February, full of Good Vibes ... and Love!

ACTION+

[Optional]

Make and offer 

your inspirational and kind February calendar

to someone dear to you!

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

/20

1) Task done /2.

2) Presentation /6.

3) Accurate contents /6.

4) Language /6.

Break Time for Help and for the Best!

You may...

... use some cardboard paper.

...add illustrations/photos.

... write key-words.

...write famous Friendship or Love quotes.

...share your personal thoughts.

STARTER

Look and describe.

Which US President do you recognize?

What do you know about him and his action?

On February 1, 1865,

President Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 

This Amendment abolished slavery.

ACTION 1

Look, read and discover.

 

Born on Feb. 2nd

African American poet...

[Optional]

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

***

https://www.biography.com/writer/langston-hughes

ACTION 2

Watch, listen and read.

What do you understand?

Which images or metaphors are the strongest

for you? Why?

Langston Hughes reads his poems...

The Negro Speaks Rivers

I Too

ACTION 3

[Optional]

https://prezi.com/suekjhv2y0yl/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers/

https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Negro-Speaks-of-Rivers/things-you-didnt-know/

https://www.studocu.com/en/document/studocu-university/studocu-summary-library-en/summaries/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers/1044478/view

***

https://prezi.com/nt3dssiwegk7/i-too-sing-america-by-langston-hughes/

https://prezi.com/p/iot6g6kqz3iy/i-too/

https://www.slideshare.net/KathrynManuel/i-too-and-langston-hughes-life

***

https://prezi.com/jqsjggzp1eza/good-morning-by-langston-hughes/

ACTION 1 

Watch and discover.

ACTION 2
Watch and report.

ACTION 3
Watch and react.

ACTION  4
Imagine.

STARTER 

 Discover an icon.

 

 Born on Feb. 4th 

African American 

seamstress and activist...

ACTION 1

Watch, listen and understand.

What is this icon remembered for?

For the Adventurers

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

Before Rosa Parks,

a 15-year old African American teen

defied Segregation on an Alabama bus!

[Optional]

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/08/23/claudette-colvin-was-the-first-person-to-resist-bus-segregation-in-alabama/

STARTER

Look, read and tell.

What is the day about?

Do you like Nutella?

What do you usually eat Nutella with?

https://www.nutelladay.com/fr

ACTION 1

Watch and discover.

Answer the question below.

1) Who had the idea to createWorld Nutella Day?

2) Where did she grow up?

3) In which country was she when she first saw Nutella? When was it?

ACTION 2

Watch and enjoy.

Answer the question below.

Is there a recipe from the video 
you would like to try?

World Day Without Mobile Phone

What about YOU?

https://www.nationalpedia.com/world-day-without-mobile-phone-february-6/

***

[Optional]

STARTER
Look and describe.
Which country is concerned?
What does this art symbolize?

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

ACTION 1
Listen and enjoy.
Enjoy History in Maori language!

ACTION 2
Watch, 

enjoy and compare.
Discover Maori traditions.

National anthem...

Welcoming someone...

Some Maori traditions...

Waka by the sea...

STARTER
Look and tell.
What do you know about this artist?

ACTION 1
Watch and report.

Discover the legend.

For the Adventurers

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

ACTION 2
Listen and enjoy.
What did BM like to sing about?

1) Do you like reggae? Is reggae your favourite music genre?

2) If yes, what do you like about reggae?

Who is your favourite reggae artist?3) If not, what is your favourite music genre? Quote some artists and their songs.

ACTION 1

Look at the chart below.

Find out your Chinese Zodiac sign!

What are you supposed to be like?

Do you agree with this profile?

Why or why not?

ACTION 2

Learn more and complete your profile...

Have fun!

http://astrologyclub.org/chinese-horoscope/year-of-the-pig/

***

Share with your family
and discover their Zodiac sign too!
Do they agree with their profile?
Why or why not?
Have fun together!

https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/chinese-zodiac/ox.htm

TION 3
Discover stories behind the tradition!

ACTION+

Make

your Chinese  New Year Red Envelope

 to offer someone who is dear to your heart!

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

/20

1) Task done /2.

2) Presentation /6.

3) Accurate contents /6.

4) Language /6.

Break Time for Help and for the Best!

Put in your Red Envelope...

 1) ...something to read;
2) ...something lucky;
3) ...something delicious;
4) ...something useful!

***

https://www.sortiraparis.com/actualites/nouvel-an-chinois

https://www.parisinfo.com/ou-sortir-a-paris/infos/guides/nouvel-an-chinois-a-paris

STARTER

Look, read and and describe.

ACTION 1

What does the NAAC stand for?

What does it fight for and against?

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

[Optional] 

W.E.B. Dubois

Feb. 23, 1868-August 27, 1963

Booker T. Washington

April 5, 1856-Nov. 14, 1915

W.E.B. Dubois 

vs

Booker T. Washington

1) Do you often listen to the radio?

2) When and where do you listento the radio?

3) What do you listen to on the radio?

4) What is your favourite radio station?

STARTER

a) Listen and enjoy 

Nat King Cole' song!

b) Copy the song.

Let's karaoke!

1) Do you like celebrating Valentine's Day? Why? Why not?

2) Have you ever received a present for Valentine's Day ? If yes, what was it? 

3) Have you received a Valentine (=card/message) from a secret admirer?

ACTION 1

Learn

 your Saint Valentine's vocabulary.

Make an illustrated dictionary 

or

write down 

an English-French dictionary.

ACTION 2
Learn more about Valentine.
Choose your level and retell the story.

