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Celebrating Marilyn Monroe

It’s incredible to think that this year is the centenary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth. Hard to imagine the symbol of youth and beauty aging. A new exhibition at the Cinémathèque examines the life and work of the star who died tragically young.

24 Avril 2026

film

Cinéma

exhibition

Remembering on ANZAC Day

On 25 April each year, the people of Australia and New Zealand remember those have died in wars. Their remembrance day doesn't commemorate the end of WWI, as the 11th of November does in other countries. It commemorates their joint entry into the war, in the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.

22 Avril 2026

conflict

war

commemoration

Say My Name

When NASA astronaut Bill Anders took the first colour photo of the Earth from space in 1968, it was credited with raising awareness and interest in protecting our planet. For this year's Earth Day, NASA is encouraging us all to spell out our name in photos of geographical features of the Earth, hoping it will inspire a similar motivation for protection.

22 Avril 2026

NASA

sustainable development

science

English Language Day

The United Nations celebrates international days for each of the six official UN languages. International English Language Day is on 23 April, the day of Shakespeare's birth and death, in honour of his influence on the English language. Here are some online activities and documents from A1+ to B2. The United Nations has celebrated days for its six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish) since 2010. Why not have some fun with English to celebrate the day? The United Nations site has a quiz on British and American English and a couple of quizzes on idiomatic expressions. 23 April is also St George's Day , England's national day. This short video is a good introduction to the day, and to English as a global language. Usable from A1+. https://youtu.be/CIlaQHA1k84 Don't miss the Trivial Pursuit game in Shine Bright 5e about the origins and spread of English around the world. The British Council has a B2-level article about English Language Day, with an interactive worksheet, or you can download the article and worksheet to use offline in class. It has lots of information about the origins of English and English as a global language today. The UN also celebrates 23 April as Spanish Language Day for a similar reason: it is the death date of one of the most celebrated Spanish-language authors, Miguel Cervantes, in 1616, the same day Shakespeare died.

21 Avril 2026

united nations

Shakespeare

British Council

Jo Ractcliffe: The Aftermath of Conflict in South Africa

Jo Ractcliffe has spent her career photographing the consequences of colonialism, militarisation and segregation on South Africa both under apartheid and in its aftermath. An exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris shows the scope of her work.

10 Avril 2026

civil rights

activism

photography

Unicorn Day

On 9 April, Scotland celebrates National Unicorn Day, in honour of the country's national animal. Unicorns may be mythical creatures but that doesn't stop them being represented all over Scotland, and in the country's coat of arms.

07 Avril 2026

mythes et héros

Scotland

Royal

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Quais du Polar Lyon 2026

Lyon's Quais du Polar festival is back from 3 to 5 April. Crime-fiction writers from 17 countries will be talking about their books and the theme « Chercheurs d’histoires : sciences et fictions ». Some English-speaking authors jumped out at us, including Jonathan Coe's foray into crime.

02 Avril 2026

literature

festival

podcast

New for Lycée: Shine Brighter Première and Terminale

Coming very soon: the Shine Brighter collection is expanding with two new textbooks to accompany you in applying the new curriculum for première and terminale from September. They cover all the themes of the curriculum and are full of variety in the sequences proposed. Here’s a sneak peek!

20 Mars 2026

civil rights

London

New Zealand

4

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Pocket Money

Pocket money has always been a tricky question for parents and teenagers alike. While some parents give a weekly allowance to their children, others reward their teenage kids when they give a hand or have good marks, while others simply don’t give any pocket money, no matter how helpful their children are. Every family is different, and everyone has their own way of doing things! These activities – based on a recent survey by a British bank about pocket money in the UK – will have pupils think about pocket money while practising comparatives, superlatives, amounts of money and vocabulary for household chores and leisure activities.

Lovebirds Get Some Help from Sick Kids

Children in hospital decorate pebbles that help Gentoo penguins in Edinburgh Zoo find a mate.

19 Mars 2026

Scotland

conservation

Edinburgh

Rendez-vous

Heading for Moon Orbit

NASA's plans to return to the Moon should get a big boost in coming weeks when the Artemis II mission blasts off for 10 days in space. It will orbit the Moon and aims to travel further into space than any previous mission. This is one step towards a new Moon landing currently planned for 2028.

