Infonews n°314 from 21/10/2007
Rugby : The Springboks
Country Profile
History and Heritage
Tourism
South African innovations
What is Halloween?
Everything about Halloween
Animation / Films
Recipes
Activities
Songs
Cinderella and analysing a story
Ideas for projects and discussions
Forums sur le site de l'APLV
Les dates de la compréhension orale STG
Rugby : The Springboks
The Springboks from South Africa won the Rugby
World Cup against England yesterday! If you plan
to go from "Rugby" to a presentation of the
position of black people in Africa even after the
apartheid was abolished, see this video selected
by Solange Pignatelli on e-teach:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-1289242,.html
( to download it, download "downloadHelper" an
add-on for Mozilla Firefox, then play the video
and go to "tools" in the toolbar at the top : in
the downloadhelper section at the bottom of the
menu, you'll see "hurd_sa.flv" : right click and save on your disk.)
logo of the Springboks
http://www.sarfu.org.za/images/SARU_DefaultLogo_20060722.jpg
a picture of two players at the end of the game (
"we're united as black and white in this country"
said a fann according to the BBC)
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44188000/jpg/_44188894_sacelebrationsafp3203b.jpg
the article from the BBC : Rugby triumph unites South Africa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7054899.stm
"It was Mr Mandela who last handed the Springboks
the Webb Ellis trophy in 1995 " which you can
also hear and see in the video from sky news.
In another article from the BBC, you can read
another reference to Mandela wearing the rugby
shirt, which may have helped them win in 1995 :
"The team would later attribute its victory in
that historic final to the secret 16th player.
President Nelson Mandela turned up in the
dressing room in the minutes before the match,
wearing a Springbok shirt with the number of the
captain, Francois Pienaar, on his back. Mandela
told the team he was proud of them. It is said to
have moved Pienaar near to tears. The camera
reveals him so overcome that he was unable to
sing the national anthem before the match began. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7053197.stm
Country Profile
the BBC offers an excellent country profile, with lots of links
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/country_profiles/1071886.stm
here is another country profile from InfoPlease, more centered on history
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107983.html
For lower intermediate students (A2), here is a
timeline with all the important dates, and a
profile of Mandela, plus videos and audio files
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1069402.stm
Advanced students (B1-2) will find food for
thought in this article entitled : "South
Africa's post apartheid struggle" presenting an
interview of archbishop Desmond Tutu.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5391864.stm
For students studying economics, of for students
level A1-2 whom you want to train to use
comparative and superlative in a useful way, you
can find figures about almost any thing in the
CIA World Factbook (life expectancy, HIV, median
age of the population, number of cell phones,
etc.). You can also invite your students to
compare those figures to other countries, like France and Haiti for example.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sf.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/fr.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ha.html
History and Heritage
A comprehensive page from the BBC about the
history of South Africa : the zulu, the afrikaners, the apartheid
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section12.shtml
on this page, you'll find reference to Biko,
Mandela and several important people and landmarks in South Africa History
http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/history/
the national anthem and the flag
http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/history/anthem.htm
http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/history/flag.htm
The population, the languages, the Rainbow nation
http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/demographics/
for advanced students (B2) here are all the
official documents about the ANC (congress) and
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/
http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/cinderella.html
South African history for children (lessons
designed to teach history to South African students)
http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/hands-on-classroom/classroom/classroom-frameset.html
South African history for upper intermediate and advanced students
http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/index/menu.htm
Tourism
Lonely planets offers a short guide, with a quick glance and fast facts
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/africa/south-africa?
On this South African guide, meant for tourists
and investors, you'll find lots of information about the country
http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/quickguide.htm
and also about plants and animals : discover the
quagga, a special kind of zebra now disappeared
http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/fauna_flora/quagga.htm
natural attractions (parks, wildlife, beaches,
giant turtles) and the "cradle of humankind"
http://www1.southafrica.net/Cultures/sv-SE/consumer.southafrica.net/Things+to+Do/Attractions/NaturalAttractions/
http://www1.southafrica.net/Cultures/sv-SE/consumer.southafrica.net/Things+to+Do/Attractions/NaturalAttractions/Origins+of+Man.htm
4 pages made by an American teacher for her
students : the Boers, apartheid, Mandela, today
http://www.mrdowling.com/610-boers.html
more difficult, an essay by a student in Stanford
about the history of apartheid
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html
other links about South Africa
http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/index/menu.htm
South African innovations
on this page, you'll find "Dr Chris Barnard who
performed the first heart transplant in Cape Town
on 3 December 1967", the Dolosse which is a
"large, unusually shaped concrete blocks weighing
up to 20 tons. The structures are designed to
break up wave action and protect harbour walls
and coastal installations.", the speed gun to
measure the speed of a ball in tennis or cricket,
the swimming pool vacuum cleaner and the CAT scan.