For the Adventurers

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

ACTION 3

Watch and understand.
Meet a mythical couple!
Say what they say of each other.

[Optional]

 http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-st-valentines-day-massacre

[Optional]

FEMALE SOLOS

"I will always Love You"
by
Whitney Houston

"Look to You"
by
Whitney Houston

"Run to You"
by
Whitney Houston

"I believe in You and Me"
by
Whitney Houston

"Someone Like You"
by
Adèle




"Grateful"
by
Mahalia




"What did you do" 
by
Mahalia
(feat. Ella Mai)




"You're Still  the One" 
by
Shania Twain

"Here to stay"
by
Meghan Trainor

"Your Love Is King"
by
Sade

"Why can't We Live Together"
by
Sade

"Unbreak My Heart"
by
Toni Braxton

"Lover"
by
Taylor Swift






MALE SOLOS

"All of you"
by
John Legend

"Photograph-Me Before You"
by
Ed Sheeran

"Best Part of Me" 
by
Ed Sheeran
(feat. Yebba)

"Perfect" 
by
Ed Sheeran

"Everything You Take"
by
The Police (Sting)

"I Belong to You"
by
Jacob Lee

"Shape of You"
by
Ed Sheeran

"I don't care"
by
Ed Sheeran

"You are the Sunshine of my Life"
by
Stevie Wonder

"Stand By Me" 
by
Ben E. King




"Still Loving You"
by
Scorpions

DUETS/CHOIR

"Wave"
by
Meghan Trainor
(feat. Mike Sabath)




"More Than Friends" 
by
Jason Mraz 
(feat. Meghan Trainor)

"Always on Your Side" 
by
Sheryl Crow 
(feat. Sting)

"In Case  You Didn't Know" 
by
Brett Young
(feat. Una Healy)

"You are the reason"
by
duet Calum Scott and Leona Lewis

"Shallow"
by
duet Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga

"Marvin Gaye" 
by
Ed Sheeran
(feat. Meghan Trainor)




"Listen to Your Heart" 
by
Glee
(Roxette)

"Tell  Him" 
by
Céline Dion and Barbra Streisand

"Stand By Me" 
by
Gospel Choir
at 
UK Royal Wedding 
of
Meghan Markel and Prince Harry




***
"You've Got a Friend" 
by

Carol King
(feat. James Taylor)







BOLLYWOOD LOVE SONGS

BUDDIES SONGS

"We're Still Friends" 
by
Amy Winehouse

"What's What Friends Are For" 
by
Dione Warwick
(feat. Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder)

"Best Friend" 
by
Brandy

"You Can Count On Me" 
by
Bruno Mars

"I Will Be Your Friend" 
by
Sade

ACTION+
Celebrate
Friendship on Saint Valentine!

STEP 1

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

/20

1) Task done /2.

2) Presentation /6.

3) Accurate contents /6.

4) Language /6.

Break Time for Help and for the Best!

Make a FriendshipValentine card
and
write down your message or poem ...or else.

[See the suggestions below.]

... make a Friendship Valentine  DIY artwork to a person dear to your heart.



A Friendship Candy glass jar?

A Friendship Candy bouquet ?

A Friendship bracelet?

 

STARTER

Watch, listen and tell.

[Optional]

STARTER
Look and describe.
Which logo can you recognize?
Can you name one of his founder
who was born on that day?

ACTION 1
Watch, listen and report.
What is Steve Jobs' vision 
of  technology?
What does it need or take to be
efficient and successful?


February 24, 1955-October 5, 2011

[Optional]

ACTION 2
Watch, listen and go further.

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

1) Are you fascinated by the computing world?

2) Could you say you are what people call"a Geek"? Why?

STARTER

Look and describe.

1) Do you like wearing jeans?

2) Do you often wear jeans?

3) How many pairs of jeans

do you have?

4) What is your favourite colour 

for jeans?

ACTION 1

Watch, listen and report.

1)Which historical event is at the origin

   of blue jeans?

2) When and where did this event take place?

3) What percentage of Americans own

    (= have) at least one pair of jeans?

ACTION 2

Watch, listen and learn.

Feb. 26, 1928-Sept. 26, 1902

[Optional]

Claude Lévi-Strauss
Nov. 28, 1908-Oct. 30, 2009
Belgian-born
French Antropologist and Ethnologist
"Tristes Tropiques" (1955)

STARTER

Look and describe.

1) Do you eat cereal for breakfast?2) What cereal do you eat

for breakfast?

3) What do you usually eat

for breakfast?

ACTION 1

Watch, listen and report.

Feb. 26, 1852-Dec. 14, 1943

1) When did John Harvey Kellogg serve corn flakes for the first time?

2) In which state did it happen?

3) What type of food were corn flakes at the beginning?

ACTION 2

[Optional]

STARTER

Look, read and explain.

What is the campaign about?

The first Anti-Bullying Day started in 2007.

Anti-Bullying Day is actually celebrated 

on various dates around the world.

In 2012, the United Nations declared May 4 as Anti-Bullying Day.

ACTION 1

Watch and report.

           Who delivers the campaign message?

Give some details about him. 

What colour must you wear ?

                    Where did it start? What happened?

ACTION 2

1° What can you do to stand up against bullying?

2° What can you do to stand upagainst cyberbullying?

Is February 2021 a Leap Year?

STARTER

ACTION 1

Were you born on a February 29
or do you know someone who was?

ACTION 2

Thanks to English teacher Ms. Haquet
for her tremendous Interactive calendar
from which this blog page has been inspired!
http://chagall-col.spip.ac-rouen.fr/spip.php?article1182