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Guy Fawkes

This A1+ article is a short introduction to the Gunpowder Plot, and the traditions of Guy Fawkes Night, 5 November. As 5ème pupils are studying the XVIIe century in history, it lends itself well to an EPI.

16 Octobre 2021

video

Guy Fawkes

traditions

David Attenborough: People's Advocate for the Planet

Sir David Attenborough has fascinated viewers around the world for decades with his documentary series like The Blue Planet and Life on Earth. Now the 95-year-old naturalist is using his communication skills to try to explain the complex issues to be tackled the United Nations’ COP26 environmental summit in Glasgow from 31 October. Attenborough was named “People’s Advocate” by the British government, which is hosting the summit , which was postponed from last year. In that role he has been making a series of speeches in the run up to the summit, and will speak at the event itself. Attenborough’s statement on the nomination: https://youtu.be/Oevm9nQz25k Attenborough revolutionised natural history programming at the BBC in 1954, when he produced and co-presented Zoo Quest, the first series produced by the BBC where animals were filmed in the wild. After a stint as a BBC executive (we have him to thank for Monty Python’s Flying Circus being broadcast), Attenborough returned to his first love: nature programmes. The zoology graduate has roamed the globe several times over and worked with incredible camera operators to bring us images of life in all its variety ever since. At 95, he now does more narrating than exploring and in recent years has become more and more worried about climate change affecting biodiversity and the natural environments he loves. His three most recent series, Our Planet (2019), Climate Change—The Facts (2019), and David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020) were all cries of distress on behalf of the natural world. He wishes to impress upon the leaders at COP26 and the general public the need for urgency. However, he does see hope as long as we act now. In a recent speech at the Chatham House think tank in London, his warning was stark, “The world is being destroyed. We are doing it.” But he saw a positive change in attitude. “In the past, international relationships have been dominated by argument, by people with one point of view disagreeing with people with another point of view. But now there is a difference. Now the major problems that face the nations of the world are the same for all nations.” This, he hopes, will make them work together to find solutions for future generations. “The most powerful dynamic that should force those people in Glasgow is that it is young people who see this it is their future. They now understand what the problems are worldwide.” Attenborough is a fellow of the Royal Society, Britain’s oldest and most prestigious science institution. He has been working with them on their consciousness-raising campaigns on climate change . He recently narrated this short animation that succinctly explains the importance of biodiversity for our future, and the dangers it faces. https://youtu.be/GlWNuzrqe7U As he concludes,"We need all the riches of our living planet to help us live healthy, happy lives long into the future." COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference 31 October-12 November

15 Octobre 2021

united nations

video

sustainable development

So Many Short Films at the This is England Festival in Rouen

The festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary edition a year late from 12 to 20 November. Last year’s edition was postponed several times because of COVID. So the organisers decided to organise a bumper edition this year, with last year’s selection and a new one. And as usual, special attention has been given to school groups enjoying the festival.

13 Octobre 2021

film

festival

British culture

In Conversation with Kenneth Branagh

If you are studying "Much Ado About Nothing" with your LLCER students, or anything about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, you’ll want to download this long-form interview with actor-director Kenneth Branagh from BBC Radio 4.

13 Octobre 2021

Olympics

audio

Shakespeare

What Resources Would You Like?

Are there subjects you would like to see us covering in our Ready to Use Resources? (Or indeed in our Webpicks or articles?) We'd love to hear your ideas! Why not drop us a line with an idea or two. You could also mention the level you're interested in teaching it at. We'll do our best to cover as many topics as possible. You can e-mail us by clicking on this link .

Your Students Have Talent: Masked Self Portraits

We always love to see your students' work. Adeline Paget sent us photos of her 6e students who did the masked self-portraits activity we suggested.

13 Octobre 2021

self-portraits

coronavirus pandemic

adjectives

Your Students Have Talent: Standard English

And in our series Your Students Have Talent, here is just a small sample of an amazing discussion by students studying Shine Bright AMC SnapFile 12 Standard English, about the status of English alongside other languages in the world today.

