Resources :

• The Best Websites To Learn About California
  (Larry Ferlazzo)

• St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort (stregismonarchbeach.com)
  

  
  
  

  Spa-treatment retreat after Fed bailout (cagle.com)

  

Maps :

Facts : Click on the picture.

• Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates
  + Photos: Prison overcrowding
  (latimes.com)

  

  
  
  California must release prisoners, Supreme Court rules
  "Federal judges had ordered 40,000 prisoners be released within two years.
  The state says it has 148,000 inmates, in prisons designed for 80,000 people..."
  (BBC)

  Supreme Court Rules California Must Free Tens of Thousands of Inmates (foxnews.com)
  Supreme Court orders California to free up to 46,000 prisoners (telegraph.co.uk)
  California to free prisoners (skynews.com.au)

  

• Arnie is governor of California (BBC)
  Biography for Arnold Schwarzenegger (imdb)
  Arnold Schwarzenegger (Wikipedia)
  Schwarzenegger - Official Site

  

• The Great Southern California ShakeOut
  "At 10 a.m. on November 13, millions of people throughout Southern California participated in the ShakeOut Drill, the largest earthquake
  preparedness activity in U.S. history!"
  - with resources / animations
  (shakeout.org)

  

• Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surf Dog Competition - in California
  "With three categories of competition available (small surf dogs, large surf dogs and tandem surfing for pet and owner), this competition really is in the premier league of canine X Sports.
  It raises money for local charities..."
  (whatsonwhen.com)

  
  
  
• Fire raging at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, California. (1 June 2008)
  "There's some Hollywood history going up in smoke today..."
  (BBC)
  
  Universal Studios (Wikipedia)

  
  
  What's where in Hollywood (BBC)

  

   

• Hydrogen highway (Wikipedia)
  1 United States : 1.1 California / 1.2 Florida
  2 Canada...

  

Virtual trips :

• Walk This Way - A Virtual Journey into San Francisco's CHINATOWN (harcourtschool.com)

  

• Alcatraz - "Take a virtual trip to the most famous prison in the world." (amalnet.k12.il)
  
  

Listening :

• Leslie tells us about her city : San Francisco and her life there.
  (audio-lingua.fr)

   

• FBI Cracks Down on Gangs at L.A.'s MacArthur Park
  (NPR)

  

• Les 5 visites incontournables à San Francisco
  "Une vidéo sur San Francisco. Regardez-la plusieurs fois si nécessaire et faites les activités de CO et de travail sur le vocabulaire."
  (Rodolphe Maurel - Ac. Toulouse)

• Listening to Nature (museumca.org)
  A Sound Walk Across California

  

• Présentation de San Francisco - 5 pages de compréhension orale
  à la rubrique : Various Topics - travelling
  (soundguideweb.com)

  

Activities TO PRINT :

• Découvrir la Californie - exercices (activitice)
  
  
  
  

Webquests :

• California Webquest (Pauline Giroud - Strasbourg)

  

• Los Angeles Webquest with Teacher's Notes (onestopenglish.com) - LIEN MODIFIE
  
  

Songs :

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
  Lyrics below the video on YouTube.
  "Pay your surgeon very well
  To break the spell of aging
  Celebrity skin is this your chin
  Or is that war your waging..."

   

   

  Californication 
  "is a portmanteau of the words California and fornication, appearing in Time on May 6, 1966[1] and written about on August 21, 1972, additionally seen on bumper stickers in the U.S. states of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Oregon, Idaho,[2]and Washington.[3] 
  It was a term popular in the 1970s and referring primarily to the "haphazard, mindless development [of land] that has already gobbled up most of Southern California",[4] which some attributed to an influx of Californians to other states in the Western United States..."
  (Wikipedia)

• California Dreaming by The Beach Boys
  
  
  
• San Francisco (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair)
  - a song by Scott McKenzie ou Bob Dylan
  
  

Cartoons :

Videos :

• SALTON SEA :
  
  
  • The Accidental Sea + The Salton Sea, A Desert Saga (YouTube)
    
    
    
    
    

    The Salton Sea "is a saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault predominantly in California's Imperial Valley.
    The lake occupies the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink in the Colorado Desert of Imperial and Riverside Counties in Southern California."
    (Wikipedia)
    "The sea, now a haven for migratory birds, may become too salty to support current wildlife populations." (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)

    
    
    

• Open Road TV - Travel Videos for California and the American West
  (openroad.tv)

  

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