Infonews n°209 du 14/03/2004 

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Don't miss St Patrick's Day on February 17th! A la une, several
addresses for students of all ages, including crosswords and handicrafts.
Then discover activities for primary school and many addresses for
secondary school about the British press, the Vietnam war, endangered
species, art gardens, special effects and the novel "the portrait of Dorian
gray"; followed by three sites about American citizenship, including a
quiz, and several sites to present India to your students. In teaching
practice, read about problem solving and discover Brain Teasers.
Puis voyez trois sites en français: l'appel pour les langues, les nouveaux
programmes et un rapport sur le niveau d'anglais des élèves de 15/16 ans
dans 6 pays d'Europe....
Have a nice week!

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A la Une : St Patrick's Day
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Online lesson
Pages about St Patrick's Day from our colleagues
The page on Infonews
Handicrafts for the younger ones (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer)
Coloring pages
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Resources for primary school
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Activities for groups and circles
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Resources for secondary school
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The British Press
Kids' Planet endangered species (Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, March 9th)
The Vietnam Project (The Scout Report -- March 12)
Special effects
Art Garden
Dorian Gray
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American Citizenship
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Elections 2004 (The Scout Report -- March 12)
Government handbook and US citizenship test (from Library Hot Five #215 )
Ben's Guide to the US Government for kids (from Library Hot Five #215 )
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India
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Teaching practice
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Problem Solving and Brain Teasers
Appel pour les langues vivantes (from Jacques Omnès)
Nouveaux programmes (from prog-languesvivantes@ldif.education.gouv.fr)
Comparaison des niveaux en anglais des élèves de 6 pays (from Marc
Hochscheid on eTeachNet)

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A la Une : St Patrick's Day
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Online lesson
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Three .pdf lessons ready to print for three different levels, signaled by
Isabelle Bouvet on eTeachNet.
- To find out information about Ireland by reading a text.
- To discuss the patron saint of the student's own country.
- To use the information contained in the text to complete a crossword.
they are free for a week, so don't forget to save them!
http://www.reward-english.com/e-lesson.htm

Pages about St Patrick's Day from our colleagues
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http://perso.wanadoo.fr/annie.gwynn/festivals.htm#patrick
http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/anglais/news/
http://www.ac-versailles.fr/pedagogi/anglais/civi/stpatrick.html

The page on Infonews
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http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/themes/stpatrick.htm

Handicrafts for the younger ones (from Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer)
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Lucky mobiles: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/stpatrick/Rainbow.shtml
Lucky stones: http://www.makingfriends.com/stones_magic.htm
Rainbow and shamrocks: http://www.alphabet-soup.net/hol/stpart.html
Handprint rainbow: http://www.amazingmoms.com/htm/holiday_pat_ideas.htm
Paint a shamrock: http://www.kinderart.com/seasons/shamrockfun.shtml
Shamrock template : http://www.first-school.ws/t/pattern/clover.htm
Hairy shamrocks (with growing seeds):
http://www.theideabox.com/ideas.nsf/special%5Cst.+patrick's+day/21D692383D3F4ECB86256725005C816F

Coloring pages
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http://www.coloring.ws/patrick.htm

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Resources for primary school
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Activities for groups and circles
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http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/activities-large.htm
These activities for pre-schoolers circle time can be transfered to primary
school, and provide, for example, the opportunity to learn about the
weather in English,and speak English for a few minutes every day. The
vocabulary is very limited, and any teacher can do it. What is important is
to create an English corner in a part of the classroom, where the students
will meet each day to talk about the weather or something else in English.
This can end up with the production of a weather chart, that the class
can send to correspondents somewhere in the world. If the correspondence
works well, the class will receive the others' chart and be able to compare
it with their own and reflect about the weather in other parts of the world.
You can also assign a town or part of the world to a group of students and
encourage them to find the weather on the internet everyday and discuss it
in class.
Go to this site for other ideas of exchanges or activities and projects on
the internet:
http://www.lburkhart.com/elem/internet.htm

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Resources for secondary school
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The British Press
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Our colleague Sarah Rapnouil prepared and tested with her students of 1st
year of upper secondary school (2ndes) this unit about the British press.
The procedure is well described, in three lessons plus an evaluation. You
can adapt it to different levels of students, or just use the links
(recently updated) to other sites of lessons and to newspapers.
http://ndaeuro.rapnouil.net/teachers/media/newslesson2.htm

Kids' Planet endangered species (Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, March 9th)
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This site for children features fact sheets on over 50 endangered species,
as well as classroom resources (on wolves, sea otters, and Florida black
bears), games, and environment protection
activities for children. From the Defenders of Wildlife, a wildlife
conservation organization.
http://www.kidsplanet.org/
http://lii.org?recs=020988

The Vietnam Project (The Scout Report -- March 12)
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http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/
Lots of documents, written and oral. The teachers' section is still under
work, but you can use the section about oral History, where you can hear
interviews on "those who were there" and learn how to use those resources
in class. Of course, those documents are designed for young Americans and
have to be adapted, but students who want to learn about this topic will
find this site very useful.
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/workshop/resources.htm

Special effects
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http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2002/03/031802_movies.jhtml
Find there an article including many links to present the special effects
in several animation movies, together with a history of special effects.
From the 1933 King Kong to the Lord of the Ring...