http://www.southafrica.info/doing_business/trends/innovations/inventions.htm
What is Halloween?
find a full presentation on How Stuff Works!
http://people.howstuffworks.com/halloween.htm
and here is a beautiful flyer found by Florinda
Fernandes on the website of Nathan:
http://englishingambier.over-blog.com/article-4370221.html
Everything about Halloween
Good links and ideas of activities from our
colleagues from Paris (collège, lycée)
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/halloween.php
All you need for the youngest on Michèle Henry's
site at Nancy-Metz (primaire, collège)
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/directhall6.htm
and many resources on this page from our colleague in Brazil, Barbara Dieu
http://the_english_dept.tripod.com/halloween.html
see also Infonews n°256 and 285
http://lycees.ac-rouen.fr/pascal/infonews/archives/256.htm#halloween
http://lycees.ac-rouen.fr/pascal/infonews/archives/285.htm#halloween
Animation / Films
- The Unfortunaute Alphabet"
a bit gore, but my 15-16 year old liked it : "The
unfortunate alphabet". Discover Banshi, iron maiden, and other funny stuff....
http://www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=4772
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MeWIjaZSdAg
- Tim Burton's film
You can also choose to work from Tim Burton's
film : "a nightmare before Christmas". here is
what our colleagues have prepared for their students last year:
http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/Disciplines/anglais/ressources/pe/contes.html
or the song "this is halloween":
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2775631
- Michael Jackson's Thriller (you can find
another version of the clip, the lyrics and exercises in Infonews n°256)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8
Recipes
Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins
http://www.easyfunschool.com/PumpkinChocolateChipMuffins.html
Pumpkin Doughnut Drops
http://www.easyfunschool.com/PumpkinDoughnutDrops.html
Pumpkin Fudge
http://www.easyfunschool.com/PumpkinFudge.html
Pumpkin Marmalade
http://www.easyfunschool.com/PumpkinMarmalade.html
Activities
Pumpkin adjectives worksheet
http://worksheets.teach-nology.com/misc/halloween/adj/3/
Fire safety Coloring Book
http://167.193.82.12/colorpage.asp
Macaroni Skeleton Art
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Arts/Visual_Arts/ARA0023.html
Bat Curriculum
http://wings.avkids.com/Curriculums/Bats/
Spiders!
http://www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/spiders/welcome.html
Try this game : Pumpkin Concentration Game
http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag64.html
Songs
On e-teach, Michelle Henry recommands this very
easy song for beginners : "do you like bananas?" with a matching exercise
http://perso.orange.fr/merryprof/co/do_you_like/do_you_like1.htm
and she also found the video for "Do you like waffles?"
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=UtlaTNI1TaU
Cinderella and analysing a story
This interactive site by Anneberg presents the
fairy tale Cinderella, with sound and simplistic
drawings, and then the student can interact and
learn how the stody is built. The words are said
and written. you will find there the four steps
of a story : exposition, conflict,climax, resolution (les étapes du récit).
http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/cinderella.html
There are several other interactive lessons about math, sciences or US history:
http://www.learner.org/interactives/
Ideas for projects and discussions
Annie Gwynn on eteachNet recommends this site
with teacher's notes and students worksheets
around readers (but you can also use them with
other sources) and topics such as shakespeare, Jane Austen, detectives, atc.
http://www.macmillanenglish.com/readers/projects.html
I especially liked the worksheet about
environment, stressing the causes/consequences/solutions structure
http://www.macmillanenglish.com/readers/resources/resourcefiles/projects/topics-environment.pdf
Forums sur le site de l'APLV
Laure Peskine signale que vous pouvez donner
votre avis et discuter sur les forums de l'APLV :
- celui sur les droit de diffusions de films en classe:
http://www.aplv-languesmodernes.org/spip.php?article925
- celui sur les problèmes des voayges scolaires
et en particulier du financement du voyage des accompagnateurs:
http://www.aplv-languesmodernes.org/spip.php?article1253
Les dates de la compréhension orale STG
les dates pour les épreuves de compréhension du
bac STG, dans la cadre de l'expérimentaiton élargie, sont parues au B.O.
http://www.education.gouv.fr/bo/2007/37/MENE0701681N.htm
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