Les INSECTES / Les "BESTIOLES"

INSECTS - BUGS

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Cliparts et Flashcards :

A beehive (secretsof.com)	FLASHCARDS mes-english.com)	Insects (aussi en ESPAGNOL) flashcards (esl-library.com) Click on Flashcard Library. Lien modifié
Apiphobia (s3.amazonaws.com/learnhub.com) Lien modifié	A butterfly net (images.inmagine.com)

Vocabulary :

• Illustrated Guide to Insects (books.google.fr)

• Earwigs
  "These brown to black, elongated insects, 19 to 25 mm long, have a pair of large forceps at the end of the abdomen..."
  (ipm.ncsu.edu)

• Thematic voabulary with pictures, pronunciation, worksheets and games
  (madridteacher.com)
  Ex : Insects

  
  

• Insects - Bugs - with AUDIO (eslgold.net)

  

• Insects - Vocabulary Games - with SOUND (marks-english-school.com)
  
  

• Insect Vocabulary List & Definitions (teach-nology.com)

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

• Insectopedia with pictures

• Insects - liste et liens (Wikipedia Encyclopedia)

• Animal Words with pictures

• What do you call a group of... (a list)
  (membres.lycos.fr/sir05)
  
  

Listening :

• Thematic vocabulary with pictures, pronunciation, worksheets and games
  (madridteacher.com)
  Ex : Insects

  

• Insect idioms
  1. Knee-high to a grasshopper
  2. To have butterflies in your stomach.
  3. To have ants in your pants
  - with the script
  (BBC)

• Insects - Bugs - with AUDIO (eslgold.net)

  

• Insects - Vocabulary Games - with SOUND (marks-english-school.com)
  
  

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

Idioms :

• Idiomatic phrases connected with bees.
  1. Busy as a bee
  2. The bee's knees
  3. To have a bee in your bonnet
  - with the script
  (BBC)

• Insect idioms
  1. Knee-high to a grasshopper
  2. To have butterflies in your stomach.
  3. To have ants in your pants
  - with the script
  (BBC)

• "snug as a bug in a rug" (answers.com)

• The Bee Song by Arthur Askey :
  "I'd like to be a busy little bee,
  Being as busy as a bee can be."
  (monologues.co.uk)

Sayings :

• Wise sayings :
  The fly on the water buffalo's back thinks he is taller than the water buffalo. - Tagalog (Filipino)
  (on vanity and arrogance)
  The honey is sweet but the bee has a sting. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
  The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting. - Vietnamese (on criticism)
  The spider and the fly can't make a bargain. - Jamaican (on buying and selling)
  You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
  
  

Facts :

• A group of hungry ants
  "clamour to get their jaws around a piece of chocolate brownie left by photographer Andiyan Lutfi in his garden in Indonesia."
  (telegraph.co.uk)
  
  

• Chikungunya in France
  "Workers spray insecticide in La Gaude, southern France, during a mosquito eradication operation following the discovery of the insect-borne virus chikungunya in the area."

  

• What's Eatin' You?
  Fleas / Bedbugs / Ticks / Chiggers / Face mites / Head lice / Crab lice / Human liver fluke / Mosquitoes
  (Neatorama.com)

  

• Mosquito laser gun offers new hope on malaria
  "Mosquitoes... kill nearly 1m people a year through malaria...
  The WMD laser works by detecting the audio frequency created by the beating of mosquito wings.
  A computer triggers the laser beam, the mosquito’s wings are burnt off and its smoking carcass falls to the ground."
  (timesonline.co.uk)

  

• 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

• Dengue fever (nlm.nih.gov)

  Dengue fever (Wikipedia)

• HeadLice.Org For Kids
  Information - Animations - Interactive games
  (headlice.org)

  

   

• Animals of the world: (kidsdomain.com)
  "See how few clues you need to guess the animal in the picture - mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians and fish categories".

• Sites to See: Bugs and Insects (Education World)
  
  

Museums :

• Nature museum unveils 'cocoon'
  "London's Natural History Museum unveils the interactive centre that will soon house 34 million plant and insect specimens...
  The spectacular new wing of London's Natural History Museum has been unveiled."
  (BBC)

  

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• HeadLice.Org For Kids
  Information - Animations - Interactive games
  (headlice.org)
  
  

• Bugs - "Match each bug with its name." (prof2000.pt)
  
  
  

• Wild wordsearch (BBC) -
  "Can you find 17 creepy crawlies hidden in the scrambled letters?"

