History :

• American dream (Wikipedia) :
  1 History of the American dream
  2 A time of plenty
  3 The American dream today
  4 Criticism of the American dream...

• What is the American Dream? (history) - (socialstudieshelp.com)
  
  

• Is the Olympic Dream Dead? - pros and cons (debatabase.org)

Types :

• THE AMERICAN DREAM :
  
  
  • Is immigration policy killing the American dream ?
    (BBC)
    
    
  • What is today's American Dream ? - an article
    "They may not have called it the American Dream but for centuries people have gone to America in search of freer, happier, and richer lives. But is today's American Dream a mythical concept or still a reality?"
    (BBC)
    
    
  • What is today's American Dream ? Work, love and world - How the under-30s are redefining today's American Dream
    + a VIDEO
    (BBC)

    

• Dream Moods (dreammoods.com)
  "helping you find the key to unlocking and interpreting the meanings to your dreams." :
  Types of Dreams - A-Z Dream Dictionary - Dream Themes ...

• Jewel : "To see or wear jewels in your dream, signifies..." (Webster)

Pictures :

		Sleep to Dream - A painting by Tiffany Liu (tiffanyliu.com)
I have a dream (berlitz.co.jp)	A dreamer - illustration (illustrators.net/duranceau)	Sleep (Pictures) (Ac. Nancy-Metz)

Quotations :

• Dream Quotations (bellaonline.com) :
  ex : "The dream is not the destination but the journey." - Diane Sawyer

Listening :

• Alfy's Fort (interactive with SOUND) - (alfy.com)
  
  

• I have a dream
  Le discours de Martin Luther King dans un diaporama sonore Power Point.
  - Texte du discours accompagné de la traduction
  (Yvan Baptiste - Ac. Montpellier)

• I have a dream (Martin Luther King) - audio (americanrhetoric.com) - LIEN MODIFIE
  
  

• I wish - a story about a caterpillar (with SOUND) - (kizclub.com)
  
  

Conversation Questions :

• What's your dream job ? - Read the story and the comments.
  (CBBC)

• Dreams (iteslj.org)

INTERACTIVE activities :

• Sleep idioms - interactive exercises
  (englishgateway.com)

• Dreams (British Council)
  "Have a look at the article, word game, story, cartoon, trivia and links."

  

• How to describe imaginary situations using if ... would - interactive (englishspace.ort.org)

  

• Whereas. - "Read and compare" - Activity created by Renée Maufroid
  
  
  
  
• Exercise 3 - Advanced Vocabulary (world-english.org) :
  "Read the sentences ... and decide which of these words best fits each space.
  You may need need to change the form of the word.
  nightmare, slumber, soporific, somnambulist, insomnia, consolidate, lucid, exemplify, enhance, pompous, entrepreneur, turbulent, verify, snooze, doze."

• The Dream Interpretation Quiz (quiz.ivillage.co.uk)
  
  

• Can you guess the words to the 'Dream' speech? (windmillworks.com)
  
  

• Wish 1 - "Click on the buttons until you find the correct answer." (better-english.com)
  + page 2
  + page 3

Activities TO PRINT : Click on the picture.

• ESL Worksheet: Sleep Idioms - Level: ESL High-Intermediate
  (englishgateway.com)

• Sleep, Dreams and Nightmares (bogglesworldesl.com)

• Guided Composition 3 (Pre-intermediate)
  "A magazine is asking its readers to write about their sleeping habits and a dream or a nightmare they have had.
  Write an article."
  - with Questions for Paragraph 1 and Paragraph 2
  - Vocabulary connected with sleeping.
  - and Tips
  (theenglishyouneedblog.blogspot.com)
  

• Regrets and Dreams - (handoutsonline.com)
  "This handout practices wish + past simple (for dreams)
  and wish + past perfect (for regrets)."

• Dream - a worksheet to print (bogglesworldesl.com)
  
  

Lesson plans :

• We Spend Half Our Time Daydreaming (13th November, 2010) - a lesson plan
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  
  
  
  
  People spend 'half their waking hours daydreaming'
  "not thinking about what they are actually doing."
  "Our mental lives are pervaded, to a remarkable degree, by the non-present."
  (BBC)

• Sleep - a lesson plan (onlinetutoringworld.com)
  - Unit 1: Photograph and Video + An Idiom About Life
  Another link for the video : The lion sleeps tonight
  
  - Unit 2: Reading : Sleep and dreams
  
  + Vocabulary Practice
  + Questions
  
  + Checkpoint Charlie's Interactive Quizzes

• Dreams.
  "Have a look at the article, word game, story, cartoon, trivia and links."
  (British Council)
  
  

Webquests :

• What's in your dreams? - A treasure hunt about sleeping and dreaming (poster.4teachers.org)

INTERACTIVE games :

• Every day the same dream
  A little art game about alienation and refusal of labour. 
  (molleindustria.org)

  

Stories :

• Dreamland - a story (nozen.com)
  
  

• Dreams (British Council)
  "Have a look at the article, word game, story, cartoon, trivia and links."

