ETAI Annual National Conference
Eels of Change
TEN ECLECTIC LESSON PLANS
Ten Wacky Associative
Programs you can use to Brighten
Up the year
Adapted for ETAI by Barry Silverberg, 2007
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• Would
• You
• Believe…
• Five lesson’
• plans?
• I was held up at customs
1 Use ‘WORD OF DAY’ sites as springboards to motivation,
games and vocab enrichment – even to teach phonemic
awareness.
2 Learn about deadly weather/ Tornados and Hurricanes;
clips, the movie and a human Hurricane. Song:
Hurricane
3 From Mass Killings / an Unlikely Hero/ Song:The Sniper
4 A Fusion Bomb in the Basement/ Nuclear Fusion/ The
Elements
5 Our endangered planet: Carbon Neutral/ Severn Suzuki/
Pollution song by Tom Leherer
• 6 Flight: Amelia Earhart and song
New flying machines/ old flying machines
• 7 ON LINE BOGGLE
• 8 World’s Shortest Stories
• 9 Palindromes and Dylan
• 10 Bagrut Bloopers 2007
Link to Word of Day archive •
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Jun.07.2007
•
Word of the Day Archive
1
demulcent
2
jocose
Jun 2007
3
ameliorate
6
canard
7
askew
8
thimblerig
9
obstinate
10
Golconda
11
wimple
12
succor
13
utmost
14
roister
15
anabasis
16
clandestine
17
hawkshaw
18
resplendent
19
shoestring
20
purview
21
estival
22
cineast
23
lissome
24
roorback
25
fuliginous
26
xeriscape
27
belie
28
candidate
Jul 2007
4
multifarious
5
louche
29
30
pococurante unbeknownst
LEARNERS’ WORD SITE WITH
ARCHIVE
This is supposedly a learner’s word site, •
but, as you see it’s still pretty esoteric.
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/wod.htm
•
• How about this one? What does ‘nimby’
mean?
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/wod_archive.htm
•
And here’s one that teaches phrasal verbs •
and idioms a day:
•
http://www.eslmonkeys.com/student/wordoftheday.php
Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom
Club
•
http://www.last.fm/music/Tom+Tom+Club/_/Wordy+Rappinghood
•
I tunes … rappinghood •
What are words worth?
Words in papers, words in books
Words on TV, words for crooks •
Words of comfort, words of peace •
Words to make the fighting cease •
Words to tell you what to do •
Words are working hard for you •
Eat your words but don't go hungry Words have always nearly hung
me What are words worth? What are words worth? - words
•
2 Hurricanes and Tornadoes
• Jokes about hurricanes and tornados
• http://www.juliantrubin.com/tornadojokes.html
•
•
Build a tornado in your bathroom
• http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000122
•
• An account of a child who was hit by a tornado.
• http://www.fema.gov/kids/tornstry.htm
•
• Lots of information that can be used as trivia game or match Q with
A
• http://www.outerbeaches.com/Hurricane-FAQ
• http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/faq/faq_tor.php
• Tornados FAQ
•
http://corky.net/scripts/twister.html The movie script for “Twister”
• Bob Dylan
• http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hurricane.html
lyrics
• Video clip of Dylan song with subtitles
•
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohyQblkQ8fc
• A clip of Hurricane Carter many years later.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc1j2oH6Wpk
&mode=related&search :
•
•
3 Shooting Sprees
• News items about students killing students
• Song: The Sniper by Harry Chapin
• Prof Livrescu’s heroism
•
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/2096
4 NUCLEAR FUSION /
NUCLEAR FUTURE
• (teacher elicits discussion about the chemical elements
• And here they are:
•
http://www.tabulka.cz/english/images/periodic_table.gif
•
Here is a wonderful song to help you learn them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxRHfufVjJU&mode=related&search=
•
•
Here’s another pictorial version of the same song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmwlzwGMMwc&NR=1
•
• Now, now many elements can you sing?
