Don Doehla's List: BWLP F2/F3 2014

Students engage more passionately when trying to answer a question that interests them. Here are ten opening questions that have inspired this kind of learning

Un site avec beaucoup de textes, vidéos et podcasts pour les cours de FLE.

The recent capture of a notorious poacher has given hope to officials in Chad battling to save the African elephant from extinction

un site avec plein de truc et d'idées pour les cours de FLE

'There's so much constantly to react to in the world in which we live, and in a country like South Africa, that can become a full-time occupation'

À l'occasion de la Semaine de la presse et des média à l'école®, Bernard Cerquiglini, éminent linguiste et spécialiste reconnu de la langue française, a choisi pour son émission "Merci Professeur" (une exclusivité TV5MONDE !) quelques mots propres à la presse et aux médias.

Découvrez l'origine des mots "gazette / journal / magazine / canard / serpent de mer / télévision / paragraphe et alinéa / coquille / dépêche / marronnier / scoop / feuille de chou"

L’objectif de ce livret est de vous guider dans la création de cours fondés sur des documents audiovisuels. Il propose des idées pour un scénario pédagogique en 6 étapes, allant de la découverte du document à la production orale et écrite.

Un glossaire des termes utilisés pour parler de la presse française

Une liste des journaux et magazines en France selon les companies qui les publient

FICHE PÉDAGOGIQUE - LA PRESSE FRANÇAISE

Vous souhaitez travailler le thème de la presse avec vos apprenants, vous souhaitez monter un journal avec eux!

Voici quelques activités pour vous lancer dans cette entreprise.

How to Close Read the Language of Film
BY MIDDLEWEB · 08/06/2014

by Frank W. Baker

In my introduction to this series on close reading of media texts, I made note of how enamored today's students are of the media.

While most teachers use media in their classrooms, not many have received adequate training in their colleges of education to understand how close reading applies to "the media." (Nor has professional development kept up, which is why I include film in my media literacy workshops.)

Since teachers use video and film in the classroom, and because the new Common Core assessments (Smarter Balanced, PARCC) both include video in their testing, I think it's more important than ever that 21st century students become "critical viewers" and more "film literate."

When students are challenged to "close read" a video/film, they must not only learn how to deconstruct the "media text," they must also understand and appreciate all of the elements and techniques that are used to create it.

LEARNING GUIDE TO: A DRY WHITE SEASON
SUBJECTS - World/South Africa; 
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING - Courage; Justice; Human Rights;
        Grieving; Father/Son; Marriage; Families in Crisis; 
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS - Trustworthiness; Responsibility; Citizenship. 

Age: 14+ Rated R for scenes of graphic violence; Drama; 1989; 107 minutes; Color; Available from Amazon.com. 

Description:     The setting is South Africa during the Soweto uprisings of 1976. A white school teacher (Ben du Toit) investigates the death of his black gardener, a man he had known for 15 years. The gardener (Gordon Ngubene) had been searching for answers about his son's death while in police custody. This had brought Ngubene to the attention of the "Special Branch" of the South African Police. He suffered the same fate as his son: death during interrogation. Du Toit comes to realize not only the injustices of the apartheid legal system and the repressive policies that supported it, but the necessity of action as opposed to words or resignation to the inevitable. Backed by an African cabbie, a liberal lawyer and a persistent reporter, he is opposed by his family (except for his young son), his school and his community. The film is based on the novel by the acclaimed Afrikaaner writer, André Brink. The novel was banned by the apartheid government of South Africa.

A Dry White Season shows that sometimes, no matter what the cost and no matter how futile it may seem one must take action to oppose injustice. The film explores the personal cost of resisting social injustice that is accepted by one's community and maintained by a brutal dictatorship. The movie is well served as an introduction to the now abandoned apartheid system of South Africa, the Special Branch (secret police), economic and political oppression of the townships (Bantu System), and the arguments used to justify apartheid.

André Philippus Brink, OIS, (born 29 May 1935) is a South African novelist. He writes in both Afrikaans and English and is a Professor of English at the University of Cape Town.