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Vocabulary : 
- Telephone
English - The Phrases (about.com)
"There are a number of phrases and idioms that
are only used when telephoning."
- with Practical Exercises: Exercises to Improve Your
Telephoning Skills
Role Plays: Role Play Dialogue Cues to Practice Telephoning
with Friends...
- On
the phone - liste d'expressions
- The
Smiley dictionary

- transl8it!
(trans-late-it) is simple to use!
"Just type in your SMS or TXT lingo and let transL8it! convert
it to plain english OR type in a phrase in english and convert it to
TXT lingo!"


Facts :

-
Spain
treats child phone addicts 
"Two children in Spain have been admitted to a mental health
institution to be treated for addiction to their mobile phones, Spanish
media report...
They were doing badly at school and lying to relatives in order to
get money to spend on their phones...
Mobile phone addiction "could definitely be a danger in the future".
"
(BBC)

-
Satellite
phone
"A satellite telephone, satellite phone, or satphone is a
mobile phone, but unlike conventional cellular phones, which use cell
sites, it uses orbiting satellites..."
(Wikipedia)
- Mobile phone use on planes
Teaching with cell phones : 
Safety :
Listening :
-
Task Town
is for students who want to participate with the audio. (elllo.org)
As you listen you need to make choices or interact with the
audio. Have Fun!
Take a message!
-
A
Free Cell Phone! (esl-lab.com)
"A teenager talks to her father about getting a "free"
mobile phone."
I. Pre-Listening Exercises
II. Listening Exercises
III. Post-Listening Exercises
- Telephone
Expressions Dictation
(eolf.univ-fcomte.fr)
- AUDIO : Activités
interactives (Yvan Baptiste)
- "symboles phonétiques avec des exemples à écouter,
deux pages exhaustives sur les paires minimales,
comment épeler au téléphone,
50 prénoms américains courants épelés à reconnaître, etc."
- On the Phone
(with exercises)

- Is your dad home? (E)
- Telephone Conversations (E)
- Telephone Numbers (E)
- Answering Machine (E)
- Hello. May I help you? (E)
- English Language Center (M)
- First Mountain Bank (D)
- Telemarketing (D)
(esl-lab.com)
Role-play : 
-
Telephone
role-plays
"These role cards present a series of simple
situations for pre-intermediate and intermediate level learners, working
in pairs.
(British Council)
-
Making
Plans on the Telephone: A Line-up
Style Role-play (bogglesworldesl.com)
"Students are divided into two groups: callers and receivers.
Callers will get on the phone and call the receivers.
They will then make plans if their schedules are not too busy or perhaps
the receiver will try to make an excuse.
This is a line-up style role-play that is excellent for teaching telephone
English."
- Can
I Take a Message: Telephone Role-play (bogglesworldesl.com)
INTERACTIVE exercises : 
- Telephone
English (openlearningcenter.com)
Telephone Terms | Telephone Language | Telephone Tips | Practice 1 |
Practice 2 | Practice 3 | Telephone Quiz
- Polite speech
(linguarama.com)
"All these phrases are used over the telephone.
Match the phrases on the left with their responses on the right.
Choose the correct response from the drop-down list."
- Telephoning
: useful words and expressions (4 exercises) - interactive (Michel
Barbot)
- Imperatives - (British Council)
"Below are some instructions for using a phone-card public telephone.
But the instructions are all mixed up.
Can you put them in the right order?"

- SMS
- Match the SMS messages with the complete phrases.- interactive
(its-online)
- transl8it!
(trans-late-it) is simple to use!
"Just type in your SMS or TXT lingo and let transL8it! convert
it to plain english OR type in a phrase in english and convert it to
TXT lingo!"

Exercises TO PRINT :
- Telephone
English Resources (handoutsonline.com)
Telephone Roleplays - Jumbled Conversations - Polite English - Leaving
Messages -
Message Pads
- MOBILE PHONES - Smilies
(absolutenglish-972)

"Match the items on the right (feelings, people, animals...) to
the corresponding smilies."
Lesson plans : 
- Mobile phones - une séquence :
Video + Audio + Posters & adverts + Publications
(think.dft.gov.uk)
-
Telephony.
"Take a look at the article, story, cartoon, poll, word game, trivia and links."
(British Council)

- Telephone
English - The Phrases (about.com)
"There are a number of phrases and idioms that
are only used when telephoning."
- with Practical Exercises: Exercises to Improve Your
Telephoning Skills
Role Plays: Role Play Dialogue Cues to Practice Telephoning
with Friends...
- Mobiles
- useful or dangerous?
- with audio, script and factsheet
(Penguin Dossiers)
- Mobile
phones - a lesson
Lexical area: Phone language (text messages, to ring, ring tones
etc)
Cross curricular links: Social studies
(British Council)
- Vodafone's vending machine mobile phones (Breaking News English)
- a lesson plan with "a news article,
listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work, discussion,
reading and vocabulary exercises."
- MOBILE
PHONES - a resource page including links and exercises
(absolutenglish-972)

"Amongst the new technologies, mobile phones remain the most popular
worldwide.
Yet, while more and more people own cell phones, the device represents
a real danger, on the brain, as well as on the road...."
- MOBILE
PHONES - Advertising Campaign (absolutenglish-972)
"This activity is based on a radio advert for
the Mobile Phones campaign ...
that aims to reinforce the message 'you can't do two things at once'.
It was advertised in 2002."
- The
Cell Phone Age (handoutsonline.com)
Target Structure: Reading, vocabulary and discussion
Level: Advanced
- I'm on my mobile
- a lesson plan (ADVANCED)

Language function: choosing the best deal; reading comprehension (english-4u.com)
SITE PAYANT
INTERACTIVE games :
Jokes :
Cartoons :
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Cartoon déclencheur de paroles
(décrire la scène, les personnages,
leurs habitudes
- imaginer la conversation...)
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Phone for all
(cartoonbox.slate.com)

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Death
(absolutenglish-972)

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MOBILE PHONES :
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Animations / Videos : 
- Cell Phones - Video Snapshot
"Watch this video clip on the topic of cell phones and answer the questions based on what you hear."
(esl-lab.com)
Posters
/ Ads : 
Songs :
- Phone Call from 'The Rebel Cell' (album) by Dizraeli

(music.dizraeli.com)
-
MOOSEBUTTER - LYRICS and AUDIO (moosebutter.com)
Lyrics, Notes and Trivia
Cell Phone 
"What's the nerve of you, talking on your cell phone?
Ain't you got nothing better to do, talking on your cell phone?
Walking down the sidewalk, sitting at home with your girlfriend? No end?..."
- Busy
line sung by Rose Murphy
"I put a nickel in the telephone, dialled my baby's number
Got a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line
Each time I tried I got a busy tone
Not my baby's number"
(lyricsplayground.com)
- the VIDEO
(YouTube) 

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