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Red Nose Day is Celebrating a Big Birthday

Red Nose Day is back on Friday 21 March in the UK. And this is incredibly the charity Comic Relief's 40th birthday. They've been encouraging people to don a clown's red nose and "do something funny for money" since 1988.

19 Mars 2025

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charity

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Time for the Semaine des Langues

What are you planning for la Semaine des langues? This year’s edition is from 18 to 23 March and is on the theme of « L’important, c’est de communiquer ! », which we would happily adopt as our motto here at Speakeasy News. The event makes special reference to the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer in France: a multi-lingual, cross-cultural event like no other! Lots of schools have events planned. Here’s a selection of initiatives and ideas.

14 Mars 2025

europe

celebrations

creative writing

Your Students Have Talent! Matilda

In our series "Your Students Have Talent", check out these sketchnote pages created as a cross-curricular task by pupils using our Reading Guide Matilda.

13 Mars 2025

Roald Dahl

Matilda

humour

Around the World in 80 Photos in Aix

Magnum photographer Steve McCurry may not be a household name but his photos are instantly recognisable, especially one of a young Afghan girl taken in Pakistan where her family had taken refuge in 1984. An exhibition at the Caumont Centre d'Art in Aix-en-Provence takes visitors around the world in his footsteps, to India, Afghanistan, Namibia and Burma. Often travelling in war zones, McCurry captures human suffering but especially human resilience. Early in McCurry’s career, he started indulging his passion for travelling and just letting fate decide where he was going. After finishing film and theatre school in Philadelphia, he set off to travel in India. He moved on to Pakistan, and met some Afghan refugees, who smuggled him into Afghanistan just as its borders were closing because of the Soviet invasion in 1979. He spent months masquerading as a member of the Mujahadeen opposition, taking photos. Then he clandestinely recrossed the border, with his films sewn into his clothes. This is a rare McCurry photo from a conflict zone focussing on fighters, though not regular army. Most of his images focus on the effects of conflict on civilians and the region itself. His images were some of the first showing the tragic reality of what was going on in the country. The 1984 image of young Sharbat Gula which featured on the cover of National Geographic, came to symbolise the Afghan conflict and the plight of refugees around the world. Joining the Magnum agency in 1986, McCurry has travelled the world covering news events but also everyday life for people in many different countries. The Aix exhibition includes a panorama of his photos, including recent ones never before shown in France. Ritual McCurry is fascinated by rituals and religious faith, such as the Holi celebrations in Jaipur, India, in the image at the top of the page, or these Buddhist nuns in Burma or suspended Shaolin monks. Rural scenes and particularly the affect of climate on rural life, are another theme. Of his beautiful photos of Indian railways, like this steam train in front of the Taj Mahal, McCurry says, "Trying to tell India's story in pictures, I spent time in its stations, watching the swirl of life each time a train pulls in. People endlessly wait, they camp out in the stations, goods and services are exchanged. Chai-wallahs ply the carriages with their wares. Cows and monkeys forage for food. The entrance halls reverberate as passengers compete for tickets-the clamor of crowds is a constant assault on the senses. I was working an magazine assignment on a train journey across South Asia and by chance was walking down the track from Agra Fort Station. India's stations are a microcosm of the country beyond. Here in the commotion of travel, you can feel the continuity between past and present." You can see a selection of Steve McCurry's photos organised by theme on his website. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0plNvaR0bg Steve McCurry: Regards Caumont Centre Art, Aix-en-Provence Till 23 March 2025

26 Février 2025

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conflict

war

Dennis Morris: Music and Life

Dennis Morris arrived in London from Jamaica as a child, part of the Windrush generation. He fell in love with photography at age eight and became famous for his photos of Bob Marley and other reggae bands, as well as early punk such as the Sex Pistols. A retrospective exhibition in Paris features his music photos but also documentary photographs of the London of the 1970s.

26 Février 2025

London

Bob Marley

Jamaica

Captain America: Brave New World Trailer

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Captain America: Brave New World

Captain America is back! These activities based on the poster and the trailer will help your students discover the latest Marvel film while learning new words related to the world of superheroes and learning how to express contrast for example. This worksheet can also be used as follow up activities to the Shine Bright 3e Snapfile 9.

14 Février 2025

superhero

U.S. culture

movies

Stars Raise Millions After California Wildfires

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Stars Raise Millions After California Wildfires

Dozens of music and Hollywood stars played two shows in Los Angeles that have raised more than $100 million to help those whose lives have been turned upside down by the recent wildfires.

14 Février 2025

California

fundraising

environment

Sélection culturelle

Bridget Jones is Back

Bridget Jones has accompanied a generation of readers and filmgoers in a series of romantic comedies about trying to find happiness in the modern world of love. Now, she's back in a new film, widowed, a single mother, and ready to try to find love again.