•
Animation showing nuclear fusion
•
http://science.howstuffworks.com/fusion-reactor1.htm
• Teenager Builds Nuclear Fission
Device in his Basement
•
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/mar/radioactive-boy-scout
• Here is a gruesome comic song by Tom
• Lehrer about a possible Nuclear War
• 'All Go together' see next slide
• And here is the same song, with a backdrop
taken from Star Wars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU2mwrxRQyA
All Go Together
When you attend a funeral •
It is sad to think that sooner or
Later those you love will do the same for you
And you may have thought it tragic
Not to mention other adjecTives, to think of all the weeping they will do
(But don't you worry.)
No more ashes, no more sackcloth
And an arm band made of black cloth
Will some day nevermore adorn a sleeve
For if the bomb that drops on you
Gets your friends and neighbors too
There'll be nobody left behind to grieve
And we will all go together when we go
What a comforting fact that is to know
Universal bereavement
An inspiring achievement
Yes, we all will go together when we go
5
Our Endangered Planet: America’s Vanishing Bees
News Item plus Lesson Plan: America’s Vanishing Bees
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0702/070228-bees.doc
The Pollution Song/ Tom Leherer
http://www.lyricsdir.com/tom-lehrer-pollution-lyrics.html
A young girl addresses the UN on the issue of pollution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8cmWZOX8Q
6 FLIGHT & AMELIA EARHART
This slide disappeared and was never found
• That, of course was a joke:
• Here are clips of early flying machines:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMhdksPFhCM
•
Amelia Earhart speaks on an old news clipl
•
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpaJq2JZ-zU
• Lyrics to song “Amelia” plus links to bio
•
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/joni+mitchell/amelia_20075416.html
• Joni Mitchell singing the song on You Tube
•
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bFgxKov8Ts
• 7 On -line BOGGLE
no explanation necessary
• http://www.fun-with-words.com/boggle.html?hx=327#ConTop
•
8 THE SHORT STORY
Hemingway: "
For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
SIX WORD SCIENCE FICTION STORIES
Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer
-Eileen Gunn
-Stan Lee
Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
Story Bytes: Stories by the power of 2:
http://www.storybytes.com/view-length/index.html
The Half-Truth
M. Stanley Bubien
64 words
The world is full of
complete idiots, and I
sure as hell ain't one of
'em
"
"
Prince Charming
George W. Clingerman
Alas, a lass was walking down the
road.
Alas, a lass did spy an ugly toad.
Alas, a lass did kiss his slimy lips.
A lass, alas did die of poisoned spit.
Then Your Face Will Surely
Show It
M. Stanley Bubien
)-:
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PALINDROMES
http://www.palindromelist.com/
•
Madam, I’m Adam
A man, a plan, a canal:
Panama!
• A Dan, a clan, a canal - Canada!
A man, a plan, a cat, a canal – Panama!
The following fantastic version was produced by •
Guy Steele in 1983. It has 49 words.
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, •
a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni,
a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana
bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a
rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a
canal – Panama!
•
http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_panama.html
more
Racecar Radar
Rats live on no evil star
Red rum, sir, is murder.
Rise to vote, sir.
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Do geese see God?
•
Am I drawn inward, Ima ?
Am I loco, Lima ?
• "Am I mad, eh?" Giselle sighed, "Am I, Ma "?
• Amen, I call a cinema .
Anne, I snip a map in Sienna
• A nut for a jar of tuna.
A Santa at NASA.
A dog! A panic in a pagoda!
Too hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Too bad I hid a boot
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
A tip: save Eva's pita.
.
•
Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srgi2DkDbPU
• Johnnys in the basement Mixing up the
medicine
I’m on the pavement,
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says hes got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off Look out kid
• Its somethin you did
God knows when
But you’re doin it again You better duck down
the alley way
Lookin for a new friend
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills. You only got ten
• And, finally, the point of all this: Here is Weird Al
Jancovic singing a parody of Dylan; all the lyrics
are palindromes!
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg
&mode=related&search=
• The end! Send your suggestions and
responses!! / Barry Silverberg