Art Garden
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Activity: design an art garden
http://www.walkerart.org/ace/ed_activities/units_i/desgarden_fr.html
based on the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
http://www.walkerart.org/resources/res_msg_frame.html
[ for all students interested in art, or to make them discover what a
sculpture garden can be. Then they can design their own sculpture garden,
and even try and have it realised... ]

Dorian Gray
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Here are some addresses about "The picture of Dorian Gray" suggested by our
colleagues on eTeachNet:
Short text + vocabuary quiz
http://dwc.hct.ac.ae/fnd/engread/read-quiz/dorian-mc.htm
Online version
http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/dorian_gray/
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/57/103/frameset.html
Sparksnotes
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/doriangray/

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American Citizenship
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Elections 2004 (The Scout Report -- March 12)
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http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/elec2004.html
The University of Michigan designed this page to help students find
everything they need about the elections. Their sources are reliable and
official, and you can even download the Election Day computer simulation
game...
http://staff.washington.edu/election/

Government handbook and US citizenship test (from Library Hot Five #215 )
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the Herald Sun (from Durham and Orange county) offers a vote book with
candidate information and at the end a government handbook and a US
citizenship test. Encourage your students to take the test, and research
what they don't know: the number of states, of stripes on the flag, and
information about the congress and the constitution....
An interesting starting point to learn some basics about the US:
http://www.herald-sun.com/votebook/?CFID=633704&CFTOKEN=61080898
Government handbook:
http://www.herald-sun.com/votebook/govhbook/manual.html
Citizenship test:
http://www.heraldsun.com/votebook/citizenship/citstart.html

Ben's Guide to the US Government for kids (from Library Hot Five #215 )
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http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/index.html
A very useful site from the US government to find out the basics in an easy
way ( lots of quick facts, maps and illustrations, and a simplified language.)

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India
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Here are some lesson plans about India suggested by our colleague Jean
Sahai from Guadeloupe:
http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/K12east.html#INDIA
http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/hm/Oct02/0543.html
http://www.educationinindia.net/html/isp_bestplans.htm
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/lesson_plans.htm
http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/HTML/AsianResources/India/IndiaWebLinks.htm
http://www.askasia.org/for_educators/instructional_resources/lesson_plans/asamww2/asiaamer.htm
http://www.askasia.org/teachers/Instructional_Resources/Lesson_Plans/India/LP_india_7.htm
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/adulted/lessons/lesson28.html
http://www.historylink101.com/lessons/
http://gc2000.rutgers.edu/GC2000/MODULES/COLONIAL/reorganizing.htm

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Teaching practice
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Problem Solving and Brain Teasers
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Library Hot Five from Classroom Connect edited a special newsletter n°216
from March 2004 about "problem solving" presenting the theory, listing the
strategies and methods, and giving at the end a link to a site of Brain
Teasers. These activities work really well in groups, and encourage the
students to discuss a problem in English. They can also be used by the
assistants.
http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A2=ind0403&L=hot5&F=P&S=&P=193
http://www.classroom.com/community/email/archives.jhtml?A0=HOT5
http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/index.html

Appel pour les langues vivantes (from Jacques Omnès)
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http://www.sauv.net/langues.php
Signature en ligne : http://www.sauv.net/langues_sign.php
Liste des signataires : http://www.sauv.net/langues_sign.php?action=list

Nouveaux programmes (from prog-languesvivantes@ldif.education.gouv.fr)
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Les nouveaux programmes de langues vivantes en classe de seconde générale
et technologique, entrés en vigueur à la rentrée 2003 ont été publiés dans
le BO hors série n° 7 en date du 3 octobre 2002
(http://www.education.gouv.fr/bo/2002/hs7).
Ceux des classes de première des séries générales et technologiques
entreront en application à partir de la rentrée 2004. Ils ont été publiés
dans le BO hors série n° 7 du 28 août 2003
(http://www.education.gouv.fr/bo/2003/hs7).
Une consultation sur les projets de programmes de langues vivantes pour les
classes de terminale des séries générales et technologiques est
actuellement en cours dans les académies sous la responsabilité des recteurs.
Parallèlement au dispositif mis en place dans les académies, vous pouvez
consulter les projets et vous exprimer à partir du lien direct suivant :
http://eduscol.education.fr/index.php?./D0014/lvconsult.htm
ou à partir de la page d'accueil : http://eduscol.education.fr/
Nous vous informons que le projet de chaque langue est constitué du cadre
commun et de la partie spécifique à la langue. Les 2 parties sont
complémentaires mais la lecture du cadre commun est un préalable
indispensable.
Le bureau du contenu des enseignements
Direction de l'enseignement scolaire - MJENR

Comparaison des niveaux en anglais des élèves de 6 pays (from Marc
Hochscheid on eTeachNet)
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Évaluation des compétences en anglais des élèves de 15 ans à 16 ans dans
sept pays européens
fichier eva0401.pdf disponible sur:
http://www.education.gouv.fr/stateval/noteeval/listne2004.html
[ la France vient loin derrière tous les autres, avec des résultats plus
mauvais qu'en 1996, où nous étions encore à égalité avec l'espagne,
derrière les autres.....!!!!!]

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