19 Mars 2026

NASA

space

science

International Fact-Checking Day: 2 April

International Fact-Checking Day is on 2 April – the day after April Fool's Day, when traditionally newspapers and other media publish fake "April Fools" stories. It promotes fact-checking to combat fake news around the world.

19 Mars 2026

video

traditions

EMC

La Semaine des Langues: Understanding the World

Are you ready for the Semaine des langues? This year’s edition is from 23 to 28 March 2026 and is on the theme of « Les langues pour comprendre le monde ». Here is a selection of activities planned around the country.

16 Mars 2026

europe

poetry

celebrations

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British and Irish Screens in Nîmes

The Nîmes British and Irish Screens film festival takes place from 13 to 22 March.

11 Mars 2026

video

film

festival

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Peaky Blinders 7 : A Wartime Return for Tommy Shelby

Four years after the end of Peaky Blinders, the story continues with a new film, The Immortal Man. The film mixes historical drama with a strong focus on character. It is released on Netflix on March 20, 2026.

10 Mars 2026

identity

World War II

Netflix

Les nouveaux programmes de Langues Vivantes au Collège

De nouveaux programmes en langues vivantes sont appliqués au collège. À partir des programmes publiés en mai 2025 , nous avons synthétisé pour vous les changements apportés.

Orwell: 2 + 2 = 4

A new documentary looks at the final months of George Orwell's life, while he was writing 1984. Filmmaker Raoul Peck draws comparisons between Orwell's words and events happening around us today.

01 Mars 2026

film

documentary

identity

Sting: The Last Ship

Sting grew up in the shipbuilding town of Wallsend, near Newcastle in northeast England. In The Last Ship, he tells the story of the workers at a shipyard facing closure. The musical is at the Seine Musicale till 8 March.

18 Février 2026

théâtre

British history

musicals

(Don't) Be My Valentine

Looking for something a bit different as a Valentine's gift? Or do you want to send a message to someone you definitely don't want to date? Bronx Zoo in NYC has the answer: their Name-a-Roach campaign.

13 Février 2026

New York

love

celebrations

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Wuthering Heights

After a lot of Jane Austen adaptations, it’s Emily Brontë’s turn for a new big-screen adaptation of her only novel, and masterpiece, Wuthering Heights.

12 Février 2026

film

Brontë

Jane Eyre

Meet the Author Again: Personnaliser les apprentissages

Comment organiser ses pratiques pédagogiques pour faire en sorte que le collège profite à tous les profils d’élèves et que chacun puisse progresser et développer ses compétences en anglais ? Notre nouveau guide pratique Mission Prof' : Personnaliser les apprentissages propose des explications et des activités clé-en-main. Son autrice partagera ses expériences lors d'un webinaire le 25 juin à 16h.

26 Janvier 2026

compréhension orale

compréhension écrite

expression écrite

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Alarm at the Country House

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials revisits a lesser-known whodunit, translating the logic-driven country house mystery into a contemporary Netflix miniseries.

