Vocabulary :

• Park (Wikipedia)

Cliparts / Pictures :

Famous parks :

• Bushy Park - North of Hampton Court Palace (royalparks.gov.uk)

  Bushy Park "is the second largest of London's Royal Parks, at 445 hectares (1,100 acres) in area..." (Wikipedia)

  1 History 2 The Park today 3 Transport 4 Gallery

  
  

   

  Download a detailed map of Bushy Park.

  Royal parks - London borough

  
  
  
  
• Hyde Park, London (Wikipedia)
  
  

• Speakers' Corner in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in London (Wikipedia)
  

• Home Park, Windsor (Wikipedia)
  
  
  
  

• Central Park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City (Wikipedia)
  
  
  
  
  
• Parks in the 13 American Colonies (socialstudiesforkids.com)
  

Listening :

• Personal Security: Theft in the Park (esl-lab.com)
  + script + interactive activity

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• Rules (MUST and MUSTN'T) - Interactive Book - with AUDIO
  Created by Laurence HAQUET (Ac. Rouen)

Exercises TO PRINT :

• Park Symbols - Matching exercise (kids.parks.ca.gov)
  
  
• Prohibited - Allowed : Park warden (bogglesworldesl.com)
  
  
  

Lesson plans :

• The Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon : Amelia's Game in the Park
  with Lessons & activities
  (science.hq.nasa.gov)
  
  

Webquests :

• HYDE PARK and THE LONDON ZOO - a webquest created by Sylvie Teillot (Ac Grenoble)
  + LONDON WEBQUESTS - CORRECTIONS
  
  

INTERACTIVE games :

• A game : Trombone's Clean Up the Park -
  "Students can practise sorting recyclable items." (fen.funbrain)
  
  
  
  

Signs :

• Keep off the grass! (No link)
  
  

Cartoons :

		For smooth, silky hair - an ad
Toilets in the park (staffordrailwaycircle.org.uk)	Beggar cooking in a park (cartoonstock.com)	Hey! I warned you kids! (cartoonstock.com)

Poems :

• No. 12 - Central Park (authorsden.com)

• The Kids AT The Park (authorsden.com)

• Hazel Bazemore County Park by Harold Fetter (No link) :
  "To find a park like her is very hard,
  So I adopted her as my backyard.
  This is more than just a park,
  She is Nature's work of art."

• Ian's poem (BBC)
  
  
  

Songs :

• POISONING PIGEONS IN THE PARK :
  • Poisoning pigeons in the park by Tom Lehrer - a Flash animation
    (albinoblacksheep.com)

    

   

  • Poisoning Pigeons In The Park by Tom Lehrer - LYRICS

   

  • Poisoning Pigeons in the Park de Tom Lehrer. - (prof.danglais)
    "Full series of oral and written activities, with teacher's instructions."

   

• Living next door to Alice by Smokie :
  "We grew up together two kids in the park
  We carved our initials deep in the bark, me and Alice"

Videos :

• Newsy Video: Critics Defy NYC's Outdoor Smoking Ban
  "New York City officially prohibits outdoor smoking starting from this Monday." Transcript & sources
  LINKS + COMMENT
  (jeffreyhill.typepad.com)
  
  NYC’s Parks, Beaches And Pedestrian Plazas Are Now Smoke-Free 
  "Effective today (23/05/2011), smoking is prohibited within New York City’s parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas.
  The new law will reduce people’s exposure to secondhand  smoke outdoors."
  (nycgovparks.org)
  
  

• Mr Bean in the park (You Tube) - UPDATED
  
  

• Mr. Bean - The sandwich incident (You Tube) - UPDATED