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(Updated on 12/02/2013)

 


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Resources - Vocabulary - Activities - Earthquakes - Fires - Floods - Glaciers -
Hurricanes, Storms and Typhoons - Volcanoes - Water - Help

Weather - Danger - First aid - Health -

Environment - Environment (vocabulary)

 

 

Facts :

A
 Accidents -
Arson dogs -
B
 Bees -
C

Collisions -
Crashes -

D
 Disasters -
E
 Earthquakes - Emergency numbers - Emergency Survival Program -
F
 Fires - Floods - Forces of nature
H

Hunger - Hurricane -

N
 Nuclear disasters -
O

Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico -
Oil spills -

S
 Skyscraper fall - Space disasters - Storms -
T
 Tornadoes - Tsunami - Typhoons -
V
 Volcanoes -

 


  • ARSON DOGS :


    • Arson Dogs
      They "are trained to work around physical obstacles and discriminate scents of various accelerants used to set fires..."
      (arsondogs.com)




  • COLLISIONS :


    • Unthinkable
      "BRITISH and French nuclear submarines which collided deep under the Atlantic could have sunk or released deadly radioactivity, it emerged last night.
      The Royal Navy’s HMS Vanguard and the French Navy’s Le Triomphant are both nuclear powered and were carrying nuke missiles.
      Between them they had around 250 sailors on board..."
      (The Sun)

 

  • DISASTERS :

     

     

    • Historical Disasters (stories, events and images) :
      Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 - San Francisco Earthquake (1906) - Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters 1980-2000 - Encyclopedia Titanica - Hurricane Andrew - San Francisco Earthquake (1989) - Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Report
      (about.com)

       

  • EMERGENCY SURVIVAL PROGRAM :

 

     

 

  • NUCLEAR DISASTERS :

    • See EARTHQUAKES and NUCLEAR


    • Unthinkable
      "BRITISH and French nuclear submarines which collided deep under the Atlantic could have sunk or released deadly radioactivity, it emerged last night.
      The Royal Navy’s HMS Vanguard and the French Navy’s Le Triomphant are both nuclear powered and were carrying nuke missiles.
      Between them they had around 250 sailors on board..."
      (The Sun)

    • Chernobyl's story - From the explosion to the environment - the disaster explained (BBC)

     

 

 

 

  • CRASHES :

    • Turkish plane crashes in Holland
      "A Turkish Airlines plane has crashed on landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport, reports say.
      The plane, with 135 passengers on board, is said to be in three pieces on the runway."
      (BBC)

    • Woman killed by husband's coffin - UPDATED
      "A Brazilian woman has died after being struck by her husband's coffin when the hearse they were travelling in was involved in a car crash."
      (BBC)


      - UPDATED

    • Lorry carrying 12m bees overturns
      "Motorists on Canada's biggest highway ended up with a bee in their bonnet after a truck transporting 12m of the insects overturned.
      The lorry was carrying 330 crates of honey bees when it tipped over on a ramp in St Leonard, New Brunswick..."
      Vocabulary :
      - honey bee / bee experts / pollinate / beekeepers / protective suits / hive / sting / be angered
      - highway / motorists / bonnet / ramp / lorry / truck / overturn / tip over / seriously injured
      (BBC)



      See Lesson plans

     

     

     

     

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary :

  • Edheads Crash Scene Glossary - UPDATED
    ex : Skid: "A mark left by tires on a road, typically from rapid deceleration.  Fresh skid marks have small pieces of the tire present."
    (edheads.org)

  • Ways of Burning - with definitions and examples
    (saberingles.com.ar)



 

 

  • Vocabulary Words for the Disaster Unit (Sorry! No more link))




 

 

Cliparts :


 

Explanatory Accident Slings
Suggestion :
utilisation du present perfect pour commenter les images.
(commoncraft.com)

 



CAR ACCIDENTS :

Risk of
rear-end collision
(cars.justelite.net)

A head-on collision
(advance.uconn.edu)

A pile-up
(topslab.wisc.edu)

Roll-over
(go-glass.com)

 


 

 

Listening :

  • @udio Tube (Version BETA)
    "Ce site propose des ressources audio au format mp3 libres de droits pour une utilisation non commerciale.
    Ces documents sonores ont été enregistrés par des anglophones (assistant(e)s, professeurs ...) et remaniés à l'aide du gratuiciel Audacity..."
    Les ressources audio sont classées par niveau du CECR et par thème :
    Introducing / Suggesting / Coffee / Telling a story: an accident...
    + Teacher's Documents
    (Ac. Orléans-Tours)

 

 

 

 

Conversation Questions :

 

 

INTERACTIVE exercises :

 

  • Disaster Vocabulary - (a4esl)
    ex :
    "When the land violently moves or shakes especially around fault lines it's called an ___"

  • Natural disasters (British Council)
    Here are ten of the world's natural disasters. Can you put the pictures into the right boxes?