13 Octobre 2021

English

English-speaking world

students have talent

Teaching about Refugees

The Walk with Little Amal project aims to raise awareness of the plight of refugees and particularly refugee children. As Amal makes an 8,000 km journey across Europe on foot, the project hopes to help other children think about the issue, and they've provided lots of educational tools to help teachers explore the topic in class. You can read more about the giant Little Amal puppet and her stops in France in our article . The Walk with Amal site has a teaching pack for classes, available in English and also in French . The beautifully designed pack has activities encouraging pupils to think about what home means to them, which objects are most important to them, create family trees or look into the meanings behind names. There's a scrapbook page about Amal for them to read and reproduce about themselves. A section on migration starts out with migratory animals before moving on to human migration and the push and pull factors associated with it. There's lots of poetry in the pack, like this poem by Warsan Shire, who had to flee Somalia. No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. You only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well. … No one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore. No one would leave home until home is a voice in your ear saying - leave, run, now. I don’t know what I’ve become. There's a whole section on facing fears and another on climate change as a push factor for refugees with examples of young climate activists. And the pack closes on a section on adventure.

12 Octobre 2021

refugees

Syria

poetry

Sélection culturelle

Before Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks is known the world over as the African American who refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. But nine months before Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did the same thing. She's the subject of a play (in French), Noire.

11 Octobre 2021

Martin Luther King

video

civil rights

Bigger Than Us

This inspiring documentary features teen activists around the world who see a problem and try to fix it. From Malawi to Colorado they are fighting pollution, opposing child marriage, supporting education, freedom of speech and sustainable agriculture and demanding rights for the planet and indigenous people. Melati Wijsen and her sister founded Bye Bye Plastic Bags, to fight the plastic waste which washes up in the shores of Indonesia when they were just 12 and 10. Filmmaker Flore Vasseur met Melati while making a documentary, and a few years on, the pair decided to meet other young people trying to help their communities and the planet. In Africa they met two young women. Memory Banda in Malawi ran a campaign to raise the minimum age for marriage from 15 to 18 to protect girls from forced marriages and encourage their families to continue their education. Winnie Tushabe has helped 900 Ugandan families learn new agricultural techniques to gain food security. Like much of the continent, their land had been damaged by pesticides and Winnie taught them to use permaculture to grow crops and protect the soil. At the age of 12, Mohammad Al Jaounde, a Syrian living with his family in a refugee camp in the Lebanon, created a school for children like him. Today it has 200 pupils (top photo) and Mohammad continues to run it virtually from Sweden, where he has found refuge. British teenager Mary Finn also helps refugees from Middle-East conflicts, arriving in Greece. She’s now training as a midwife to continue her humanitarian work. Rene Silva lives in a favela in Brazil. At age 11 he created Vos das Comunidas to allow his community to create and share its own news. It now employs 16 journalists and campaigns for freedom of expression. Xiuhtezcatl Martinez began campaigning as a young teen in Colorado on environmental issues. He’s also a talented rapper and keen to share his First Nations culture. He is one of a group of teens behind a group-action case asserting the U.S. government is flouting their rights by not protecting them from climate change. All of these stories make up the feature-length documentary Bigger Than Us. So many of us find the problems we see around us so enormous they seem insurmountable. It’s inspiring to watch these young people who see a problem and decide to try to fix it, not wait for grown-ups to come along and do the job! See our Ready-to-use resource on Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Watch the trailer Bigger Than Us On general release in cinemas The f ilm website gives lots of information about the different campaigners and their causes, and gives a link to contact each one. Could be a good class project!

10 Octobre 2021

refugees

video

film

Create a Poster: Halloween

We have a teacher recommendation for a site for creating posters for your classroom, and an example of a poster on the theme of Halloween to use in collège to work on the BE+ing present and reading comprehension around this celebration.

09 Octobre 2021

celebrations

sustainable development

Halloween

Sélection culturelle

Next Bond

With Craig’s retirement as James Bond after "No Time to Die", speculation has mounted over who will be cast to take over the role.

09 Octobre 2021

film

Cinéma

hero

Rendez-vous

Walking Across Europe for Refugees

Little Amal is anything but small: she’s a giant puppet of a Syrian refugee girl making her way across Europe. The 3.5-metre-tall puppet began an 8,000 kilometre journey in Turkey on 27 July. After the south of France in September, she’ll be making stops across the north in October before embarking for the U.K.

