Infonews n°348 from 11/01/2009
Martin Luther King's Day : January 19th
Tintin's 80th Birthday
Learn English Kids
Winter Sales
BBC Prison study
New Words
Talking Business
Your amazing Brain
Physics/Chemistry : absolute zero
Chemistry : organic chemistry
Biology : 31 online labs
Webquest Maker and Brochure Maker
Créer une BD en Anglais
B.O. sur l'affectation des assistants de langues
Freinet et CECRL
Here are some resources to present this traditional tale to your students. You can then choose to ask them to draw a cartoon, write a story or act a play presenting their own ending of the tale.
Here is the politically correct version for sensitive children from the British Council : you can read, hear and see the story, do an online wordsearch and hangman, and put the elements of the story in the right order.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-red-riding-hood.htm
Then you can present some different endings : Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood and Rural Riding Hood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtYQouzNsk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suk9miYlp6k
The Monty Python's version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKbWdgW6sD8
(Remember that you can now find lots of Monty Python's videos on YouTube special Monty Python Channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGqX-tkDXEk )
A very useful document including the original Tale by Perrault, a work sheet on Tex Avery's version, James Thurber's version and Roald Dahl's Revolting rhymes:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/frat.st.paul/LRRH.pdf
Full written version of Roald Dahl
http://bebos.chez-alice.fr/mon_site_web/doc/little_red_riding_hood_Roald_Dahl.pdf
Another visual flash version by the CBeebies from the BBC (read, hear and see)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/redridinghood.shtml
A surprising audio version of the tale written by a 10 year old girl and read by the wolf (with script) : level A2
http://www.storybookonline.net/article.aspx?Article=wolf
A lovely poem, level B2, for students with literary references
http://www.storybookonline.net/article.aspx?Article=very
and lots of other version to listen and read among the story books online:
http://www.storybookonline.net/
Louise Cooper's wolf tale and a complete teaching unit, with audio file, pre and post reading activities and an several extension and additional activities.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/resources/britlit/wolfs-tale
Analyze of the symbols in this article : "Bettelheim interprets"
http://nrhs.nred.org/www/nred_nrhs/site/hosting/Guarino/TeacherToolsWeb/hotlistsandwebs/VgFairytaleResources/fairytalewebpages/BettelheimInterprets.doc
suggestions of activities for the youngest
http://www.first-school.ws/activities/onlinestory/steps/redridinghood.htm
Martin Luther King's Day : January 19th
First remember that the site martinlutherking dot org is a white supremacist site : avoid visiting it so as not to raise their audience, and be careful if you encourage your students to look for their own resources!
You can find reliable resources about MLK Day on Michelle Henry's site and in Infonews n°292 ( the excellent resources from Time magazine are now in free access) and 322.
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/
http://lycees.ac-rouen.fr/pascal/infonews/archives/292.htm#mlk
http://lycees.ac-rouen.fr/pascal/infonews/archives/322.htm
Tintin's 80th Birthday
Jean Sabiron offers you this page of links to resources on his site Vigilangues :
http://sabironlangues.typepad.fr/files/tintins-80th-birthday.doc
If you want to work on comics (to take part in the comics contest, see below) or on super heroes, Michelle Henry's page provides you with all the resources you may need:
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/comics.htm
The Scout Report has found this resource from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) called : "One Life : The mask of Lincoln"
http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2009/scout-090109-geninterest.php#8
In which you can find, on the page of the audio tour,
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/lincoln/audio.html
An interesting analysis of a photograph of Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865 on which we can see his murderer. Here is the audio of this analysis (no transcript)
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/lincoln/audio/lincoln_cell_04.mp3
Here is the photograph
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsc/02900/02928v.jpg
Here is his inauguration speech (no audio, of course!)
http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3512
and here is a biography of Abraham Lincoln (from the site of the White House)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html
and the story of his assassination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_assassination
Learn English Kids
This program from the British Council offers very useful resources, and often renewed and enriched. Visit:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids
and find the songs, the tales, the educational games or the activities you need, along with tips and lessons plans.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/resources/teaching-children
Winter Sales
Our colleague Stéphane Busuttil has created this page of links level B1 around the theme of Shopping, with useful audio and video resources to organise activities of oral interaction like interviews or role plays.
http://another.teacher.free.fr/spip.php?article259
Stéphane Busuttil is the colleague who has also created very useful pages about how to use technology for the language class, with guides on how to capture video and sound and edit it. His site is now "Another teacher's website" and here is where you can find his precious tutorials (in French) : a reference to bookmark!
http://another.teacher.free.fr/spip.php?rubrique1
BBC Prison study
It is not (yet?) a reality show, it is a serious study about the behaviour of people in prison, but done with "volunteers in a prison-style setting and then filmed". The aim "was to see how relationships evolved in places such as prisons, as well as in other institutions where unequal power exists, such as schools, barracks, and offices" . "The BBC Prison Study explores the social and psychological consequences of putting people in groups of unequal power. It examines when people accept inequality and when they challenge it". You can see videos of some key situations, read analysis of the results and "the menu in the upper left hand corner of the web page has a link to "Activities" which will prove especially useful for educators".
