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(Liens vérifiés le 31/07/2009)


 

 


Facts - Vocabulary - Cliparts / Photos -
Listening - Conversation questions -
Interactive exercises - Exercises to print - Lesson plans - Webquests -
- Interactive games - Games to print - Proverbs - Songs
- Cartoons - Videos

 


Pages complémentaires :

Catastrophes naturelles (géographie) :
Resources - Vocabulary - Activities - Earthquakes - Fires - Floods - Glaciers -
Hurricanes, Storms and Typhoons - Volcanoes - Water - Help

- 'Weather' - Danger - Santé -
Environnement - Environnement (vocabulaire)

 

 

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

 

  • ARSON DOGS :


  • 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)

     

    • "Link to an article, SOME NATURAL DISASTERS and/or CATASTROPHES, - Lien modifié
      which lists facts and relates stories about the following types of natural disasters and catastrophes :
      avalanches, diseases, drought, earthquakes, environmental disasters, flooding, locusts, storms, volcanic activity and wild fires. Read the texts, and try to answers the questions."
      (British Council)

     

  • EMERGENCY SURVIVAL PROGRAM :

     

  • EMERGENCY NUMBERS :

     

    • Do's and Don'ts of 9-1-1 -
      "In general, 9-1-1 is an emergency number for any police, fire or medical incident."
      (911dispatch.com)

 

 

  • NUCLEAR DISASTERS :

    • 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
      "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)



    • 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
    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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 :

  • Weather Definitions
    "Do you know the difference between a tornado watch and tornado warning?
    Or, how about the difference between freezing rain or sleet?
    Test your knowledge of commmon weather terms with this quiz."




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

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

 

  • Volcanoes of the United States Matching Game - LIEN MODIFIE
    "Rocky wants to go on a trip and see some of the volcanoes of the USA.
    In order to see those volcanoes, he has to know which states they are in.
    Help Rocky plan his trip by showing him where each volcano on his list is at.
    Use your mouse to click on the name of a volcano.
    Then click on the state you think that volcano is in."

 

 

Exercises TO PRINT :

 

 

 

 

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

    • Explosive Vocabulary! (Frankie Meehan)
      "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 below and work out what two things are being compared."

 

Lesson plans :

 

 

  • Hurricane Katrina Resources (readinga-z.com)
    "In addition to the book Hurricanes, the packet provides charts, a glossary, and activity sheets about hurricanes in general and Hurricane Katrina in particular.
    The packet also provides information on how to cope with the aftermath and how to prepare for future emergencies."
    Hurricanes - Book
    Hurricanes - Color Cover
    Resource Packet - Activities
    Resource Packet - Charts and Diagrams
    Resource Packet - Coping

 

  • 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 :

  • 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)

 

 

Cartoons :

   

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)

 


I feel like the luckiest woman
on earth
(cagle.com)

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Technology and
South Asian Tsunami
(cagle.com)

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2004
(cagle.com)

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The next wave
(cagle.com)

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Help!
(cagle.msnbc.com)

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Enough
(cagle.com)

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California Wildfires
(cagle.com)

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Videos :

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

 

  • 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."