Vocabulary :

• Television genres (Wikipedia)
  "This category lists genres of television programming."

• Television program (Wikipedia)
  1 Program Content : 1.1 Genres - 1.1.1 Scripted entertainment - 1.1.2 Unscripted entertainment - 1.1.3 Informational
  2 Development
  3 Production
  4 Distribution : 4.1 Seasons/Series - 4.2 A UK/US comparison
  

• Colloquial names for television (websters-online-dictionary.org)
  + Synonyms: Television (vers le milieu de la page)
  + Expressions: Television

• Television program (websters-online-dictionary.org)

• Famous Japanese TV and Movie Characters :
  Astroboy - Totoro - Godzilla - Pikachu - Doraemon - Sailor Moon (chicousd.org)

  

• List of fictional robots and androids - 1 Theatre 2 Literature 3 Films 4 Television... (Wikipedia)

• Reality TV News (bigbtv.com)
  
  

• Reality TV Planet News : Fear Factor - Survivor...

Listening :

• Forensic Scientists: America's New Pop Culture Heroes
  (voanews.com)

  

• TV Guide (esl-lab.com:80)
  Topic: "A man and woman discuss what they want to watch on TV, with an unusual ending."
  I. Pre-Listening Exercises
  II. Listening Exercises
  III. Post-Listening Exercises
  

• Is TV a good or bad thing ? (elllo.org)
  
  

• see TV series

• LOST - "Listen and find the missing words." (Soundguide)
  (cliquer à gauche sur Sujets divers / Séries télé)

  

• 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!
  What's on TV

• Commercials (à visionner) - ex : Levi's : "Odyssey" (framestore-cfc)

• Spotstv.com (à visionner) - ex : Coca Cola : Shiwawa (pro.spotstv.com)

• TV Commercials - Video Listening Exercises (eolf.univ-fcomte.fr) - Lien modifié :
  Alexis Lechine Wines - Bathroom Cleaner - Baggies Food Wraps - Beech-Nut Baby Food - Bounty Paper Towels - Cherrios and V-8 Juice - Dentu-Creme - Chevrolet - Wonderful Fords

• UK Television Adverts -
  "adverts for Abbey National, Adidas, Becks, Boddingtons, British Airways, Budweiser, Carling, Carlsberg, Coca-Cola, Dime bar, Dry Blackthorn, Dunlop, Frontera 4x4, Guinness, Honda, KitKat, Labatt's, Levi's, Lilt, Lynx, Morgan stanley, Nike, Nintendo gamecube, Olde English cider, o2, Orange, Pringles, Reebok, Sony, Stella Artois, Strongbow, Tango, Tennent's Pilsner,TTA, T-mobile,Vodafone, Volvo, Worthingtons."

• "Short sound clips together with their transcripts.
  Clips come directly from commercially produced TV series and movies, like Star Wars and Black Adder." (The English weblab)

• Finding Faulty Logic in Ads (tv411.org)

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• Abbreviations of U.S. Television Networks and Channels (a4esl.org)
  
  

• Turn off the TV : Vocabulary + Interactive exercises (englishpage.com)
  
  

• TV Addiction Quiz: Are YOU addicted to TV? (trashyourtv.com)
  
  

• 50s TV Heroes: Heroic Gestures and Other Habits (funtrivia.com)
  
  

• Desperate Housewives
  "How well do you know the characters of this American series?"
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid
  
  

• Television - (about.com)
  "Put each of the following words or phrases in the correct gap." :
  "program, channel, commercials, quiz shows, subjective, prime-time, documentary, media, newscast, viewers, soap operas, watch, switch, surfing, couch potato, talk shows, series, movie, network, cable, infomercials"
  
  

• Television - (British Council) - LIEN MODIFIE
  "At the top are five words related to television.
  Below are sentences about television, with gaps in them.
  Can you put the words in the right spaces?"
  
  
  
  

• Reality Shows (British Council) - an article with a comprehension exercise (interactive) - LIEN MODIFIE
  
  
  
  
  

• Television and the Media Quiz - ex :
  ""Those were today's headlines. And now it's Angela McCarthy with her weather ...... ". forecast / broadcast / presentation" (world-english)

• Finding Faulty Logic in Ads (tv411.org)

Exercises TO PRINT :

• TV Worksheets (teachingenglish.org.uk)

• My TV Guide - activity to print (fi.edu:80)

• My TV Guide - activity to print (teachingtime.co.uk:80)

• Television - Vocabulary - LIEN RETABLI le 08/10/2009
  - Matching exercises to print 1) with pictures 2) with definitions
  (Ac. Nancy-Metz)

  

  
  

• TV COMMERCIAL (Académie de Montpellier)
  - Une grille de lecture sur les spots de publicité et documents publicitaires -

• Activities for the ESL Classroom Incorporating Reality-based TV (iteslj)

Lesson plans :

• See Lesson plans ('Publicité')

• 21 November is World Television Day.  Practise your English while you learn about television.
  "Have a look at the articles, story, word game, cartoon, trivia and links."
  (British Council)
  
  

• Soap operas - with a text you can listen to
  Vocabulary explained
  + Activities to download
  + Related links : The Flatmates - EastEnders - Coronation Street - Emmerdale - The Soap Show
  (BBC)

  

• Survivor Sequence + the different genres of TV reality shows
  (Florinda FERNANDES - Calvados)
  
