Infonews n°292 from 24/12/2006
WARNING!!!!!
History of the Day
Day of service
A booklet
Biographies
Quizzes with links to find the answers and learn
Ready to use worksheets
Webquests
"I have a dream"
Pages of links and resources
Special reports from TV and magazines
Articles from Time about MLK (For Time Magazine subscribers only)
the best sites
Essay writing
Tips about what resolutions to take
List of resolutions
Setting your goals
Lesson plans
Our Shop
ESL and Archie Comics: Podcast
BBC audio files and transcripts
Snapshot of the US : Statistics, who they are, how they live, what they are
interested in....
50 Coolest Websites (from [LII New This Week] December 21)
Get a Passport Now (from [LII New This Week] December 21)
Diana Death a "Tragic Accident" (from [LII New This Week] December
21)
Time Person of the Year (from [LII New This Week] December 21)
Google for Educators
OpenOffice 2.1 (from The Scout Report -- December 22)
Récupérer une vidéo de "you tube"
Martin Luther King Day is each year on the 3rd Monday in January. This year, MLK Day is on Monday, January 15th 2007. Each year, Infonews selects for you sites that you can use in class : this is an update of last year's Infonews n°264, plus some new sites I found this year.
WARNING!!!!!
If you use a search engine (like google) to find sites about MLK, or worse,
if you encourage your students to do so, be warned that there is a supremacist
site craftily hidden under the aspect of a normal MLK site.
--> the site martin luther king dot org ( I don't give the link on
purpose) is a white supremacist site. At first glance, it looks normal,
but when you read it, you soon get shocked (but only if you understand English)
and when you look at the signature at the end of the page, you find a group
promoting racism and Nazi ideas.
History of the Day
http://stockholm.usembassy.gov/Holidays/celebrate/mlk.html (with
the text of "I have a dream")
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mlkhistory1.html (
with a timeline)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Day
http://martin-luther-king-day.123holiday.net/ (with
a short timeline and some quotes)
http://www.civilrights.org/campaigns/mlk/index.html (
an excellent and easy timeline and the making of the holiday)
Remember that:
- MLK Day is the only national holiday commemorating an African American.
- MLK Day is not only a holiday, but a day of services.
Day of service
The moto is : "Make the holiday “A day ON, not a day OFF!”. To learn
more about this, hear a speech by Martin Luther King about service, and read
this website, suggesting ways to serve or enroll :
the page : http://www.thekingcenter.org/holiday/speak.html
the MLK audio file : http://000003s.preview.web-hosters.com/media/rca.ram
a longer page : http://www.thekingcenter.org/holiday/index.asp
a video : http://easylink.playstream.com/cncs/mlkday/mlkday_high.wvx (they
want to "move their words to deeds")
the site of the "day of services" : http://www.mlkday.gov/about/overview/index.asp
see also:
"why serve?" : http://www.mlkday.gov/about/why/index.asp
the list of programs and services : http://www.thekingcenter.org/prog/index.asp
A booklet
for young children (to cut out, assemble and color)
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6459/mlk.html
Biographies
Short and simple biographies : kindergarten kids have drawn these pictures,
and they are a bit simplistic, but the text accompanying them is short and
easy and can enable weak students to remember the key moments of MLK's life
and his movement. The sentences are in the present : a simple exercise could
be to turn all theses sentences in the past to build a biography.
http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools-c/pages/buckman/timeline/kingframe.html
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/taverna/98/1.htm (autre
du même type)
for older students or those who prefer a short timeline without pictures:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK/timeline.shtml
a full biography
http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/ga_mlk.htm
Quizzes with links to find the answers and learn
- A quiz that you do first, without clues, and then you get interesting information
in the answers, in short sentences.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/classroom/MLKquiz.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/quiz.html
- "the fight for rights" from Time for Kids : a quiz about black
American's fight for their rights, with nice photos and a timeline to find
the answers (open both windows)
quiz : http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/games/white/0,9970,106918,00.html
timeline : http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/bhm/0,8805,97502,00.html
- this quiz worked well with upper intermediate students : you can print the
questions and then they visit the links (they all work this year, and some
of the questions have changed.) and look for the answers (the answers are not
provided on the site, but for the past five years, my students have always
found the answers (en classe de première S)
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html
- an online quiz to learn. I did it with lower intermediates as a whole class
(who had already worked on the simple timeline to know the basic facts), and
they love learning about MLK through a game. This "game" is a flash
quiz where speed is essential. But don't worry, you can do the quiz several
times over, and this even helps to memorize the answers!
