Infonews n°251 du 11/09/2005
*** A fantastic ready-to-use teaching unit
Special Reports
Photos and Cartoons
Helping people
Abandoned pets
About displaced population
For technicians
For scientists
* New
Hurricane resources
Flash cards
Evaluation en 6ème
Online exercises for interactive lessons
Naval Safety
One Stop English
Keep your English up to date
The Museum of Languages ( from Pauline Giroud on eTeach)
Manuels BBC gratuits à télécharger
Four years later, memories are still vivid. But many link it also with Katrina.
Read this article from the BBC and listen to the audio address from President
Bush:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4233266.stm
Read also this article linking 9/11 and Katrina from The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,1567396,00.html
and from the Observer:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1567303,00.html
As for the events themselves, I don't think it would be useful to spend too
much time remembering what happened, but a picture or a short video could start
the students talking. You can choose among those resources:
- NYT photos of memorials 9/11 I especially liked the second picture : ""Tiles
for America," a 9/11 memorial at Greenwich and Seventh Avenues in the
West Village. " showing walls of cards, drawings and other messages.
*** http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/09/10/nyregion/11feat_contact.jpg
illustrating the article: " The enduring salute"
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/nyregion/thecity/11feat.html?8hpib
you can also find the complete coverage
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/index.html
( for the NYT, Sarah Rapnouil-Dunn on eTeachNet advises : "if you are
asked to login, go to http://bugmenot.com for
a free and
anonymous login and password.")
- BBC news : videos about 9/11 then and 4 years later. You can watch "How
events unfolded on September 11" (the beginning id enough as a reminder)
** http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/in_depth/world/2005/september_11-_four_years_on/nb_rm_default.stm
- The Guardian : a special report
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/0,11209,597544,00.html
and see this interactive guide (no sound, but drawings and explanations)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,567616,00.html
- CNN : see a special report "American Remembers"
with an interactive timeline, and a teachers' guide:
special report : http://premium.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/america.remembers/
Educator guide : http://premium.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/09/06/cnnpce.america.remembers/index.html
You can now access some free videos from CNN. click on the left of the last
page on 'videos, now free' and type 9/11 in the search window. In the list,
try "America Remember" about a tour "to keep memories alive" by
witnesses, or chose among the titles in "browse US videos".
- Washington Post : read their special report
"War on Terror", with also a timeline of the events and an interactive
description of "the plot"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/attacked/
- American press institute : advanced students may want to study the event
and its aftermath more in detail, and compare the sources. Here are several
articles also including links to the different sources and to sites about 9/11
http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/4086.cfm
- for technicians
everything about how the World Trade Center was built:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/wtc.htm
*** A fantastic ready-to-use teaching unit
from our colleague Josiane Laval, for intermediate students, complete with
worksheets full of pictures: you can download the zipped word file from the
archives of the documents from the eTeach list (free access)
http://teachers.domainepublic.net/e-teachdocs (
click on "préparation de cours" then "lycée" and "Katrina
sequence.zip" )
and you can download for free the MP3 file of the song "what a wonderful
world" at:
http://www.emp3world.com/mp3/24638/Kenny%20G/What%20a%20Wonderful%20World
and "Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?" ( 26:45- 28:12)
plus other MP3 files
http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/6664.php
Special Reports
You can find a special report about Katrina in Infonews n°250 (in English)
or Le Café
Pédagogique (in French), with links to articles and the special reports in
many magazines and online TV sites.
http://www.cafepedagogique.net/dossiers/kat/index.php
You can also hear and read the news on NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1092
The articles were there put together last Saturday, when violence was high,
the superdome still not fully evacuated, help not organized and President Bush
had still not come to visit New Orleans. Now, most reports are dealing with
relief, charity and solidarity, and also displaced people and straying pets.
Most of our students know now a lot about the events themselves, so they can
talk about them more easily. This is why I would rather choose visual supports
for my classes this week, or play the Louis Armstrong songs.
Photos and Cartoons
Here are some cartoons from Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/cartoons/20050909/4.html
see : "you know it's bad when tsunami victims send US relief supply"
http://img.timeinc.net/time/cartoons/20050909/4.jpg
and you can find pictures in Time magazine, the New York Times, BBC and the
Guardian. I selected these:
http://www.time.com/time/potw/20050909/ (
bake sale for the victims)
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2005/09/10/national/20050911_AIR_SLIDESHOW_1.html (artistic
pictures of the flooded area)
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2005/09/06/tuekat8g.jpg (man
sitting in water with box)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/americas_draining_drowned_city/img/6.jpg (dog
among rubbles)
http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/katrina2/images/Slide5.jpg (
volunteers sorting donated clothes)
a video and photo reports from the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content//video/2005/09/08/VI2005090800949.html (they
don't want to leave but have to)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/special/7/index.html (galleries
of photos)
Photos from the Christian Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/katrina2/slide1.html (people
helping people)
http://www.csmonitor.com/slideshows/katrina05/slide1.html (evacuation
by boat)
http://about.com/relief.htm (survivors
stories)
Operation Kare (Katrina Assistance Effort)
http://www.kare.arkansas.gov/
** Official site of the city of New Orleans, with links to charities and news
coverage http://www.cityofno.com
Photos from the local site of WWL tv
http://www.wwltv.com/weather/pix/
Helping people
Read the "How you can help" files in the NYT and the BBC
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/national/hurricane-resources.html?ex=1126584000&en=950836596dce3e17&ei=5070
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4204066.stm
or discuss those pictures : "church help" ("we're not from the
FEMA, we're from Jesus")
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/americas_bringing_salvation/html/1.stm
find resources in the "in depth" report from the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/americas/2005/hurricane_katrina/default.stm
find aid and charities sites from LII
http://lii.org/search?query=hurricanekatrina+charitablegiving
*** What kids can do? (list of fundraising actions)
http://www.kidscanmakeadifference.org/cando.htm
a text which could accompany the photo : http://www.time.com/time/potw/20050909/ (
bake sale for the victims)
Abandoned pets
from the NYT : "Shelters for Pets Fill With Furry Survivors"
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/20050909snapfriday.html
from the BBC : "Saving New Orleans' animals"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4233408.stm
from the Humane Society "disaster planning can save your pet"
http://www.hsus.org/pets/pet_care/be_a_lifesaver_disaster_planning_can_save_your_pet_in_an_emergency.html
animal rescue files from LII
http://lii.org/search?query=hurricanekatrina+(animal+or+pet);no_stem=1
About displaced population
for advanced students, an article about "uprooted and scattered" people
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/national/nationalspecial/11diaspora.html
For technicians
Draining the flood (with drawings)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/americas/05/katrina/html/leveerepairs.stm
Fixing the flooding in New Orleans (from NPR)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4826934&ft=1&f=1025
Read also this article from Popular Mechanics in 2001: "New Orleans is
sinking"
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282151.html
For scientists
how does a hurricane form?