09 Octobre 2021

refugees

Syria

video

Rendez-vous

2021 Nobel Peace Prize Supports Freedom of the Press

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to two journalists with a long track record of fighting to protect freedom of expression: Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, working in the Philippines and Russia.

08 Octobre 2021

united nations

video

human rights

Rendez-vous

Captain Kirk Goes Back to Space!

The Canadian actor William Shatner, aka Star Trek Captain Kirk, will be aboard the next rocket from Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' company, on October 12, 2021.

07 Octobre 2021

space

Star Trek

captain Kirk

Sélection culturelle

2021 Nobel Prize for Literature Turns the Spotlight on East Africa

The 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah from Tanzania, whose own experience of colonialism and exile have informed his ten novels as well as short stories and academic works.

07 Octobre 2021

refugees

Nobel prize

colonisation

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Blood Manor: Halloween House

This spooky A1+ audio activity is an original way to celebrate Halloween. The scene is Blood Manor, a haunted house attraction in New York. There are lots of ghoulish sound effects. And pupils will be asked to practise listening for and producing "H" sounds (and also focus on when not to add a "phantom H" at the beginning of words). Finally, there is lexical work on body parts and scary places.

05 Octobre 2021

U.S.A.

audio

traditions

Halloween: Out of This World!

Halloween is celebrated by kids and adults all over the U.S.A…. even in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Every year, teams of space scientists take an hour off from pushing the boundaries of space to compete in the annual pumpkin carving contest. The winners are of course… over the Moon!

05 Octobre 2021

NASA

space

Halloween

Sélection culturelle

Jane Campion Honoured at Lyon's Lumière Festival

The Lumière Festival in Lyon from 9 to 15 October has a great programme of films in various languages including English. And it will be giving the prestigious Prix Lumière to New Zealand director Jane Campion, as well as showing a retrospective of her films.

05 Octobre 2021

Lyon

African-American culture

film festival

Winning Films at Dinard

The Dinard British Film Festival is over for another year. But before it closed, the juries announced the winners of the various prizes. Here is a rundown.

04 Octobre 2021

refugees

Dinard

Northern Ireland

Read Poems Out Loud for National Poetry Day

It's National Poetry Day in the UK on 7 October . On that day, or any day, why not have fun with poems in class? They're a great way to explore language and practise diction.

01 Octobre 2021

literature

poetry

memorisation

The Big Reveal: Our Next Reading Guide Will Be...

Thank you to all of you who answered our poll about which of the oeuvres intégrales for Terminale LLCER you would like a Reading Guide for first. And the winner is… The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) by Hanif Kureishi, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a boy with an English mother and Pakistani father growing up in the 1970s in the London suburbs.

30 Septembre 2021

literature

British literature

multiculturalism

Creative Writing Competition: Vivian Maier’s Photography

Vivian Maier's extraordinary photos of New York and Chicago streets, portraits and self-portraits, were discovered by chance in 2007. A selection is currently on show at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris and we'd like to challenge your pupils to write stories inspired by the images.

30 Septembre 2021

exhibition

documentary

U.S. history

Get Your Fill of British Film!

The Dinard British Film Festival is a wonderful event, and this year you can enjoy it even if you can’t make it to Normandy between 29 September and 3 October. A large number of the films selected are also available to watch online.

29 Septembre 2021

refugees

Dinard

Northern Ireland

Innovation en Education

Venez assister aux conférences, débats et présentations pour découvrir de nombreuses innovations pédagogiques et échanger avec des enseignants et formateurs lors du Congrès Innovation en Éducation les 2 et 3 octobre. Assistez aux conférences et débats en présentiel ou en ligne. Sophie Martinez, la créatrice de la mallette de jeux Still English, participera à un débat sur le bonheur à l’école.

29 Septembre 2021

games

ludification

jeux

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James Bond

The 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die , should prove of interest to pupils, the more so as the vast majority of them will be familiar with the hero. This A2 article gives a few clues about his personality. Your pupils will also learn about Ian Fleming and the making of the films. The suggested activities are for the most part open to personal views, and are meant to provide starting points for discussion whenever possible.

