Related pages :

Art (civilization) - Art (vocabulary and activities)

Flashcards / Pictures :

• Colours in Cultures (informationisbeautiful.net)
  "Graphic designer David McCandless made an infographic that describes connotations associated with different colors in different cultures."
  (Neatorama)
  

  

• List of colors with pictures
  (Wikipedia)

  

• FLASHCARDS (mes-english.com)
  
  
  
  
  
• Couleurs - flashcards (englishraven.com) :
  red - apple / yellow - banana / blue - sky / green - tree / orange -carrot / white - cloud /
  pink - pig / peach - peach / black - coal / purple - grapes / brown - horse /
  dark blue - night time / grey - mouse
  
  

• Color Words with pictures (enchantedlearning.com)
  
  

• Green things (enchantedlearning.com)
  
  

Vocabulary :

• Primary, Secondary and Complementary colours (technologystudent.com)

  

• Colors (languageguide.org)
  Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur les images. - avec son
  
  

• Color Words (efl.htmlplanet.com)
  red / crimson / puce / scarlet / vermilion / orange / ...

• Colour Words - for advanced students
  - "article and work that helps to understand , translate/interpret colour words
  as they are found in literary texts and ads." (the_english_dept)
  (esp-world.info)

Facts :

• Couple in planning row with neighbours after painting house bright pink in Herefordshire
  (telegraph.co.uk)

Listening :

• Green: More Than Just a Color
  " Click ... to begin and listen to the a VOA Podcast."
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

• Colours - Learning / Singing
  + Animals + Alphabet + Numbers + KARAOKE
  (Ghislaine Wulles)

  

• Colors (languageguide.org)
  Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur les images. - avec son
  
  

• Colours (avec son) - (literacycenter.net)

• Learn your colours (+ son) - (learnenglish.de):
  Primary colours - Secondary Colours - Tertiary Colours - Black and white - Examples
  
  
  

Idioms:

• Colour idioms: BLUE + SCRIPT (BBC)
  In this video the Teacher introduces three blue idioms:

  1. A bolt from the blue
  2. Once in a blue moon
  3. Until you are blue in the face
• Three idiomatic phrases connected with the colour SILVER + VIDEO + SCRIPT
  (BBC)
  • To be born with a silver spoon in your mouth
  • To be silver-tongued
  • Every cloud has a silver lining
    
    
    
• 3 idioms using the colour green - with a video
  (BBC)
  
  • To have green fingers
  • The grass is always greener on the other side
  • To be green with envy

• Three idioms connected with the colour gold:
  As good as gold;
  A heart of gold;
  Worth its weight in gold
  VIDEO + SCRIPT
  (BBC)

   

• Colour Idioms : RED + VIDEO + Script
  (BBC)
  

  • Paint the town red
  • Catch someone red-handed
  • Like a red rag to a bull
  
  
  
• Colour Idioms - WHITE
  1. It's black and white
  2. As white as a sheet
  3. A white-knuckle ride
  + VIDEO + Script
  (BBC)

• Colour idioms : red, white and blue (BBC)

• All The King's Men by New Howard : - LIEN MODIFIE
  "So change your colours
  Chameleon"
  (mp3lyrics.org)

• By Myself by Linkin Park :
  "Do I sit here and try to stand it?
  Or do I try to catch them red-handed?"
  (to catch somebody red-handed)

• Paint It Black by Inkubus Sukkubus :
  "I want it black, black as coal,
  As black as ice, as black as death"

• Illustrations of idioms 2 - Feeling blue page 3
  (récupérées d'un site disparu)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• To be green with envy - Page 3
  
  
  

Proverbs :

• At night by De Vision :
  "But at night all cats are grey"

• The Other Side Of This Life written by David Byrne : - LIEN MODIFIE
  "Lookin' in the mirror
  Peekin' 'round the corner
  Where the grass is always greener"
  - Proverb : 'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence'
  (sing365.com)

Superstitions :

• Common superstitions (csicop.org) :
  • To make a happy marriage, the bride must wear: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
  • At the end of a rainbow is a pot of gold

   

Symbols :

• Clothes Color & Personality Type (indobase.com)

• Color in Motion (mariaclaudiacortes.com)
  - An animated and interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism
  
  

• Flags - Symbolic Use of Colors in Flags - (enchantedlearning.com)
  "Very often, the colors used in a flag represent the values of that country (or other entity)."
  
  

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• Colours In English.
  "Here are 7 pages of activities to help you learn the colours in English.
  Look, listen, sing, play, write, have fun!"
  Created by Renée Maufroid.

