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Red Nose Day is Back!

Since 1988, British charity Comic Relief has been encouraging people to don a clown's red nose and "do something funny for money". Red Nose Day is back on Friday 19 March and this time, it's plastic free! In 2019, for the last Red Nose Day, Comic Relief received hundreds of letters from children and schools asking about the plastic noses that are one of the charity's main fundraisers. Was there no way to make them that was better for the planet? The boffins got to work, and this year's collection of noses is plastic free: they are made from bagasse, a by-product of sugar cane. And in keeping with their environmentally friendly production, they are in the shape of woodland creatures such as snails, badgers, ladybirds and robins. Red Nose Day is usually an occasion for many people across the country, and especially schools, to have a laugh while raising some serious money, whether simply wearing a red nose to school or work or taking part in more complex comic activities. The Comic Relief team have worked hard to find ways to allow people to continue their fundraising. For example, the Share a Smile campaign encourages people to write their favourite joke on a downloadable poster and put it up in their window or garden to give passersby a smile. And hopefully encourage them to send in a donation. The money collected is used in the UK and around the world to support charities working on homelessness and poverty, mental and physical health and gender discrimination. You can find out more here . On 19 March, a TV special will see comedians and celebrities join in the fun, and show stories of the people who have been helped with funding. https://youtu.be/UXZblRmcqRo Billy's Challenge One big supporter of Red Nose Day went above and beyond to raise money in February. 21-year-old Billy Monger was on track to become the next Lewis Hamilton, when he was seriously injured in a crash while racing at the age of 17. Both his legs had to be amputated. Less than a year later, Billy returned ot the race track in a specially adapted car, and he has continued racing as well as starting a career as a Formula 1 commentator. Billy now walks with prostheses but he decided to take on a triathlon-style challenge in aid of Comic Relief. He walked, cycled and kayaked 140 miles (224 km) despite pain, exhaustion and atrocious weather. He finished on 26 February doing his last 50 miles on foot and bike in laps around Brand's Hatch racing circuit. You can see the highlights of his challenge here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88SckHTRUgs Red Nose Day will return next year: the event is reverting to an annual slot. Sport Relief, which had been alternating with Red Nose Day every second year, will now take place in conjunction with major sports events.

17 Mars 2021

video

charity

download

Webinar Replay on the Grand Oral

Your students no doubt have lots of questions about the Grand oral. Why not suggest they watch this webinar for lots of practical tips, and to ask questions? It will be given by Olivier Jaoui, who is in charge of the collection Mission Grand oral.

15 Mars 2021

baccalauréat

Bac 2021

grand oral

Red Nose Day Webpicks

Red Nose Day (19 March in 2021) encourages people to raise money for projects in the UK and the developing world by "doing something funny for money." But it also aims to raise awareness of poverty, particularly among schoolchildren, who are massive supporters, along with school staff, of Red Nose Day. Here are a selection of teaching resources provided by Comic Relief for Red Nose Day.

10 Mars 2021

video

charity

download

Study Abroad and Internships in the Current Climate

Normally if we were writing about Fulbright Scholarships, it would be about opportunities to study in the U.S. Of course that's complicated at the moment. But one positive point about the current restrictions is that they've led to lots more opportunities to access online education from foreign institutions. This video seminar from Fulbright covers the new virtual student experience whether it's studying or getting work experience with internships.

10 Mars 2021

online learning

study abroad

work experience

St Patrick's Festival 2021

The St Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin was one of the first victims of the COVID pandemic last year and it's been cancelled again this year for the same reason. But never fear! Let's face it, most of us were not going to get to Dublin to celebrate Paddy's Day on 17 March, but we can soak up lots of Irish culture with the online St Patrick's Festival.