14 Février 2025

film

Bridget Jones

British literature

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Bob Dylan Biopic

"A Complete Unknown" is a biopic about the early years of Bob Dylan's musical career. Timothée Chalamet plays the singer-songwriter when he arrives in New York City in 1961 from Minnesota with a guitar, some songs and not much else. This B2 resource will familiarise students with Dylan's music, the folk and protest scene he and Joan Baez were instrumental in, as well as the social and historical context through a clip set during the Cuban missile crisis.

13 Février 2025

video

U.S. culture

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan: A Complete Unknown Teaser

Watch the trailer and fill in your worksheet.

13 Février 2025

Bob Dylan

biopic

Valentine's Day: Talking about Feelings

Talking about emotions can be hard when you are a teenager — even more so when the feelings are about love and romance, and you have to talk about it in another language! This video of American teenagers talking about crushes is an excellent conversation starter for A2-A2+ classes. Why not use it for Valentine's Day?

03 Février 2025

video

audio

love

Paddington Goes Home

Although a well-loved character from British children's literature, Paddington Bear is from Peru in South America, and in the third film in the series about him, he returns to his home country to visit his Aunt Lucy. His adoptive family, the Browns, join him on his journey. This trailer for Paddington in Peru would be great to work on with pupils from A1+.

03 Février 2025

video

children's books

British culture

New Visa Details for School Trips to the UK

New rules about travelling to the UK come into force on 2 April 2025. Visitors from the EU will need a type of simplified visa called an ETA. But the good news is that children in school groups are exempted from the new system.

24 Janvier 2025

U.K.

class trip

voyage scolaire

Sélection culturelle

A Year of Dickens on ARTE

2025 is the year to catch up on your Charles Dickens classics on ARTE. There are four TV adaptations of Dickens' works on the station's platform until 25 November.

23 Janvier 2025

video

British history

poverty

Save the Date: Wes Anderson Exhibition at the Cinémathèque

Wes Anderson is one of those film directors who has such a personal style that you can instantly recognise one of his films, whether it's live action or animation. An exhibition at the Cinémathèque from March will recreate the singular vision of the director of Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr Fox and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Wes Anderson was born in Texas in 1969 and started making Super 8 films when he was a teenager. He met actor Owen Wilson while he was at college and together they made a short film, Bottle Rocket, that was a success at the Sundance festival and they made into a feature film. Anderson co-wrote his next couple of films with Wilson, Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). The themes of eccentric teenagers and dysfunctional families recur in The Darjeeling Limited (2004), The Life Aquatic (2007) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012). Meantime, Anderson turned to stop-motion animation with his adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's book Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) (image at the top of the page). His love affair with Dahl would bring him his first personal Oscar after many nominations, in 2024 for The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar , the first of his short-to-medium film adaptations of Dahl's short stories for adults for Netflix. He would return to stop-motion with Isle of Dogs (2018). 2014's The Grand Budapest Hotel is probably Anderson's best-known film, and it garnered him three more Oscar nominations as well as 4 wins in different categories. Anderson credits Austrian novelist Stephan Zweig for inspiring the film, set in a a fictional Eastern European city. The miscellaneous staff and guests of a luxury hotel face a time of conflict and tyranny with humour and resilience. The film stars Ralph Fiennes and Saoirse Ronan as well as Anderson regulars Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe and Tilda Swinton. https://youtu.be/KVyf-fzv-mA Anderson continued his love for visiting a perhaps more stylish past with The French Dispatch (2021), set in 1960s France, and Asteroid City, and the height of Hollywood glamour with Asteroid City (2023), complete with a Marilyn-Monroe starlet played by Scarlett Johansson. Look out later in the year for Anderson's latest film, a spy thriller called The Phoenician Scheme starring many of the stable of actors who recur in his films, such as Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Benedict Cumberbatch. Wes Anderson Cinémathèque Paris 19 March-27 July 2025 The exhibition will then move to London's Design Museum before going on a world tour. It will be possible to book guided visits for classes 4e level and up (in French). They will last 90 minutes and cost 145 € per class, up to 30 pupils et 6.50 € for each extra pupil up to a maximum of 34). Check out the teachers' page for contact details.

22 Janvier 2025

film

Cinéma

exhibition

Teaching with Trailers: The Importance of Being Earnest

The National Theatre's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring the current Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa, is wowing audiences in London's West End. If your students are studying the play for LLCER, the trailer for the production would be a great addition to their portfolios.