21 Janvier 2026

film

literature

Series

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Hamnet

The latest film by Chloé Zhao is the adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel Hamnet , where she imagined the life of Shakespeare’s son and his wife, and their influence on his greatest tragedy. O’Farrell had been fascinated by the resemblance between Hamnet’s name and the Prince of Denmark’s since she discovered it while studying Hamlet as a teenager. He was one of twins born to Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway, but died at the age of 11, a few years before Shakespeare wrote the play. In her 2020 novel, Farrell imagines the young boy sacrificing himself to save his twin sister from the Plague, and his mother, a skilled herbalist, trying to save him. Despite giving his name to the novel, the focus is really on Agnes, as Farrell calls her, giving form to a woman who left little trace in historical record. The main things that have remained in the national memory about Hathaway were that she was older than Shakespeare and pregnant when they married, and that in his will the now comfortably off playwright left her his second-best bed. O’Farrell makes her a fully rounded character, and full partner in the marriage. She is most at home in the forest with the plants she uses for medicine and the hawk she has tamed. The film is light on dialogue, allowing actions and gestures express the different ways Agnes and Will grieve their beloved son. The couple are played by two Irish actors, Jessie Buckley ( The Lost Daughter, Wicked Little Letters ) and Paul Mescal (All of Us Strangers, Gladiator II). Jessie Buckley won the best actress Golden Globe and Critics' Choice awards for her performance, along with the film receiving best film at the Golden Globes and the audience awards at the BFI London and Toronto film festivals. Chloe Zhao ( Nomadland, Eternals) adapted the novel for screen, along with Maggie O’Farrell. As in her early films Songs My Brothers Taught Me and The Rider , viewers are plunged into a natural universe, in this case the woods of southern England. That is contrasted with the half-timbered houses of the town of Stratford-upon-Avon where the couple live with Shakespeare’s family, and the riverside in London where are the final scenes show a performance of Hamlet at the Globe Theatre. Agnes and her brother Bartholomew are amongst the groundlings directly in front of the stage, discovering the play that Shakespeare has told them nothing about. Agnes is transported by Will Shakespeare playing the ghost of Hamlet’s father and by Hamlet’s fatal sword fight. https://youtu.be/xYcgQMxQwmk Hamnet On general release 21 January 2026

19 Janvier 2026

Shakespeare

Hamlet

British literature

Rendez-vous

Claudette Colvin: Civil-Rights Activist

Claudette Colvin sparked the protest movement that led to Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, and the end of bus segregation after a long boycott. Colvin, who was just 15 at the time of her protest, died on 13 January at the age of 86.

15 Janvier 2026

Martin Luther King

video

civil rights

Your Students Have Talent! Number the Stars

Dans notre série "Your Students Have Talent", des élèves de troisième ont présenté une exposition sur la Seconde guerre mondiale et le roman Number the Stars à leurs camarades au CDI. Deux classes de troisième de la Maison d'éducation de la légion d'honneur des Loges à St-Germain-en-Laye ont travaillé, dans le cadre d'un projet pluridisciplinaire Histoire/Anglais, sur le Reading Guide "Number the Stars". Après avoir étudié la période de la Seconde guerre mondiale en Histoire, les élèves ont découvert le point de vue du Danemark en cours d'anglais grâce à cette touchante histoire écrite par l'autrice américaine Loïs Lowry. S'inspirant des tâches intermédiaires proposées dans le Reading guide, les élèves ont confectionné de poignantes lettres et extraits de journal intime relatant la crainte d'Annemarie de voir sa meilleure amie juive arrêtée. Par petits groupes, d'autres élèves ont établi une mise en contexte (historical background), quand d'autres ont créé de faux journaux illégaux d'époque. Enfin, l'autrice, le livre et les personnages ont été présentés, le tout ayant fait l'objet d'une exposition dans les couloirs du collège. [gallery ids="14858,14859,18926"] If you like working with long-form fiction with your pupils, check out our Reading Guides anglais collection: as well as Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, you'll find Gangsta Granny by David Walliams and Matilda by Roald Dahl. Find out more and watch the collection director Corinne Escales walk you through using the Reading Guides in class . Your students have talent, too! We are always happy to celebrate students' work at any class level. If you have examples you would like to share, please send them to us , letting us know about the task pupils were responding to.

11 Janvier 2026

history

WWII

children's books

Rendez-vous

Australian Social-media Ban for Teens

On 10 December, the ban on under 16s accessing social-media platforms in Australia came into force. When the legislation was passed in late 2024, many detractors said it would impossible to make it work. But, despite protests from the platforms, the government went ahead.

