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(Updated on 30/08/2010)


 


 


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Cartoons - Jokes - Flash Animations - Interactive games -
Television
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Facts :

 



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."

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"


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 :

 

Stories :

 

 

Roleplay :

Cartoons :

 


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 f
or 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 :

 

 

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 :

  • 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"