Infonews n°181 du 23/03/2003
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A la Une this week, Newseum, a site which offers access to the front page
of several newspapers, and some online exhibits, including a special one on
the war, featuring all the front pages of the newspapers in several
languages, day by day. Then what you can do after Spring Day : whether you
took part or not, there are still things you can do!
Then several sites where you can find online texts of all types, and two
British sites of free online lessons.
For primary school, you can use the site of children's books, and the first
address of online lessons, featuring how to use songs with young children
in primary school.
Have a nice week!
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A la Une : Newseum
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- Today Frontpages
- War in Irak : the story behind the news
- Cybernewseum
- Newseum education
- an interactive game
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Spring Day
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Let Europe know what you did!
See what the others have done!
Take part in the EUN-My Europe competition
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Online texts, novels and short stories
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Free children's book online : the Rosetta project
Miss Thistlebritches
Bibliomania
Project Gutemberg
Bartleby
Page by Page
Other sites for all online books
Library of banned books
Science fiction and fantasy library
Bookrags
Etext
Science texts and articles
Other pages of links to online texts
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Resources for teachers
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One Stop English (from Annie Gwynn on e-teach)
Teach it! (from Annie Gwynn on e-teach)
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A la Une : Newseum
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http://www.newseum.org
Pierre Méra from Académie de Versailles recommanded this site, I received
it from J.M.Dumont, and read it also on e-teach. Indeed, it is the tool we
all need at the moment!
The Newseum is a Museum in Washington D.C
http://www.newseum.org/newseum/newseum2006/
it offers exhibits on the premises, teaching material sold in their shop
at the museum or online, but also several very precious online features :
- Today Frontpages
190 front pages from 24 countries
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
access the list by continents, names and countries
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/main.asp?fpRegion=usa&fpAl=fpn&btnReg=y
- War in Irak : the story behind the news
with all the front pages of the newspapers since the beginning, ordered by
date : day 1, day 2, today is day 4.
http://www.newseum.org/frontpages/wariniraq.htm
- Cybernewseum
where you can find special exhibits on several subjects, each based on the
analysis of front pages and press articles. There are exhibits about great
events : 9/11, Columbia, holocaust; several exhibits about cartoons,
cartoonists and their role in information; and subjects about black press,
women's history, the moon.....
http://www.newseum.org/cybernewseum/
- Newseum education
in this part, you find some documents that you should purchase, but you can
access for free to:
- lessons about the first amendment : freedom of speech
http://www.freedomforum.org/packages/first/curricula/educationforfreedom/index.htm
- an interactive game
Chip Tracer, with an exceptional quality of drawing, just like a Superman
type cartoon. You discover the dates and other important facts in history.
Episode one, entitled "wright or wrong" after the Wright brothers, is about
the first flight.
It requires a fast connection, and at least 3 years of English.
http://www.newseum.org/chiptracer/assign.htm
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Spring Day
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Let Europe know what you did!
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You did something special on Spring Day : take 2 photos (of the day, or
just of your school or your classroom), write a title and two or three
paragraphs about what you did (or ask you students to write it, in their
native language)
- go to http://futurum.eun.org/21
- Click on your country
- find your school and select it
- download your text and your photos
Only 8 French schools have sent their report yet, out of over 300!!!!
see how may schools sent reports!
http://futurum_21.eun.org/list_by_country.cfm?lang=en
See what the others have done!
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go to http://futurum_21.eun.org/index-en.html
and see how all the schools
celebrated Spring Day. And you can still do the webquests and quizzes on
the page, and take part in the competition!
Take part in the EUN-My Europe competition
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http://futurum.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/SpringSite_Information/sub_area.cfm?sa=3696
now your students are aware of the importance of Europe, conscious of how
it works....Here is the opportunity to make their voice heard by taking
part in one of the three catégories:
- writing a report about their Spring Day and its outcome
- writing a text about how they see Europe in 2025
and for teachers, send the material you produced and win a trip to Brussels!
