Infonews n°331 from 27/04/2008
What is fair trade?
Fair Trade Day on May 10th
Teachers' Resources
Magazines
Films from Fair Games
Quizzes
Games
Sports
Fair Trade Travel
Beijing official site
Official Olympic Committee site
Protests
Michael Moore's site
Comprehension exercises and other activities
Links to go further
"How to say thank you" Project
Resources to download (from the British Council)
NewsHour Extra: Poetry (from [LII New This Week] April 24)
Democratic Super Delegate Tracker (from [LII New This Week] April 24)
Democratic National Convention: How to Become a Delegate (from [LII New This
Week] April 24)
Persepolis
Subtitles
Teacher's strike in the UK
What is fair trade?
You can start your study of the theme with those sites : the last is a .pdf
FAQ page.
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/fairtrade/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade
http://www.fairtraderesource.org/downloads/fair_trade_faq.pdf
Fair Trade Day on May 10th
"On May 10, 2008, communities in 70 countries will mark Fair Trade Day
and highlight the importance and benefits of Fair Trade for people and the
planet."
http://fairtradefederation.org/ht/d/sp/i/208/pid/208
http://www.fairtraderesource.org/wftd-08/
http://www.fairtraderesource.org/uploads/2008/03/wftd_2008_500x306.jpg
Teachers' Resources
from Fair Trade
http://www.fairtraderesource.org/wftd-08/fair-trade-toolkit/
from Oxfam
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/milking_it/milkingit/teachers/how_to_use.htm
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/category.htm?30
Reports and articles to reflect and debate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6426417.stm
http://www.newint.org/issue322/contents.htm
http://us.oneworld.net/section/us/perspectives/6/fairtrade
Tools to teach fair trade (with several links)
http://www.fairtraderesource.org/change-the-world/educate-about-fair-trade/
from the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/fairtrade
Magazines
Ethical Consumers (buy different products)
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/
Just Things (you can download the magazines)
http://justthings.info/
Ode Magazine ( interesting article about the new drive-thru)
http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/
http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/52/not-the-same-old-drive-thru/
Time Magazine : Fair Trade Fashion
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1594126,00.html
Films from Fair Games
Watch Fairgames : 2 ads based on the Sims2 and World of Warcraft to make
teens aware of the problem. (I found it difficult to understand, but maybe
my students will understand it better. Try with students level B1+ who know
the games and can explain it to you!)
http://fairgame.strangecompany.org/film/list
A video presenting a project from a micro-credit company, plus several portraits
( site also available in French)
http://www.oikocredit.org/site/en/
Quizzes
11 questions to discover how much you know about fair trade ( site also available
in French)
http://www.oikocredit.org/fairtrade/en/doc.phtml?p=fairtrade_quiz_en
Games
A role playing game level B1+ (excellent for students studying economics): "The
aim of this game is to help the participants understand how trade influences
the development of a country and to create interest and discussion about the
world trading system in an enjoyable and non-academic way."
http://www.oikoumene.org/?id=4195
Another simpler game including basic math, level A2. Here is how to play:
http://www.globalfootprints.org/pdf/fairtradenum56.PDF
Cowsequence, an interactive Flash game to compare the life of farmers in Jamaica
and wales. Level A2+
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/milking_it/milkingit/activities/cowsequence_flash.htm
A comic in Flash from the BBC, level A1+ to raise young students' awareness
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/citizenx/internat/global/animation.shtml
A regular snake and ladders board game, for young children, and another one
with pictures adapted to the fair trade theme
http://www.globalconnections.org.uk/default/cms.asp?categoryid=126
http://www.newint.org/issue322/camels.htm
A game designed by a 13 year old girl for a competition : "The DubbleClick
competition was launched in March 2007 and challenged people to come up with
a game that inspired players to get on the case for Fairtrade and help change
the world, chunk by chunk! Fairtrade guarantees a fair deal for farmers in
developing countries, so they can cover their costs and have a decent standard
of living. The winner, Grace Conium, had her game, Choca Monkey, turned into
a real game by professional games designers at Atticmedia. "
(a game with several level, but not much English)
http://www.dubbleclick.co.uk/
Sports
Fair Trade soccer : "One way of helping people understand how global
trade rules put some countries at a disadvantage is by organizing a metaphorical
soccer game modeled on the
rules and dynamics of global trade."
http://www.fairtradesports.com/wp-content/images/pdfs/OxfamSoccerGame.pdf
Fair Trade Travel
This is a new concept emerging under different form here are some sites to
discover it and compare.
