| Alphabets :
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Beautiful vowels
"Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thinking". It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.
Mr Bok believes his book proves that each vowel has its own personality, and demonstrates the flexibility of the English language."
+ extracts from each chapter.
(BBC)
- Why
is 'w' pronounced 'double u' rather than 'double v', and what is the
origin of this letter?
"English uses the Latin alphabet of the Romans. However, this
had no letter suitable for representing the phoneme /w/ which was used
in Old English, though phonetically the sound represented by /v/ was
quite close. In the 7th century scribes wrote uu for /w/; later they
used the runic symbols known as wynn. European scribes had continued
to write uu, and this usage returned to England with the Norman Conquest
in 1066. Early printers sometimes used vv for lack of a w in their type.
The name double-u recalls the former identity of u and v, which is also
evident in a number of cognate words (flour/flower, guard/ward, suede/Swede,
etc.).
(Oxford Companion to the English Language)
Facts :
- US soldier gives four-year-old daughter 'waterboarding' over alphabet
"A soldier subjected his four-year-old daughter to waterboard-style torture when she failed to recite her alphabet, it has been claimed...
Waterboarding is a controversial torture technique used by the CIA to interrogate al Qaeda suspects at Guantanamo Bay, where water is poured over detainees so they think they are drowning. "
(telegraph.co.uk)
Listening : 
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Learn your English alphabet
(learnenglish.de) :
The alphabet - Vowels - Consonants -
The rhyming alphabet -
The phonetic alphabet (Alpha - Bravo - Charlie...) - Common symbols
(full stop - comma - question mark... ) - Capitalisation
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Audio
Alphabet (lettertv.net)
- Learn your English
alphabet (learnenglish.de) :
The alphabet - Vowels - Consonants - The rhyming alphabet -
The phonetic alphabet (Alpha - Bravo - Charlie...) -
Common symbols (full stop - comma - question mark... ) - Capitalisation
- Alphabet
- "You click a letter to hear its name and see a picture"
(Learning Planet)
- Letter
Sentences:
"Practice letter sounds with these sentences. Click a letter below
to select an image, then click the images to hear the sentence."
(teachersandfamilies)
- Alphabet
Antics - "Practise the letters of the alphabet
with this game." (British Council)
(3 niveaux de difficulté + son)
"Help the monkey climb the tree and get the bananas!"
- Alphabet
(avec son) - (literacycenter.net)
- Learning
Planet - "You click a letter to hear its
name and see a picture." (pour
6ème) - (learningplanet.com)
INTERACTIVE activities :
- Alphabet
- interactive (beenleigss.eq.edu.au)
Alphabet Animals
Alphabet Sounds
Phonic Fighter
Alphabet Connect the Dots
Activities TO PRINT :
- Pronunciation
Sounds of the alphabet (BBC)
- exercise to print : "Write the phonemic transcription..."
- THE ALPHABET
GAME - to print (lingolex.com)
"The teacher chooses a letter.
The students then complete the first column of the table with words
which begin with that letter...."
- English
Phonetic Spelling (englishclub.com)
- "Sometimes wrongly called the International Phonetic Alphabet"
: Alpha - Bravo - Charlie...
PowerPoint Presentations : 
INTERACTIVE games :
- Alphabet
Antics - "Practise the letters of the alphabet
with this game."(British Council)
(3 niveaux de difficulté + son)
"Help the monkey climb the tree and get the bananas!"
Poems :
-
An Alphabet' by Edward Lear read by Murray Lachlan Young
(YouTube)
"C
C was once a little cake,
Caky
Baky
Maky
Caky
Taky Caky,
Little Cake!..."
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'A was an Apple Pie' - a poem
(ingeb.org)
'A APPLE PIE' BY KATE GREENAWAY - AN OLD FASHIONED ALPHABET BOOK
(digital.library.upenn.edu)
'A was an Apple Pie' - a commentary with illustrations
"The poem goes through every letter of the alphabet, using a word beginning with the right letter to describe what each different character did
- B bit it, C cut it, D dealt it and so on."
(lukefarookhi.blogspot.com)
- The Alphabet of Slavery
"Watch a number of actors read the poem "Alphabet of Slavery."
The poem was published in "The Poetry of Slavery, an Anglo-American anthology," 1764 - 1865.
Each letter of the alphabet vividly depicts one aspect of slavery from, "A is an African torn from his home" to "Zealously labour to set the Slaves free"."
(YouTube)
- The
Alphabet - a poem by Eduardo Gonzalez Chillon - listen
+ activities (British Council)
Posters :
Songs :
Cartoons :
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@ (irancartoon.com)
Animations :
- The
Unfortunate Alphabet - an animation - 32.9 Mo (milkandcookies.com)
"Synopsis: Children often learn the Alphabet by using key words
to remember the letters.
This version of the alphabet gives you some unfortunate
ways to remember the letters."
- The
Lycette Bros. Illustrated Alphabet of Unfortunate Chance
- 404 Kb (abc.net.au)
"Out for a morning stroll, the ever polite Monsieur Maurice
contentedly and happily enters into scene after scene of an unfortunate
nature without whimper or protest...
We had the desire to make a piece that would take its inspiration from
18th century children's nursery rhymes - combining black humour with
quaint illustrative linework."
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