A blog to share/brainstorm about project in English class. Created by Cyril Brot. Community blog where you can find many projects and documents to do with your class
Here are really funny and witty concepts: The first one is taken from Ouï Fm ads that try to blend very famous Album covers into real life. The second one consists in mixing and matching Album covers. The result is impressive and really interesting! Possible...
Designing the Life You Love: A Recipe Now you express your favorite design. Choose one chart among the different variations that describes the life you love most, the life you aspire to. Write a few sentences describing it. And do a little drawing, even...
Working on charities with your class? Here is a funny way to make people take care of abandonned pets. The idea was to ask photographers to make portraits of pets. They had to bring out the personality of each homeless animal. You can either buy the portrait...
WOW!!!!! A war has begun! I'm a big Star Wars fan and I must admit that the last Greenpeace campaign is really punchy! Greenpeace has decided to spoof the little Vader advert by VW in order to show its dark side. Indeed, for Greenpeace, VW is opposing...
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. With an information...
Wow! I should stop wilfing but when I discover this kind of site I can't stop keeping on surfing the net! The site offers people to give their own version of the famous 100$ bill. Are you up to it?! Just show them HERE how gifted you are! Possible Xblogtation:...
I cannot help sharing the following blog: it's such a brilliant example of elegance, poetry, sensuality. The photographer, Jamie Beck, has created a wonderful place to post. Her pictures are incredibly stunning. I actually wonder how it works. It is based...
Well I sometimes have curious ideas but I've always wanted to develop a one year project based on the following idea: pupils must create a country. It can be a long time project or even a shorter one. However, the idea is to create the most realistic...
Based on the same concept as Mouron & Rostain's trash to describe a character, James Mollison chose to compare the child to his or her bedroom. Possible exploitation: As for the project presented before, teachers can use the photos/concept to make pupils...
Waouh.... It's just.... brilliant! I'm really impressed by the work made by the two pupils. Congratulations guys! You rock ! MTV Campaign: story within the book The Fifth Child. We decided to use the concept of MTV Campaign: story within the song for...
Great idea to represent something thanks to words. Instead of drawing the different elements, just represent them thanks to the textual representation of it and put them in context. What could be the purpose of such a tool? Any idea for any lesson? Can...
The following campaigns (one by Unicef and the others by Projeto Arrastào ) are very interesting diagrams. I like the way you visually understand the story. I like the variation on the underground maps and the window files arborescence in order to tell...
Harriet's Russian doll. This document is a photomontage, it is like a Russian doll. First, We can say that Harriet is a strong woman. We studied in the first extract that Harriet's physical appearance is strong, and in the beginning of the book, she wanted...
Lucy Knisley is a very gifted cartoonist. She designed the following summaries of Harry Potter episodes. Some elements of the stories are missing but the cartoons are great and fun! Here is Lucy's blog: http://lucylou.livejournal.com/ Possible Xblogtation:...
Well I love the video and want to do the same for the mariage of some friends. By the way what about making the pupils do the same for another purpose? We could for example make them tell a story they've imagined. Recording it is not difficult. Free softwares...
The idea comes from Stéphanie Cialone and I love it! Based on the works by Mouron & Rostain. They collected stars' trash and made an exhibition. Possible exploitation : teachers can adapt the idea to a lesson about mass consumption or household-waste...
MTV 's idea was to design t-shirts composed of two different artists. On the left hand side, the renowned artist and on the other side the artist influenced by the first one. The message is "The music never stops". It could be interesting to use the same...
PAUL Presentation: The photomontage is based on the idea of Russian nesting dolls which is a set of dolls. In this document, there are three different characters, the little boy from Le Petit Nicolas, then a little baby and finally E.T the Extra-Terrestrial....
You can download the pages of the logbook we gave to the kids during the trip. Page 1 of the logbook : The questions to the families. Page 2 of the logbook : The London Dungeon Page 3 of the Logbook : Tate Britain Page 4 of the Logbook : Wicked - The...
Ben and Amy Those documents are two photomontages which represent Amy and Ben’s true selves. It is based on the matryoshka doll’s principle. Ben: On the first doll we can see a photo of a “normal” angry boy. Ben looks like a real little boy at first sight....
Extract 1: → meeting of Harriet and David at an office party → observers # other people : dancers → context of the swinging 60's = changes (flourishing culture, economy...) → H&D : apart, different = social rejection, self exclusion → similarities between...
Here is the very keen and excellent study of extract 5 by Claire! Thanks Claire for sharing it with us! Extract n°5 Problematic : How does the birth of Ben show us the hidden part of Harriet's personality ? Main ideas : Ben = a poisoned gift : Punishment...
Claire's review: How To Save A Life Step one you say, "We need to talk."He walks, you say, "Sit down, it’s just a talk."He smiles politely back at youYou stare politely right on throughSome sort of window to your rightAs he goes left and you stay rightBetween...
Extract 2; L.2 : symbol of happiness like in fairytale with the birds L.14 : too much happiness, almost cry L.16 : old fashioned house like H & D L.20 : "each new baby" means want a lot of children L.28-39 : don't take things for granted (the milkmaid...
Fifth extract of The Fifth Child (Doris Lessing): Pbq: Why can we say that Ben's birth will have a deep impact on the Lovatt's family life? Main ideas: Pregnancy denial: " And as she walked, strode, ran along the country lanes, she fantasised that she...
