Facts :

• 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)"
  
  

• Quizzes on European countries - Multiple-choice exercises (EUN)
  
  

• EU enlargement - a quiz (websidestories) :
  "Design a 10-question quiz so as to test how much your classmates know about the 10 new EU members."
  
  

Exercises TO PRINT :

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

Lesson plans :

• 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 :

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

Posters :

• Europe Day (May 9) : Posters (europa.eu.int) with a Poster Gallery
  
  

Videos :

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