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/king-sw.htm
- for beginners, here is a questionnaire about MLK's time line that you can
print. You can even use it without a computer : you then hand out the questionnaire
and the timeline.
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/taverna/98/webquest.htm
Ready to use worksheets
- activity for the youngest : create a clothesline timeline of MLK
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/02/lp248-03.shtml
- a crossword
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/king-cw.htm
- a quiz and words to find in a grid
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/taverna/98/king.htm
(two level, with a different number of words to find)
- *** lots of activities : quizzes, word search, printouts, printable activity
booklets:
http://worksheets.teach-nology.com/misc/mlk/
Webquests
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/mlkth.php (an
easy treasure hunt based on MLK's biography )
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/MLK/mlkbio.htm (even
easier, an interactive online fill in the blanks worksheet for younger children)
"I have a dream"
*** to hear the full speech and read the script as it goes:
http://www.hpol.org/record.php?id=72
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/historicspeeches.html
to read the text:
http://members.aol.com/klove01/dreamsp.htm
http://members.tripod.com/jean2000/jc/jc9.htm#dream
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/michel.barbot/supports_ce/mlk/have_dream.htm
to hear short extracts:
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/march40th/speeches.html (with
other speeches and a short video)
for a full video of the speech which gives a good idea of the atmosphere (thanks
to Laurence Bernard on eTeachNet)
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk&eurl=
http://student.bus.olemiss.edu/files/Evans/OB/MLK_I_Have_A_Dream.wmv
Pages of links and resources
- an excellent and very comprehensive teaching unit by Jérome Quintena. A
ready to use teaching unit with nicely designed worksheets:
http://teachers.domainepublic.net/shared/Civi%20Pays%20Anglophones/TERM%20STT%20-%20BLACK%20AMERICANS%20PROJECT-%20J_%20Quintena.doc
or go to http://teachers.domainepublic.net/ then
choose "documents"; "civilisation"; "Term STT- black
American Project"
- a ready to use online page, 4 biographies, three quizzes and seven questions
http://lycees.ac-rouen.fr/pascal/infonews/themes/MLK.htm
- other pages prepared by colleagues
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/mlk.htm
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/fetes01.php#mlk
- and some more ages of links
http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Holidays/MLK/MLK.html
http://www.theteachersguide.com/Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr.htm
http://www.cumbavac.org/martin_luther_king.htm
http://k6educators.about.com/cs/martinlutherking/a/mlkingjr2.htm
http://www.educationworld.com/holidays/archives/mlking.shtml
Special reports from TV and magazines
- VOA
"King Holiday Considered 'Mixed Blessing' By Some Historians"(advanced).
http://voanews.com/english/archive/2005-01/2005-01-14-voa25.cfm?CFID=20477635&CFTOKEN=44690881
-- Seattle Times
a special report with ideas for the class and links.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/
- PBS
listen to "three perspectives" the interviews of MLK, malcolm X and
James Baldwin (no transcript but a teacher's guide).
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/
- BBC
A short biogaphy, a page about the March on Washington (August 28th 1963),
and another about I have a dream, with the audio file and interviews of people
who took part.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/king_martin_luther.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/28/newsid_2656000/2656805.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3170387.stm
- The Encyclopedia Britannica
A guide to African American history. An interesting study guide for advanced
students, with videos and audio documents
http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/study/index_eb.htm
- Stanford University
Lots of documented resources for advanced students
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/mlkpapers/
Articles from Time about MLK (For Time Magazine subscribers only)
if you have a subscription to Time Magazine, you can access the full archives. have a look at the special Time Magazine from January 3rd 1964 "Martin Luther King Junior, man of the year" where MLK was named "man of the year" and where you find the article :
'Every Negro Who Discharges His Duty Faithfully Is Making a Real Contribution'
article : http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940760,00.html
full magazine : http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601640103,00.html
See also this article "Attack on the Conscience"
from Time magazine dated Feb. 18, 1957 : it is horribly full of the word "negro" and
you can read : " The man whose word they seek is not a judge, or a lawyer,
or a political strategist or a flaming orator. He is a scholarly, 28-year-old
Negro Baptist minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who in little more
than a year has risen from nowhere to become one of the nation's remarkable
leaders of men." Interesting to have a glimpse at the context of the moment.