( Jean-Philippe and I, the spring teachers for France, are not allowed to
take part in the competition, so do it for us!!!! )
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Online texts, novels and short stories
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You are looking for texts for your classes? Here are some sites where you
may find what you need
Free children's book online : the Rosetta project
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an impressive choice of original texts and illustrations, including the
classics : Mother Goose, Peter Rabbit, Three Little Pigs, The ugly
Duckling, Tom Thumb and so on.
http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/library.htm
Miss Thistlebritches
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this site offers a choice of about 40 short stories including classics by
Hawthorne, Poe, Dickens
http://www.missthistlebritches.com
Bibliomania
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There you will find online books, including the complete work of
Shakespeare, Jack London's writings, medieval and classic books, and lots
of others...
http://bibliomania.net/Etexts.html
Project Gutemberg
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They have digitalised most of the right free books for the last ten years.
A precious resource for all classics.
http://www.promo.net/pg/
Bartleby
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the most famous resource in this field : you can access online books, but
also books of references, quotations and verses among which you can search
what you need
http://www.bartleby.com/
Page by Page
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Hundreds of books form the public domain, including for example Melville,
Kate Chopin, Henry James as well as some historical texts like the
declaration of independence, the constitution of the US....and G.Bush's
inaugural address!
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
Other sites for all online books
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http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html
http://www.classicbookshelf.com
[ don't let the advertisements disturb you : the links at the top right of
the page lead you to the full text online for free!]
Library of banned books
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Ulysses, Canterbury Tales, Moll Flanders, Leaves of Grass, Frankenstein,
Black Beauty...the Bible and the Quran...
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html
Science fiction and fantasy library
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there you can for exemple discover several novels by Mercedes Lackey
http://www.baen.com/library/
Bookrags
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A British site of 300 e-books, including Alice in Wonderland, Emma,
Gulliver's Travels, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, the Wizzard of Oz....
http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/100.html
http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/300.html
Etext
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Texts of all kinds: e-zines, political zine, fiction and poetry by amateur
authors
http://www.etext.org/index.shtml
Science texts and articles
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including Darwin, Huxley (just texts and articles, no online novels), Gray
and Maulder....
http://home.att.net/~p.caimi/oremia.html
Other pages of links to online texts
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to various sites where you can find free online books, stories and other
publications
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7786/books.htm
http://users.erols.com/jonwill/freebooks.htm
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives/
http://starry.com/novel/authors.htm
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Resources for teachers
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One Stop English (from Annie Gwynn on e-teach)
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http://www.onestopenglish.com/
There you will find ready-to-use lessons, including the latest ones about
war and Irak. They are based on news articles from the Guardian Weekly .
They all include a text and questions to understand it, and interesting
vocabulary exercises, the same type as we find in the baccalauréat exam.
[ lots of free lessons to save!]
There are also some very useful methodology articles and tips:
http://www.onestopenglish.com/News/Magazine/Archive/archive.htm
Using songs in primary school
http://www.onestopenglish.com/News/Magazine/children/Childrenmain.htm
here are some useful tips and help for that subject and many others
Teach it! (from Annie Gwynn on e-teach)
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http://www.teachit.co.uk/
This other partly free ( pdf versions are free, word version only if you
subscribe) online magazine offers some free lessons for British keystage 3,
4 and 5. Those lessons can be used for English as a Second Language
students in secondary school.
see for example this year 8 lesson about language variety:
http://www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/y8lang.pdf
You can also find online interactive quizzes, full teaching units that you
can just photocopy and hand to the students
http://www.teachit.co.uk/index.asp?online=1
for example, see this serie of "hot potatoes" exercises about newspaper history
http://www.teachit.co.uk/online/newsquiz.asp
or this analysis of magazine covers
http://www.teachit.co.uk/online/magsl2.asp
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