This site could be useful with students level B1+ to complement a teaching unit about reality show.
http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2009/scout-090109-re.php#6
New Words
BBC Learning English features this lesson about New Words in English with the script, the vocabulary and the audio file, plus a link "to learn more about it".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2009/01/090102_new_words.shtml
All students will find useful to learn how to say that you don't know and try to guess : I must admit, I would say, etc.
With students level B1+/B2 interested in vocabulary, you can have them reflect on this article "Who coins new words?" from the Tribune of India or this other one from the Chicago tribune,
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020831/windows/roots.htm
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/feb/20/news/chi-million_words_swansonfeb20
or this article about facebooking and commenting (with audio and transcript),
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1720_uptodate4/page14.shtml
or study new words or expressions and how they are coined with resources like "a word a day" by Wordsmith, Dictionary.com, Yahoo education, Merriam Webster or the New York Times.
http://wordsmith.org/awad/index.html
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/
http://education.yahoo.com/college/wotd/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/wordofday/index.html
or this list by a teacher named Lynne Hand
http://www.yourteacher.learn-english-network.org/2008/08/new-words-2008.html
Talking Business
This section from BBC Learning English offers precious resources for teachers of English to students in business studies, with audio files and quizzes. You can also use these pages with adults or with technology oriented students who plan to work soon. Here is what you can read on the site : "This course gives you useful language and phrases to improve your spoken communication skills in English in different business situations. Each section features audio, target language and a quiz - all of which are downloadable. You'll also have the opportunity to practise and test your understanding of the language."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/business/talkingbusiness/index.shtml
Your amazing Brain
Curious to understand body language, read faces, discover if you are a good eyewitness or test your brain? Here is a simple site of easy tests that could be very useful for adults taking interviews. (works only with internet explorer)
http://www.youramazingbrain.org/testyourself/default.htm
I found it in "LPM-Newsletter Moderne Fremdsprachen" edited by our German colleague Jürgen Wagner.
http://www.lpm.uni-sb.de/el/newsletter/archiv/20090108News.htm
Physics/Chemistry : absolute zero
PBS Nova features a special program about absolute zero. See how the Scout Report presents the site and then visit the resources.
http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2009/scout-090109-geninterest.php#3
Chemistry : organic chemistry
The Scout Report recommends this site presenting 3D animation of organic chemistry reactions. Very useful for teachers who teach chemistry in English.
http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2009/scout-090109-re.php#4
Biology : 31 online labs
The Scout Report has found this site published by MacGraw Hill, the publisher of school books, as an online complement to its books. Very useful for teachers who teach biology in English.
http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/2009/scout-090109-re.php#8
Webquest Maker and Brochure Maker
In "LPM-Newsletter Moderne Fremdsprachen" edited by our German colleague Jürgen Wagner,
http://www.lpm.uni-sb.de/el/newsletter/archiv/20090108News.htm
I found this site offering lots of webquests on all topics, and also a "a web-based software for creating WebQuests"
http://www.zunal.com/
and in one of them whose final task is to create a tourist guide, I found this site where your students can make their brochure online:
http://www.mybrochuremaker.com/
Créer une BD en Anglais
Lu dans la lettre d'info de l'APLV : "Concours BD multilingue organisé par l'association No Man's Langues (date limite d'inscriptions 1er février 2009). Tous les collégiens et lycéens de France métropolitaine sont admis à concourir, par groupe de 2 à 4 élèves. Pour en savoir plus, lire le règlement et participer:
http://www.aplv-languesmodernes.org/spip.php?article2114
http://www.festivaldeslangues.org/
B.O. sur l'affectation des assistants de langues
Lu dans la lettre d'info de l'APLV : "B.O. n° 1 du 1er janvier 2009 : Affectation des assistants de langues vivantes étrangères dans les écoles et les établissements du second degré.
La mise en place de l'accompagnement éducatif et des stages linguistiques gratuits se traduit par des possibilités nouvelles d'utilisation de la ressource que constituent les assistants de langue vivante étrangère. Par ailleurs la procédure de recrutement est assouplie afin de permettre, à partir du 1er septembre de chaque année, le recrutement d'assistants en l'absence de candidatures proposées à l'académie par le C.I.E.P."
http://www.aplv-languesmodernes.org/spip.php?article2113
[ Notez aussi que dans l'académie de Rouen, le formulaire à remplir pour demander un assistant est arrivé dans les établissements et à retourner par voie électronique avant le début février. Je vous le signale car l'an dernier la secrétaire a oublié de nous transmettre le formulaire et nous n'avons aps d'assistant cette année. Il est maintenant possible que ce nouveau dispositif du B.O. permette d'assouplir la procédure.]
Freinet et CECRL
Lu dans la lettre d'info de l'APLV : "Les langues vivantes... vivantes ! : une perspective coopérative en pédagogie Freinet à l'école primaire", un article de Nicolas GO pour le site APLV-LanguesModernes.org (janvier 2009). La pédagogie Freinet, présentée sous l'angle de ses apports historiques à la conception d'une éducation humaniste et citoyenne que la nouvelle perspective historique" du Cadre Européen commun de Référence pour les Langues amène à revisiter. "
http://www.aplv-languesmodernes.org/spip.php?article2100
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