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Sounds - Listening -
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Lesson plans -
Interactive games -
Songs - Poems - Stories - Proverbs -
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(Updated on 19/10/2010)


Related pages :

LISTEN or HEAR ?

Onomatopoeia - Sounds / Sound effects -
Cinema - Cinema (vocabulary and activities)
Listening comprehension - Pronunciation

 


Sounds :


  • A Point of View: The tyranny of unwelcome noise
    "Honking horns. Household appliances that beep. Other people's music. Should we turn down the volume, or get better at concentrating in a noisy world, asks historian Lisa Jardine."
    (BBC)

 

  • Hotel starts "snore patrol" - in northern England
    "Crowne Plaza is trialing the first "snore absorption" rooms at 10 hotels in Europe and the Middle East,
    whilst six branches in Britain have implemented "snore patrols" this month in a bid to combat noisy sleepers.
    "Snore monitors" patrol corridors in the designated quiet zones of Crowne Plaza hotels in the cities of London, Leeds and Manchester.
    Their job is to listen out for offensive noises and knock on the door of guests who snore too loudly."
    (neatorama.com)

    Hotel 'snore patrol' to help guests sleep more soundly
    (smh.com.au)

  • Town Bans Whistling and Singing Out Loud - "in Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina.
    There, singing or even whistling in public can get you a $500 fine."
    "It shall be unlawful for any person to yell, shout, hoot, whistle, or sing on the public streets, particularly between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. or at any time or place so as to annoy or disturb the comfort, or repose of persons in any office, or in any dwelling, or other type of residence,
    or of any persons in the vicinity."
    (neatorama.com)

 

 

  • Life in the city that cannot sleep
    "Matthew Price finds one aspect of New York rather hard to cope with.
    The honking is possibly the worst, or the thundering.
    Well, that and the rumbling, screeching,
    thudding, clacking, droning, whining, whirring and wailing.
    Not to mention the barking, bleating, bickering and bitching.
    You get the picture...
    Noise is said to be the number one quality of life issue for New Yorkers    .
    (BBC)


 

 

  • Call to scrap 'anti-teen' device
    "A high-pitched device used to disperse teenagers is being challenged by campaigners, who say it is not a fair way to treat young people. There are estimated to be 3,500 of the devices, known as the mosquito, in use across the country. Their sound causes discomfort to young ears - but their frequency is above the normal hearing range of people over 25. The Children's Commissioner for England says they should be scrapped as they infringe the rights of young people."
    (BBC)

 

 

  • Bruits avec traductions et exemples (Ac. Nancy-Metz)

 

  • Onomatopoetic Words
    "Onomatopoeia means the "name" given to a sound. It's a word imitation of noise."
    ex : "Bong, a bell sound"
    (soundsafaritheater.com)

  • Noises With Adjectives
    "We have many words to describe noises. Some of the words are strongly associated with certain adjectives. Here are ten of them."
    ex: A deafening roar
    + "How To Use These Phrases in Your English."
    (languageproject.co.uk)

  • Noise verbs :
    bark, yelp; clink, thud; oink, quack; scream, bellow: shout, whisper; snarl; mutter; rumble, bellow, grunt, cackle, chirp, splutter
    (arts.gla.ac.uk)

  • Animal noises - English to French translation
    "Same animals, same noises, but we hear them differently."
    ex : cat / miaou / meow
    (nakedtranslations.com)

 

 

 

  • An International Guide to Animal Talk (factmonster.com)
  • FindSounds.com - the search engine for finding sound effects on the Web
    - with File Formats, Number of Channels, Minimum Resolution, Minimum Sample Rate, and Maximum File Size
    ( Types of Sounds :
    TV and Movies - Vehicles - Sports and Recreation - People - Office - etc )

 

Listening :

  • 40 Noises That Built Pop
    with a list of 40 of those sounds, with the story behind each and samples for you to hear.      (Neatorama)
    "Modern technology has made it incredibly easy to emulate the sound of a rock band.
    Plug the right guitar into the right amplifier and you're already on your way to sounding like Kurt Cobain...
     And so the palette of rock and pop music was formed - a series of happy accidents, developed, refined and combined, mixed down
    and presented to us. Here are some of the most distinctive and, in no particular order, the records that best showcase them."
    (wordmagazine.co.uk)


    Power chord : The Kinks: You Really Got Me (1964)

 

  • Sound and Hearing (crick.northants.sch.uk)
    1) Identifying sounds 2) Sorting instrument sounds

 

  • Bruitages par catégorie (sound-fishing.net)
  • Sounds - Guess what it is. (smm.org)
  • Animal Noises (snaithprimary.eril.net)
    "Click on the mini mouse to hear the sounds,
    then check to see if you chose the correct animal!"

