Facts :

• EUROPE CRUSADE: FURY AT EU'S GRAVY TRAIN
  "LAVISH pay and perks enjoyed by the EU’s army of diplomats were laid bare yesterday, provoking widespread condemnation."
  (dailyexpress.co.uk)

  Words in the News: Gravy Train + vocabulary + trivia note
  (jeffreyhill.typepad.com)

  

   

  The Gravy Train
  "The word gravy by itself was used prior to any attestable use of gravy train to characterize 'cushy' situations."
  (rx5.blogspot.com)

  

• Zana and Max: the £200,000 comic book Eurocrats saving the world
  "A comic book featuring the adventures of two fictional European Commission bureaucrats is being sent to homes and schools
  (in the UK and across the Continent) at a cost of £200,000 to the taxpayer."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

  

• Dante to dialects: EU's online renaissance
  "Site recording centuries of culture crashes with 10m hits an hour on launch day...
  The EU yesterday launched the prototype of Europeana, its bold project to digitise millions of books, artworks, manuscripts, maps, objects
  and films from the most important libraries, museums and archives, and provide them free to download from one website."
  (guardian.co.uk)
  + A video that takes a trip through the kind of thing you can find on Europeana
  (dev.europeana.eu)

  
  
  (See Lesson plans)

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• European Union Languages - Interactive exercise
  "Match countries and languages."
  (Yvan Baptiste - franglish.fr)

• The European Union - interactive activities (Yvan Baptiste - Académie de Montpellier)

  
  
  
  

• The European Union (Isabel Perez) -
  "Write the name of the European Country that corresponds to each of the numbers (on the map)"
  
  

Exercises TO PRINT :

• New Plans for Europe (text with symbols) - (symbolworld.org)
  
  

Lesson plans :

• Inspiring teaching material about the European Union
  (europa.eu)

• EU Switching to Greener Light Bulbs - a lesson plan
  WARM-UPS : ENERGY SAVINGS / GREEN ME / LIGHT
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

  

• European culture site crashes on launch - a lesson plan
  Warm-ups : Museums
  (Breaking News English)
  (See Facts)
  
  
  

• EU OKs mobile phones on planes - a lesson plan (Breaking News English)

  EU to Allow Cell Service on Planes (chicagotribune.com)
  
  

Webquests :

• European Union Research Passport
  Click on GEOGRAPHY / Around the World
  (Primary Resources)

• The European Union - a treasure hunt by Isabel Perez
  (poster.4teachers.org)
  
  

Videos :

• What is the EU? (YouTube)

  

• European Union - A New Europe - European Union countries in the 21st century. (YouTube)