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Species kept as exotic pets
Issues : Legal / Health / Husbandry / Domestication
(Wikipedia)
Summary of State Laws 
Relating to Private Possession of Exotic Animals
(bornfreeusa.org)
The Dangers of Keeping Exotic Pets 
- A fact sheet
(compassionateconsumer.org)
Exotic pet trade - Fact sheet
"The trade in wild animals for pets causes suffering to millions of animals,
disrupts ecosystems and drives species to extinction. The trade also
provides a route for disease transmission, which poses a risk
to human and animal health.
Worldwide, an estimated 4 million birds, 640,000 reptiles,
40,000 primates and 350 million tropical fish
are recorded in trade each year."
(internationalanimalrescue.org)
Describing a Supermarket Scene: Level A
"Students learn supermarket-related vocabulary to write about what they see,
who they see, and what people are doing at a supermarket. Students write their
own paragraph about a drawing of a supermarket scene. A self study lesson calls
for students to write a grocery list of 10 items for their next shopping trip."
(escurriculum.spps.org)
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Using Adjectives to Describe a Busy Street Scene
(escurriculum.spps.org)
Describe the picture on page 7.
Use of present BE + ing
(lccibalkans.net)
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WINTER WEATHER
Intermediate English Lesson - The Big Freeze
with a "video 
about the extreme weather that the UK is currently experiencing."
+ Related quizzes
(esolcourses.blogspot.com)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
"is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of the
BBC Radio 4's Cutting a Dash programme. In the book, published in 2003,
Truss bemoans the state of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the
United States, and describes how rules are being relaxed in today's society.
Her goal is to remind readers of the importance of punctuation
in the English language by mixing humour and instruction."
What Apple's iPad can do
"Apple has launched a touchscreen tablet called the iPad,
which can be used to watch films, play games and browse the web."
(BBC)
In pictures : Apple's iPad device
(BBC)
Dog rescued after drifting 75 miles on ice in Baltic Sea
"It was really a tough struggle. It kept slipping into the water and crawling
back on top of the ice. At one point it vanished underwater, under the ship and
we thought it was the end, but it emerged again and crawled on an ice sheet,"...
"At that point, the crew lowered a pontoon down to the water and a crew member managed to grab the dog by the scruff of its neck and pull it to safety."
(telegraph.co.uk)
Watch the beginning of the video.
(BBC)
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Powers to curb underage drinking come into force
"New powers aimed at tackling the problem of under-age drinking
in England and Wales have come into force."
(BBC)
'The Catcher in the Rye'
"is a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger.
Originally published for adults, it has since become popular
with adolescent readers for its themes of alienation and rebellion...
The novel's protagonist and antihero, Holden Caulfield, has become
an icon for teenage rebellion."
(Wikipedia)
J. D. Salinger (1919 - 2010)
"was an American author"
(Wikipedia)
Catcher in the Rye novelist JD Salinger dies at 91
" The Catcher In The Rye, first published in 1951, is a tale of teenage angst.
It has become one of the most influential American novels of the modern era."
(BBC)
Obituary: JD Salinger
"The son of a well-to-do Jewish businessman and Scots-Irish mother, Jerome
David Salinger was born in New York in 1919 and grew up in uptown Manhattan."
(BBC)
VOCABULARY
ice floe
= "a sheet of ice, of variable size, floating in the sea"
(thefreedictionary.com)
What is an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB)?
" Start by watching a video tutorial about IWBs
and listen to what other teachers say about using technology in the classroom."
(oupeltpromo.com)
Formations TNI
(blogpeda.ac-poitiers.fr)
Ressources pour TNI
CRDP - Ac. Versailles
(intertni.fr)
Uniboard - The Pen Software For Presenting And Teaching
Watch the demo.
(getuniboard.com)
Fabriquer un TNWii pour 41 €
Tableau Numérique à base de Wiimote
(prtice.info)
From 'Dracula' to 'Twilight,' Vampires Evolve With the Times 
"In books, movies and TV shows, why does the public love
to sink its teeth into a good vampire story?"