• Insects Don't Bug Me - interactive exercise (mygradebook.com)
  

Exercises TO PRINT :

• Insects - "Label the insects using the word list." (enchantedlearning.com)

• Insect Vocabulary Quiz - "Match the vocabulary words on the left with the definitions on the right." (teach-nology.com)

• Insect enjoys warmer weather - written with symbols (symbolworld.org)

Lesson plans :

• Bedbugs on the rise in the U.S.A. - a lesson plan
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  
  
  
  Good Night Sleep Tight - a nursery rhyme (zelo.com)

  "Good night, sleep tight, Don’t let the bedbugs bite. And if they do Then take your shoe A nd knock ‘em ‘til They’re black and blue!"

  Listen to the song. (david-m.org)

  Sleep tight = Sleep well
  + Origin
  (phrases.org.uk)

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

  
  
  See Facts

   

• Pest World for Kids
  Amazing Pests - Threats and Prevention - Send a Postcard - Learning Games - For Teachers
  (pestworldforkids.com:80)

  

• Creepy crawlies and venomous animals. (British Council)
  "Have a look at the articles, story, word games, cartoons, poll, trivia and links."

  

• Insects - worksheets and online games (British Council) - UPDATED
  
  

Webquests :

• Insectweb - A WebQuest -
  "In this unit you will be learning about different kinds of insects. How they look, what they eat and how they are the same or different." (projects.edtech.sandi.net)
  
  

Symbols :

• Beetles as religious symbols (insects.org)

Stories :

• Termites feast on trader's money
  "A trader in the Indian state of Bihar has lost his life savings after termites infesting his bank's safe deposit boxes ate them up."
  (BBC)

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  - a lesson plan with flashcards
  (curry.edschool.virginia.edu)
  
  

Art :

• Insects and Oriental Art (insects.org)

Poems :

• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly... - a rebus rhyme to read aloud (zoomdinosaurs.com)
  
• I spy a little fly - a poem (BBC)

• Left right Left right - a poem (BBC)

• Where the Bees Suck (William Shakespeare) - (geocities.com/holidaysfun)
  
  

INTERACTIVE games :

• The Great Bug Hunt - interactive game
  "Learn about predators and pollinators."
  (ecokids.ca)

  

Games TO PRINT :

• Insects Word Search Worksheet (teach-nology.com)

Songs :

• Good Night Sleep Tight - a nursery rhyme (zelo.com)

  "Good night, sleep tight, Don’t let the bedbugs bite. And if they do Then take your shoe A nd knock ‘em ‘til They’re black and blue!"

  Listen to the song. (david-m.org)

  Sleep tight = Sleep well
  + Origin
  (phrases.org.uk)

• We're Going To Be Friends sung by The White Stripes (n° 9) - (whitestripes.net)
  "Walk with me, Suzy Lee
  through the park and by the tree
  we will rest upon the ground
  and look at all the bugs we found
  then safely walk to school
  without a sound"
  - with the VIDEO (You Tube)

  

• Yummy by Ohio Express
  (lyricsdownload.com)

• Birds and Bees by Jewel Akens
  (lyricsdownload.com)

• She bangs by William Hung :
  "'Cause she walks like she talks
  And she talks like she walks...
  I go crazy 'cause she
  Looks like a flower
  But she stings like a bee...
  if it looks like love..."

• The Bee Song by Arthur Askey :
  "I'd like to be a busy little bee,
  Being as busy as a bee can be."
  (monologues.co.uk)

Cartoons :

Videos :

• WWF Earth Hour: Moths (YouTube)
  "Leo Burnett demonstrates the more direct consequences of not joining the rest of the world in turning out the lights during Earth Hour, March 26."
  (Creative Criminals)
  

  

• Commercial spoof of the anti-mosquito laser system by the Groen Brothers.
  (flixxy.com)

  

Cinema :

• A Bug's Life (1998)
  was "the third American computer-animated film after Toy Story and Antz.
  It tells the tale of an oddball individualist inventor ant who hires what he thinks are "warrior bugs" — actually circus performers — to fight off a huge swarm of grasshoppers who have made the ant colony their servants."
  It is "a parody of Aesop's fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper."
  (Wikipedia)
  
  
  
  A Bug's Life Trailer
  (YouTube)

  

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