brain pop : http://www.brainpop.com/science/weatherandclimate/hurricanes/ (drawings
and voice over)
BBC : http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/understanding/hurricane_cycle.shtml (text)
How Stuff Works : http://science.howstuffworks.com/hurricane1.htm (with
interactive animations)
Discovery : <http://info.riverdeep.net/Key=49274.CmT.H.NgtSgx>http://dsc.discovery.com/news/video/hurricanegallery.html
Nasa <http://info.riverdeep.net/Key=49274.CmT.K.GkN7Xv>http://espi.gsfc.nasa.gov/mediaviewer/sat_super/
National geographic <http://info.riverdeep.net/Key=49274.CmT.P.MwhXGP>http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/hurricanes/hurrintro.html
from a meteorologist http://www.weatherwizkids.com/hurricane1.htm
* New
- Hurricane Katrina's Information Guide
http://thrall.org/katrina/
with lots of images : http://thrall.org/katrina/#images
- Time for Kids site enriched
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/articles/0,6709,1100402,00.html
The film by Roman Polanski comes out in October. At the moment, lower primary
schools and some primary schools have received a teachers' kit, but in French.
Here is the site in English, and this one is interesting and full of information
(unlike the French site!)
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/olivertwist/
*** and the English teaching guide ( 6 pages with the synopsis and ideas of
activities, and a contest, but only for the US...too bad!)
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/olivertwist/teacholivertwist/assets/twist_teachingguide.pdf
the first chapter of the book
http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/olivertwist/teacholivertwist/first_chapter.html
the best site about Dickens : David Purdue's site, recommended on the site
of the film
http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/
about the book (from Wikipedia)
http://www.answers.com/topic/oliver-twist
to download the whole book (free online)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicOliv.html
from book to film http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/tickermaster/listing.cfm?TMID=1251
***and remember that to study a film, you will certainly find free resources
in this excellent site:
http://www.filmeducation.org/resources.html (see
for example "teaching trailers")
you can also find interesting documents in this PBS companion site to Alan
Bleasdale's adaptation of the book for television. Here is the teachers' guide:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/olivertwist/teachers_guide.html
Hurricane resources
Even primary school students can study the hurricane. Apart from the photos,
which can be used at any level, here are two booklets for the young one, explaining
what a hurricane is in colorful images and short texts:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/pdf/Learn2.pdf (short
but complete, excellent diagram of a hurricane)
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/pdf/colorbook.pdf (longer,
with parts to color)
Flash cards
find there lots of flash cards, about chores for example, or buildings, rooms,
or fruit...Ready to print.
http://www.mes-english.com/
Evaluation en 6ème
à télécharger sur le site de l'académie de Poitiers:http://www.ac-poitiers.fr/voir.asp?r=58
ou à voir en ligne : http://www.ac-poitiers.fr/anglais/evalinter/index1.htm
Online exercises for interactive lessons
voyez ces exercises sympas pour faire travailler des élèves débutants en
autonomie. Compilation réalisée par R Maufroid pour une classe pupitre. peut
aussi convenir à des élèves de primaire.
http://home.nordnet.fr/~rmaufroid/pupitre/index.shtml
Naval Safety
Laure Peskine has found this site which can be very useful for all classes
studying technology. There are several posters and cartoons that can be very
useful at various levels (des classes de techno en collège, au LP et aux BTSI)
http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/media/gallery/clipart/
One Stop English
Mac Millan offers this site of ready-to-use lessons. None about Katrina so
far, but you'll find lots of interesting lessons.
http://www.onestopenglish.com
Keep your English up to date
with the BBC. Listen to the short articles and make your day with the discovery
of
"<http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1728_uptodate/ram_files/phwoar.ram>Phwoar!"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1728_uptodate/page12.shtml
The Museum of Languages ( from Pauline Giroud on eTeach)
Pour tous ceux que la linguistique intéresse, un lien à visiter absolument:
http://www.geocities.com/agihard/mohl/mohl.html#LANGUAGES
Manuels BBC gratuits à télécharger
Signalée par une collègue sur eTeach, une page du site de la BBC sur laquelle
vous pouvez télécharger des manuels plein d'idées destinés aux collègues débutants
(et à tous les collègues intéressés). Voir en particulier: Language Assistant
Manual, Creative Ways et Action Plan for Teachers.
http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/Disciplines/anglais/
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/books.shtml
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