21 Janvier 2025

video

Ireland

film

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President Trump Profile 2025

These articles about the 47th President of the United States will enable students to say what they already know about Donald Trump and the American election and will provide enough new information to trigger interest. They will serve as a basis for speaking and writing activities as well as interaction. There are two articles and corresponding activities, one at A2-level and one at B1.

20 Janvier 2025

president

Trump

citoyenneté

A Winning Duo!

Do you have a language assistant in your school this year? Do you work in partnership with them? Then you could take part in a competition to create videos showing the collaboration between a language assistant and a class teacher.

16 Janvier 2025

video

competition

collaboration

Rendez-vous

New Congress, New Challenges

The 119th U.S. Congress convened for the first time on 3 January. Although the Republican Party achieved the "trifecta" of the Presidency and majorities in both houses of Congress in the November elections, divisions within the party mean it won't be simple to pass legislation.

14 Janvier 2025

elections

voting

U.S. culture

Presidential Inaugurations: A Video

Once every four years, a U.S. President is inaugurated. This video gives a succinct summary of the significance of this ritualised event.

14 Janvier 2025

video

president

history

Everything You Need to Know About: U.S. Presidential Inaugurations

On Monday, 20 January, Donald Trump will become the 45th President of the United States at his Inauguration in Washington D.C. What does the Inauguration involve, who participates, and what does it cost?

14 Janvier 2025

elections

president

Trump

A President Passes

Jimmy Carter served just one term as the 39th President of the U.S.A., but his public service started long before his White House stay and continued to the end of his long life. He has died aged 100.

10 Janvier 2025

charity

Nobel prize

U.S. politics

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Wallace and Gromit Are Back

Wallace and Gromit are unlikely heroes: a not-very-good amateur inventor from the north of England and his long-suffering dog. But they have won hearts and minds all over the world since their first appearance in 1989 and now they are back in their second feature film: Vengeance Most Fowl. They have to face an old enemy: the penguin Feathers McGraw last seen in The Wrong Trousers (1993).

09 Janvier 2025

animation

England

Bristol

Rendez-vous

Justin Trudeau Resigns as Canadian PM

After nine years at the head of the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down as leader of the Canadian Liberal Party on Monday, following months of internal struggles in the party. His resignation may have come too late to allow his successor to successfully lead a campaign for re-election, which must be held by 20 October.

07 Janvier 2025

politics

elections

parliament

Ernest Cole Photographing Apartheid

Ernest Cole spent the early part of his life photographing his life in South Africa as a black man under apartheid in the 1950s and 60s. He was able to publish some at the time but many waited until he felt forced into exile in the U.S.A. His book of his photos House of Bondage is one of the most important documents about apartheid. A new documentary looks at the life of Cole, who was never able to return to his homeland.

03 Janvier 2025

film

civil rights

documentary

Rendez-vous

Youngest Chess Champ

Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju just made history by becoming the youngest ever World Chess Champion at the age of just 18.

17 Décembre 2024

video

India

interview

Wicked Trailer

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Wicked

The famous Wicked musical is now a film. How about embarking your 6e students on a trip to Oz and the Emerald City in order to make them discover the world of Wicked while revising the present simple and learning words about school and wizardry?

12 Décembre 2024

film

U.S. culture

trailer

Edinburgh at 900

Scotland's capital is celebrating its 900th birthday! Edinburgh was one of the five royal burghs founded by King David I in 1124. From a small town in the Middle Ages, it has enlarged to a diverse city of 500,000 people. The contrasting medieval Old Town culminating in the Castle high on a volcanic plug and the elegant planned 18th-century New Town attract millions of visitors every year.

12 Décembre 2024

anniversary

British history

Scottish history

Anglais Collège

Red Nose Day is Celebrating a Big Birthday

Time for the Semaine des Langues

Your Students Have Talent! Matilda

Around the World in 80 Photos in Aix

Dennis Morris: Music and Life

Captain America: Brave New World Trailer

Captain America: Brave New World

Stars Raise Millions After California Wildfires

Bridget Jones is Back

Bob Dylan Biopic

Bob Dylan: A Complete Unknown Teaser

Valentine's Day: Talking about Feelings

Paddington Goes Home

New Visa Details for School Trips to the UK

A Year of Dickens on ARTE

Save the Date: Wes Anderson Exhibition at the Cinémathèque

Teaching with Trailers: The Importance of Being Earnest

President Trump Profile 2025

A Winning Duo!

New Congress, New Challenges

Presidential Inaugurations: A Video

Everything You Need to Know About: U.S. Presidential Inaugurations

A President Passes

Wallace and Gromit Are Back

Justin Trudeau Resigns as Canadian PM

Ernest Cole Photographing Apartheid

Youngest Chess Champ

Wicked Trailer

Wicked

Edinburgh at 900