  

• Colour expressions - interactive quiz (BBC)

• Colours - Learning / Singing
  + Animals + Alphabet + Numbers + KARAOKE
  (Ghislaine Wulles)

  

• Quiz: What's Your Color Personality? (bhg.com)

• Colour me!
  Colorier le clown selon la consigne.
  (envolerie.com)

  

• Collocations Related to Colour - interactive exercise (a4esl.org)

• I'm blue
  Watch the animation, listen to the song and fill the gaps.
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid
  
  

• Colours (xtec.es)
  - Fill the painter's palette
  - A colours crossword
  
  
  
• Have fun! Enjoy the games and learn English (R. Maufroid) : Colours
  
• Colours (avec son) - (literacycenter.net)

• Colors - "Click the colo(u)red squares in the following order..." (Michel Barbot)

• Les couleurs - Questions à réponses courtes (un seul mot). (educreuse23.ac-limoges.fr)

• Colours - matching exercise (+ 4 pages) - (madridteacher.com)

• Colours - "Match the colours on the left with the nouns on the right." - ex : "Blue / sky" (isabelperez.com)

• Colours - "Read the sentence and find the mistake." - ex : "I like green chicken meat" (isabelperez.com)

• Colours - a game with balloons : Up up and away! - "Matching colours with colour names" (caslt.org)
  
  

• Basic colors - interactive quiz (manythings.org)

• Colours (British Council)
  
  

• Color Games (gamequarium.com)
  
  
  

Exercises TO PRINT :

• Mes Coloriages.Com
  Site présenté par le webmaster, François Langrand :
  "MesColoriages.com, déjà largement utilisé par les enseignants du primaire, propose un nombre impressionnant de dessins
  à colorier classés par thèmes (animaux, chiffres et formes, nature, vie quotidienne...)
  Quoi qu'il en soit, à l'issue d'une petite visite sur ce site, il serait étonnant que vous n'ayez pas téléchargé gratuitement quelques-uns des modèles utilisables en classe sans autres formalités.
  Un site utile et bien conçu."
  (mescoloriages.com)

  

• Cross Out Puzzle Six - Shades of Color
  (speak-read-write.com)

• Crayon by Number (crayonbynumber.com)
  ex : Frans Hals - La Bohémienne : click on EASY

• To remember the colors of the rainbow (red orange yellow green blue indigo violet) in order:
  Run off Young girls boys in view.
  (wiki.answers.com)

• COLORS - Resource Page (k12.hi.us)

• A 12-page Spanish/English coloring book about the colors. (enchantedlearning.com)

• Colours (British Council)
  "Can you colour the stars ?"

• Color Quiz in German/English - "Match the words in English and German to the colors." (enchantedlearning.com)

• Colourful Quizzes - (hoadworks.com)
  "Complete the colourful clued expressions: Blue by You - Green Space - Whitewash - Are you Red-dy - The Black Whole"
  
  

• A Spectral Quiz - with answers - (hoadworks.com)
  "Identify the colour that best fits each definition below. There are 152 colours." (difficult)

Lesson plans :

• Blue Light to Stop Tokyo Train Suicides - a lesson plan
  "Train companies in Tokyo are taking action to reduce the number of people jumping in front of trains. They are fitting blue lights on station platforms to try and create a more calming atmosphere."
  WARM-UPS : Suicide / Colour / Feelings / Soothing effect / Blue
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  
  

• Activities about COLOURS
  "Practise words for the colours you can see around you every day.
  Go on a trip into space with Billy and Splodge and meet some scary but colourful animals.
  Here you'll find lots of things to listen to , read and colour.
  You can also learn a song about the colours of the rainbow.
  "Red, yellow, pink and ..."
  (British Council)

  

• Men more attracted by women in red - a lesson plan
  (Breaking News English)
  
  

• Colours: What is Pink? - a poem by Christina Rossetti - LIEN MODIFIE
  (teachingenglish.org.uk)

PowerPoint Presentations :

• What is black ? (Primary Resources)
  Click on FOUNDATION / Online Games, Activities & Presentations
  + other colours : orange - purple - white - grey - brown - pink - red - yellow - blue - green

  

• Colours and Numbers
  - présentation PowerPoint envoyée par Corinne Brugière - Ac. Limoges

INTERACTIVE games :

• Colorful language
  "Watch the video and play the game."
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

• Colours - interactive crosswords (BBC)
  - advanced

• Colours (xtec.es)
  - Fill the painter's palette
  - A colours crossword
  
  

• The color test!!! (njagyouth.org)

• Colours - Hangman (madridteacher.com)

• Word search - Retrouvez 12 couleurs. (Hervé Humbert)

• Color Expressions - crossword (iteslj)

• Color Games (gamequarium.com)

• Colours - a game with balloons : Up up and away! - "Matching colours with colour names" (caslt.org)
  
  

• Pour réviser les parties du corps et les couleurs : un petit jeu (abctooncenter.com)
  
  

Games TO PRINT :

• Say the colors brain teaser (coolopticalillusions.com)
  Say the colour NOT the word!

