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Fake News Exhibition

No, it isn't fake news: Covid permitting, there will be an exhibition on Fake News running from 27 May 2021 to January 2022 at the Fondation EDF in Paris. Designed for school groups as well as the general public, it will be a great opportunity to have your pupils develop their critical-thinking skills.

27 Avril 2021

politics

exhibition

EMC

Sélection culturelle

Online Talk about "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell

The winner of the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction, Maggie O'Farrell, is doing a talk at the Irish Cultural Centre, or rather online, for the ICC, on 29 April. She'll be discussing her winning novel, Hamnet , an imagined biography of Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at the age of 11. O'Farrell had been convinced that there was a connection between Hamnet and Hamlet since she studied the play at school and heard that Shakespeare's son with almost the same name had died. She imagined that death in the context of the Plague in the novel, and fleshed out the very little information we have about Shakespeare's wife, Ann Hathaway, to bring her to life. See our article on the Women's Prize for more information. An Evening with Maggie O'Farrell Centre culturel irlandais Thursday 29 April at 8 p.m. This online event is free but you need to sign up to receive the link. The event is in English but coincides with the publication of the French edition of the novel by Belfond. Also available on the CCI's Facebook page , even without a Facebook account.

26 Avril 2021

Shakespeare

Hamlet

British literature

5

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News of the West

"News of the World" is a not-so-classic Western starring Tom Hanks as a newsreader travelling across the U.S. during a violent and tumultuous period after the American Civil War. In a neat inversion of Indian abduction narratives like John Ford's classic The Searchers, the Confederate veteran here is trying to return a child to her family, but Johanna just wants to return to the tribe she loves.

26 Avril 2021

film

Cinéma

U.S. culture

Time to Escape

Immerse your students in an adventure that will get them working in teams, and in English, without even noticing! Three escape games set in a haunted Scottish castle, on the Titanic and in London during evacuation from the Blitz are easy to put in place and full of cultural content for cycle 4. The Escape Games pack comes with a game each for 5 e , 4 e and 3 e . Each game has a set of six different posters, for six groups, photocopiable games sheets and a teaching guide with full instructions. Pupils can access audio and video clues using the Nathan Live! app on a smartphone or tablet. And all the resources are available in digital format so they can be videoprojected to the class, including a teaser video to set the scene for each challenge. The games are designed to be completed in one class session, and have been tested in class. All is explained in this short video: https://youtu.be/epFsblPqjx4 Find the Clues! Each game comes with a teaser video to set the scene and get your pupils ready for their challenge. We’ve hidden the three videos around our site. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: unravel the clues to find the three videos. 5 e : Trapped in a Scottish castle! Your pupils will need to escape from the iconic Eilean Donan Castle, outwitting a kelpie, a mythical water horse. To find the video, search for the patron saint of Scotland. St George St Andrew St David 4 e : Whodunnit on the Titanic A violinist in the ship’s orchestra has had his violin stolen. He has to get it back before his next concert. And to find the video, look for a popular British TV series and film that starts with the sinking of the Titanic , which changes the future of an aristocratic family. Peaky Blinders Bridgerton Downton Abbey 3 e : Keep calm and beat the Blitz Can your pupils help the Brown children get to the train that’s going to evacuate them from the capital to keep them safe from air raids? To find the video, what was the name of the evacuation scheme in 1939? Operation Pied Piper Operation Dick Whittington Operation Churchill This demo shows you the Titanic game. Pochette Escape Games 59 euros Available to order now. Find out more . Your colleagues may be interested in the set of three games for Spanish cycle 4 classes. You can find a video presentation here .

26 Avril 2021

WWII

British history

Spanish

Sélection culturelle

Oscars 2021

It was a night of lots of superlatives. The first socially distanced Oscars ceremony, held in the vast halls of LA’s Union Station two months after the original date. The first woman of colour to win best director, and only the second woman at all. The oldest best actor, and a Korean-speaking best supporting actress, and the oldest woman to win an Oscar: 89-year-old Ann Roth, the costume designer for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

26 Avril 2021

Cinéma

Oscars

road movie

6

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Fiche pédagogique

L'enfance des Dieux : Athéna et Zeus

À travers la nouvelle collection « L'enfance des Dieux », plongez dans les aventures rocambolesques de deux grandes figures de la mythologie grecque, dans leurs toutes jeunes années : Athéna et Zeus. Découvrez en exclusivité les premiers chapitres des deux ouvrages, avec des pistes d'exploitation pédagogiques. Et participez à notre tirage au sort pour gagner des exemplaires !

