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La VILLE / The TOWN / The CITY

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Cliparts, Flashcards and Pictures - Vocabulary -
Listening - Pronunciation - Conversation questions - Facts -
Interactive exercises - Exercises to print - Webquests -
Interactive games -
Stories - Proverbs - Poems - Songs - Cartoons - Videos

(Updated on 16/09/2011)

 


Related pages :

Dwelling types - Places - Shops - Restaurant - Hotel -
Signs - Prepositions - The road - Cities
The country

The toilets

 

 

Exercises TO PRINT :

  • Saxon Place Names
    "When settlers came to Britain, they built villages and towns and gave them names.
    Use your maps of Sussex and East Anglia to find places with the endings below in them..."
    (primaryresources.co.uk)

 

 

 

 

  • Label the Intersection :
    bench - corner - crosswalk - fire hydrant - sidewalk - stop sign - street - traffic light (enchantedlearning.com)


  • A commuter (kentschoolofenglish.com)
    exercices sur le présent simple et prépositions, avec un petit texte à compléter

 

 

Webquests : (Camden Town in London)

  • City life or desert life ? (projects.edtech.sandi.net)
    "You are a space traveler from a faraway planet.
    You have been sent here to find the best place to live."

 

INTERACTIVE games :

  • Inside and out game.
    "Answer the questions correctly to take a look inside the buildings to find out all about them."
    (BBC)

 

  • I'm Spatz, the town planner.
    "Can you help me fill the empty spaces in our town? Look around and find spaces from the city to the countryside.
    Think about what building or green space would best suit the area before you make your choice."
    (BBC)

 

  • City Creator (citycreator.com)
    Build your city (different city types - buildings - roofs - people / vehicles - Roads / walkways)
    - On pourrait, par exemple, donner des instructions pour la construction de la ville en utilisant différentes prépositions.

 

  • Create : My imaginary city (kindersite.org)
    "Artists use their imaginations to create scenes and places that are not real and that might never exist."


  • The city - word search (abroadlanguages.com)

  • Places in a town or city - a game (British Council) :
    "Here is a word. The spaces in the word show how many letters there are. For example, if there are 5 spaces then the word has five letters.
    Each word is a place that you can find in a town or city.
    Read the clue. Do you know what the word is?
    Click on the letters.
    If the letters are in the word then they will appear in the spaces.
    If the letters aren't in the word, well, watch the monkey!
    Can you guess the word before the monkey gets squashed?    "


  • THE LIFESTYLE OPTIMIZER - (homefair.com)
    "Use this search tool to create a list of the 10 best cities for you to live, by selecting one characteristic to rank cities and then by restricting the search to cities with certain demographic, economic, or climate conditions."


Stories :

Proverbs :

 

Poems :

  • In a foreign city - a poem by Elizabeth Jennings (xs4all.nl) :
    "You cannot speak for no one knows
    Your language. You must try to catch
    By glances or a steadfast gaze
    The attitude of those you watch...
    Noises may find you but not speech...
    Now you have circled silence, stare
    With all the subtlety of sight.
    Noise may trap ears but eye discerns"

 

Songs :

  • Jonathan Coulton - Shop Vac
    "I like the Starbucks here that's better than the other one
    Because the other one's not as good
    They really need to put a light there cause it's hard to turn
    It's hard to make a left turn..."
    (lyricsmania.com)
    + the VIDEO - an animation (YouTube)

     It is a "song about life in a suburban paradise. This music video for it features the clever typographic animation of Jarrett Heather. Words and corporate logos flow across the screen as the narrator embraces a lifestyle of prosperity symbolized by the Shop-Vac in his basement workshop."
    (Neatorama)

  • Frank SINATRA - This Town = Las Vegas (YouTube) - UPDATED
    "This town is a make-you town
    Or a break-you-town and bring-you-down town...
    This town, it's a use-you town
    An abuse-you town until-you're-down town..."
    (sing365.com)

 

  • Living for the city sung by Stevie Wonder
    "Her brother's smart he's got more sense than many
    His patience's long but soon he won't have any
    To find a job is like a haystack needle
    Cause where he lives they don't use colored people
    Living just enough, just enough for the city..."
    (azlyrics.com)
    - the VIDEO (YouTube)

 

  • Blue Hotel by Chris Isaak
    "Blue hotel on a lonely highway..."

 

 

 

 

 

  • Rumble in Brighton by Stray Cats :
    "There's a rumble in Brighton tonight
    Ringside seats for the neighborhood fight,
    There ain't a Godddamn thing that the cops can do..."

 

  • Street life by The Crusaders :
    "Street life, you can run away from time
    Street life, for a nickel, for a dime
    Street life, but you better not get old
    Or you're gonna feel the cold    "
    (lyricsdownload.com)

  • Summer in the city by Joe Cocker

 

 

 

Cartoons :

 

 

Videos :

  • 2057 The City Part 1 + Part 2 + Part3

    "The 2057 documentary is a 3 part series by the Discovery Channel.
    It's a an entertaining documentary about life in 50 years.
    The city episode shows us how much city life will be incredibly interconnected.
    The extreme interconnection has risks however which we must avoid before problems occur."
    (YouTube)