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Teaching with Short Films: Collège

The This is England short films festival education team has concocted a great programmes collège classes every morning of the festival. Sign up now, and download the teaching pack to prepare for your visit.

31 Octobre 2018

film

festival

British culture

Towards Human Rights

Seventy-five years ago, Norman Rockwell painted four iconic covers for The Saturday Evening Post depicting the Four Freedoms promoted by President Roosevelt: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear and Freedom from Want. The Freedoms would ultimately lead to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The iconic pictures, and other socially engaged paintings, will be coming to the Mémorial de Caen next summer.

30 Octobre 2018

U.S. culture

freedom of expression

painting

Sélection culturelle

Wide Open Spaces: American Wilderness

The Mona Bismarck American Center in Paris is hosting an evening on the theme "Into the Wild in the 1930s" in connection with the Dorothea Lange exhibition The Politics of Seeing. How did and does the Far West reflect American culture?

23 Octobre 2018

film

poetry

mystery

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Northern Irish Novel Wins 2018 Booker Prize

The winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize is a book about a divided society. Its author, Anna Burns, hails from Belfast, and the unnamed city in Milkman has echoes of the Northern Irish capital during the Troubles. But, as the chair of judges Kwame Anthony Appiah says, is about what happens in sectarian societies everywhere in the modern world. The main protagonist in Milkman is simply called "middle sister". Like all the characters, she is named more for her function than identification — like "nearly-boyfriend" or "first brother-in-law". She is 18 and doesn't really fit into the mould of her family or her close-knit community identified by religion. She loves reading — in fact she reads walking down the street, a strange trait that makes her stand out from the crowd. She further stands out when she attracts the interest of the milkman. He doesn't deliver milk, he is a local paramilitary. (The IRA used to deliver petrol bombs in milk crates during times of unrest.) The milkman, older and married, wants to have an affair with middle sister. Despite the fact that she resists his advances, the entire community is soon convinced that the affair is reality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0WS8zaNFC4 Like in any small community, gossip and rumour are powerful tools that regulate community members behaviour. Burns, who has previously published two novels and a novella, may be writing about 1970s Belfast, but readers, especially women, from small communities all over the world can recognise middle sister's dilemmas. Despite the serious subject, the book has been praised for its humour. It was the unanimous choice of the Booker judges. The chair of judges, Appiah, was entranced by Burns' narrative voice. "It is an amazing voice," he said. Appiah, "Burns uses language in a way you haven’t heard before. You hear [middle sister's] voice in your head and you’ve never heard one like it before." Asked why she used not proper names in the book, Burns replied, "The book didn’t work with names. It lost power and atmosphere and turned into a lesser - or perhaps just a different - book. In the early days I tried out names a few times, but the book wouldn’t stand for it. The narrative would become heavy and lifeless and refuse to move on until I took them out again. Sometimes the book threw them out itself." Names are slippery things in Belfast. As middle sister says about her evening class in French, "I was downtown, which meant outside my own area, which meant outside my own religion, which meant I really was in a class counting people who really did have the names Nigel and Jason." Names are indicators of class and religion, limiting people to a role, a small space. Middle sister's habit of replacing proper names with functions lets her take back a little power in a world that contrives to keep her powerless. You can read a sample chapter on the publisher's site. Find a sequence on the Troubles in Speakeasy Files 3e : it looks at the period through the arts, with an extract of the film '71, poetry and murals.

19 Octobre 2018

literature

Man Booker

Speakeasy Files 3e

Multilingual Story Contest for Classes

If you teach in collège, you might like to sign your pupils up for an original multilingual story competition. It asks classes to write a story using elements of languages other than French. The winners will be revealed during the Semaine des langues vivantes in May. You need to sign up by 22 October 2018.

19 Octobre 2018

théâtre

competition

multicultural

Wrong Turn

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Rendez-vous

American Midterm Elections

For several months, the news in the U.S.A. has been dominated by the midterm elections. Depending on which survey you look at, these could mean a major revival for the Democratic Party, or a small bump on President Trump’s path to re-election. What are the midterms, and how important are they?

17 Octobre 2018

elections

voting

U.S. culture

Festival America: Reading Ideas for Literature Classes

If you are looking for some ideas for teaching L.E.L.E. or next year’s new spécialité Langues, littératures et cultures étrangères, we asked several teachers and authors who attended Festival America in Vincennes in September to give us their favourite picks amongst the authors and books they encountered. Whether you already feel like preparing next year’s lessons, or are seeking new inspiring novels for your students, or just for pleasure, you're sure to find something that appeals.

17 Octobre 2018

literature

L.E.L.E.

U.S. culture

Sélection culturelle

"The Verdun Affair", Love and Loss in WWI

In our series of interesting new books from the U.S.A., "The Verdun Affair" by Nick Dybeck. A novel about love and loss, forgetting and remembering, set immediately after WWI, in France and Italy, as well as against the more glamorous background of 1950s Los Angeles.

17 Octobre 2018

WWI

literature

love

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"The Mothers", a Coming-of-Age Story

In our series of interesting new books from the U.S.A., "The Mothers" Brit Bennett. Grief and loss, love and female friendship, family and community, judgement and hypocrisy, teen pregnancy, racial and cultural identity, all these life challenges are part of Bennett’s debut novel, a story about young love and a secret that will follow the characters.

17 Octobre 2018

literature

L.E.L.E.

