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    • ABOUT MOI
    • CECRL – SKILLS
      • LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES
        • 00. CORRECTIONS
        • 01. Tenses
          • 01a) Future tense
          • 01b) Tenses tests
          • 01c) Negative
          • 01d) Questions
          • 01e) Past Participles
          • 01f) Present tenses
        • 02. Prétérit
        • 03. Adjectives
        • 04. Prepositions of place
        • 05. Questions
          • Asking questions through songs
        • 06. Die – Dead
        • 07. Phrasal Verbs
        • 08. TOEIC practice
        • 09. Spelling practice
        • 10. Vocabulary games
        • 11. WANT
        • 12. Direct and indirect speech
        • 13. Punctuation
        • 14. Verb structures
        • 15. Tags
        • 16. Adverbs
        • 17. Language Workshops on different topics
          • 17a. Tenses Workshop 1 (B1)
        • 18. Comparisons – les animaux
        • 19. Pronouns
        • 20. Grammar Exercises
          • CORRIGES
          • Grammar Tests Programme
        • 20. Modal verbs
        • 21. Do or Make ?
        • 22. Questions
      • Listening Work
        • 01. Google
        • 02. Pirates
        • 03. Smart home
        • 04. Drink driving limits in Scotland
        • 05. Dream Jobs
        • 06. New On Target Listening
        • 07. Weather
          • 07a) Weather Reports
          • 07b) Hurricane Sandy
        • 08. Zlatan Ibrahimovic Interview
        • 09. Christmas
          • Christmas CORRIGE
        • 10. Car Dude Game
        • 11. Africa Listening Work
          • DM : Living in Togo
        • 12. Cars Activities (of varying levels)
        • 13. London
        • 14. Entraînement Baccalauréat – CO
        • 15. The woman on the ferry
        • 16. Numbers practice
        • 17. Old Friends
          • 17a. Old Friends CORRIGE
        • 18. David
        • 19. Politics and political systems
        • 20. Holiday plans
        • 21. One big McWorld
        • 22. Reverse brain drain
        • 23. Holidays
        • 24. Call Centres
        • 25. Jetman Yves Rossy
        • 26. Shopping
        • 27. Answerphone messages
        • 28. Family Values
        • 29. Presentations and Introductions
        • 30. Getting to know you
      • Reading Activities
        • Describing a person’s character
        • Globalization Reading texts
        • Keeping up with …
        • Teaching Reading Skills
      • Speaking Skills
        • “Me” Posters
        • Classroom English
        • Exam Advice
          • Oral exam preparation
        • Games and activities for SPEAKING practice
        • Introducing yourself
        • Mp3 files
        • Project Review Preparation in STI2D
        • Pronunciation Skills
        • Reciting poems
        • Saying Hello
        • The Enormous Turnip
      • Teaching Listening Skills
      • TRANSLATIONS
        • Translations
          • Translation Programme 1èreL LVA
          • Translation Sentences
      • Writing Skills
        • Creative Writing project in STI2D
        • Creative Writing Workshops, based on songs
        • Methods for improving my writing skills – REVISION
        • Note-taking
        • Writing acrostic poems
        • Writing Dialogues
          • Dialogues – a résumé
          • Language practice for dialogues
          • Pictures to inspire a dialogue
        • Writing with googledocs in DRIVE
          • Final Version of a googledoc essay
        • WRITING WORK – presentation rules
    • ENGLISH STORYTIME
    • Fifty ways to recycle a plastic bottle
    • Formation Continue – IEN 27
    • FORMATIONS
      • Formation Continue
        • Abidjan / Dakar Training for Primary teachers
          • Abidjan 2015
          • Abidjan 2016
          • Be proud
          • Bibliography for Dakar Primary Training
          • Dakar 2009 – 2010 – 2011
          • Dakar 2012
            • Puppets Resources
          • Dakar 2013
          • Dakar February 2014
          • Dakar January 2015
            • Food Chains
          • Dakar Songs
            • Songs for educational purposes
            • Songs for Older Young Learners
              • 1. The Old Lady and the Fly
              • 2. There’s a hole in my bucket
              • 3. The Teeth Song
              • 4. The ants go marching
              • 5. The Little Red Hen and other Jazz Chants
              • 7. Dem Bones
              • 8. Aiken Drum
            • Songs for young learners
