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Flashcards - Vocabulary - Facts -
Listening - Idioms - Proverbs - Superstitions - Symbols -
Interactive exercises - Exercises to print - Lesson plans -
PowerPoint Presentations -
Interactive games - Games to print - Stories - Poems -
Conversation questions - Songs - Videos


Pages complémentaires :

Art (civilisation) - Art (vocabulaire)

 

 

Flashcards :

 

  • 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

 

 

 

Vocabulary :

 

  • Browns and Reds
    "A list of words for different shades of brown and red."
    (helenparocha.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 :

 

Listening :

 

 

  • Coloriages d'été
    Coloriage en ligne pour apprendre les couleurs en anglais.
    (maxetom.com)

 

  • 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): Lien modifié
    Primary colours - Secondary Colours - Tertiary Colours - Black and white - Examples


 

Idioms:



  • 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    "

 

Proverbs :

  • At night by De Vision :
    "But at night all cats are grey"
  • The Other Side Of This Life written by David Byrne :
    "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')

 

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 :

  • 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.

 

 

 

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

 

  • 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) - Lien modifié

  • 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)

 

 

  • A Lifetime of Color (sanford-artedventures.com) :



    - Create Art : "Hands-on activities, technique demos and more."
    - Study Art : "Art history, glossary terms, and artist biographies"
    -     Teach Art : "Lesson plans for classroom and art teachers"
    - Play Art Games :
    " ArtEdventures and online activities about art history and art concepts - interactive online games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous works-while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!    "
    Examples :

      • The Art of Crime Detection.
        "You witness a crime, and the police ask you to help identify the culprit, using their new PDArtist tool. Learn how your left and right brain work and the best ways to use your brain as an artist. Can you create composite portraits that help identify the culprit?"



      • Be an Architect!
        "Design a house with Carmine! Learn about site, form, function, and materials as you draw the floor plan and elevation for your house."



      • Go West, Young Artist.
        "It's 1870, and explorers and artists are discovering the wonders of the American West. Travel westward and meet six landscape artists to learn the basics of landscape composition."


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)

 

  • Crayon by Number (crayonbynumber.com)
    ex : Frans Hals - La Bohémienne : click on EASY
  • Idioms and proverbs - exercises to print (smic.be)
    ex : Body and ... / as blind as ... / to have green fingers = ...
  • A 12-page Spanish/English coloring book about the colors. (enchantedlearning.com)
  • Colours (British Council) - Lien modifié
    "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)

  • THE COLOURS OF LONDON (avec un test ) - (ac-orleans-tours) :
    London buses - Guards at Buckingham Palace - Tower of London - Beefeater - Taxis -
    Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament - Just Big Ben

 

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)

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

  • Colours - Hangman (madridteacher.com)
  • Word search - Retrouvez 12 couleurs. (Hervé Humbert) - LIEN MODIFIE
  • 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 :

 

 

Stories :

 

  • 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..."

 

 


Poems :

 

 

Conversation questions :

 

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)

 

 

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

 

  • 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 :

 

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