+ Transcript
(voanews.com)
Miley Cyrus - Wake Up America
"Everything I read is global warming, going green
I don't know what all this means but
It seems to be saying
Wake up America
We're all in this together
It's our home
So let's take care of it"
(elyricsworld.com)
+ the VIDEO with the lyrics
(YouTube)
A Scottish comic has rewritten Robbie Burns' classic poem
'Address to the Haggis' - and renamed it 'Address to the Deep-fried Mars bar'.
"Paul Sneddon penned the new ode, which mocks the dietary habits
of his compatriots and their penchant for alcopops...
''Robbie Burns is the embodiment of a lot about what is good about Scotland
and a lot about what is not so good about Scotland,'' said Sneddon. ''He wrote incredibly moving poetry and romantic verse. And yet he was a drunk
and a womaniser. "
An American Breakfast
"Cette séquence est destinée à des élèves de SEGPA.
C'est la raison pour laquelle, elle est très détaillée.
Elle est construite à partir du logiciel didapage.
Elle se décompose en 2 livres.
Le 1er livre a pour tâche finale l'écriture d' un menu .
Le 2ème livre est en cours de création mais la tâche finale
sera de passer commande d'un petit déjeuner au téléphone
lors d'un séjour à l'hotel aux USA, à partir des menus qu'ils auront créés."
(cadot.over-blog.net)
Hope for Haiti Event Raises Millions
"Some of the biggest stars in entertainment gathered on Friday night to help raise money for Haiti. The event, called ‘Hope for Haiti Now’, was organized
by actor George Clooney..."
- a lesson plan
WARM-UPS :
HAITI / STARS / AID FOR HAITI / ENTERTAINMENT
(breakingnewsenglish.com)
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"Sur un sujet d'actualité : l'Afrique du Sud, Nelson Mandela, l'apartheid,
François Pienaar, voici une autre maquette de leçon interactive proposée
par J.P. Palasse que l'enseignant peut exploiter en classe avec ses élèves
(niveau 3e, 2nde) pour une expression orale guidée avec but culturel, tout en modifiant les données sources du programme, si elles ne lui conviennent pas
(texte, questions, pages d'aide, liens vers les sites ...) :
voir le mode d'emploi Raw Carrots - (Texte à trous)
dans le 'smoothie pédagogique'."
(dijon.iufm.fr/~jppalass)
Expanding Pre-conceived Beliefs About Sex Roles
"Children look at the daily activities of their parents to determine if some
jobs are for "women only" and "men only," or if most activities can be
performed by both men and women."
(eduref.org)
AIRPORT SECURITY
How To Get Through Airport Security
"Shorten your time in the security line with these tips."
(YouTube)
AIRPORT SECURITY
Rick Mercer: Airport Security - Funny video
"Please arrive three days before your flight."
(YouTube)
Hotlix insect candy in pictures:
chocolate scorpions, worm lollipops and maggot toffee apples
(telegraph.co.uk)
Find the animal!
Click on ENGLISH /
Word Level: Spelling & Phonics (Part 3) /
Anagrams, Words Searches & Games
(primaryresources.co.uk)
New water cannon to deter pirates from boarding ships
"A high pressure water cannon has been specially modified to deter pirates
from boarding cargo ships and holding the crew hostage.
Amanda Murray from Dasic Marine and Craig Rivett from Maritime
Protective Services engineered the device and explained how it works."
(BBC)
Treasure Island (maze) - interactive
Find the treasure.
(groovetoenglish.com)
St Valentine's day
"Here are 6 pages about St Valentine's day.
Listen to Stephanie, our American assistant and play the games.
The last pages teach you about fun superstitions.
You will learn about your future life."
Created by Renée Maufroid
Brown unveils new measures to track terrorist suspects
- with a VIDEO
"A "no-fly list" is to be set up to stop suspected terrorists from travelling to
the UK while other individuals under suspicion will undergo thorough checks."
posing the greatest threat
- New intelligence squads to identify threatening individuals early on
- EU, US and other G8 nations to work more closely on intelligence-sharing
and aviation security
(BBC)
QUAKERS 
How did Quakers conquer the British sweet shop?