 

 

  • Sound Clip Quiz - "What movie classic is this line from? (coolquiz.com)
    (press 'Listen' button to hear movie clip)"

 

INTERACTIVE exercises :

 

 

  • Sounds That Speak (4to40.com)
    ex : Sound of laughter :
    BLARE / BLAST / PEAL / TINKLING ?
  • A quiz on sounds (BBC)
  • Image à regarder attentivement et à animer - "Sounds of the street"
    - Cliquer sur "Menu", puis "Brain-teaser" pour répondre à des questions sur l'image.
     (kids-space)
  • Sounds - six questions. (BBC)
    ex : "I couldn't get to sleep because of my husband's loud ________. a. snoring b. beeping c. buzzing d. crashing"
  • Human Sounds (about.com)
    "Put each of the following words or phrases in the correct gap :
    cough, yawn, scream, laugh, sigh, sniff, whisper, sneer, hiccup, whisper, cough, sneeze, pant, puff, whistle, sigh, groan, hum, shout, snore"
  • Animal Noises (snaithprimary.eril.net)
    "Click on the mini mouse to hear the sounds,
    then check to see if you chose the correct animal!"
  • Sound Clip Quiz - "What movie classic is this line from? (coolquiz.com)
    (press 'Listen' button to hear movie clip)"

 

Exercises TO PRINT :

  • What's That Sound? (Education World)
    "What sound does each of the following animals make?
    What sound does each of the following objects make?
    What sounds would you hear if you were . . . at a football game? etc
    Onomatopoeic Words :
    "Use the following list to help you use onomatopoeic words in your poems."

 

Lesson plans :

 

INTERACTIVE games :

  • Animaux - mots croisés interactifs (Ghislaine Wulles)
    "Trouve l'animal dont on te donne le cri."

 

Songs :

  • Money - Cabaret Soundtrack :
    "Money makes the world go around...
    A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound...
    Is all that makes the world go around,
    That clinking clanking sound
    Can make the world go 'round."
    (stlyrics.com)
  • The Walls Have Ears by Elvis Presley : - LIEN MODIFIE
    "The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make"
    (sing365.com)


Poems :

  • THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN - Robert Browning (indiana.edu)
    "And even spoiled the women's chats,
    By drowning their speaking
    With shrieking and squeaking...
    `Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?
    ``Anything like the sound of a rat
    ``Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!''...
    And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,
    You heard as if an army muttered;
    And the muttering grew to a grumbling;
    And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;
    And out of the houses the rats came tumbling..."
    - to illustrate noises
    - with the VIDEO : Part 1 (YouTube)
    + Part 2

     

 

  • My Noisy Brother - a poem by Bruce Lansky (gigglepoetry.com)
    "My brother's such a noisy kid,
    when he eats soup he slurps.
    When he drinks milk he gargles.
    And after meals he burps..."


  • In a foreign city - a poem by Elizabeth Jennings : (xs4all.nl)
    "Noises may find you but not speech...
    Now you have circled silence, stare
    With all the subtlety of sight.
    Noise may trap ears but eye discerns"
    (xs4all.nl)


    Elizabeth Jennings, English poet
    (1926-2001)



Stories :

  • Rebus Roundup Stories
    "Have fun filling in the pictures for these simple stories."
    - The Noise : "What is making the noise that is keeping Max awake?"
    (highlightskids.com)

 

 

Proverbs :

  • Speak of angels and you can hear the flutter of their wings.
  • The Walls Have Ears by Elvis Presley : - LIEN MODIFIE
    "The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make"
    (sing365.com)

 

Cartoons :

   

 

Remembering 9-11
- Cartoons
(cagle.com)

 


Stop!
(press-ses.blogspot.com)

 

 

Do you mind ?
(newyorkette.com)

 

 

Philips: Noise reduction headphones
- ads
(creativecriminals.com)

 

 

I miss the traffic's roar...
(cartoonstock.com)

 

 

Which is more irritating ?
(citizenarcane.com)

 

Stress
(2.bp.blogspot.com)


At the vet's - Noises
(cartoonstock.com)

 


Silence...
(Site unknown)

 

 


Snoring
(cartoonstock.com)

 


Noys'r'us.
(cartoonstock.com)

 

Is that a silencer?
(cagle.com)

 

 


Videos :

  • The Sounds of Silence
    "172 movies in under four minutes... Click the "CC" closed captioning button in the lower right corner of the video to see the movie titles."
    (YouTube)

 

  • Caltex – An old woman needs some oil (commercial)
    " A grandma gets in a supermarket Caltex. She is making a lot of noise with her trolley.
    The shop assistant, who is very caring, offers her some oil for her to stop the noise… but you realise that it is something else…"
    (kewego.fr)