U.S. culture

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"The Barrowfields", a Haunting Family Tale from North Carolina

In our series of interesting new books from the U.S.A., "The Barrowfields" by Phillip Lewis. The Barrowfields is the name for the land that lies between the little town of Old Buckram, North Carolina and the house where Henry Aster's parents set up home and where Henry's childhood happened. Seven years in the writing, Philip Lewis's début novel tells the story of Henry's return and the unexpected demons which await him.

17 Octobre 2018

literature

L.E.L.E.

U.S. culture

Talking About the U.S. Midterms

If you'd like to discuss the American midterm elections with your classes, we have selected some great teaching resources.

17 Octobre 2018

elections

voting

U.S. culture

Sélection culturelle

Supreme icon

The contentious nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court makes him the new colleague of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg aka Notorious R.B.G.. She is a feminist and pop culture icon and the subject of a documentary just released in cinemas.

17 Octobre 2018

Trump

feminism

Supreme Court

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Filming "First Man"

How do you make a biopic about one of the most famous men of the twentieth century but who was famously private and discreet? There can be few people on the planet who don't know who Neil Armstrong was, or rather what he did. But do many of us even know what the astronaut looked like?

16 Octobre 2018

myths and heroes

film

biography

8

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First Man

A new film, "First Man", released a few months before the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landings gives an opportunity to look back at a discreet man who marked 20th century history.

16 Octobre 2018

myths and heroes

film

NASA

Black Power at the 1968 Olympics Fifty Years On

Fifty years after the Mexico Olympics, when African-American medallists Tommie Smith and John Carlos made a Black Power salute to protest at discrimination, all three men on the podium that day have been recognised for their courage

16 Octobre 2018

Olympics

civil rights

athletics

Mexico Olympics Black Power Protest Video

The silent protest of two African American athletes on the podium at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic moment in civil-rights history. We've selected some teaching tools for language classes on the Black Power protest.

16 Octobre 2018

Olympics

video

civil rights

Game On Down Under

The Invictus Games, initiated by Prince Harry for injured service people, is in Sydney, Australia for its fourth edition from 20 to 27 October. It is especially poignant in the weeks before the commemoration of the end of the First World War.

14 Octobre 2018

sport

disability

remembrance

Sélection culturelle

Basquiat by Vuitton

Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of the most remarkable American painters of his generation is the subject of an exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, from October 3, 2018 to January 14, 2019.

12 Octobre 2018

art

exhibition

U.S. culture

Teaching With Trailers: Johnny English

The Johnny English films are a great way to get pupils to think about the clichés of the James-Bond-type spy film. English, created and played by Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) is the perfect parody of 007.

10 Octobre 2018

film

humour

Cinéma

Sélection culturelle

Brothers Out-laws…

Well known for slow-burn, humanistic character study films, who would have thought that for his English-language debut, Jacques Audiard would have chosen one of the most characteristically American of genres, the Western?

08 Octobre 2018

Cinéma

movie

U.S. culture

Sélection culturelle

Shakespeare on a Table

Shakespeare may be known for his soliloquies, but it's quite a challenge to present each of the Bard's plays with one single actor plus a selection of household objects. Table Top Shakespeare is being performed as part of Paris's Festival d'automne.

05 Octobre 2018

Shakespeare

théâtre

paris

Sélection culturelle

Born Again

“A Star is Born” stars Bradley Cooper and music superstar Lady Gaga, in her first leading role in a major film. Cooper makes his directorial debut with this third remake of a classic Tinseltown story

05 Octobre 2018

Cinéma

movie

U.S. culture

Interactive Calendar

Rituals for beginning a class like giving the date or the day's weather are reassuring, especially for younger learners, but can become repetitive and mechanical. One teacher explains how she created an interactive online calendar to bring more meaning to the date ritual, and open pupils' cultural horizons.

05 Octobre 2018

video

culture

listening comprehension

Teaching with Trailers: A Star is Born

"A Star Is Born" is so popular with Hollywood that the new version with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper is the fourth feature film based on the "rags to riches" fame story. We thought it would be interesting to compare the trailers for the four versions.

05 Octobre 2018

Cinéma

movie

U.S. culture

Sélection culturelle

Science-Fiction in Nantes

The Utopiales festival in Nantes is dedicated to science-fiction in all its forms. You can sign up your classes for the special schools day.

05 Octobre 2018

literature

Cinéma

festival

5

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The House with a Clock in its Walls

The House with a Clock in its Walls is a new film adapted from a classic of American children's literature. This sequence uses one of the film's trailers to work on Halloween vocabulary and revise clothes vocabulary with A1+ students.

28 Septembre 2018

film

literature

U.S. culture

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Haunted House for Halloween

The House with a Clock in its Walls is the new film adaptation of a well-loved American children's book. With witches, warlocks, ghosts and a haunted house, it's perfectly themed for Halloween.

28 Septembre 2018

film

literature

U.S. culture

Sélection culturelle

The 2018 Man Booker Prize Shortlist

The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious prize for fiction, honours three Brits, two Americans and a Canadian. The winner will be announced on 16 October. It will be a hard task for the five judges to choose between six very different books.

24 Septembre 2018

literature

Man Booker

British culture

Sélection culturelle

Dinard Celebrates British Films

The Dinard Festival will once again be presenting the cream of British film production from 26 to 30 September, both films in competition and a plethora of first-look screenings at films that won't been on general release till later in the year.

21 Septembre 2018

video

film

Dinard