"Cadbury, which has been sold to US firm Kraft, is one of several great
British firms founded by Quakers. But how did they gain such a stranglehold
on the chocolate industry and why were they so successful in business?...
The move into chocolate began with cocoa drinks in the 19th Century as a
reaction against the perceived misery and deprivation caused by alcohol "
(BBC)
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Air France may bar obese passengers from flights
"Air France has revealed it may prevent obese economy passengers
from boarding its planes for "safety reasons"...
his new rule comes into effect from 1 February (2010).
At present Air France offers heavier passengers 25%
off the price of buying an adjacent seat "
(BBC)
VIDEO GAMES
Video game success may be in the mind, study finds
"If you find video games a struggle, it could be to do with the size
of certain parts of your brain, a study suggests...
No matter what your brain size is, it's what you do with it that counts.
Just remember the hare and the tortoise." "
(BBC)
LINKING WORDS
Linking words - Multiple-choice exercise - Interactive
"Which word should be used to link the two halves of the sentence?"
(home.wanadoo.nl/ijmvermeer)
Linking words 2 - Interactive
"For each gap choose the right linking word
from the list given at the top of the exercise."
+ Linking words 3 + Linking words 4 + Linking words 5
(home.wanadoo.nl/ijmvermeer)
Real birds eye view! Golden Eagle in flight
- Animal Camera - BBC
"Animal lover Steve Leonard explains the secret behind the spectacular
footage of birds of prey in flight used in this short video.
Take a flight with a Golden Eagle in Scotland with the help
of the ultra lightweight animal camera. Great short video
from BBC wildlife show Animal Camera."
(YouTube)
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Facebook Song 
- with the LYRICS on the right of the video
"There's an online world where I am king
of a little website dedicated to me
with pictures of me and a list of my friends
and an unofficial record of the groups that I'm in."
(YouTube)
Misbehaving Students Punished with Mozart
- a lesson plan
"Mr. Walker (the Headmaster) says his main aim is to stop noisy pupils
spoiling lessons for well-behaved students who want to study."
WARM-UPS :
SCHOOL PUNISHMENTS / DETERRENTS / GOOD STUDENTS /
SCHOOL HATES / STUDENTS
(breakingnewsenglish.com)
Pupils forced to listen to Mozart
"Detentions where pupils are forced to listen to classical music are an
effective deterrent against unruly behaviour, a head teacher has found."
(BBC)
A new page :
Facts - Issues : Privacy - Safety -
Vocabulary -
Facebook - Second Life - Twitter -
Education -
Interactive activities - Activities to print - Lesson plans -
Cartoons - Videos - Songs
Time and Daily Routine - Interactive Book
(Laurence HAQUET - Ac. Rouen)
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PEOPLE TO PEOPLE : Rencontres franco-américaines 2010
qui permettent à des groupes de jeunes américains de passer
une journée dans un établissement français
et à vos élèves de rencontrer de jeunes américains.
Régions concernées cette année :
Ile de France, Champagne-Ardenne, Alsace, Lorraine
(aplv-languesmodernes.org)
Oral TESTS - The documents
Compilation de visuels :
Natural Disasters / Global Warming / The Conflict in Ireland /
Science and the Future / AIDS / Travelling / Giving and Receiving Gifts
(Philippe Hattais - englishdaybyday.net)
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Crocodile living in Kent
"A caiman is just one of the dangerous animals Britons keep as pets...
Caesar the spectacled caiman crocodile, who lives with his owner in a
converted bungalow in Kent, is one of dozens of alligators and crocodiles
kept as licenced pets, according to a Sunday Telegraph study...
More than 4,000 animals are licenced under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act (DWAA), which imposes strict security rules on owners to prevent escapes."
(telegraph.co.uk)
The ice-cream parlour with 860 different flavours
""The shop selling the largest number of ice-cream flavours in the world...
is in the Venezuelan city of Merida...
The selection includes chilli, tomato, gherkin, onion, mushrooms in wine,
garlic, and cream of crab. "
(BBC)
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Rapper Fights Yemen Terror with Hip-Hop
- a lesson plan
WARM-UPS :
RAP AND HIP-HOP / FIGHTING TERRORISM / MUSIC / RADIO
(breakingnewsenglish.com)
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ToxMystery
"about household chemical hazards.
