Cliparts :

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

• Des dessins (aikidofaq.com)

• Polices asiatiques (dafont.com)

Vocabulary :

• 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)

  

• Martial Arts - LIEN MODIFIE
  "Read the article and then do a comprehension exercise.
  Finally, do some writing yourself."
  (British Council)

  

• 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)

• Martial arts (British Council)
  " At the top are names of 10 types of martial arts.
  Below are descriptions of these martial arts.
  Use your mouse to move the names from the top to the boxes below.
  Use the right button on your mouse to check your answers."
  
  

Stories / News :

• 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)
  
  See Videos

  
  
  

• 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 :

• 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

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 :

• 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)