              • 1. Days of the week
              • 2. Hello Songs
              • 3. The Microphone Song
        • English for Admin Staff
        • Funology
        • FUNOLOGY
        • Head Teacher Training
        • Interdegrés
        • LES JEUX EN CLASSE
        • STI2D – ETLV
        • Teaching the four/five skills
      • Formation Initiale
        • Clothes for Cycle 2 & Cycle 3
          • Clothes – Listening
          • Songs for Clothes
        • Kids’ Storybooks
        • M1 MEEF UE5
          • Examples of sequences in lycée
          • The Baccalaureate exam
        • Numeracy
        • Phonological Awareness
        • Progressions CP
        • Songs for young learners
        • UE32
          • Chapter 01- Make a confident presentation of yourself
            • Chapter One 01. Creating a Fakebook profile
            • Chapter One 02. Acrostic poems
          • Chapter 02 – Pronunciation Skills
            • Chapter Two 01. Phonicolours and Anchor Words
            • Chapter Two 02. Kids lit and Anchor Words
          • Listening Data Base
          • Reading and Writing Skills
        • UE5/UE6 ESPE MSA
    • Funology
    • INSPE
      • ESPE MSA – August Pré-Rentrée
        • Where are you all ?
      • Eveil aux Langues – Cycle 1
      • M1 2nd degré Anglais MSA
      • Prépa Concours CRPE – EMSP Anglais
      • Songs
      • Stories Project
      • Tuteurs FSTG
      • UE14-24
        • EED practice documents
        • Taking a gap year
      • UE17
      • UE32-42
        • Christmas
        • Classroom English
        • Colours
        • Counting 1-20
        • Do you have a pet ?
        • English bags and boxes
        • English Day at the ESPE
        • EVALUATIONS – UE32 and UE42
        • Eveil aux Langues – cycle 1
        • London and the Royal Family
        • Songs for Cycles 1 – 2 – 3
        • Storytime
        • Telling the Time
        • UE42
          • Working on an album – Cycle 1, 2, 3
      • UE34-44
        • Hardcore didactics
        • Modelling – Patterning – Drilling
        • SONGS
        • UE44 Self evaluating forms
      • UE37-47
        • Teaching Grammar
        • UE37 Culture Numérique
        • UE37/47 Classroom Games
      • Conférence Christelle Gavory
      • M2 Anglais 2nd degré MSA
    • Listening files data base
    • Lycée les Fontenelles
      • 2012-2013 Les Fontenelles
        • Cahier de Textes
          • 2nde 1 – Cahier de Texte
          • TES1€uro – Cahier de Texte
          • TL LVA – Cahier de Texte
          • TS1&2 €uro – Cahier de Texte
          • TSTI2D – Cahier de Texte
        • L.V.A.
          • Teenagers in 1950s America
            • James Dean
              • 1. Rebel without a cause Extract 1 “I go with the kids”
              • 2. Rebel without a cause Extract 2 “The Chickie Run”
                • Extra Info – The Chickie Run
            • On the Road
          • Thank you, Mr Falker
          • The Hollywood Ten
        • Seconde
          • HARCOURT
          • Missions Unit 4 – Cluedo
            • Rescue 911 – Fast Food Robbery
          • Someone Special
          • SOS Planet Earth
        • Seconde A.P.
          • Anglais en 1èreL
        • Terminale STI2D
          • Bill Gates
          • Cars
          • Football as a global business
          • Passive Houses
          • Road Rage
          • Technologic by Daft Punk
          • Texas Case Study
            • Texas Listening mp3 files
        • Terminale €uropéenne
          • American Family Life
            • Levittowns
          • Images of heroes
            • Lance Armstrong
            • Oprah Winfrey
            • Uncle Sam
          • London
          • Songs
          • South Africa
            • Nelson Mandela
              • Goodbye Bafana
            • The Rainbow Nation CORRECTION
      • 2013-2014 Lycée les Fontenelles
        • 1L LVA
          • Love Unit
          • LVA portfolios
          • Stereotypes
            • American stereotypes
            • English stereotypes
          • The Man in the Mirror
          • The Perks of being a wallflower
          • Translation Programme 2014
        • 1STI2D
          • A.P. Pronunciation
          • ETLV Mind Maps
          • I can describe parts of a building mp3
          • Innovation and Invention
          • London
          • My home – Elizabeth
          • Plastics
            • Plastics Reading Activity
          • Prologin 2014
          • Vocabulary Photos
        • 1STI2D1 – Your page.