Toxie the Cat helps kids find the hazards hidden in each room
and offers hints when needed."
- with lesson plans and activities
(toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov)
YOUTH and INTERNET
Teens Particularly Vulnerable On Web
"Despite warnings of Internet predators, many teenagers continue to put
themselves at risk by posting personal details about their lives,
including their phone numbers and addresses."
(YouTube)
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Guide "Après la troisième" de l'Onisep
Spécial Nouveau Lycée
Document à feuilleter en ligne.
(onisep.fr)
- Bien choisir pour réussir au lycée
- Classe de détermination [ seconde générale et technologique ]
- Cycle terminal de la voie générale [ première et terminale ]
- Cycle terminal de la voie technologique [ première et terminale ]
- Mémo-flash classe de seconde
- Points clés de la réforme
Bend it like Beckham
In this chapter we will cover:
- the themes and issues raised in Bend It Like Beckham
- the ways in which people, places and events are represented
- the style and genre of the fi lm
- possible creative responses.
(pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk)
Bend it Like Beckham
Comprehension and discussion activities for the film
(curriculumproject.org)
Bend It Like Beckham Script
(script-o-rama.com)
Watch the trailer and clips
(foxsearchlight.com)
MORE links here.
(englishacademy.site.voila.fr)
Bend it like Beckham
Class file
- Intermediate / Upper intermediate
"This film, which was extremely popular in Britain and the USA, has all the ingredients and dilemmas that please students: a love story, parent-child relationships, decision making, truth telling, playing sports, hero worship.
Above all it is an excellent illustration of the lives and problems of
Asian minorities in Great Britain (and by extension the same problems faced
by adolescents from immigrant families elsewhere).
We are therefore proposing activities around this theme that can be used
for a unit on multiculturalism for example."
(nathan.fr)
Bad Science - Mr Politician
(YouTube)
Dizraeli
"is a rapper, writer, poet and singer with the band Bad Science...
Directing his stream of rap-stories like a flashlight into the murkiest corners of British culture, Dizraeli takes in politics, love, rain, supermarkets, grief, drug
culture, and the nasty bits of masculinity with a sense of humour and
a directness that might make you wince, but that always ring true."
(BBC)
- Phone Call
- from 'The Rebel Cell' (album) by Dizraeli
(music.dizraeli.com)
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The Geography of a Famous Speech Worksheet
"I have created a worksheet that uses a portion of this speech to review some geography and to spark discussions about this important man and his dream."
(zachary-jones.com)
Fazzino 3-D New York City Street Scenes
& Tribute to Broadway!
"Charles Fazzino's 3-D New York street scene paintings comprise one of
the most complete visual histories of the "City that Never Sleeps."
(fazzino.com)
Voyage en Angleterre - Classes de 4ème
- REVU et ENRICHI
(Marielle Bianchi - mousepotato.over-blog.com)
Teachers Begin Using Cell Phones for Class Lessons
(mobile-tech-today.com)
Turning ON those cell phones when class begins
"Education technology comes in many forms and lately in one Florida
school district it is in the shape of a student cell phone."
(k12blueprint.com)
Sites recommended by Christine Reymond (Ac. Rouen)
Rosa Parks Interview
"Could you tell us exactly what happened that day
on that Montgomery bus?"
+ the transcript
(achievement.org)
Rosa Parks and Emmett Till
"I ... read in an article in the NYT that she refused to leave her seat
because she was thinking of Emmett Till : so I researched about him,
and discovered his story and two documentary films and the fact that
the judgement of his murderers will be revised."
(Christine Reymond - Ac. Rouen)
Rosa Parks
Cartoons
Videos
Audio files
Newspapers
Articles
Special Reports
Photo Essays
Worksheets and lesson plans
Emmett Till
An article in the New York Times
The story of Emmett
Songs, blogs and poems
Documentary films
Lesson plans
Rosa Parks 1913-2005:
We Air A Rare 1956 Interview With Parks
During the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Audio + rush transcript
(democracynow.org)
DESCRIPTIONS
Clothes with Stephanie
"Here are 6 pages of easy activities.