23 Septembre 2021

film

Cinéma

hero

Sélection culturelle

Vivian Maier: Portraits of America and Self

Vivian Maier is now considered a major American photographer but she never published her work and died in obscurity, not knowing the interest her work would provoke. Maier was born in New York City in 1926. She spent her childhood and early twenties between the States and France, her mother's home country. She returned to New York in 1951 and spent the rest of her life as a nanny there and in Chicago. She had been interested in photography since childhood. When she was four, she and her mother shared an apartment with a well-known portrait photographer, Jeanne Bertrand. Maier never left home without her camera, and her work includes incredible street photography, portraits and also many self-portraits. But to the families she lived with for so many years, she was just the children’s nanny. She showed her work to no one and at some periods didn’t even have money to develop her films. Towards the end of her life, three siblings she had looked after came to her financial aid. She spent the final months of her life in a nursing home after a fall, and no longer kept up payments on a storage facility. The contents of her storage box were sold at auction in 2007.John Maloof bought a lot of negatives. He was a real-estate agent but he was working on a book of local history. He thought the lot contained architectural photos. When he saw it didn’t, he set them aside, but returned to them two years later. Although no photography expert, he could see the photos were exceptional. He wanted to find out more about the photographer. He found her name on an envelope in the box, and found a reference to her with an Internet search. Unfortunately, it was to an obituary: Maier had died days earlier. Maloof managed to locate much of the rest of Maier’s work: over 100,000 photos as well as documentary films. He went on to make a documentary, Finding Vivian Maier. https://youtu.be/8ZoYG1kgMNo Self-portraits Maier took self-portraits throughout her career, often using techniques such as mirrors or shadows to signal her presence without facing the camera. Portraits She also took many candid photos of people she met on the city streets. They have a natural spontaneity. As far as can be pieced together from the memories of the children she cared for, she simply walked up to people she found interesting and asked to take their picture there and then. City Streets Maier’s images of New York and Chicago draw a portrait of the cities as they became modern metropolises through the 1950s and 60s particularly. As with her portraits, she was attracted to the poor and underrepresented rather than the wealthy parts of town. Children Maier spent her professional life around children and there are many images of them in her collection, both those she cared for and ones she met in her wanderings. The exhibition trailer gives a glimpse of Maier’s different subjects. https://youtu.be/VdkR4p5_aKI Maier’s self-portraits would make an excellent subject for an LLCER sequence on Expression et construction de soi Axe 2 : Mise en scène de soi. For example File 15 of Shine Bright LLCER , United Selves of America: What does the art of self-portrayal reveal about the American experience? We’re organising a creative-writing competition inspired by Maier’s photos. You can find more details here . Vivian Maier Musée du Luxembourg, Paris Till 16 January 2022 There will also be a selection of photos on display in seven Métro stations: Hôtel de Ville, La Chapelle, Luxembourg, Saint-Denis Porte de Paris, Gare de Lyon, Madeleine and Pyramides. The Vivian Maier website has a large selection of her photos.

23 Septembre 2021

exhibition

documentary

U.S. history

Sélection culturelle

No Time to Die James Bond

It's finally (almost) here: the 25th Bond film that was delayed by on-set accidents during stunts, and then by COVID. Daniel Craig is appearing as Bond (but not 007) for the last time in a film that was co-written by Fleabag and Killing Eve creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

23 Septembre 2021

film

Cinéma

hero

Rendez-vous

Canada Elections: Status Quo

Canada went to the polls two years early on 20 September. The situation after the election looks almost exactly the same as that before, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party losing the popular vote but winning the most seats, though not enough for a majority. Trudeau will now form another minority government.

22 Septembre 2021

politics

elections

parliament

Sélection culturelle

Free Films in Dinard

The Deauville British Film festival proper stars on 29 September, but if you can't wait, there are three free showings of British films on 26-28 September. The Dinard fait son cinéma showings are: Downton Abbe y 26 September at 5.30 p.m. Rocketman , the biopic of singer Elton John, Monday 27 September at 8.30 p.m. (Photo above.) Sorry We Missed You by Ken Loach, Tuesday 28 September at 8.30 p.m.

22 Septembre 2021

Dinard

Ken Loach

Elton John