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The Spy Who Turned Novelist

John le Carré, master spy novelist, died on 12 December at the age of 89. Like James Bond creator Ian Fleming, le Carré himself worked in intelligence, but his novels were the polar opposite of Bond, portraying espionage as bleak, often tedious, and above all morally ambiguous.

14 Décembre 2020

video

thriller

British literature

Ho, Ho, Ho, Christmas Jumper Day is Back!

As Boris Johnson said as he announced a new lockdown: "'Tis the season to be jolly careful". But it's nice to know that some festive traditions have survived the pandemic. Friday 11 December is the ninth Christmas Jumper Day, organised by Save the Children U.K. Normally, people wear a Christmas-themed jumper to work or school but this is one fundraising event that can actually work just as well on social media. Dress up in a silly jumper - home decorated if possible - make a £2 donation to the charity, post your selfie and encourage your friends to do the same. Mr Johnson is probably a bit busy with Brexit negotiations to take part, but his wax figure at Madame Tussaud's will be appropriately attired on the day. Lots of other well-known faces have trotted out their best yuletide bling to support the charity's efforts. The previous eight editions of Christmas Jumper Day have raised £25 million to help children in the U.K. and around the world. Coronavirus has made the charity's work more necessary than ever, as it has impacted families already struggling with poverty around the world. The Save the Children site has some short, simple examples of c hildren who have been helped by money made by fundraising. Time to Upcycle The Christmas Jumper Day site has some great tips for repurposing plain old jumpers by giving them a Yultide makeover. Like this! https://youtu.be/ENKQd5zc_so For last year's Christmas Jumper Day, Britain’s world record holding Olympic long jumper Greg Rutherford, wore Britain’s longest Christmas jumper (measuring the same as his record 8.51m jump).

11 Décembre 2020

video

charity

children

Travel to Ireland for Training Courses

Every year, the Education Ministry finances 400 courses in language and culture in EU countries for language teachers in primary or secondary. Applications need to be in by 17 January 2021.

09 Décembre 2020

Ireland

teaching

DNL

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Teen Scientist Looking for a Covid Cure

Not all the scientists researching a Covid vaccine or cure are professionals working in labs. Anika Chebrolu, 14, from Texas, has been named America's Top Young Scientist 2020 for finding a compound that could bind to the distinctive spike protein in the SARS-Cov-2 virus and potentially inhibit its ability to infect human cells.

03 Décembre 2020

video

gender equality

Unicef

Young Scientist Named Time’s “Kid of the Year”

Gitanjali Rao from Colorado, won America's Top Young Scientist, for her innovative gadget to test for contaminants like lead in drinking water. She has also mentored 30,000 students, encouraging them to use science and technology to create social change, too. She has just been named TIME magazine’s first ever “Kid of the Year”. Find teaching resources on this inspiring teen on the BRNE cycle 4.

03 Décembre 2020

gender equality

bullying

science

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2020: A Year in Language

It’s the traditional time of year for dictionary publishers to announce their “word of the year”. In a year dominated by the pandemic, Oxford Dictionaries decided to choose several, whereas Collins chose “lockdown” from a shortlist dominated by the health emergency. Merriam Webster in the States went with the word “pandemic” itself.

02 Décembre 2020

language

world of work

Black Lives Matter

Short Teaching Stays in the UK and Ireland

As the days start getting longer again, it's time to think of travel! If you teach English in secondary school, you can apply to spend two weeks teaching and observing in a school in the UK or Ireland.

28 Novembre 2020

UK

Ireland

teaching

5

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Meet Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

Now that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are President and Vice-President Elect of the U.S.A., your pupils will no doubt want to know more about them. This A2 article will provide materials for your pupils to speak about the American election in a factual way.

27 Novembre 2020

president

Trump

EMC

5

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Profiles

Although President Trump is still making legal challenges over the election, it seems certain that after the January Inauguration, Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the U.S.A. and Kamala Harris, his running mate, will be the first black female Vice-President and to thus make history. Thanks to this B1 article, the students will learn more about Biden and Harris: not only their private lives but also their political careers as well as the challenges awaiting them in the midst of this worldwide pandemic are here explained.

27 Novembre 2020

president

Trump

EMC

New Reading Guides Available

We know from your messages that you've been waiting for them... Our first two film guides in the Reading Guide series, Much Ado About Nothing and 12 Angry Men, are now available as is Jane Eyre.

26 Novembre 2020

film

literature

Cinéma

The Unknown Warrior 100 Years On

The First World War was so devastating, countries were at a loss to know how to commemorate their dead. A hundred years ago, two years after the Armistice, Britain’s King George V inaugurated the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Cathedral, to honour all the anonymous fallen.

25 Novembre 2020

conflict

war

commemoration

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The 2020 Booker Prize Goes to First-time Scottish Author

Britain's most prestigious literary prize this year was awarded on 19 November to one of four debut novels in the shortlist: "Shuggie Bain" by Douglas Stuart, a story of family love and addiction in recession-hit 1980s Glasgow.

25 Novembre 2020

video

literature

British literature

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Thanksgiving Despite Coronavirus

Many countries in Europe have instituted lockdowns with the aim of reducing coronavirus transmissions enough to allow their populations to have a semblance of a normal Christmas. In the U.S., the problem of family get-togethers is a whole month earlier, with Thanksgiving, which falls this year on Thursday 26 November.