http://www.fairtradefederation.org/ht/d/sp/i/210/pid/210
http://www.tribes.co.uk/
http://www.responsibletravel.com/Wholesaler/Wholesaler100007.htm (with
a list of responsibilities)
http://www.maketravelfair.com/
Watch also these videos on you tube about "responsible tourism"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-upm3QQYhw&feature=related
and this news report from New Zealand about sustainable development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVECSfLczL0&feature=related
Global Exchange Reality Tours
http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/
Beijing official site
As for each games, the official website offers lots of resources that can
be used in class. You can :
- study the relay of the flame (from the official point of view)
http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/
- discover the pages for tourists, with a city guide of Beijing, the places
to visit, the shopping, the hotel, the food, etc. and even the weather
http://en.beijing2008.cn/spectators/beijing/
- discover the symbols, the logos, the mascots
http://en.beijing2008.cn/spirit/symbols/
- learn Chinese and English from French : there you can hear and repeat simple
sentences in the three languages
http://en.beijing2008.cn/languagecorner/
- study the sports : In the "sports and venues"
section, you access a page with a moving banner presenting logos for all the
sports. You click on it and you get information about the sport : the history,
the rules, the sportsmen, the venues and the events. For the last Olympic games,
I asked a class of A2+ students to read these pages and present the sports
to the class. We all learnt a lot! For example, here is the page about modern
pentathlon. In the "competition" box on the top right, you can access
a list of all the sports : 35! Enough for a whole class!
http://en.beijing2008.cn/cptvenues/sports/modernpentathlon/index.shtml
Official Olympic Committee site
with links to the sites of Beijing, Vancouver in 2010, London in 2012 and
Sochi 2014
http://www.olympic.org/uk/index_uk.asp
and pages about all the sports:
http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/calendars/calendar_sports_uk.asp
Protests
The Olympic games have several times been a forum for political protests
: here is an audio file and script from NPR presenting the events everyone
remembers in 1936, 1968, 1972, 1980. Level A2+.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19120192
More about the Civil disobedience of 1968 (to be also linked to MLK, the Civil
Rights Movement and the Black Power.)
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/summer-olympics-mexico-city.html
and read this BBC article about the long history of Olympic protests (B1+)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7334362.stm
Read also this article from the Swedish site
"Resistance Studies" entitled : "Olympic Games : the next arena
for global protest?"
http://resistancestudies.org/?p=301
And here is the site "Free Tibet"
http://www.freetibet.org/
This film is very often used in class to teach about gun control. Some parts, like the scene in the bank, can be used with students level A2, and the issue is obviously in the cultural themes of upper secondary school in France ( living together, revolt).
Michael Moore's site
On his site, Michael Moore offers a teaching guide to read online or download,
(On e-teach, Monique Mirza says that it is rich, varied and very efficient
for "branching out".)
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/teachers/index.php
a timeline of US support to violence from 1950 to 2000 corresponding to a part
of the film in the
"what a wonderful world" section,
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php
and 4 videos : the famous cartoon from the South Park : "a brief history
of America", a short scene from the film (at the bank), an interview of
Marilyn Manson (the singer) and of Matt Stone (an ex-student reflecting on
his days at school (level B2) )
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/media/clips/index.php
Comprehension exercises and other activities
You can find in Michelle Henry's pages links to several sites that you can
use around this film : the script, gap filling exercises, comprehension exercises,
and a power point about bullying.
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/cinema2.htm#bowl
You can also find videos and gap fillings exercises on this page by our colleagues
from Rouen LP
http://anglais-lp.ac-rouen.fr/activites/activites_fichiers/VIOLENCE/ViolenceINDEX.htm
Links to go further
Starting from Mickael Moore's home page, I also found:
- an action guide, with a link to a site created by his father in memory of
Daniel Mauser, a boy who was killed in the Columbine massacre, with the aim
of changing the law, which he managed partially
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/involved/index.php
http://www.danielmauser.com/initiative.html
- a link to the Brady Campaign aiming at "closing the gun show loophole" because
: " The Brady Law requires criminal background checks of gun buyers at
licensed dealers, but there is a loophole at gun shows. Convicted felons, domestic
violence abusers, and those who are dangerously mentally ill can walk into
any gun show and buy weapons from unlicensed sellers without being stopped,
no questions asked. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold got two shotguns, an assault
rifle and a TEC-9 assault pistol from private sellers at gun shows. "(from
the site)
- this site also offers a poster that you can download and an interactive map
of the massacres since 1997, with the date a description of each. The dots
are so numerous and close together that you may prefer download the complete
list, or just the list of school shootings. And you will discover that there
has been 15 school shooting since January 2008 only!
