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)
A bloody take on the alphabet
"A new illustrated typeface uses images of weaponry to comment on the world's armed conflicts...
these are not images about the beauty of weaponry, but a commentary on its uses, results, sale, and distribution..." (salon.com)
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)
Alphabetimals - Listen to the animals and to the words.(alphabetimals.com) "All the letters of the alphabets are illustrated by the corresponding animal species." (Neatorama)
The alphabet - interactive game- Click on the letters to listen to their pronunciations. (worldofteacherfortin.perso.sfr.fr)
The Alphabet Kids Click on Mrs Alphabet to listen to audio files.
Click on picture to access character's file. (mrsalphabet.com)
Learn yourEnglish
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!"
The alphabet - interactive activities
"Listen to the alphabet and try to identify the letters through various activities like
matching exercises, fill in the blanks and put the letters in the right order (with animated pictures and sounds)" (worldofteacherfortin.perso.sfr.fr)
Alphabet
et phonétique(Michel Barbot)
"Click the 4 letters that are pronounced as in the example."
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...."
Learn yourEnglish
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
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!"
Games TO PRINT :
THE STAR WARS ALPHABET GUESSING GAME
"Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a character from the Star Wars universe here. Can you name them all?" + the answers (gammasquad.uproxx.com)
'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)
Animal Alphabet Song - The Hollow Trees (YouTube) + the LYRICS "A is for ant that’s plain to see
B is for bear and bumble bee
C is for cat and chicken and cow
D is for dog that barks bow wow..." (thehollowtrees.com)
The
Alphabet Song(The Gashlycrumb Tinies) - Jesus
In A Sidecar : "a is for amy who fell down the stairs
b is for basil assaulted by bears
c is for clara who wasted away
d is for desmond thrown out of a sleigh
e is for ernest who choked on a peach
f is for fanny sucked dry by a leech..." Listen
to it! = Echoes of The Gashlycrumb Tinies (You Tube)
Lien modifié
The Christmas Alphabetby Karen
Carpenter and Kristy McNichol - with the
lyrics - anda worksheet
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."
Videos :
Refraction - The Alphabet
"A follow up refraction experiment featuring the Alphabet spoken by the late GREAT Richard Pryor. Mixed with Blockhead's "Coloringbook"." (vimeo.com)
The Alphabet 2
"- a horn book video experiment - is a developmental spelling - video where each character visually represents the meaning of the word itself.
Playing with different techniques and materials into little and big spaces, but always focusing on Helvetica font's proportions.
A collection of words in a delightful spelling-video." (YouTube)
The story of how we got our alphabets
"From intricate and beautiful Egyptian hieroglyphs, to wedge-shaped cuneiform imprints from ancient Mesopotamia
- our ancestors developed many ways of recording their thoughts and information...
Dr James Clackson, senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge, explains about some of the people and places where writing was born." (BBC)
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