16 Décembre 2025

Australia

bullying

teenagers

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Modern Nigerian Art

Nigeria, the hugely populous West African country, is famous for its contributions to fashion, cinema and literature. It also has a vibrant art scene and an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London offers an overview of 50 years of Modernist art in Nigeria, with artists from the country and around the world. The exhibition spans the struggles for independence from Britain, independence, civil war, up to the present day. The early period in the 1940s and 50s features a double perspective as artists from Nigeria trained in the West, where modernism in art and literature was itself informed by a fascination with African arts and cultures. Independence in 1960 brought a period of optimism when artists participated in the quest for a national identity in a country which somewhat arbitrarily brought together more than 250 ethnic groups. In visual arts, the Natural Synthesis movement deliberately mixed modern western expression with indigenous art forms. In the university city of Ibadan, the Mbari Artists and Writers Club including authors Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka debated Pan-African ideas. Many artists drew on Nigerian or wider African traditions. In the 1950s, J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, who was raised in a small village in rural southwestern Nigeria, used photography, a new medium in Nigeria, to document Nigerian culture. His Hairstyle Series includes nearly a thousand photographs, captures the intricate hairstyles worn by Nigerian women. You can view a selection on this Google Arts essay. Ojeikere, commented, “All these hairstyles are ephemeral. I want my photographs to be noteworthy traces of them. I always wanted to record moments of beauty, moments of knowledge. Art is life. Without art, life would be frozen.” The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) ended with the defeat of the Igbo Biafra region, which had seceded from Nigeria. The Nsukka Art School revived ‘uli’ - linear Igbo designs - traditionally passed down between women. Obiora Udechukwu's Our Journey (1993) is an example of this school. Nike Davies-Okundaye works in traditional batiks and textile designs passed down from her grandmother. She also promotes other Nigerian artists, having opened in 1983 the Nike Centre for Art and Culture just outside Lagos. It is one of Africa’s largest galleries with more than 8,000 artworks. Nigeria around the World Nigeria has a population of 233 million but also a vast diaspora settled around the world. Authors like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ben Okri, and artists like Yinka Shonibare have a double, inside-outside vision of their home country. The last section of the exhibition is dedicated to Uzo Egonu, who is typical of these diaspora artists. He lived in the UK from the 1940s till his death in 1996. His Stateless People paintings series, begun in 1980, reflects on questions of nationhood and cultural identity. Each painting depicts a single figure, musician, artist or writer, emblematic of the growing visibility of Nigeria’s diaspora around the world. https://youtu.be/8hDXkgxZHGs Nigerian Modernism Tate Modern Till 11 May 2026

16 Décembre 2025

Africa

arts and crafts

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Bahamas Celebrate Junkanoo

In many places, 26 December and 1 January are days for quiet recovery from the celebrations the day before. But on the West Indian islands of the Bahamas, they are filled with noise and elaborate costumes as Junkanoo is celebrated, an event which is unique to the islands. Junkanoo is such an intrinsic part of Bahamian culture that the United Nations cultural organisation UNESCO added it to its list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity in 2023. The celebration dates back to the slavery era in the West Indies. Legend has it that an enslaved West African tribal leader, possibly called John Canoe, demanded that his people could have celebrations at Christmas time when even on plantations there was some downtime. The enslaved people took inspiration from their West African culture to make music and costumes with what they could find around them. They made music by blowing on conch shells and creating rhythm with cowbells and goat-skin drums. In modern times, brass bands have joined in the music, which starts in the early hours of the morning. Similar to carnival celebrations on other islands or in New Orleans, organised groups of 500-1000 work together over months to create costumes and floats. The main material is cardboard to create a rigid structure, with paper cut into strips to make fringes that add to the movement. The first minute of this video gives a flavour of the festival and can be used from A1. The following minute is an excellent description of slavery that could be used with lycée students. https://youtu.be/zALVCexXM6g Find lots more on the Caribbean in Shine Bright 5e File 1 Caribbean life, in Shine Bright 1e File 7 Caribbean vibes and Shine Bright LLCE cycle termina l File 8 From Isle to isle.

16 Décembre 2025

celebrations

music

parade

Wake Up Dead Man: Knives Out 3

Daniel Craig is back as detective Benoit Blanc in Wake Up Dead Man, surrounded by an A-list cast. Can he solve an apparently impossible crime in a church?

15 Décembre 2025

film

movie

detective fiction

6

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Jane Austen 250

Jane Austen was born on 16 December, 1775. In honour of the 250th anniversary of her birth, why not explore her life with your pupils? You can use our B1 biobox quiz and B2 resource about the the TV series Miss Austen together or independently. The series focuses on Jane’s beloved sister Cassandra, and tries to understand why she burned almost all of Jane’s letters after the author’s death. If your LLCER students are studying Pride and Prejudice, this will accompany their reading.

12 Décembre 2025

biography

marriage

TV series