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Vocabulary :

INTERACTIVE exercises : - UPDATED

• Chinese Zodiac Zone - Learn English idioms.
  "- Find out which animal year you were born in and which famous people share the same Chinese Zodiac sign. 
  - Let Magic Monkey read your mind and guess your Chinese Zodiac sign.
  - Test your knowledge of English Idioms that use the animals of the Chinese Zodiac.
  - Download and print your own fun Chinese New Year Posters." 
  (cambridgeenglishonline.com)

  

• Comparing the Star Signs (Isabel Perez)
  "Write the comparative or superlative form of the adjective in brackets."

• Chinese zodiac - (British Council)
  
  

• Chinese zodiac zone - "The Chinese zodiac has twelve different animals. What animal are you?"
  (British Council)
  

Exercises to print :

• Chinese Zodiac (British Council)
  
  

Lesson plans :

• Fortune teller
  "This lesson, suitable for pre-intermediate students, follows on from presentation and controlled practice of the future ‘will'.
  It is an extended role-play activity which is simple to set up and fun for the students."
  (teachingenglish.org.uk)

• The Chinese horoscope - "Voici une séquence créée lors du stage didactique sur le CECRL."
  Thème : L’Horoscope Chinois 
  Classe : 5èmes
  Niveau Visé : A2 
  Nombre de Séances : 12
  (cadot.over-blog.net)

Songs :

• Your horoscope for today by Weird Al Yankovic - The LYRICS (sing365.com)
  "Capricorn
  The stars say that you're an exciting and wonderful person, but you know they're lying
  If I were you, I'd lock my doors and windows and never never never never never leave my house again..."
  - with a Flash animation (albinoblacksheep.com)
  
  
  
  
  - with a video (YouTube)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• What's your sign ? by Des'ree - with activities

• Horoscope by Harpo :
  "I'm looking
  I'm searching
  I read my horoscope...
  Maybe that I am blind
  maybe that I won't find"

Videos : Robin Hood - Disney

• Real English Lesson 7 (Zodiac) - CC Double
  "Astrological sign for beginners. This is a "CC Double" - A "CC Double" video is composed of two parts:
  1 - The regular video, followed by
  2 - The same video with subtitles." 
  

• Astro Video (uk.horoscopes.yahoo.net)

Cartoons :

Unavailable (davidbakerspiritmedium.com) - UPDATED

Against Chinese calendars (larrydavidson.com)

CINEMA :

• Films with fortune tellers
  - Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) - Pee-wee asks a fortune teller where his beloved bike it and she tells him that it's in the basement of the Alamo.
  - The Gift (2000) -Cate Blanchett uses cards to tell one's fortune.
  - Practical Magic (1998) -Camilla Belle (as a young Sally Owens) predicts or makes a wish that she will fall in love with a man who has one blue eye and one green
  - Laybyrinth (1986)
  - Phantasm
  - The Butterfly Effect has a small part in it with a fortune teller.
  - Fortune Teller
  - Edmond 
  - Just My Luck (2006) - Main casts: Lindsay Lohan and Jake Hardin - Fortune Teller: Tovah Feldshuh as Madame Z
  - Drag Me To Hell (2009) - Main Casts: Alison Lohman and Justin Long - Fortune Teller: Dileep Rao as Rham Jas
  (listal.com)

  - More here (imdb.com)

  - The Princess and the Frog
  - Walt Disney, Robin Hood
  - Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban. Professor Trelauney predicts Harry's death...
  - Family Plot, by Hitchcock, in which you can see the fortune teller and her crystal bowl call a certain Henry
  - Mystics
  - Ghost with Whoopy Goldberg
  
  - Crystal Ball - 16mm in-class film (vimeo.com)