http://www.bradycampaign.org/
http://www.bradycampaign.org/xshare/pdf/facts/god-bless-poster2006.pdf
http://www.bradycampaign.org/facts/highprofile/
Then you can go on to a debate about gun control, using this page created by
Laurence Bernard from Martinique which includes several work-sheets.
http://absolutenglish.free.fr/spip.php?article8
"How to say thank you" Project
This Tool Kit for intercultural communication is provided by eTwinning and
can be a very useful source of inspiration to build a simple, communicative
and inter-cultural project with primary school children:
http://www.etwinning.net/ww/en/pub/etwinning/ideas_and_practice/project_kits/intercultural_dialogue/how_do_i_say_thank_you.htm
you can also find ideas in the other kits:
http://www.etwinning.net/ww/en/pub/etwinning/ideas_and_practice/project_kits.htm
and of course, you can use the site to promote your own project, find partners
or just join an ongoing project.
http://www.etwinning.net/ww/en/pub/etwinning/index2006.htm
Resources to download (from the British Council)
In its April newsletter, the British Council offers several useful resources
to help young children learn English : songs, pronunciation kits, flash cards.
All this material is meant for home use, but can be also very useful in primary
school. Here is their description : "Don't forget that there are new downloads
on LearnEnglish Parents each month, and this month you will find the latest
version of Pron Pal to download - listen to words and phrases about numbers
and practise saying them with your child. There are also sound files and sheet
music to a song about pirates. You will have to register to get to the latest
downloads page - but they are all free! "
http://www.britishcouncil.org/parents-downloads.htm
NewsHour Extra: Poetry (from [LII New This Week] April 24)
This NewsHour with Jim Lehrer special for children provides a collection
of material on poetry. Features contemporary poet profiles (with biographies,
poems, and video clips), reports on poetry slams and performance poetry, submitted
poems by students from around the world, poetry lesson plans, and links to
related sites.
http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25926
Democratic Super Delegate Tracker (from [LII New This Week] April 24)
"Who are the Democratic super delegates? These nearly 800 Democratic
party leaders and officials, who may vote independently of their state's primary
or caucus results, will comprise 20 percent of the total delegate pool at the
2008 nominating convention. In this year's tight race, their flexible votes
may determine the Democratic presidential candidate." (from PBS News Hour)
The newsletter LII New This Week from April 24 recommends this PBS site presenting
those people who can change the elections until the last minute.
http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25940
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/primaries/superdelegates/search.php
Democratic National Convention: How to Become a Delegate (from [LII New This Week] April 24)
"This site answers the question "How do you become a delegate to
the 2008 Democratic National Convention?" Features an overview of the
types of delegates: district-level, at-large, add-on, and party leaders and
elected official (PLEO). Some of the add-on and PLEO delegates are unpledged,
and are known as super delegates in the media. Also includes an interactive
delegate map, and a link to the 2008 delegate selection rules. From the Democratic
National Convention Committee." (from LII New This Week)
http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25941
http://www.demconvention.com/how-to-become-a-delegate/
Persepolis
This week-end is the UK release of the English version of the animation film
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi that many of us saw this winter in France. Here
are several reviews with lots of useful vocabulary for students in literature.
The Sunday Times liked it : "this is pop culture’s equivalent of Dr Zhivago:
a big, beautifully woven tale of the personal and the political."
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article3805199.ece
and so did the Guardian, the Observer (comparing its impact to Art Spielgelman's
with the Maus) and the Telegraph. You can compare those reviews to the Sun's
short article, the Sneak : "if you are looking to expand your grey matter
in the cinema this weekend then Persepolis is your best hope."
http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,,2275907,00.html
http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Observer_Film_of_the_week/0,,2276441,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/26/bfjenny126.xml
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/article1086605.ece
Subtitles
On e-teach, I discovered that our colleague Stéphane Busuttil has made a
page to help us learn how to use the subtitles in class : how to download them,
and how to adapt them to a film you have. With his tips, you can for example
download the script of a film and avoid the painful transcription of the sequence
you want to use, and do many other things. Don't miss these very useful pages.
They are in French, but the links lead to pages in English where you can also
find tutorials and help.
http://stephane.busuttil.free.fr/tutoriels/tutoriels_audiovideo_seubtaiteulz_01.htm
Teacher's strike in the UK
Read this surprisingly hard critic of the strike in The Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article3821282.ece
Here is an article from the Independent where you can find, in a comment to
the article, the key words of modern teaching : 'enablers of learning', Key
Skills, Key Skills folder.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/26/do2602.xml
from the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7367471.stm
from the Press Association
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g5fKmtgpe9dz4xTiwLPb6lMYkDQg
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