          • Aide aux devoirs
          • AP
          • Assistante américaine
          • Clever car audio file
          • Energy Audit
            • Préparer votre film – My Energy Audit
          • Groupes Spécialités
          • Photos Vocabulary SOLAR Innovations
        • 1STMG
          • Animals
          • Chapter 2 TRAVEL
          • Chapter 3 : Shopping and Money
          • Chapter 4 Relationships
            • Four Families
          • Time
        • 2013-2014 Cahier de textes
          • 1L LVA
          • 1STI2D
            • D1 Board photos (in class)
          • 1STMG
          • Terminale €uro
          • TSTI2D
        • 2013-2014 Primary-Premières Project
          • Visit N°2 18/02/2014
        • T STI2D
          • AP Vocabulary Workshop
          • ETLV examen oral final
        • Terminale S €uro
          • Bac Practice Pages
          • DNL Lists
          • Family Values
          • Globalization
            • Globalization Case Study – KINDLE
          • Margaret Thatcher
      • 2014-2015 Lycée les Fontenelles
        • 1ère €uro
          • Essay writing with DRIVE
          • Grammar Tests Programme
          • Illness Project
          • Pronunciation for “poppies” work
          • Three-Week Phono Programme
        • 1èreSTI2D
        • Terminale L LVA
          • Essay writing with DRIVE
          • Translations
          • Unit One
            • A dream come true
            • Billy Joel – We didn’t start the fire
            • Colonel Paul Tibbets
            • Enola Gay
              • Enola Gay mp3
            • Hiroshima and Enola Gay
            • Hiroshima and Nagasaki
            • More Billy Joel
          • Unit Two -War Horse
      • 2015-2016 Lycée les Fontenelles
        • 1ère S1 €uro
          • Accrostic poems 2015-2016
          • Listening files
          • Synonyms Game
        • 1ère STI2D 2
          • Vocabulary Photos 2015-2016
        • 2nde 12
          • Chapter 2 : Missions Unit 2 – Africa
          • Chapter 3 : Shakespeare Project
          • Chapter 4 : Ireland and Irish Culture
          • Chapter 5 School Project
      • 2016-2017 Lycée les Fontenelles
        • Terminale ES
          • Extra Listening
        • Terminale Merca
        • Terminale €uro
      • CONTACT ADDRESSES
      • Lycée les Fontenelles 2018-19
        • Being British
        • English breakfast
    • Meet our assistants
    • METHODOLOGY
      • How do I …?
        • 1. Explaining a process / Expliquer sa démarche
        • 10. Change the language in DRIVE
        • 2. Compréhension de texte – Techniques
        • 3. Write a dialogue
        • 4. Improve my writing skills
        • 5. Improve the richness of my English ?
        • 6. Say sorry – Apologizing
        • 6. Write a letter
        • 7. Tell the time ?
        • 8. Describe a painting
        • 9. Talk about myself ?