Coming Very Soon: Shine Bright AMC

If you're teaching LLCER AMC or will be next year, let us introduce the latest addition to the Shine Bright collection: Anglais monde contemporain Cycle terminal. It includes 28 chapters of varying lengths covering all the themes of the curriculum and ranging across the English-speaking world.

24 Avril 2021

royalty

economics

India

Shine Bright AMC SnapFile 6 The Crown and the Houses

In our series of author videos presenting different chapters of Shine Bright AMC, here is SnapFile 6 The Crown and the Houses, about Britons' feelings towards their parliamentary monarchy, presented by its author Lynda Itouchène.

23 Avril 2021

British culture

democracy

Shine Bright AMC

Shine Bright AMC SnapFile 24 Five eyes, one power

In our series of author videos presenting different chapters of Shine Bright AMC, here is SnapFile 24 Five Eyes, one power, about a little-known espionage alliance between English-speaking countries, presented by its author Sophie Robin-Boudjenane.

23 Avril 2021

Australia

United Kingdom

New Zealand

Shine Bright AMC SnapFile 26 The world's drugstore

In our series of author videos presenting different chapters of Shine Bright AMC, here is SnapFile 26 The world's drugstore, about the Indian pharmaceutical industry, one of the biggest global producers of vaccines, presented by its author Eve Grandin.

23 Avril 2021

India

health

Shine Bright AMC

Shine Bright AMC Landmarks

As well the 28 Files, the Shine Bright AMC contains 34 pages of Landmarks: timelines and key information about the history and culture of English-speaking countries with an AMC angle. They were written by Juliette Hanrot, who teaches history and geography in DNL.

23 Avril 2021

politics

history

Ireland

Shine Bright AMC File 12 Standard English

In our series of author videos presenting different chapters of Shine Bright AMC, here is File 12 Standard English, about the status of English alongside other languages in the world today, presented by its author Cyril Dowling.

23 Avril 2021

English

English-speaking world

Shine Bright AMC

Searching for Answers in the West

"News of the World" has many features of a Western but its hero has much more psychological depth than Western heroes of old.

23 Avril 2021

film

Cinéma

U.S. culture

La semaine des langues vivantes

It’s la semaine des langues vivantes from 17 to 21 May. Whether you’re in or out of school at that point, there are lots of ideas to mix and match languages and take them out of the classroom. Last year’s preparations took place during lockdown, and teachers had lots of creative ideas to celebrate. Check out a selection!

22 Avril 2021

celebrations

cross-curricular

DNL

A Free Poster for Earth Day

This Earth Day, 22 April, President Biden is hosting an online Leaders' Summit on Climate ahead of the UN's COP 26 Climate Change Conference that is supposed to take place in Glasgow in November. And he made the surprise pledge to cut the U.S.'s carbon emissions by half in the next decade, double the previous promise.

22 Avril 2021

NASA

sustainable development

science

St George's Day

23 April is a day for celebration in England. It's the national day, in honour of England's patron saint, St George. It's both Shakespeare's birthday and death day. And in 2018, it saw the birth of new prince, son of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge. (Although he couldn't be named George since the name was already taken by his big brother.)

21 Avril 2021

animation

traditions

Shakespeare

Police Officer Convicted of Murdering George Floyd

The jury in the trial over the death of George Floyd has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three charges: second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Floyd’s family and supporters expressed relief.

21 Avril 2021

Black Lives Matter

U.S. justice system

Biden

Vos manuels numériques pour assurer la continuité pédagogique

Pendant cette nouvelle période de classes en distanciel, tous les manuels Nathan, Le Robert et Bordas sont de nouveau en accès libre d'un simple clic sur le site adistance.manuelnumerique.com Sur le site adistance.manuel.numerique.com , vous trouverez tous les manuels existant sous forme numérique, de la 6e à la Terminale, dans toutes les matières. Pour accéder aux manuels, c’est très simple : Aucune identification n'est nécessaire. L'élève recherche son manuel grâce aux filtres. Celui-ci s’ouvre immédiatement en ligne sur notre site. Si vous avez des questions, nos équipes sont disponibles pour vous aider. Vous pouvez les contacter par mél . Bon courage pour vos cours à distance !

19 Avril 2021

manuels

Give Me Five

Speakeasy Files 3e

Celebrating Jackie Robinson Day

On 15 April every year, all professional baseball teams in America celebrate Jackie Robinson Day, in honour of the player who "broke the color bar", becoming the first African-American player in Major League Baseball.

