Eels of Change

ETAI Annual National Con-

ference

TEN ECLECTIC LESSON PLANS

Adapted for ETAI by B-

arry Silverberg, 2007

Ten Wacky AssociativePrograms you can use to Brighten

Up the year

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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

Jun 2007

1 demulcent

2 jocose

3 ameliorate

4 multifarious

5 louche

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

29 pococurante

30 unbeknownst

Jul 2007

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 … rappinghoodWhat 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 funeralIt is sad to think that sooner orLater those you love will do the same for youAnd you may have thought it tragicNot to mention other adjec-Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do(But don't you worry.)

No more ashes, no more sackclothAnd an arm band made of black clothWill some day nevermore adorn a sleeveFor if the bomb that drops on youGets your friends and neighbors tooThere'll be nobody left behind to grieve

And we will all go together when we goWhat a comforting fact that is to knowUniversal bereavementAn inspiring achievementYes, 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 Lehererhttp://www.lyricsdir.com/tom-lehrer-pollution-lyrics.html

A young girl addresses the UN on the issue of pollutionhttp://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

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8 THE SHORT STORY

Hemingway: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

SIX WORD SCIENCE FICTION STORIESComputer, did we bring batteries? Computer - Eileen Gunn

Automobile warranty expires. So does engine. - Stan Lee

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 PALINDROMEShttp://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 hootNo lemons, no melon

Too bad I hid a bootWarsaw was rawWas it a car or a cat I saw? A tip: save Eva's pita. .

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Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blueshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srgi2DkDbPU

• Johnnys in the basement Mixing up the medicineI’m on the pavement, Thinking about the governmentThe man in the trench coatBadge out, laid offSays hes got a bad coughWants to get it paid off Look out kid

• Its somethin you didGod knows whenBut you’re doin it again You better duck down the alley wayLookin for a new friend The man in the coon-skin cap In the big penWants 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