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Interactive games - Songs - Evaluation - Videos

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(Updated on 23/04/2011)

 


Related pages :

Create your own cartoons -

Cartoons (HUMOUR section) - 'Comics / Comic strips'

The VOCABULARY pages

 

 

Facts :

 

  • The power of the cartoonist
    "Visual imagery is very powerful. Cartoons can be very effective.
    We are trying to make people think - using humour to deliver a message."
    (BBC)

 

Resources :

  • Cartoons (British Council)
    "animals, boys and girls, Christmas, doctors, family, food & drink, horror, leisure, sport and others. Listen to the jokes and laugh!"

  • Searchable database of political cartoons, by the best editorial cartoonists in the world
    - "and all of these cartoons are available for you to reprint."
    (cagle.com)

 

  • Cartoons by T. McCracken
    "targeted to a publication's specific audience, be they anemic agriculturists or Zen zoologists."
    (pioneer.net)

  • LikeTelevision!" Cartoons!
    "Watch some of the greatest cartoons ever made - Popeye, Betty Boop, Mighty Mouse, Gabby, Casper,
    Little Lulu, Felix, Superman, Baby Huey, Barney Bear, rare cult classics, and much, much more!"
    (tesla.liketelevision.com)

 

  • Top 6 Web Sites to Download Cartoon Videos
    "Looking for classic episodes of Family Guy or the newest episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force?
    These web sites allow fans to watch The Simpsons, Family Guy and more.
    Some sites give you only a few minutes of video. Other web sites let you watch full episodes.
    Most importantly, all of the web sites here are legal."
    (about.com)

  • The One Hundred Greatest Cartoons - with brief descriptions (Channel 4)

  • Cartoons (humordrive.com)

 

  • SillyBooks.net
    - "an animated world of free reading, writing and learning fun for kids."
    Music " Books " Cartoons " Jokes " Puzzles " Games " Classroom
    (sillybooks.net)

 

  • OFF THE MARK cartoons


  • CartoonHub, the website of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature.
    (University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom) -
    "The Centre is a library, archive, gallery, and registered museum dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years... with a catalogued database of over 90,000 images."


  • COMICS (kingfeatures.com)


  • Cartoons for the classroom (nieonline.com)

  • Glasbergen Cartoons (glasbergen.com)
  • Comics : editorial cartoons.




  • The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver (1803) by James Gillray(1756-1815) -
    It "depicts the condescending and superior view that the British held of themselves in relation to the French, especially Napoleon."
    (bucknell.edu)

 

Vocabulary :

 

Encyclopedia :

  • Encyclopedia of toons -
    The Toons . The People Behind the Toons . The Companies that Produce the Toons . etc

 

 

 

Interactive activities :

  • It's No Laughing Matter - Analizing political cartoons
    "Use this interactive activity to take apart real-world cartoons as you learn how to spot the methods behind the message."
    (lcweb2.loc.gov)

 


 

Activities to print :

 

 

Lesson plans :

  • Lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool
    in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels.     (cagle.com)

 

INTERACTIVE games :

 

Songs :

  • Cartoon Heroes sung by Aqua :
    "We are what we're supposed to be
    Illusions of your fantasy
    All dots and lines that speak and say
    What we do is what you wish to do..."
    (lyrics007.com)
    - the VIDEO (YouTube) - UPDATED

 

 

Evaluation :

 

Videos :

  • CC Prose "is dedicated to making classic literature accessible to people around the world. We make more than just audiobooks.
    By combining high quality audio, large print text, synchronized closed captions, and machine translations in multiple languages; we provide something for everyone.
    Learn English, learn to read, with free videobooks from CC Prose.
    All chapters contain synchronized text, an interactive transcript, and closed captions."
    + CC ProseKids + CC Poems + CC Cartoons
    (YouTube)

  • Patrick Chappatte: The power of cartoons
    + Subtitles available
    + Interactive transcript on the right
    "In a series of witty punchlines, Patrick Chappatte makes a poignant case for the power of the humble cartoon.
    His projects in Lebanon, West Africa and Gaza show how, in the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together."
    (ted.com)




    Patrick Chappatte - Cartoons (google.fr)



Topics :

Animals -
Body -
Child Rights -
Danger - Death
Environment
Fashion - Food -
Health - Holidays -
Internet -
Manners - Money
Royals -
School - Science - Snow -

 

  • Internet :


    • LEARN WITH DRAWINGS : INTERNET (dessins et questions) - (erp.oissel.onac.org)





  • Manners :


    • LEARN WITH DRAWINGS : MANNERS (dessins et questions) - (erp.oissel.onac.org)

     

  • Money : a cartoon (erp.oissel.onac.org)




  • Royals :


     

  • School :


     

    • Cartoons (cagle.com)


      Click on the picture



    • Cliparts : Students (plusieurs pages) - (school.discovery)


    • "School is Hell" a cartoon book by Matt Groening (Random House) :
      Lesson 5 : What I learned in school
      Lesson 9 : How to drive a deserving teacher crazy
      Teachers' guide to words that make kids snicker


      Click on the picture

     

  • Science :


    • LEARN WITH DRAWINGS : SCIENCE (dessins et questions) - (erp.oissel.onac.org)

  • Snow :


    • LEARN WITH DRAWINGS : SNOW (dessins et questions) - (erp.oissel.onac.org)