15 Avril 2021

sports

civil rights

U.S. history

A Prince Passes

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, died on 9 April, after more than 70 years of marriage to Queen Elizabeth II. The longest serving consort of a British monarch was just a few months short of his 100th birthday.

09 Avril 2021

royalty

Royal Family

Queen Elizabeth II

Seeking Justice for George Floyd

The death of George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020 sparked last summer’s wave of Black Lives Matter protests. The trial of the police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck opened on 29 March in Minnesota. Police were called after George Floyd bought a packet of cigarettes in a convenience story. The shop assistant believed the $20 note Floyd used to pay was counterfeit, and asked him to return the cigarettes. When Floyd refused, the police were called. Four officers struggled to get the 1m90 suspect into a police car. He told them he was claustrophobic. Video footage of officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd for over eight minutes, while Floyd said 27 times that he couldn’t breathe, is central to the case. A video was taken by a teenage passerby and Chauvin’s fellow officers were wearing body cameras. (Chauvin’s camera fell during the altercation.) Chauvin and his three fellow officers have all been fired by Minneapolis Police Department. The other three will be tried separately for aiding and abetting. Chauvin is charged with three separate counts, with prosecutors hoping they can obtain a conviction in the most serious, second-degree murder. If there isn’t judged to be enough evidence for that, two slightly lower charges of third-degree murder or second-degree manslaughter could be upheld. On the opening day of the trial, Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell told the jury that the arresting officers used "excessive and unreasonable force" to detain George Floyd. Derek Chauvin’s defence is expected to argue that the 46-year-old died of a drugs overdose, after swallowing drugs to avoid the police finding them. Trial by Jury The trial was preceded by several days of jury selection. The final jury included six people of colour and nine white people. Jurors can be rejected by either the prosecution or the defence, if they are considered to be biased in any way or know the suspect personally, for example. In this case, the defence asked to exclude a black prospective juror who said he had experienced racism and was critical of the Minneapolis Police Department. The judge also excluded two chosen jurors and three prospective ones after the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay the Floyd family $27 million in a lawsuit over George Floyd’s death. The five said they had been influenced by this settlement. The civil-rights case brought by the Floyd family alleged the officers violated Floyd’s rights when they restrained him, and that the city allowed a culture of excessive force, racism and impunity to flourish in its police force. The city clearly wanted to expedite the case, and to be seen doing the right thing towards the family. But the timing of the settlement, just before the case began could potentially effect jurors, whether that be to consider that if the city lost the civil case, Derek Chauvin must be guilty, or that justice has already been done towards the victim, or at least his family. Police Shooting Convictions It is extremely rare for police officers in the U.S.A. to be convicted for deaths caused while they were on duty. There are about 1,000 fatal shootings per year by police officers, and only about 2% result in charges, and far fewer in convictions. One reason for this lies in the prosecutor system. In each district and state, the public prosecutor (who can have one of several titles) has responsibility deciding to prosecute someone, and the charges they will face. They are dependent on the police force to gather evidence for them, which can lead to a conflict of interests in cases where the person charged is an officer. And almost all prosecutors are elected officials, meaning they tend not to want to decide on prosecutions that might be unpopular with the electorate. The trial continues, and is expected to last between two and four weeks. You can find more on racial equality in Shine Bright LLCER cycle terminal File 12 Equality on trial and more on the prosecutor system and the need for reform in the U.S. justice system in Shine Bright AMC File 15 Justice for all?

02 Avril 2021

Black Lives Matter

U.S. justice system

Shine bright LLCER

Black Lives Matter Honoured

The Black Lives Matter movement has been awarded the Sweden’s Olof Palme civil-rights prize, and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