 

 

 

Exercises TO PRINT :

 

 

 

 

    • Tsunami Activities: Printouts, Quizzes, and other Activities (Enchanted Learning)

    • Explosive Vocabulary!
      "The vocabulary used for talking about fire, explosions, natural disasters etc. is often used to talk about other kinds of problems as well. Look at the examples ... and work out what two things are being compared."
      (Frankie Meehan - tesoltasks.com)

 

Lesson plans :

  • Oil spill - a lesson plan - Text + Activities
    "On 20th April 2010 disaster struck the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, about 80 km off the US coast..."
    (macmillanglobal.com)

  • BIRD BATHS: CLEANING UP WILDLIFE AFTER OIL SPILLS - a lesson plan
    "In this lesson, students will explore the causes and effects of events such as oil spills and contaminations.
    They will then experience first-hand the feel of oil spills, determine an environmental problem that affects their community, and develop an "action plan" to minimize the risk to one form of wildlife.
    Finally, they will examine ways in which public and private organizations partner to keep the environment, and its wildlife, healthy."
    (nationalgeographic.com)

  • Obama: BP must pay for oil spill clean-up - a lesson plan
    WARM-UPS : OIL SPILLS / OIL SPILL DAMAGE / OIL / WHO’S RESPONSIBLE? / RESPONSIBLE
    (breakingnewsenglish.com)



    See Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico

  • 12 million bees on the loose in Canada - a lesson plan
    (Breaking News English)



    See Facts

  • Eiffel Tower parachutist dies - a lesson plan (breakingnewsenglish.com)
    THE ARTICLE
    WARM-UPS
    BEFORE READING / LISTENING
    WHILE READING / LISTENING
    AFTER READING
    LANGUAGE
    DISCUSSION
    SPEAKING (Publicity stunts)
    LISTENING
    HOMEWORK
  • Killer tsunamis strike Asia (December 2004) - a lesson plan with :
    - PRE-READING IDEAS : 1. WORD SEARCH - 2. TRUE / FALSE - 3. DEFINITIONS (Matching) 4. SYNONYM MATCH - 5. PHRASE MATCH
    - WHILE READING ACTIVITIES : 1. GAP-FILL - 2. TRUE/FALSE - 3. DEFINITIONS - 4. SYNONYM MATCH - 5. PHRASE MATCH - 6. QUESTIONS - 7. VOCABULARY
    - POST READING IDEAS : 1. GAP-FILL - 2. QUESTIONS - 3. VOCABULARY - 4. STUDENT-GENERATED SURVEY - 5. 'WAVE'/ 'QUAKE' - 6. DISCUSSION ("Have you ever ... ?) 7. AID NOW
    - HOMEWORK : 1. VOCAB EXTENSION - 2. INTERNET / WEB LINKS - 3. YOUR PLAN OF ACTION (Create a poster...) - 4. EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
    (Breaking News English)

 

 

Webquests :

 

 

INTERACTIVE games :

 

 

Games TO PRINT :

 

 

Proverbs :

 

 

Songs :

  • Dumb Ways to Die - Be safe around trains - a message from METRO (YouTube) + LYRICS :
    "set fire to your hair
    poke a stick at a grizzly bear
    eat medicine that’s out of date
    use your private parts as Piranha bait..."
    (tamarindtoffee.tumblr.com)

 

  • Wreck On The Highway sung by Bruce Springsteen :
    "Last night I was out driving
    Coming home at the end of the working day
    I was riding alone through the drizzling rain
    On a deserted stretch of a county two-lane
    When I came upon a wreck on the highway"
    (lyrics007.com)
    - the Video (YouTube)


    - UPDATED

 

 

Cartoons : (Si le lien est inaccessible, enregistrer l'image pour obtenir la taille initiale.)

 

 

Everglazed National Park
- Florida
(neatorama.com)

 

 

BP's new cap - Cartoons
(cagle.com)

 

Oily animals - Cartoons
(cagle.com)


Still hanging around : Volcanic ash
(roystonrobertson.blogspot.com)

 

Celebrity Fires
and the Media COLOR
By Daryl Cage
(caglepost.com)

 

On the beach
(cartoonstock.com)

 

Maybe we should've
let that one pass.
(cartoonstock.com)

 

Sounds like a hurricane!
(cartoonbox.slate.com)


Been involved in an accident ?
(londonstimes.us)

 


2004
(cagle.com)

 

The next wave
(cagle.com)

Help!
(cagle.msnbc.com)

 


Enough
(cagle.com)

 

 

California Wildfires
(cagle.com)

 

 

Videos :

 

 

  • BP Spills Coffee - a comedy video (YouTube)
    "The Upright Citizens Brigade, a comedy troupe, describes a nightmarish environmental disaster: someone at BP international headquarters spills coffee. The executives take immediate and sensible action to contain the damage. Warning: some foul language."
    (Neatorama)

     

  • Clarke & Dawe on the US Oil Spill - UPDATED
    John Clarke and Bryan Dawe on oil spills and a struggling president.
    “You’re not going to have a problem before you start.”
    (YouTube)

 

  • BP Gulf Oil Spill Leak Plume Gusher Disaster Video
    "BP releases video of the gushing oil "plume" spewing millions of gallons of oil a mile below the sea surface into the Gulf of Mexico,
    after trying to prevent the video from leaking. So to speak."
    (YouTube)

 

  • Video BarclayCard - De catastrophe en catastrophe... : un matin très particulier (videorigolo.com)
  • Olympics - a FLASH animation (pagesperso-orange.fr/prof.danglais)

 

  • 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."