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Monkey Man: Indian Mythology Meets Action Movie

Monkey Man is a completely new departure for Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel: he co-wrote, directed and stars in the film inspired by Indian mythology and reality.

17 Avril 2024

film

poverty

thriller

Murder by the Book

If you happen to be in Cambridge between now and the end of the summer, don't miss the University Library's exhibition about 20th century crime fiction with artefacts and first editions from the likes of Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins. Crime fiction is by far the most popular form of fiction in the U.K. It's the country's most read, bought and borrowed genre. And Britain has produced some outstanding crime-fiction writers and characters from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Christie's Poirot and Miss Marple. Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison and Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse. Some of the first editions on display.The exhibition is curated by by Nicola Upson , herself a bestselling crime writer. In an interesting double take, Upson's principal character is Josephine Tey, one of the Golden Age British detective writers from the 30s and 40s. Tey's historical detective novel about Richard III and the Princes in the Tower, The Daughter of Time , was voted the best detective novel of all time by the Crime Writer's Association in 1990. https://youtu.be/uJnEs5tovrA The exhibition features many first editions including Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868), one of the first detective novels. Collins' writing desk is also on display. There are also many exhibits about or from Agatha Christie , the unchallenged queen of crime fiction, whose novels and short stories have sold more than 2 billion copies around the world. In this video, Nicola Upson describes the fascinating story behnind the typescript of her final Poirot Novel, Curtain , published in 1975, thirty years after it was written. https://youtu.be/Q925XXdVlpI Murder By the Book : A Celebration of 20th Century British Crime Fiction Cambridge University Library Free. Till 24 August 2024 This article gives more information and lots of pictures of the exhibition. You'll find more on British crime fiction in Shine Bright 4e Death on the Nile and Shine Bright 2e File 4 Mystery in the Countryside.

17 Avril 2024

film

literature

British culture

100 Million Trees

The Kenyan government wants its people to plant 100 million trees to regreen the country. They even have a new tree-planting holiday. And the ultimate goal is much bigger: to plant 15 billion trees in 10 years. The JazaMiti initiative, which means "fill with trees" in Swahili, aims to help tackle climate change.

09 Avril 2024

holidays

video

sustainable development

Your Money or Your Life!

Dick Turpin was a highway robber in early 18th-century England. Unlike Robin Hood, he didn’t rob the rich to give to the poor. But he became a legend thanks to early “tabloid media”: broadsheets and penny dreadfuls. A new TV series takes a humorous look at the historic criminal.

09 Avril 2024

British history

videos

British culture

Shine Bright 5e: Manuel-Workbook

If you teach in 5e, you'll soon be receiving the latest addition to our Shine Bright textbook collection: Shine Bright 5e. It's a textbook and workbook rolled into one! Check out the introductory video!

09 Avril 2024

Ireland

New York

Scotland

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Princess Suffragette

Everyone has heard of the Suffragettes and their actions, yet, have you heard of Princess Suffragette? This Indian princess, whose father was the last ruler of the Sikh Empire, gave up her socialite life in order to fight for a cause.

05 Avril 2024

video

Pankhurst

votes for women

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Irish Independence: Online Exhibition

This online exhibition offered by the Centre culturel irlandais in Paris will give pupils an insight into the turbulent history of Irish independence.

05 Avril 2024

history

Ireland

Irish history

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Quais du Polar Lyon is 20

Lyon's Quais du Polar festival is celebrating its 20th edition from 5 to 7 April. It has grown and grown and this year will welcome 135 authors from 15 countries.

04 Avril 2024

literature

festival

Lyon

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Chariot of Fire: The Eric Liddell Story

A hundred years ago, a Scotsman became famous for NOT running a race at the Paris 1924 Olympic Games. Eric Liddell's story was immortalised in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. And a play about his life is coming to Paris for two performances on 23 March.

20 Mars 2024

Olympics

sport

citizenship

Romeo and Juliet Without Words

British choreographer Matthew Bourne and his company New Adventures pride themselves in finding new ways of "telling stories without words". In Romeo and Juliet, Bourne has taken one of the best-known words in the English language and transformed the familiar story in a reinvention which plays on the dystopian elements of the original script.

19 Mars 2024

Shakespeare

théâtre

dance

U.S. Congress Tries to Ban TikTok

On 13 March, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill which would ban the social-media app TikTok from the country unless it is no longer owned by a Chinese company. The legislation was rushed through in record time, although it is not certain it will be confirmed by the Senate. What risk does Congress believe TikTok represents?

14 Mars 2024

politics

fake news

social media

Time to Put on a Red Nose

Red Nose Day is back on Friday 15 March in the UK. British charity Comic Relief has been encouraging people to don a clown's red nose and "do something funny for money" since 1988.