02 Avril 2021

civil rights

Nobel prize

Black Lives Matter

Women’s Prize Book News

The longlist has been announced for Britain’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021, which will be awarded in July. The prize was created after the 1991 Booker shortlist contained no books by women writers. To celebrate its 25th year, readers voted for a “winner of winners”: Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun , which won the 2007 prize. The Women's Prize was created in 1996 by authors and editors motivated to make a change after the 1991 Booker shortlist contained no books by women writers, despite 60% of novels that year having been written by women writers. It's gone by various sponsors' names over the years: the Orange Prize, the Bailey's Prize. The 16 authors on the 2021 longlist are from the U.K., the U.S; Barbados, Canada, Ireland and Ghana. They include a trans author for the first time, Torrey Peters for Detransition Baby, and six début novelists alongside well-established authors like Susanna Clarke, comedian Dawn French and Scottish author Ali Smith, who is nominated for the final novel in her seasonal quartet, Summer . The full list: Because of You by Dawn French Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi Consent by Annabel Lyon Detransition , Baby by Torrey Peters Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones Luster by Raven Leilani No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers Summer by Ali Smith The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller Find out more about them on the Women’s Prize site or watch a short presentation of each by the five judges below. https://youtu.be/uFZRogQm7cM The shortlist for this year's prize will be announced on 28 April. The winner will be announced on 7 July. Best of the Best The prize recently celebrated its 25 th anniversary by inviting readers to choose the “best of the best” of previous winners. It was awarded to 2007 winner: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun . Half of the Yellow Sun is set against the background of the bloody civil war known as Biafra, which shook Nigeria from 1967 to 1970, starting just seven years after the country became independent from colonial British rule. It was made into a film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton in 2013. You can download a reading guide for Half of a Yellow Sun . The video below shows all 25 winners, features an extract from Half of the Yellow Sun, and Adichie answering readers’ questions about inspiration, Lagos and feminism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l--x-H2WYTw Adichie is a prolific writer of short stories and essays as well as three novels. Her most recent book is Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017). You can find out more about her on her publisher’s site . Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is also an inspiring speaker. Check out her speech “The Why Factor” in File 3 Brave New Women in S hine Bright LLCER , as well as an extract from the 2017 Women’s Prize winner, The Power by Naomi Alderman. You may also be interested in SnapFile 4 Lagoon about Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel set in Lagos.

24 Mars 2021

video

literature

British literature

World Autism Awareness Week

World Autism Awareness Week 2021 (29 March to 4 April) is part of World Autism month. Why not use some of these excellent resources to sensitise your pupils to this issue? Perfect if you’re studying The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time for LLCER but well worth the time for any class from A2.

23 Mars 2021

disabilities

videos

diversity

3

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Bite Back Food Campaign

Bite Back 2030 is a campaign led by British young people aiming to redesign what they call the "food system" to put young people's health first. This resource features an eye-opening social experiment the campaign carried out to show volunteers just how much they were influenced by advertising when it came to making food choices.

23 Mars 2021

video

campaign

food

Rendez-vous

Leading World Trade

The World Trade Organisation has a new Director-General: Dr Nkozi Okonjo-Iweala. It’s the first time a woman, or an African, has led the international commerce body. Could a new perspective take the WTO in a different direction?

Teen Convinces Florida District to Switch to Electric School Buses

A middle-school student from Florida used a science-fair project to convince the Miami-Dade School District to begin converting its fleet of school buses over to electric. Eighth-grader Holly Thorpe measured CO2 levels inside the diesel school buses and her alarming results convinced the district to make the switch.

22 Mars 2021

school

sustainable development

ecology

Sélection culturelle

David Copperfield: Dickens for the 21st Century

"The Personal History of David Copperfield" is far from the first adaptation of Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel. But Armando Iannucci has given the story a very new feel, while keeping Dickens' humour and playing with that idea of autobiography and the art of inventing oneself through the act of writing.

22 Mars 2021

film

British literature

coming-of-age

Sélection culturelle

A History of Women in U.S. TV Series

How have women been portrayed in U.S. TV series in the past, and how has that been changing since #MeToo? That's the topic of an online talk from the Institut Franco-Américain in Rennes on 23 March.

22 Mars 2021

U.S. culture

TV

TV series

1

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Il fait bon vivre dans nos campagnes

Quels sont les atouts et les faiblesses des espaces ruraux aujourd'hui ?

17 Mars 2021

Aménagement

inégalités

population

Professeurs documentalistes Collège

Fake News Exhibition

Online Talk about "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell

News of the West

Time to Escape

Oscars 2021

L'enfance des Dieux : Athéna et Zeus

Coming Very Soon: Shine Bright AMC

Shine Bright AMC SnapFile 6 The Crown and the Houses

Shine Bright AMC SnapFile 24 Five eyes, one power

Shine Bright AMC SnapFile 26 The world's drugstore

Shine Bright AMC Landmarks

Shine Bright AMC File 12 Standard English

Searching for Answers in the West

La semaine des langues vivantes

A Free Poster for Earth Day

St George's Day

Police Officer Convicted of Murdering George Floyd

Vos manuels numériques pour assurer la continuité pédagogique

Celebrating Jackie Robinson Day

A Prince Passes

Seeking Justice for George Floyd

Black Lives Matter Honoured

Women’s Prize Book News

World Autism Awareness Week

Bite Back Food Campaign

Leading World Trade

Teen Convinces Florida District to Switch to Electric School Buses

David Copperfield: Dickens for the 21st Century

A History of Women in U.S. TV Series

Il fait bon vivre dans nos campagnes