    • MUSINGS
      • Being bilingual
      • CARE – CAmpaign for Real English
      • HOWLERS
      • Nurture 1314
      • Studying in the UK
        • Language Courses in the UK
    • REVISION
    • STI2D-specifics
    • Technology in the Classroom
      • Podcasting – Baladodiffusion
      • Recording the BBC website
      • Recordings – sound and video
        • 1. Audio Recordings
        • 2. Video Recordings
          • 2a. Rendre un travail sur GOOGLE DRIVE
          • 2b. Making screencast videos
          • 2c. Enregistrer son film
        • 3. Adding sound to a silent video
      • Student e-Portfolios
      • Using Fakebook
      • Using gmail
      • Using googledocs in learning
        • Plans for future developments
      • Using iPods in the classroom
      • Using Quizlet
      • Using Twitter
    • UNITS and CHAPTERS
      • 01. Getting to know you
      • 02. Halloween
      • 03. SCHOOL
      • 04. JFK
      • 05. New Year Classroom Activities
      • 06. Remembrance
        • 15a) Remembrance resources
      • 07. GRAMMAR – Questions
      • 08. GRAMMAR – Don’t
    • UNITS OF WORK
      • 00. Getting to know you
      • 01. Travel pages
        • 01.01 Ireland and Irish Culture
          • 01.01.01 Ireland tourism films
          • 01.01.02 SLIGO
      • 02. Little Red Riding Hood
      • 03. Love
        • Apologizing
        • Relationships
          • Elizabeth’s Parents film
          • Meet Bob
          • Relationships workshops documents
        • The Football Match
      • 04. Money and shopping
        • 04a) Shopping Role PLay
        • 04b) Black Friday
      • 05. Inventions
        • 05a) Jetman
        • 05b) Solar Sinter Project
        • 05c) Everyday Ingenuity Parts 1 and 2
        • 05d) Waterless toilets
      • 06. Margaret Thatcher
        • 06a) The Brighton Bombing
        • 06b) Relations with Europe
        • 06c) Margaret Thatcher’s early political life
      • 07. London
        • 07a) London Listening
        • 07b) Film with numerous London icons
      • 08. Power – places and forms
      • 09. Current Affairs
        • 02. The American Presidential Elections 2016
        • 03. The Refugee Crisis
        • The News Game
      • 10. Working on computers
      • 11. Kids’ Literature
        • 11 h) What’s the time, Mr Wolf ?
        • 11a. The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
        • 11b. Pete the Cat – I love my white shoes
        • 11c. The Enormous Turnip
        • 11d. What colour are your knickers ?
          • 11d. (i) Knickers Sound Houses
        • 11f. Father Christmas needs a wee
        • 11g) Africa Storybooks
      • 12. Henry VIII – Tudor king of England
        • 12a) Political and moral portrait : Henry VIII by Hans Holbein
        • 12b) Thomas Hovenden
        • 12c) Anne Boleyn
      • 13. In Sickness and in Health
        • 13 a) The Flu
        • 13 b) Vocabulary
        • 13c) Films on the subject of illness
        • 13d) Des parents expliquent LA GREFFE à leur enfant
      • 14. CCTV cameras / Surveillance Society
      • 16. School
        • 16.01 School Shootings
        • 16.02 School LISTENING
      • 17. War Horse – Horses in War
        • BBC World War One : Horses in War
        • Can an animal be a hero ?
        • Settings for War Horse
        • The Christmas Truce
        • War Horse – Final Essay
        • War Horse, the movie
      • 18. Guédelon Project
      • 19. Bonfire Night
      • 20. British Parliament
      • 21. Politics in the USA
      • 22. Festivals and Celebrations
      • 23. Pronunciation Work
        • Conversation Piece – Evaluation
        • Counting syllables
        • Phono Mixes
        • Phonology Three Week Work Programme
        • Poem : Conversation Piece
        • Pronouncing TH
        • Pronunciation Tools
      • 25. Civil Rights
      • 26. Hiroshima
      • 27. Thanksgiving
      • 28. Alternative Lifestyles
        • Car pooling : not just for commuters
      • Film Studies
        • Cold War films resources
        • Four Weddings and a Funeral
        • Freedom Writers
        • Love Actually
        • Meet Bob
        • Slumdog Millionnaire
        • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
        • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    • USEFUL STUFF ALL IN ONE PLACE
      • Attention Grabbers
      • Classroom English
      • Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve – our main reason for working on repetition skills for the teacher
      • GAMES
      • Learning strategies
      • Offical instructions for teachers
      • Référentiels pour l’évaluation des enseignants
      • Réforme du Lycée 2019
      • Songs in the classroom
      • The Frayer Model for vocabulary learning
      • The Teacher’s Reading Corner
        • A book recommendation
        • Teaching the News
      • Using flashcards
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