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 errrrrrrrrr • 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 )-: 9 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