Cliparts :

Facts :

• Young mother Emma Jones 'killed for complaining about loud music'
  "Emma Jones was believed to have asked neighbours to turn down their music before she was fatally stabbed."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

• Defecating dog sparks US shootout
  "Two neighbours in the US state of Mississippi drew weapons and fired at each other as an argument over a defecating dog ran out of control."
  (BBC)

  

• Woman, 92, 'shot at man over kiss snub'
  "A 92-year-old Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly fired shots at a neighbour who refused to kiss her...
  She then allegedly fired four rounds into Mr Bettner's house from a semi-automatic pistol, shattering a window...
  Mrs Staudinger, who denies asking Mr Bettner for a kiss, faces charges of aggravated assault and firearms offences. "
  (news.myjoyonline.com)

• Tarantino sues - Exotic birds are driving me insane
  "Quentin Tarantino is going to WAR with his famous neighbor (Alan Ball) - claiming the guy owns a ton of exotic birds (macaws) that constantly emit "blood-curdling screams" ... and it's affecting Q's ability to write scripts!"
  (tmz.com)

• Couple in planning row with neighbours after painting house bright pink in Herefordshire
  (telegraph.co.uk)

  
  

• Loathe thy neighbour? (BBC News)
  
  

• Neighborly Tips (cbsnews.com)
  
  
  

Proverbs :

• American Proverb : "Folks like the truth that hits their neighbour."(quotesandsayings.com)

• German proverb : "A good neighbour doubles the value of a house."

• Italian proverb : "God save you from a bad neighbour and from a beginner on the fiddle."

• Russian proverb : "Don't buy the house; buy the neighbour."

• "Good fences make good neighbours" : history and significance of an ambiguous proverb (findarticles.com)
  
  

Humour :

• The well-known argument of the witch hunt:
  "All witches keep black cats. My neighbour keeps a black cat. So my neighbour must be a witch"
  

• A man tried to sell his neighbour a new dog... - Joke 8 (jokes2go.com)

Listening :

• Easy Pet Care - "A man tries to persuade his neighbor to take care of his unusual pets." (esl-lab.com)
  I. Pre-Listening Exercises II. Listening Exercises III. Post-Listening Exercises
  Level: Medium

Activities TO PRINT :

• My neighbor's cat is ... - with adjectives from A to Z (eslkidstuff.com)
  
  

Stories :

• Good Neighbours : a story with activities (englishclub.com)

Roleplay :

• Personal Complaint Menu Roleplay - Teaching Complaints and Responses (eslflow.com)
  
  
  

Cartoons :

		Like a good neighbour... (blogs.trb.com)
Get down from there! The neighbours are looking! (farm1.static.flickr.com)	Teach to fish... (cartoonstock.com) Remember the Chinese proverb : "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." (quotationspage.com)	Cat poop Click on the picture.
Noisy Neighbours (cartoonstock.com)	DO FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS? (cagle.com)	Nosey Neighbours (cartoonstock.com)
Snoring (cartoonstock.com)	Neighbours (unswpress.com.au)	Neighbourhood

Jokes :

• When I was a kid, I had no watch.
  I used to tell the time by my violin.
  I used to practise in the middle of the night,
  and the neighbours would yell,
  "Fine time to practise the violin, three o'clock in the morning!"

  

Flash Animations :

• Neuro - a FLASH animation by Bozzetto (pagesperso-orange.fr/prof.danglais)
  - avec des exercices à imprimer (M. Henry)
  
  

INTERACTIVE games :

• The Angry Neighbours (sfhgroup.com)
  "Your two neighbours are in a nasty argument. Can you help them resolve it before things get out of control?"
  
  

Television :

• Neighbours : "a long-running Australian television soap opera" (Wikipedia)

Songs :

• Won't you be my neighbor ? sung by Fred M. Rogers (PBS Kids)

• Living Next Door To Alice by Smokie

• Man Next Door by Massive Attack :
  "There is a man that live next door
  In my neighborhood...
  And he gets me down...

  He gets in so late at night
  Always a fuss and fight...
  All through the night"

Poems :

• Neighbours by Benjamin Zephaniah
  "I am the type you are supposed to fear
  Black and foreign
  Big and dreadlocks
  An uneducated grass eater..."
  (poemhunter.com)