  

• Alfy's Fort (interactive with SOUND) - (alfy.com)
  
  

Poems :

• I dream of a meal by the seaside - a poem (BBC)
  
  

• I dreamed a dream (fizzyfunnyfuzzy.com)
  

Cartoons :

	Mom's excited for school - Cartoons (cagle.com)	A picnic... Worksheet + Picture 1 + Picture 2 + Picture 3 + Picture 4 (Armelle Meyer - Ac. Bordeaux)
I wish for... (funnyhub.com)	Impossible Dream Cartoons (cartoonstock.com)	Dreaming - "a Woman Reading a Hawaii Brochure" (clipartguide.com)

VIDEOS :

• The American Dream Film-Full Length

• The hidden literary themes of the 'American dream'
  (BBC)

• Indian commercial - Change your world
  (YouTube)

• Solid Gold - an animation - A hamster who gets lucky.
  (animation-adelaide.com)

  

• I Have a Dream - A Beautiful Planet - multimedia show (www3.sympatico.ca)
  
  

Cinema :

• Inception
  "is a 2010 American science fiction thriller film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.
  The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, ...
  DiCaprio plays Dominic Cobb, a specialized spy or corporate espionage thief.
  His work consists of secretly extracting valuable commercial information from the unconscious mind of his targets while they are asleep and dreaming."
  (Wikipedia)
  
  

• Requiem for a Dream

• The Nightmare Before Christmas (Ac. Nancy-Metz)
  
  

• Vincent by Tim Burton - an animation (Daily Motion)
  - Sous-titré en français
  
  
  
  
  Vincent (film) - From Wikipedia
  1 Plot (with the SCRIPT)
  2 Vincent
  3 Trivia...
• The American Dream - Films of American History

Songs :

• CARO EMERALD - Stuck
  "I close my eyes and dream about a sunny holiday
  I wish that I was beachin' down on Saint Tropez..."
  (lyricsera.com)

• This Is My Life by Edward Maya 
  "I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming out loud
  I can't follow dreams forever 
  Just to see them fall apart...
  This, this my life I'm chasing a dream
  that fades away in the night "
  (paroles-musique.com)
  + the VIDEO
  (YouTube)

• George Michael - December Song (I Dreamed of Christmas)
  (YouTube)
  + the LYRICS
  "Merry Christmas
  May your every new year dream come true"
  (kovideo.net)

  

• Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream (YouTube) by Ed McCurdy (Wikipedia)
  Anti-war song
  + the LYRICS :
  "I dreamed the world had all agreed
  To put an end to war
  I dreamed I saw a mighty room
  The room was filled with men
  And the paper they were signing said
  They'd never fight again"
  (sing365.com)

• If I can dream - sung by Elvis Presley
  "notable for its direct quotations to Martin Luther King, Jr."
  Une fiche envoyée par Emmanuelle Duchiron (Ac. Versailles)

  

  + Lyrics (lyricsfreak.com)
  + Video (YouTube) - LIEN MODIFIE

• Common Feat Will.I.Am - DREAM Lyrics (stlyrics.com)
  "I got a dream
  [that one day]
  that one day
  all of the people and myself
  are gonna find a better way
  My dream is to be free"
  - the VIDEO (YouTube)

  

• Dream Catch Me sung by Newton Faulkner
  (sweetslyrics.com)
  - the VIDEO (YouTube)

• If I Can Dream by Elvis Presley
  "We're lost in a cloud
  With too much rain
  We're trapped in a world
  That's troubled so much with pain
  But as long as a man
  Has the strength to dream
  He can redeem his soul and fly"

• Folk Songs About Dreams - list (nwfolk.com)

• America by Neil Diamond (The American Dream)

• A Winter's Tale by Queen

• Californication by The Red Hot Chili Peppers

• Corrine by The Hollies :
  "Once seen never forgotten it is your island of dreams"

• David Watts by The Jam :
  "I wish I could have all the money he's got
  I wish I could be like David Watts..."

• Daydream by Loving Spoonful :
  "I've been having a sweet dream
  I been dreaming since I woke up today"

• Dreamer by Ozzy Osborne :
  "I'm just a dreamer, I dream my life away
  I'm just a dreamer, who dreams of better days..."
  (lyricstime.com)
  
  

• Dreamer by Supertramp

• SONG: " Dreams to Dream " (YouTube) - LIEN MODIFIE
  + the lyrics (stlyrics.com)
  

• Elusive Butterfly by Bob Lind :
  "It's only me pursuing somethin' I'm not sure of
  Across my dreams with nets of wonder
  I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love..."
  (oldielyrics.com)

• Imagine by John Lennon

• I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free by Nina Simone (or by Lighthouse Family)
  "And I wish I knew how
  It would feel to be free
  I wish that I could break
  All the chains holding me
  I wish I could say
  All the things that I'd like to say...."

• Like A King by Ben Harper :
  "Well Martin's dream has become Rodney's worst nightmare...
  how I wish you could help us Dr. King..." (= Rodney King and Martin Luther King)

• Motorpsycho Nightmare by Bob Dylan

• Mountains O'things sung by Tracy Chapman
  (sing365.com)
  "I'll be working for somebody else
  Until I'm in my grave
  I'll be dreaming of a live of ease ...
  Everyone will look at me with envy and with greed
  I'll revel in their attention..."
  - the VIDEO (YouTube) - LIEN MODIFIE

• My Wish Came True by Elvis Presley

• Nightmare by Wicked Angel :
  "and You shall reap just what you sow"
  (stlyrics.com)

• Perfect love by All-4-one :
  "Yesterday I had the sweetest dream
  I dreamt an angel came to visit me
  She taught me how to live and how to trust..."

• Real To Me by Brian McFadden :
  "Picnics in the garden
  and the children they can play
  the first day of the summer
  and i laze here all the day
  then we'll invite the family round
  and drink some english tea
  then i raise up my finger
  and watch football on tv...
  when i see my babies run,
  when all the madness has been and gone,
  I'll raise my family and live in peace...
  wake up you might be dreaming"

• Rise and Fall by Craig David and Sting

• Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics

• The Kids Aren't Alright by Offspring :
  "Jay committed suicide
  Brandon OD'd and died
  What the hell is going on?
  The cruellest dream - reality...
  Still it's hard
  Hard to see
  Fragile lives
  Shattered dreams"

• Truly, Madly, Deeply by Savage Garden

• Wish by Lighthouse Family :
  "I wish I knew how I'm gonna be happy without you..."