a136637175a19

EXPOLINGUA Berlin
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the 17th international fair for languages and cultureQuand : 12 au 14
november 2004
Organisation : ICWE GmbH, Leibnizstr. 32, D-10625 Berlin, Allemagne
Contact : Martina Bischoff infos@expolingua.com
www.expolingua.com
[ if you have worked on an interesting project or organised some type of
activity you want to make people know about, here is an opportunity....]

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