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,809103,00.html
For advanced students too, read this article from Time Magazine dated January
9th 2006, with excerpts from a book describing the last year of his life and
how things were changing.
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1145260,00.html
the best sites
as usual, our colleague Michèle Henry has selected the sites she find the
most useful especially with beginners and intermediate students. Discover them,
and especilly the chart of the resolutions.
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/newyear.htm#resol
http://www.hiaspire.com/newyear/images/chart_bigResolutions0702.gif
Here are some more to explore:
Essay writing
On e-teach, our colleague Laurence Bernard recommends this lesson plan to
encourage students to write and essay with the future and link words:
http://perso.orange.fr/absolutenglish-972/notes/resolutions/page1.htm
Here is another lesson plan of the same type, create by a primary school teachr
in the US
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/new-years-day/lesson-plan/4136.html?detoured=1
She also recommends this video : "Don't be a Gary" - resolve":
great fun! easy to understand (from YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9wF5LunEmo
Tips about what resolutions to take
Laurence Bernard also recommends those videos. There is no script, the picture
is very bad and just shows the people who talk, the sound is not very good
either but the tips are really interesting. Maybe we could use this document
to try and understand a message globally.
http://138.26.96.3/Joshklapow/VIDEO-DIALUP/newyearsresdialup.wmv
http://138.26.96.3/Joshklapow/VIDEO-DIALUP/hhstickingwithresolutiondialup.wmv
[ and here is are other texts with tips and advices
http://www.ehow.com/how_12076_keep-new-years.html
http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/1997archive/12-97archive/k122397.html
http://www.mygoals.com/about/NewYearsTips.html ]
List of resolutions
A very easy list of resolutions, and the children vote for the one which is
most important to them. You can use them even with beginners. After the vote,
the students can access a funny flash interactive site which shows them a list
of fun resolutions.
<http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/pollzone/white/0,6405,403250,00.html>http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/pollzone/white/0,6405,403250,00.html
Setting your goals
About.com offers a more complete (and complex) approach, with a useful reflection
for educators on how to maintain motivation and how to help the students set
realistic goals and meet them.
<http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa121400a.htm>http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa121400a.htm
Don't miss the worksheets in the related resources, with especially this one
about writing specific goals which helps students setting sub goals or intermediate
steps to go from general to specific goals
<http://7-12educators.about.com/blgoalspecific.htm>http://7-12educators.about.com/blgoalspecific.htm
Lesson plans
A lesson plan with the history of the resolutions, and how to keep them. Created
for 9th grader, that is the last year of primary school in the US, this lesson
plan can be used with intermediate ESL students.
http://www.developingteachers.com/plans/nyrlp.htm#dictation
Our Shop
Our colleague Stéphane Busuttil has created this teaching unit and shares
it with you. Voici ce qu'il dit : "pour la rentrée : voici quelques heures
de cours *presque* prêtes
(à la base pour des 2ndes pro, probablement adaptables, très certainement améliorables).
c'est une séquence que je fais tous les ans et qui marche d'habitude très bien,
j'espère qu'elle pourra vous servir."
Thanks a lot, Stéphane!
http://stephane.busuttil.free.fr/b10g/index.php/2006/12/21/21-our-shop
ESL and Archie Comics: Podcast
Our german colleague Jürgen Wagner recommends this site in his newsletter
: "ESL and Archie Comics: Podcast: To read along as you listen, you can
use a learning guide. The Learning Guide has a complete transcript of the respective
lesson including a glossary, sample sentences, comprehension questions and
cultural notes."
http://www.archiecomics.com/podcasts/?p=71
see other info in his newsletter:
http://www.lpm.uni-sb.de/EL/Newsletter/Archiv/20061212101753Newsletter.htm
BBC audio files and transcripts
BBC learning English provides us each week audio files with the full transcript,
on current topics. This week it is around Christmas....
- ENTERTAINMENT! - Good Food Show
In this week's edition, we explore some language which you can use to describe
food. [ I discovered the word : moreish...]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/163_entertainment_ex/
- LONDON LIFE - Christmas at the Market
This week, we visit one London market which is famous for selling original
and interesting products. [ listen to the audio file, read the transcript and
go to the site of Spitafields.]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1557_london_extra/
http://www.spitalfields.org.uk/
- THE MUSIC SHOW - Christmas carols
In this week's Music Show, we're getting into the spirit of Christmas. One
of the most popular traditions in this country at this time of year is carol
singing. [ Listen and read about the choir of King's Chapel and then go to
the site as a follow up.]
http://www.bbclearningenglish.com/radio/specials/1218_the_charts/page2.shtml
http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel/
Snapshot of the US : Statistics, who they are, how they live, what they are interested in....