Listen to Stephanie, our American assistant
and follow her instructions."
Created by Renée Maufroid.
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Too much snow closes ski centre
"The CairnGorm Mountain ski centre in the Highlands
will be closed for the day - because of too much snow.'
Vocabulary :
ski centre / blizzard / caterpillar vehicles and snow blowers /
to clear the approach road and the slopes /
snow drifts / funicular railway track up the mountain / ski-tows /
ski-tow towers / caterpillar earth-movers /
a single-track road / a bumper winter / holiday season /
skiers and snowboarders using its runs
(BBC)
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Schools must embrace mobile technology
"The need for schools to prepare for 21st century learning was
top of the agenda at this year's BETT conference.
They must embrace mobile technologies, games, podcasts and social networking,
according to leading educationalist Professor Stephen Heppell.
Schools should also break away from traditional classroom
and curriculum models, he argued."
An article + A video
(BBC)
VOCABULARY
penniless
(thesaurus.reference.com)
Synonyms:
bankrupt, broke, clean, cleaned out, dead broke, destitute, dirt poor,
down to last penny, flat broke, flat, impecunious, impoverished, in the gutter,
indigent, lacking, moneyless, necessitous, needy, on last leg, over a barrel,
penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, ruined, strapped, tapped out, without a dime
Antonyms :
affluent, rich, wealthy
Ten celebrities who died penniless
Oscar Wilde, Michael Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent van Gogh, ...
(timesbusiness.typepad.com)
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English lessons for 'Polish' dog
"A dog caused confusion in an animal home when he failed to respond
to basic commands - until staff realised he could only understand Polish...
Staff ( at the RSPCA centre) brushed up on Polish commands and,
four months on, they say Cent is now bilingual and ready for a new home. "
(BBC)
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Haiti in Ruins After Huge Earthquake
- a lesson plan
WARM-UPS :
EARTHQUAKES / DISASTERS / PREPARED / AID FOR HAITI
(breakingnewsenglish.com)
Jeu du Baccalauréat : "Stop the Bus !"
3 documents d’accompagnement vous sont proposés :
- Les consignes et règles du jeu en anglais
- Les lettres de l’alphabet à découper
- La grille du joueur
(openenglishweb.org)
Dogs - Listen!
with the transcript and activities
(listenaminute.com)
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Two Gentlemen of Lebowski by Adam Bertocci
"Bertocci basically does a scene-by-scene rewrite of the movie,
with judicious conflation of scenes... Bertocci pulls lines from actual Shakespeare...
He employed a mix of prose and verse, without much distinction to
whether characters use one or the other at all times..."
(bscreview.com)
Read the play.
(runleiarun.com)
Haiti earthquake feared to have killed hundreds
(12 January 2010)
"A 7.0-magnitude quake which hit south of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince
is feared to have killed hundreds of people across the Caribbean country."
- with audio , a video and pictures
(BBC)
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Todd Rundgren — Onomatopoeia
"My senses tell me hubba...
It's sort of lub, dub, lub, dub...
It's sort of zoom, zip, hiccup, drip
Ding, dong, crunch, crack, bark, meow, whinnie, quack...
Screech, splash, squish, squeek
Jingle, rattle, squeel, boing
Honk, hoot, hack, belch"
(lyricsfreak.com)
Listen to the song.
(YouTube)
Watching TV Linked to Higher Risk of Death
"Australian researchers who tracked 8,800 people for an average of six years
found that those who said they watched TV for more than four hours a day were
46% more likely to die of any cause and 80% more likely to die of
cardiovascular disease than people who reported spending
less than two hours a day in front of the tube.
Time spent in front of televisions and computers and playing videogames has
come under fire in studies in recent years for contributing to an epidemic of
obesity in the U.S. and around the world. "
(bakeridi.edu.au)
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Documents concernant le cinéma
1 - vocabulaire du cinéma (de l'anglais et du français, dans un certain désordre...)
2 - études de genres cinématographiques et de films
3 - liste de sites intéressants
(angellier.biblio.univ-lille3.fr)
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