09 Mars 2021

Ireland

celebrations

videos

Sélection culturelle

Irish Author Edna O'Brien Honoured

Her books were once considered so scandalous that they were banned in Ireland, but at age 90, The Country Girls author Edna O'Brien received the honour of being declared a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot on 7 March. O'Brien has been prolific since the first of The Country Girls trilogy was published in 1960. Written in just three weeks, it was an outpouring of the frustration of being brought up in the strict, stifling atmosphere of rural, Catholic Ireland. O'Brien was born in 1930 in small town County Clare. By the time she wrote her first novel, she had studied pharmacy in Dublin, scandalously married an older, divorced man, and moved to London to further his literary career. It turned out that she was the writing talent in the family, and the marriage didn't survive her success. In the first book of the trilogy, Kate and Baba are expelled from convent school and set out to find love and excitement in Dublin. Over the course of the following two books, they will have generally unsatisfying sexual encounters and make marriages that are no more successful (the title of the third book is clearly ironic: Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). In the 1960s, Ireland was still under the thumb of the Catholic church, and "girls" were meant to become pure and faithful mothers and wives, not independent women. The books were banned, as were several of her later works. But for a generation of young women, sneaking in contraband copies, they were a revelation, a vision of a life that seemed a million miles away from their reality. https://youtu.be/LzKdKo5VyfQ?t=87 Portrait of the Artist O'Brien says she had an appropriately epiphanic moment when she first read James Joyce, and knew she had to be a writer. One of the younger generation of Irish writers, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, dubs The Country Girls The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman , a coming-of-age novel to rival Joyce's own. Like Joyce, she has spent her adult life outside Ireland but constantly drawn to write about it. To many Irish readers, she is the chronicler of their experience and society, over 28 books as well as short stories, plays, biographies and screenplays. And then, in her late eighties, O'Brien suddenly decided to tackle a topic of which she had no direct knowledge. She was so moved by the fate of the Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok in 2014 that she devoted her 2018 novel Girl to the story. Not one to be put off by difficulties, she made two arduous trips to the country to meet the released schoolgirls and the people working to help them overcome their trauma. The result is the story of young woman who is forced to bear the child of one of her abductors. When she manages to escape, she has to find a way to love the baby. As O'Brien accepted her award on 7 March, there was still much of the spark of indignation at the fate of women in the world. The many authors and fans who paid tribute to her work expressed the hope that she will continue to surprise them with her words. Like everything else these days, the ceremony took place on line. The Cercle Littéraire Irlandais , which hosted the event, has made a video available for 30 days, with the award by the Culture Minister, O'Brien's acceptance speech and warm tributes from the likes of author Collum McCann and actor Gabriel Byrne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weZFZedDr8k

08 Mars 2021

awards

coming-of-age

Irish literature

Ten-Minute Stories for World Book Day

World Book Day is on 4 March this year. In the UK, schoolchildren receive a £1 book token they can spend on a selection of books chosen for the day. The authors have recorded ten-minute readings great for classroom use. Here's a selection. The readings are part of a project to share stories by recording readings, which would be a fabulous language-learning project. Some pupils really gain confidence in speaking when they can say someone else's words rather than having to come up with their own. Then they can use that confidence to work on their own expression. Here a three of this year's World Book Day authors sharing their stories. This is Humza Arshad reading from his book, L ittle Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties. The scene is in a classroom, so it's good for school vocabulary and it's a great example of doing a dramatic reading, with different voices for the characters. https://youtu.be/20ExqQZ35F8 In this reading, from her book, What A Waste, Jess French shows that non-fiction books can have a dramatic reading too. Great for an ecology theme. https://youtu.be/U9qam_JW0Vs Katherine Rundell reads from her novel, Rooftoppers. It has a great mysterious feel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NgzQIj-xTs You can find more 10-minute readings on the Day's YouTube channel , including readings of a Roald Dahl story and one by his granddaughter Sophie, and ones by children's fiction stars Jacqueline Wilson, David Walliams and Cressida Cowell. There are even more resources on the website , including some great audiobooks .

03 Mars 2021

Roald Dahl

books

video

Le journalisme de guerre – En association avec Madmagz Éducation

Pour travailler sur la presse et les médias (EMI) en 4 e et en 3 e , la NRP s’est associée à Madmagz éducation pour vous proposer un livret qui vous accompagnera dans la mise en œuvre d’un projet collectif autour du journalisme de guerre. Cliquez sur l'image pour télécharger le dossier

01 Mars 2021

EMI

écriture

guerre

Sélection culturelle

Golden Globes 2021: Congratulations Chloé Zhao!

Here at Speakeasy News, we have been following the career of Chloé Zhao since her first film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, was featured at the Deauville and Cannes festivals back in 2015. So we were delighted to hear that she was the first Asian woman, and only second woman, to win Best Director at the Golden Globes.