The Scout's Report special feature this week is about who the Americans are
and what they talk about. Here is the introduction : "Most people are
aware of the unwritten rule that politics and religion are two subjects that
should generally be avoided while visiting friends and family to share a holiday
meal or related activity. Within the tables of the 2007 Statistical
Abstract of the United States, users will find the raw data that can be used
in such conversations. Released last week, the annual edition of the Abstract
contains 1400 tables that cover everything from Americans growing problem with
obesity to their seemingly insatiable appetite for media consumption." read
the whole report and visit the links:
http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2006/scout-061222-inthenews.php#1
50 Coolest Websites (from [LII New This Week] December 21)
An annotated list of 50 useful and amusing websites in the areas of entertainment,
arts, and media; shopping, lifestyle, and hobbies; news and information; staying
connected; time wasters; travel and real estate; and web searches and services. "Many
of ... [the sites for 2006] are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation
sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain." Includes links
to lists back to 2003. From Time magazine in partnership with CNN.
http://www.time.com/time/2006/50coolest/
[discover what the best sites of the moment are...]
Get a Passport Now (from [LII New This Week] December 21)
Brief information about new passport requirements for 2007 for travelers to
and from the U.S. "All travelers will be required to have passports --
including U.S. citizens returning to the U.S. by air from throughout the Western
Hemisphere -- on January 23, 2007." Also includes material about sea and
land travel, and links to official passport sites for U.S., Canadian, and Mexican
citizens. From the Travel Industry Association and Travel Business Roundtable.
http://getapassportnow.com/
Diana Death a "Tragic Accident" (from [LII New This Week] December 21)
Collection of articles from December 2006 about
"an official UK police inquiry into the [1997] Paris car crash which killed
Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed [and that] has found no evidence the couple
were murdered." Includes a link to the full report ("The Operation
Paget Inquiry Report Into the Allegation of Conspiracy to Murder") and
to information about the life and death of Princess Diana. From the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6179275.stm?ls
Time Person of the Year (from [LII New This Week] December 21)
Discover that this year, the person of the year is "you"! see the
current version
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/current/
and then go to the archives to see who the previous persons were and find the "archive
of stories about the Time Person of the Year (previously the Man of the Year)
from 1927 to the present. Also includes links to the current year's Person
of the Year, a gallery of Person of the Year magazine covers, and a photo history
of the Person of the Year. From Time magazine."
http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/archive/stories/
Google for Educators
Google has launched a new platform for educators. They can find there free
Google tools, like gmail, googletalk or google page maker. Here is what you
can read on the site : "We think of this site as a platform of teaching
resources – for everything from blogging and collaborative writing to geographical
search tools and 3D modeling software – and we want you to fill it in with
your great ideas. "
http://www.google.com/educators/index.html
Then they invite the teachers to share their resources, first in the way to
use the tools, then in exchanging innovative practices. Read for example the
article " the infinite blog machine"
by Mark Wagner at the bottom of this page about the difference between a blog
and a wiki, stressing that only the latter is really collaborative.
http://www.infinitethinking.org/
OpenOffice 2.1 (from The Scout Report -- December
22)
http://www.openoffice.org/
Some users will already be familiar with the OpenOffice applications, but
for those who haven’t run across it yet will be equally pleased to learn that
there is a new version of the program available. The application includes a
number of features that will allow users to create text documents, presentations,
diagrams, and databases. With an interface that is
similar to a number of existing commercial products, OpenOffice 2.1 is easy
to use and to understand. Finally, users of this program can save their documents
in a variety of formats. This version is compatible with computers running
Windows 98 and newer or Mac OS X and newer. [KMG]
Récupérer une vidéo de "you tube"
Laurence Bernard a créé une fiche pour aider les collègues à savoir comment
récuperer une video de
"YouTube", à partir de l'article de Micro Hebdo n° 443 du 12/18 Octobre
2006
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/absolutenglish-972/notes/tice/youtubemoviedownloader.pdf
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