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A little something to celebrate George Orwell's birthday today: You can now catch on YouTube the 1954 animated film, Animal Farm, based on Orwell's classic novella first published in 1945. The film, which runs 71 minutes, has actually had a controversial history. As outlined by The New York Times, the CIA bought the rights to the film and modified the screenplay to emphasize anti-communist themes. This all gets covered in detail by Daniel Leab's 2007 book Orwell, Subverted.

From Richard Byrne Free Technology for teacher, quoted below:Listen and Read - Non-fiction Read Along Activities Listen and Read is a set of 54 non-fiction stories from Scholastic for K-2 students. The stories are feature pictures and short passages of text that students can read on their own or have read to them by each story's narrator. The collection of stories is divided into eight categories: social studies, science, plants and flowers, environmental stories, civics and government, animals, American history, and community. Applications for Education Listen and Read looks to be a great resource for social studies lessons and reading practice in general. At the end of each book there is a short review of the new words that students were introduced to in the book. Students can hear these words pronounced as many times as they like. Listen and Read books worked on my computer and on my Android tablet. Scholastic implies that the books also work on iPads and IWBs"

Study guides are offered for free by GradeSaver on novels, plays, poems and films ranging from Animal Farm to Yonnondio: From the Thirties.

Don't worry- you don't need to understand French to use the site! Lots of fun in the animal videos, and so much more to check out!

Site de Michelle Henry Professeur d'anglais Ressources pour le collège

Great videos for use in class.

Get animated characters that speak!

Short clips of wildlife to download

Site has dynamic map now. Just keeps getting better and better!

Grammar

Multi-platform educational concept including animated episodes, books, songs and games.