Stories :

• The Birth of the Rainbow - An Indian Myth
  (Primary Resources)

  

• The Story of the Colours (olhppie/colors)
  "Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel; all claimed that they were the best, the most important, the most useful, the favorite..."

  

• Alfy goes to school (interactive with SOUND) - (alfy.com)
  
  

Poems :

• What is Pink? a poem by Christina Rossetti
  " Read this little poem and then fill in the blanks."
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

• Blue is the sea. - a poem about colours (englishforkids.ru)

• Color Poems (lhric.org/pocantico)

Conversation questions :

• Colors (iteslj.org)

Songs :

• Enya - White Is In The Winter Night
  (YouTube)
  - the LYRICS
  "Green is in the mistletoe and red is in the holly
  Silver in the stars above that shine on everybody
  Gold is in the candlelight and crimson in the embers
  White is in the winter night that everyone remembers"
  (lyricsmode.com)

• Colours by Donovan
  "Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair...
  Blue's the colour of the sky...
  Green's the colour of the sparklin' corn..."
  (lyrics007.com)
  + the VIDEO
  (YouTube)

• "Colors" by Kira Willey
  "Watch the video and do the activity."
  created by: Renée Maufroid
  

  
  Colors - sung by Kira Willey + a video with the lyrics (YouTube)
  - the LYRICS :
  "I am green today
  I chirp with joy like a cricket song.
  I am gray today
  Gloomy and down like a morning fog.
  I am orange today
  Loud and messy like finger paint on the wall..."
  (lyricsmode.com)

• Colours - Learning / Singing
  + Animals + Alphabet + Numbers + KARAOKE
  (Ghislaine Dulles)

  

• The Good The Bad And The Queen - Kingdom Of Doom
  - with the VIDEO
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

• Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) - sung by Don McLean :
  "Starry, starry night.
  Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
  Swirling clouds in violet haze,
  Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
  Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
  Weathered faces lined in pain,
  Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand..."
  
  - with the VIDEO (YouTube)
  "A slideshow of Vincent Van Gogh's work set to the song "Vincent" by Don McLean."

  

• Grace Kelly by Mika :
  "I could be brown
  I could be blue
  I could be violet sky
  I could be hurtful
  I could be purple
  I could be anything you like
  Gotta be green"

• Songs with colors in the title (answers.yahoo.com)

• All The King's Men by New Howard : - LIEN MODIFIE
  "So change your colours
  Chameleon"
  (mp3lyrics.org)

• At night by De Vision :
  "But at night all cats are grey"

• Black is Black by Los Bravos

• By Myself by Linkin Park :
  "Do I sit here and try to stand it?
  Or do I try to catch them red-handed?"
  (to catch somebody red-handed)

• I Like Traffic Lights by Monty Python

• Into White by Cat Stevens

• Merry Xmas (WAR IS OVER) by John Lennon
  " And so this is Xmas
  For weak and for strong
  For rich and the poor ones
  The world is so wrong
  And so happy Xmas
  For black and for white
  For yellow and red ones
  Let's stop all the fight"

• Paint It Black by Inkubus Sukkubus :
  "I see a red door, and I want it painted black...
  No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue...
  I want it black, black as coal,
  As black as ice, as black as death"

• She's a rainbow by The Rolling Stones :
  "She comes in colors
  Have you seen her dressed in blue?"

• The Other Side Of This Life written by David Byrne : - LIEN MODIFIE
  "Lookin' in the mirror
  Peekin' 'round the corner
  Where the grass is always greener"
  - Proverb : 'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence'
  (sing365.com)

• True Colors by Phil Collins :
  "So don't be afraid to let them show
  Your true colors
  True colors are beautiful,
  Like a rainbow"

• What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
  " I see trees of green, red roses too...
  I see skies of blue and clouds of white
  The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night...
  The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky..."

• What a wonderful world! by Louis Armstrong - KARAOKE
  ( + autre lien )
  
  

• White Flag by Dido :
  "I will go down with this ship
  And I won't put my hands up and surrender
  There will be no white flag above my door
  I'm in love and always will be"

Videos :

• SEE Idioms
  
  
• 3 idioms using the colour green - with a video
  (BBC)
  
  • To have green fingers
  • The grass is always greener on the other side
  • To be green with envy

• Three idioms connected with the colour gold:
  As good as gold;
  A heart of gold;
  Worth its weight in gold
  VIDEO + SCRIPT
  (BBC)

• Colour Idioms - WHITE
  1. It's black and white
  2. As white as a sheet
  3. A white-knuckle ride
  + VIDEO + Script
  (BBC)