20 Novembre 2020

thanksgiving

Canada

teaching resources

Masked But Not Muted on World Children's Day

19 November is Unicef's annual World Children's Day. This year, the UN organisation is highlighting how children have been impacted by the global pandemic.

20 Novembre 2020

poem

videos

Unicef

Celebrating Diwali with a Light Installation at Tate Britain

Like all museums in England, Tate Britain is closed to the public for lockdown. But it's still celebrating art, and the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, in a stunning artwork displayed on the OUTSIDE of the building.

12 Novembre 2020

art

London

exhibition

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Finally.... a Result

After four days of tense waiting, demonstrations and threats of legal challenge, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris emerged as the next President and Vice-President of the United States on Saturday 7 November.

08 Novembre 2020

video

president

Trump

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Booker Prize Shortlist 2020

The UK’s most prestigious literary prize, the Booker, will be awarded on 19 November. This year’s shortlist of six books, including four debut novels, is very diverse, featuring authors from the U.S., Zimbabwe and Ethiopia as well as a single representative from the U.K.

06 Novembre 2020

literature

coming-of-age

gender politics

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Shakespeare's Son and Anne Hathaway

The UK’s 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been awarded to a novel that imagines the life and death of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet and rounds out the character of his wife Anne Hathaway: Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet.

05 Novembre 2020

Shakespeare

Hamlet

British literature

5

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Roald Dahl's The Witches

Roald Dahl’s "The Witches" was published in 1983, a typically twisted tale of witches who look like normal women and want to eliminate children by turning them into mice. A second film version, this time by American director Robert Zemeckis, was scheduled for a November release. Like everything else, it's on hold for lockdown, but why not get your pupils ready to watch it with this spooky resource?

05 Novembre 2020

Roald Dahl

video

film

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Explaining the Electoral College

Until the recent past, the electoral college was barely mentioned in descriptions of the U.S. Presidential electoral system. But then came the 2000 election, when George W. Bush lost the popular vote, but won the majority of electoral college votes. And 2016, when Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a 3 million margin, but Donald Trump won the electoral college vote 304 votes to 227.

05 Novembre 2020

president

Trump

EMC

3

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The Art of Being a Dandy: Aubrey Beardsley

Despite his early death aged 25, Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) had a prolific career as an illustrator. Part of the Aesthetic movement, a friend of Oscar Wilde’s, Beardsley was a dandy and turned his own short life into a work of art. To accompany the exhibition currently on hold at the Musée d’Orsay, this resource explores his art and the figure of the dandy.

04 Novembre 2020

video

art

Oscar Wilde

Supreme Court Confirmation Rushed Through

Judge Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the Supreme Court replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on 27 October, barely a week before the presidential election.

30 Octobre 2020

Trump

U.S. culture

gender equality

World Ballet Day

We all need a bit of beauty in these difficult times, and the inspiring example of dancers who are continuing to practise their art even in lockdown. And for a literary fix, see how the emotions of great classics like Jane Eyre and The Handmaid's Tale can be expressed through ballet.

29 Octobre 2020

dance

November

Jane Eyre

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New Zealand gives Jacinda Ardern and Labour a Landslide

New Zealand’s 17 October election was originally scheduled on a historically significant day: 19 September, the annual anniversary of the date in 1893 when New Zealand women became the first in the world to legally vote. It was postponed because of Covid but was historic anyway: the Labour party became the first in 24 years to win an outright majority.

23 Octobre 2020

elections

EMC

election

Black Lives Matter : Travail collaboratif et éducation aux médias autour d’un sujet d’actualité

Le traitement des sujets d’actualité intéresse toujours les élèves et c’est une bonne chose car cela témoigne de leur volonté de penser en citoyens et de développer leur esprit critique. Cependant, il est parfois délicat d’aborder des sujets d’extrême actualité car on se trouve alors en concurrence avec le flot d’informations dont les élèves sont abreuvés en temps réel. Un cas pratique.

22 Octobre 2020

video

civil rights

EMC

Painting the Town Black

To celebrate Black History Month 2020, the British Post Office painted some of its iconic red post boxes black and adorned them with the portraits and stories of notable black Britons.

22 Octobre 2020

art

UK history

Black Lives Matter

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2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for American poet Louise Gluck

American poet Louise Gluck won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.

12 Octobre 2020

poetry

Nobel prize

American literature

U.S. Youth Vote Videos

One of the big battles in the U.S. elections is getting people to vote. Which starts with getting them registered. These videos are a great teaching resource.

09 Octobre 2020

president

EMC

U.S. elections

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Private Turner: Watercolours and Paintings

Despite coronavirus, the Musée Jacquemart-André proposes a great retrospective of the oeuvre of William Turner (1775-1851), with the “Turner, peintures et aquarelles de la Tate” exhibition. Running to January 11, 2021 in partnership with the London’s Tate.

09 Octobre 2020

art

exhibition

painting

10

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Celebrating Votes for Women

A hundred years after finally gaining the right to vote in the U.S.A., women today systematically both register and vote more than men. These two resources, one with a more complex article than the other, encourage pupils to discover the long campaign for suffrage, and some of the activists who worked for the 19th Amendment and women who continue to oppose discrimination up to the present day.

09 Octobre 2020

civil rights

feminism

votes for women