  

• Teen Big Brother UK - a lesson plan - with a video
  and a slideshow
  (Laurence Bernard - Ac. Martinique)

  

• Séquence - Reality TV (A2 - B1)
  "La séquence s'inscrit dans la perspective actionnelle et s'inspire des scénarii du DCL.
  Il s'agira pour les élèves de collecter de l'information dans différents types de documents pour mener à bien une mission.
  La tâche finale /la mission à accomplir:
  Imaginer un nouveau programme de TV- réalité et en faire une présentation écrite et orale devant un jury de professionnels."
  (Laurence Bernard - Ac. Martinique)

• Reality TV shows, Big Brother
  - une séquence "qui part de "Big Brother", l'émission de TV réalité et débouche sur l'étude de "1984", extrait du livre de G. Orwell.
  Dans une perspective actionnelle, les tâches demandées aux élèves s'enchainent, dans les différentes activités langagières
  (Compréhension orale , Production Orale, Compréhension Ecrite, Production Ecrite)
  pour parvenir à la tâche finale : simulation d'un débat à la radio."
  + évaluation (compréhension orale) proposée à plusieurs niveaux : B2 à A2
  Séquence prévue pour une classe de 1ère, à adapter pour le collège.
  (Pascale Catoire - Ac. Orléans-Tours)
  
  

• "Sur le thème 'Support de cours avec vidéoprojecteur',
  la maquette PREAO permet d'aborder une autre mise en scène de l'information en traitant ici le thème de la télévision et des jeunes, avec des ressources locales ou distantes, repérées dans une petite base de données. Pensez à bien balayer avec la souris les textes cachés derrière les rectangles bleus afin de les révéler si besoin aux éléves.
  La base de données textuelles est modifiable avec le bloc-notes de Windows et porte le nom de mylesson.txt."
  Jean-Pierre Palasse (formateur TICE et anglais - IUFM de Bourgogne)

• A La Tele - lesson plan (clta.net)
  Objectives:
  Read from a current TV Guide Page
  Recognize names of TV Channels, program times (in 24 hour clock), types of TV programs and review likes and dislikes of programming
  
  
  
• Young people and television - a lesson plan
  "In this lesson the students will look at the television viewing habits of young people in the UK and compare them to the habits of
  young people in their own country. They will begin by making television posters, then they will do a split reading activity in pairs.
  The text is about television habits in the UK. They will complete a questionnaire about their own viewing habits and discuss how
  their habits are different from those of young people in the UK.
  There is an optional role playing activity where students have to agree on what to watch on television."
  (British Council)

• 'FRIENDS' - Lessons : Tape 1 (ESL Matrix)
  Episode 1, Part 1-2-3-4-5
  Episode 2, Part 1-2-3-4
  Episode 3, Part 1
  
  
  
• ESL/EFL Lessons Using Movies (iteslj.org)
  - Jigsaw Reading Activity Using TV Listings

• Young people and television - Lesson plan (BBC)
  "In this lesson the students will look at the television viewing habits of young people in the UK
  and compare them to the habits of young people in their own country."

• Watching TV - Pre-intermediate (onestopenglish.com)

• What's on TV ? - Upper Intermediate (onestopenglish.com)
  

• Television shoes - a lesson plan (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  THE ARTICLE
  WARM-UPS
  BEFORE READING / LISTENING
  WHILE READING / LISTENING
  AFTER READING
  LANGUAGE
  DISCUSSION
  SPEAKING
  LISTENING
  HOMEWORK

• TV Turn Off Week - a lesson plan (english-4u.com) Inscription nécessaire
  Language function: discussing issues, presenting opinions, reading comprehension
  Vocabulary area: television, types of TV programmes
  - with Teacher's Notes

• Television does more harm than good (Frankie Meehan)
  

Webquests :

• TV- Can't Live Without It??? - a webquest
  (geocities.com/bengurionhs)

  

• 'Friends' Web Quest (cecnbouvier.educanet2.ch)

  

• TV Turnoff Week - a webquest (ac-orleans-tours)
  

INTERACTIVE games :

• Television - interactive crosswords (BBC)

• Couch Potatoes
  "Watch the video and listen to Peter Carter, then play the game."
  Activity created by: Renée Maufroid

  

Conversation questions :

• Filling their minds with death: TV violence and children (turnoffyourtv.com)

• Entertainment : TV, Radio, Games, Gambling, ... (iteslj.org)

• Is television a malign influence on society? (idebate.org)
  Pros and Cons
  

Songs :

• Génériques de Séries Télé et Génériques de Dessins Animés - AUDIO (coucoucircus.org)

• Trouble Every Day by Frank Zappa :
  "Well Im about to get up sick
  From watchin my t.v.
  Been checkin out the news
  Until my eyeballs fail to see
  I mean to say that every day
  Is just another rotten mess..."

• Couch Potato by Al Yankovic (You can listen to it)
  
  
  
  
  

• Television, Drug of the Free by Disposable Heroes of Hipocrisy (ocap.ca) : LIEN MODIFIE
  "Television, the drug of the nation
  Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation"
  (yricsdownload.com)

• Throw Away Your Television by Red Hot Chili Peppers - LIEN MODIFIE
  (sing365.com)

Cartoons :

REALITY TV
Lien modifié		Reality TV vs Harry Potter (cagle.com)