Cliparts :

• Martial Arts Images - cliparts - gifs animés... (angelfire.com/ms/wma)

• Des dessins (aikidofaq.com)

• Polices asiatiques (dafont.com)

Vocabulary :

• Martial Arts - Vocabulary (englishvillage.files.wordpress.com)

  

• Samurai and Martial Arts (library.thinkquest.org)

• List of martial arts weapons (Wikipedia)
  
  

• Chinese Martial Arts (chinavoc.com)

• Northern China Shaolin (shaolins.com)
  
  

Listening :

• Aikido
  "Mark talks with Mike about how he got into the martial art of Aikido."
  - with a worksheet and an interactive activity
  (elllo.org)

  

• Women fight to be sumos - Listen to the story (BBC)
  
  

• Capoeira, the Brazilian martial art - AUDIO (BBC)
  "It is the latest craze to hit London...
  Our reporter, Andrea Rose, visits a capoeira class and talks to a learner and an expert about what it is like."
  - with the script

  

Conversation Questions :

• Conversation Questions : Martial Arts (iteslj)

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• Martial Arts Quiz - 26 slides (thinkquest.org)
  
  

• Martial arts - interactive game (British Council)
  
  

Stories / News :

• Brisk business for China's female bodyguards - with a VIDEO
  "Martin Patience meets some of China's newest female bodyguards in training.
  With her smart black business suit and her high heels, Chen Hai Rong could pass as an ordinary office worker...
  Female clients prefer women to their often burly male counterparts as they draw less attention - and scandal...
  During the six-month course the women - nearly all graduates - learn a whole range of skills including kung fu, surveillance and first-aid.
  They even receive etiquette classes so they can behave appropriately around their clients...
  The firm charges about $300 (£188) a day per female bodyguard (the employees can earn $100 per day.)"
  (BBC)

• Teddy Riner 
  "(born 7 April 1989 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French judoka.
  He's 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) and 286 lb (130 kg) and has been given the nickames Teddy Bear[1] and Teddy Winner [2].
  At 18 years and 5 months Teddy Riner became the youngest world champion of the history of his sport.
  To date, he holds an unmatched record of six world titles obtained in the +100kg, Men's Team and the Open categories [3][4].
  He is considered as one of the greatest judoka in activity."
  (Wikipedia)

  

• Shaolin Kung Fu - Battle for the Soul of Kung Fu
  "In the shadow of China’s legendary Shaolin Temple, a kung fu master’s disciples confront the changing world of martial arts."
  Article + Photo Gallery + Short video
  (ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
  "In the past few decades, Shaolin Temple has become famous. Indeed, for many it is synonymous with kung fu.
  The temple has become an international business empire - it has built martial arts academies, funded touring kung fu troupes, shot film and TV projects. But as it is gaining in fame, is Shaolin Temple losing its soul? Peter Gwin of National Geographic writes this fascinating article about the lives of a couple of Shaolin disciples..."
  +  the video clip of Shi Dejian mentioned in the article.
  (Neatorama)

• Ninjas rescue student from muggers
  "Ninjas scared off three thugs who had the misfortune to attack the 27-year-old medical student outside their warrior school."
  (heraldsun.com.au)

  

• Kung fu empowers Nepal nuns
  "The Drukpa sect, which places an emphasis on meditation, is popular throughout the Himalayas and also with Westerners...
  It's excellent exercise,
  secondly it's very good for discipline and concentration,
  thirdly it arouses a sense of self-confidence which is very important for nuns,
  and fourthly when any young men in the area know nuns are kung fu experts, they keep away "
  (BBC)
  
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• Service at sword point at "Ninja" restaurant
  "Waitresses wield swords and flare flames at diners, who have to get past a moat before sitting at their table in the dimly lit dining hall...
  Ninjas were mercenaries who resorted to unusual warfare strategies such as espionage, sabotage and assassination from as far back as 700 years ago in feudal Japan. They remain a common, enduring theme in Japanese folklore...
  Ninja competes with restaurants that specialize in airliner, dinosaur and toilet decor in a city teeming with theme diners. "
  (reuters.com)

• Taekwondo monkeys attack trainer
  "A troop of performing monkeys instructed in the martial art of taekwondo has taken revenge on their trainer...
  Lo Wung, 42, taught the monkeys so they could entertain crowds outside a shopping centre in Nshi, in eastern China's Hubei province."
  (telegraph.co.uk)
  
  

   

• The Transformation of Egbert (aiki-extensions.org)
  "Egbert is a pretty normal kid with a not so normal name. A name he blames for being teased and getting into fights at school..."

  

• "The Code of the Karateka is a story about a boy who finds a peaceful solution to his problems."
  (miscositas.com)
  
  

Poems :

• Ninja Poem (xeni.net)
  
  
  
  

Songs :

• The Karate Rap

• Hoodie Ninja by Mc Chris
  (YouTube)
  + LYRICS
  "Got my ninja bag AKA a pillow case
  Filled with nacho flavored combos, a flashlight, and masking tape"
  (songmeanings.net)
  
  

• Kung Fu Fighting by Carl Douglas

INTERACTIVE games :

• Grammar Ninja! - interactive game - 3 levels : Find the nouns, the verbs, the adverbs...
  (ungrounded.net)

Cartoons :

• You've lost your front teeth! (British Council)

  

• Comment apprendre la conjugaison du verbe être...
  
  

• KI cartoon (yachigusaryu.com)
  (Ne pas confondre KI et KEY!)

Videos :

• Bruce Lee - Enter the Dragon: "Don'tThink! Feel."
  Difficulty: Easy - with subtitles
  Description: "The Kung-Fu master teaches his student the right way to perform a kick."
  (englishcentral.com)

  

• Himalayan Buddhist nuns take up kung fu
  (BBC)
  
  See Stories / News

• Fight for Kisses - Publicité
  (ffk-wilkinson.com)
  - vidéo d'animation réalisée par l'agence JWT pour le compte de Wilkinson/Energizer.
  "C'est pour regagner l'attention de sa femme, qu'un père va se battre à armes égales avec son bébé..."
  (bonweb.fr)

  

• Mike Huckabee Ad: "Chuck Norris Approved" (YouTube)

  

  
  Mike Huckabee
  He "is an American politician and a political commentator for Fox News Channel.
  A member of the Republican Party, Huckabee served as governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007
  and finished second in the 2008 United States Republican presidential primaries."
  (Wikipedia)

Cinema :

• The Karate Kid - Remake with Jackie Chan (2010)
  "The plot concerns a 12-year-old boy from Detroit who moves to China with his mother and incurs the wrath of the neighborhood bully. He makes an unlikely ally in the form of his aging maintenance man, Mr. Han, a kung fu master who teaches him the secrets to self-defense."
  (Wikipedia)
  
  
  
  THE KARATE KID - Official Trailer
  (YouTube)
  
  

• KUNG FU PANDA :

  • Cannes kicks off with panda power
    "An invasion of panda bears has helped launch the 61st Cannes Film Festival, which has begun in France.
    Comic actor Jack Black arrived by boat with 40 people in giant panda outfits to promote Kung Fu Panda, an animated tale of a bear who loves martial arts."
    + a VIDEO
    (BBC)

   

  
  
• Jet Li's FEARLESS
  Synopsis / Trailers / Film Clips...
  (jetlisfearless.com)