01 Mars 2021

Cinéma

gender equality

black history

Celebrating Wales

1 March is St David's Day, the Welsh national day. Since Wales is famous for its music and particularly its male voice choirs, what better way to celebrate than with a video of the national anthem sung by modern choir Only Men Aloud? The anthem, "Land of my Fathers" (Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau), was written in 1856 by father and son Evan and James James. It's a beautiful song, but is especially moving when sung in multiple-part harmony by a male-voice choir. Male choirs became a tradition in Wales in the 18th century, linked to churches, and then to all-male industries such as mining. The effect of hearing the massed spectators at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff singing it a capella before a rugby match is absolutely electrifying. (Of course that's a memory of days when there were crowds in stadia.) Only Men Aloud, is a modern version of the choir, founded in 2000, and now including a boys' and a youth wing (Only Boys Aloud made it to the final of Britain's Got Talent in 2012.) So what better way to celebrate St David's Day than to watch them singing the anthem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaG847C6V5Q They are of course singing it in Welsh, but assuming most of our readers aren't fluent Welsh speakers, here's the English version: Land of My Fathers. This land of my fathers is dear to me Land of poets and singers, and people of stature Her brave warriors, fine patriots Shed their blood for freedom Chorus: Land! Land! I am true to my land! As long as the sea serves as a wall for this pure, dear land May the language endure for ever. Old land of the mountains, paradise of the poets, Every valley, every cliff a beauty guards; Through love of my country, enchanting voices will be Her streams and rivers to me. Chorus Though the enemy have trampled my country underfoot, The old language of the Welsh knows no retreat, The spirit is not hindered by the treacherous hand Nor silenced the sweet harp of my land. Or why not try singing along to the chorus in Welsh? Gwlad, Gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad, Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau, O bydded i'r heniaith barhau.

26 Février 2021

UK

music

march

Design as Activism Honoured in Beazley Awards

The Design Museum in London has announced the winners of the 2020 Beazley Designs of the Year, honouring see-saws connecting children on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, improvised brick arches created by Hong Kong protesters and vegan burgers.

24 Février 2021

protest

U.S.

hamburger

West Side Story Free for Classes

The educational TV channel Lumni is offering the Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise film of West Side Story free to stream for collège and lycée classes.

24 Février 2021

film

Shakespeare

musicals

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Ruby Bridges, Civil-Rights Icon

Ruby Bridges didn’t choose to become a civil-rights icon. It was her parents who, in 1960, chose to accept that their 6-year-old daughter would be the first African-American child to integrate a white school in the American South. But as an adult, Bridges, who was immortalised by Norman Rockwell, has fought indefatigably for civil rights and black children’s right to equal education. This sequence, featuring a recent video interview by Trevor Noah with Ruby Bridges, is perfect for Black History Month, a theme on civil rights or on remarkable women.

23 Février 2021

video

civil rights

audio

Romantic Poetry: John Keats 200

February 2021 sees the 200th anniversary of the untimely death of British Romantic poet John Keats. The author of "Ode to a Grecian Urn", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and "To Autumn", died of tuberculosis at the age of 25, convinced his literary career was a failure. Yet his poems became some of the best loved in the English language.

23 Février 2021

poetry

museum

anniversary

Your Students Have Talent: Masters and Servants

It's always lovely to see students' work. Here are some diary entries pupils wrote as their final task in a sequence from Shine Bright Terminale: File 4 Masters and Servants.

17 Février 2021

world of work

Downton Abbey

Shine bright Ter

February is Black History Month

It’s changed names and format several times since 1924, but February in the U.S. is African-American History Month, when schools, cultural institutions and the general public celebrate the African-Americans whose stories have often been left out of official history books.

16 Février 2021

Martin Luther King

mythes et héros

Civil War

Making Mardi Gras Covid-Safe in New Orleans

When it was announced that its famous Mardi Gras parades were being cancelled because of Covid restrictions, New Orleans residents decided to find new ways to honour the tradition. Plus: talks on Louisiana in Rennes and class activities for the Travelling film festival.