13 Mars 2024

video

charity

download

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Rumours, Rumours

Definitely not one to show your pupils! Wicked Little Letters is a delicious comedy with Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley, set in a 1920s English seaside town, where the population starts receiving defamatory letters full of profanities. An Irish migrant with a good stock of swear words in her vocabulary, Rose Gooding is accused of being the author of the letters. But the women of the town begin to doubt her guilt. The film is actually based on a real case, which took place in Littlehampton, a seaside town in Sussex. In the days before internet trolling, poison-pen letters fulfilled the same role of venting your fury. In this case, most of the ire seems to be directed at innocuous spinster Edith Swan (Colman), who lives at home with her mother (Gemma Jones) and domineering father (Timothy Spall). But much like trolling today, the poison-pen letters had real-life consequences when single mother Rose (Buckley) is charged with criminal libel. https://youtu.be/EofbpYnLj3E This is the second time Olivia Colman (The Crown, The Favourite, The Father, Wonka) and Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, The Woman in White) have starred together. Buckley played the younger version of Colman's character in the 2021 adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel The Lost Daughter. Look out for Buckley in the upcoming adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet by Chloe Zhao and Colman in Wicker with Dev Patel. This video gives some of the background about the true story, including that of the first female police officer in Sussex, played by Anjana Vasan, but doesn't contain spoilers. https://youtu.be/hFlDmqTb9Do Wicked Little Letters On general release 13 March.

12 Mars 2024

film

British history

British films

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And the Oscar Goes to

2023 was the year "Barbenheimer" revived cinema attendance around the world. But despite leading the box office, Barbie received only one Oscar, for best song, while Oppenheimer dominated this year's Awards, taking home seven statuettes.

11 Mars 2024

Roald Dahl

Cinéma

Oscars

Rendez-vous

Irish Referendum on Women's Role in Society

On International Women's Day 2024, France is including the freedom to have an abortion in its constitution while Ireland is holding a referendum to remove clauses from its constitution which promise the Irish state will do everything it can to allow women to stay in the home.

08 Mars 2024

Ireland

referendum

gender equality

Benediction: Siegfried Sassoon Biopic

Siegfried Sassoon was one of the most famous of the British World War I poets but unlike Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke or Edward Thomas, Sassoon survived the war he had despised while serving brilliantly. Terence Davies’ final film traces both the war service and the long life looking for meaning which followed, with Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi playing the younger and older Sassoon.

05 Mars 2024

war

WWI

film

Happy Leap Day!

If you are born on 29 February, you can consider yourself very special… or very unlucky!

28 Février 2024

Ireland

traditions

celebrations

Ready 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.

21 Février 2024

Olympics

Paralympics

europe

Happy Feet

When humans have trouble walking, they can get help with orthopaedic shoes or prosthetics. What happens when an animal has a problem? San Diego Zoo in California fitted one of its penguins with customised shoes to help with a degenerative foot condition.

20 Février 2024

U.S.A.

conservation

climate change

Creative Writing Competition: Sport

It won’t have escaped your notice that this is an Olympic year. To get into the swing of things, we’d like to take sport as the theme of our annual creative-writing competition. We’d like pupils to use their imagination to write a story about sport in any way they want.

20 Février 2024

Olympics

sport

creative writing

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Doing the Right Thing

Most people would feel proud of saving hundreds of mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia just before the outbreak of World War II. But Sir Nicholas Winton was haunted by all the children he couldn't save. Until a surprise 50 years later on a TV programme showed him all the good he had done. A new film, One Life, starring Johnny Flynn and Anthony Hopkins as the younger and older Winton tells this true story.

20 Février 2024

refugees

video

WWII

Your Students Have Talent! Gangsta Granny

In our series "Your Students Have Talent", check out these amazing comic strips created as an intermediate task by pupils using our Reading Guide Gangsta Granny.

20 Février 2024

humour

children's books

comic strip

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New Names for London Train Lines

You're no doubt familiar with London's iconic Underground map, and the names for Underground lines like Victoria, Circle, Bakerloo and Jubilee. But now the Overground trains in the network are being given new names reflecting the history and culture of the city.

19 Février 2024

history

London

British history

Our West Side Story Reading Guide Has Arrived

If you are studying the 1961 film of West Side Story with your LLCER 1ère students, our Reading Guide will help them analyse key scenes, explore the background and inspiration to the work, and different iterations of this story of star-crossed lovers.

19 Février 2024

literature

Cinéma

théâtre

Bob Marley: One Love Trailer

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Remembering Presidents

On the third Monday in February, Americans celebrate Presidents’ Day, in honour of all 46 Presidents but especially George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. A good time to brush up on what qualifications you need to be President.

14 Février 2024

celebrations

U.S. history

U.S. traditions

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Bob Marley Biopic

Not only his songs but also his face and his name are famous around the world. The new biopic Bob Marley: One Love is the perfect occasion for you and your students to learn more about the most famous Jamaican singer of all time and the difficult times he lived through.

14 Février 2024

video

Bob Marley

Jamaica

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Bob Marley: One Love One Life

Bob Marley put his home island of Jamaica, and reggae music, on the international map. Despite his death in 1981 of cancer at just 36, he is as famous now as at the height of his short career. A new biopic tells the story of those heady years.

12 Février 2024

video

Bob Marley

Jamaica

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Angoulême Festival 2024: British and American Winners!

For its 51st edition, the Angoulême International Comics Festival awarded the Grand Prix of the city to the British artist Posy Simmonds for her entire body of work and American Daniel Clowes received the prestigious Fauve d'Or for his latest book "Monica".

06 Février 2024

comic book

British artists

Posy Simmonds

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"Triathlon Time" Short Story

This A2-level short story will allow you to introduce or revise sports vocabulary and have pupils think about the meaning of sport and fair play. Sisters Eden and Stella are competing in a triathlon and Eden really wants to win. But then Stella has a bike accident...

01 Février 2024

Olympics

sports

athletics