Infonews n°314 from 21/10/2007

A la Une this week, the victory of the Springboks and addresses to talk about South Africa in class. In the calendar, prepare Halloween on October 31st and Divali on November 9th (http://lycees.ac-rouen.fr/pascal/infonews/archives/256.htm#diwali). then find two songs for the youngest, two sites for secondary school and information for the teachers at the end.
I'll be on holidays next week, so your Infonews n°315 will be on November 18th.

Until then, have a nice week, and enjoy your holidays!

amicalement,
Christine Reymond

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A la Une : South Africa

Rugby : The Springboks
Country Profile
History and Heritage
Tourism
South African innovations

In the Calendar : Halloween

What is Halloween?
Everything about Halloween
Animation / Films
Recipes
Activities

Resources for Primary School

Songs

Resources for Secondary School

Cinderella and analysing a story
Ideas for projects and discussions

Teaching Practice

Forums sur le site de l'APLV
Les dates de la compréhension orale STG


A la Une : South Africa

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

In the Calendar : Halloween

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

Resources for Primary School

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

Resources for Secondary School

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

Teaching Practice

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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