Infonews n°345 from 09/11/2008
The speech
Some extracts to study
Who writes Obama's speeches?
Other places to get the documents
"yes we can"
"We are the Ones"
"Vote for Hope"
Newspapers Front Pages from Nov 5th
The posters
Children
the dog will be a mutt
White House Pets
Activities around the Chicago speech level B1
Activities around the biography (level A2)
Crossword
Quiz
The speech
Here is the best site to find everything you need
about this speech, recommended by Catherine
Tertre on e-teach : American Rhetoric, where you
can find the full video and mp3 version of the
speech, plus the transcript online and in pdf.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2008/barackobamavictoryspeech.htm
Some extracts to study
05:46 : Sasha and Malia, you have earned the new
puppy that is coming with us to the White House
14:32 : Anne Nixon Cooper. You can use this
extract from there to the end to invite your
students to detect the historical references, and
it is also the part with the "yes we can"
leitmotiv which makes this speech very MLK like.
http://www.annnixoncooper.com/
Some more about Anne Nixon Cooper, including her
interview to the BBC. (thanks to Anne-Marie Pissavin on e-teach)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7712227.stm
Who writes Obama's speeches?
Marielle Bianchi found an article about Obama's Speech writers
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/fashion/20speechwriter.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Other places to get the documents
You can also find the mp3 file on Guillaume
Ogier's site (information from ET newsletter from Lyon)
http://guillaumeogier.free.fr/speech.mp3
On ET, Nancy Hughes recommends the full speech here on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jll5baCAaQU
and our colleagues from Caen have put the speech,
the transcript and also Mac cain's speech on the "site académique anglais"
http://www.discip.crdp.ac-caen.fr/anglais/
On ABC news (thanks to Béatrice Esselin on e-teach )
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=6181477&page=1
On the Guardian (thanks to Sylvie Bertrand on
e-teach and Florinda Fernandes on eTeachNet)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/05/uselections2008-barackobama
and Florinda fernandes has found here a good mp3 version
http://download.guardian.co.uk/audio/kip/standalone/world/1225874746775/2943/gdn.new.081105.ad.Obama-victory-speech.mp3
Original version of the beginning of the speech
with French subtitles (thanks to Hélène Cayuela on e-teach)
http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites/en-direct-regardez-obama-44e-president-des-etats-unis/1585/0/288772
from BBC learning English, a short article with a
lot of vocabulary, level B1+ (audio + transcript)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2008/11/081105_us_election.shtml
from the New York Times : "Vaulting the racial divide", level B2
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/politics/05race.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
On eTeachNet, Annie Gwynn recommends this video "from MLK to Obama"
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=WRq2wmF6Ig0
"yes we can"
This was the official song for the campaign, you
can find the lyrics on its own site:
http://yeswecan.dipdive.com/biography/
by Will-I-Am with the lyrics in "more info" and
with extracts of the "yes we can" speech in New hampshire.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=lSuMdkff0_o
by a group of artists : a bit confused because of
overlapping sounds, but with the names of the
artists and the lyrics in "more info" and with
extracts of the "yes we can" speech in New hampshire.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY
a capella version by a group of students. Without
famous artists but easier to understand.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=l07COcgwmXU
rock version (Rock you Beat)
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Xph3lqEuPJQ
International version in 23 languages, with the
lyrics in English written on the screen
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=-PJa3jaEVyM
"We are the Ones"
On eTeachNet, Sylvie Theuillon recommends this
song by Will.I.Am written for the campaign, with
parts in Spanish and the lyrics in "more info".
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSJsEVf0pU
"Vote for Hope"
Marie jacques Paulet recommends us this rap song
by MC Yogi. On the site you can download the song and see the lyrics.
http://mcyogi.com/lyrics/vote-for-hope
Newspapers Front Pages from Nov 5th
Newseum offers you 724 front pages from all over
the world. Laurence Carta recommended this site on e-teach.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default_archive.asp?fpArchive=110508
The posters
On e-teach, Catherine Tertre selected these 2
videos from CBS presenting the poster and the
street art pop artist who created it. (note that
there is an advertisement before the video)
"Political Culture meets Pop Culture" :
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4576919n
" Barack Obama is a Work of Art" video with the transcript, but still with ads.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/05/eveningnews/main4576731.shtml
and here are some of the posters
http://manifesthope.com/
http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?startat=/getposter.asp&APNum=4028525&CID=87EE1F5316C545B2B838232FFCFDFEE7&PPID=1&search=obama%2008%20hope&f=t&FindID=0&P=3&PP=7&sortby=PD&cname=&SearchID
Children
On e-teach, Catherine Tertre recommends this
video and transcript from CBS :"All eyes on the
new family". This is a short article, level B1.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/06/eveningnews/main4580827.shtml
The dog will be a mutt
Since the victory speech in Chicago, the dog has
become a major issue for many. here is an article
about Obama's reaction. Note the use of the word
"mutt" used as "crossed breed" (for a dog) and
"mixed race" (for a man) : "a lot of shelter dogs
are mutts, like me" Obama said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=32449
Here is a definition for mutt (the Webster didn't
help there!), presenting it as a word that can be
either derogatory of affectionate.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-mutt.htm
White House Pets
Here are the present president's pets, including Ofelia, a longhorn
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/pets/
Barney is the most famous, with a whole page and
several videos, and often mentionned in the White House for Kids section
http://www.whitehouse.gov/barney/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/
And on the "Presidential Pet Museum" page, you
can find a complete list of all the presidents
and their pets. As you go back in history, you
find more unusual pets like a goat, a pig.
http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/whitehousepets-1.htm
Activities around the Chicago speech level B1
Activities prepared by Annie Gwynn around the beginning of the speech.
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/annie.gwynn/cours/presidents/tasks_obama_speech.pdf
and you can find the interactive version on
Laurence Bernard's site for Martinique
http://absolutenglish.free.fr/spip.php?article16
you can download the corresponding videos in two
formats, flv and wmv from her site
http://absolutenglish.free.fr/IMG/USelections2008/hellochicago.flv
http://absolutenglish.free.fr/IMG/USelections2008/hellochicago.wmv
Activities around the biography (level A2)
Laure Peskine recommends this lesson about
"Famous People" created by Sean Banville in
BreakingNewsEnglish : a short biography of Obama,
with mp3 file, transcript, and several well designed exercises level A2.
http://www.famouspeoplelessons.com/b/barack_obama.html
Crossword
BBC Learning English suggest this crossword, that
I personally found not very convincing...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quizzes/crosswords/
Quiz
How stuff works offers a quiz about Obama, and
also several pages presenting the man, which
students can use autonomously or that you can use for a webquest
http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/barack-obama.htm
http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/barack-obama-quiz.htm
On e-teach, several teachers were looking for an
address to send a letter from their students to
B.Obama either as a personal reaction from the
students or as a final task for the class.
Coralie Gilson found this page:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
and on eTeachNet, Sarah Rapnouil-Dunn suggests
contacting him on his site as a senator
http://obama.senate.gov/contact/
or sending letters to one of those addresses:
Mr President-elect Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
or better still,
The Honorable Barack Obama
United States Senate
713 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-1305
and Francis Mayet on e-teach suggests contacting
him through the site devoted to the transition : change.gov
http://change.gov/page/s/contact
On this site you can also learn about the inauguration
http://change.gov/learn/inauguration/
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