09 Février 2021

videos

song

Mardi Gras

Discover Louisiana

Discover films, class visits and talks on New Orleans, Louisiana and Southern literature thanks to the Travelling Film Festival and the Institut Franco-Américan in Rennes. New Orleans is the star of this year's festival, which is going ahead despite cinemas being closed. In fact, it's even being extended for classes in Ile-et-Vilaine: film showings and class visits are available from 8 to 28 February, while the festival proper is 16-23 February. You can receive a link to show one of the featured films in you class, or have an in-person or online workshop around a short film. To find out more, check out the festival's schools' page on the website. As well as short films, options include Black Indians , a documentary about African American Mardi Gras Krewes, Mississippi Burning, Alan Parker's 1989 film about the Ku Klux Klan and Down By Law, Jim Jarmusch's 1986 jazz-infused film set in New Orleans. For the general public, films and talks are also online (with the advantage that you can see them from anywhere.) Check out the programme . Online Talks The Institut Franco-Américain in Rennes is hosting a talk on the history of Louisiana on 19 February as part of the festival. It will be given by historian Cécile Vidal. And on 20 February, editor Benjamin Guérif from Editions Gallmeister, will give a talk on Southern Gothic literature by the likes of William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers, and contemporary authors writing in the style. History of Louisiana Friday 19 February 6.45 p.m. Southern Gothic Saturday 20 February, 2.30 p.m. The talks (in French) will be available on various platforms , including the festival's YouTube channel . Find out more about Louisiana's unique culture in File 27 Colours of Louisiana in Shine Bright LLCER AMC.

09 Février 2021

Rennes

class visits

short films

Rendez-vous

The Last Post for Captain Tom

Captain Sir Tom Moore, the WWII veteran who raised British spirits during lockdown 1 with his sponsored walk to raise funds for the NHS before his 100th birthday, died in hospital on 2 February. "Captain Tom", as he soon became known, became the positive role model people really needed during the pandemic. He had originally planned to try to raise £1000 by walking 100 laps of his garden in England before his birthday. He wanted to thank the NHS for the treatment he had received for cancer and a broken hip. But when his story went viral, he raised a total of £38.9 million for NHS charities. His achievement was honoured in many ways. The Army made him an honorary colonel. The RAF did a flypast on his birthday, to make up for his party having to be cancelled because of COVID. And he was knighted by the Queen, becoming Captain Sir Tom Moore. Thousands of people from around the world sent him birthday cards: 150,000 of them! It took 150 volunteers to open and display them all at his grandson's school. https://youtu.be/vWSR9HhYKj8 In September, Captain Tom and his family launched a charitable foundation to continue helping the NHS but also support other causes close to his heart: championing education and equality and combatting loneliness. https://youtu.be/1m0FG2k5ucc The foundation's motto, is "Tomorrow Will be a Good Day", also the title of his autobiography. There is a moving tribute to Captain Tom by his editor on the Penguin site. Combatting loneliness was also the theme of his Number One single, recorded with Michael Ball and a NHS choir: a cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone". https://youtu.be/LcouA_oWsnU In the last few weeks, Captain Tom developed pneumonia, and tested positive for COVID. He was at home almost to the last, and died peacefully surrounded by his family. His final year was an apt climax to an eventful and fulfilling life and his indomitable spirit will be missed by millions.

03 Février 2021

citizenship

UK

videos

Sujets type bac clé en main pour la spécialité AMC

Rendez-vous sur le site compagnon du futur manuel Shine Bright AMC pour trois sujets type bac utilisables pour le contrôle continu, un pour chaque thématique du programme de Terminale.

02 Février 2021

baccalauréat

Bac 2021

sujets type bac

Online Talk About President Kennedy

The American Library in Paris is continuing to run "evening with an author" events despite the curfew. And the advantage is you can tune in for free from anywhere, and there's no limit on numbers. On 16 February, it will feature an interview with Pulitzer-prizewinning historian Fredrik Logevall on his biography of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

02 Février 2021

biography

Kennedy

U.S. history

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Séquence pédagogique

Les Petites Reines de Clémentine Beauvais

Clémentine Beauvais écrit des histoires qui sont toujours ancrées dans la réalité. Dans Les Petites Reines , elle raconte comment trois jeunes filles inventent une manière élégante et drôle de dénoncer la violence de réseaux sociaux qui les ont élues "boudins d'or" de l'année : elle quittent à bicyclette leur région, la Bresse, pour partir à l'assaut de la capitale.

30 Janvier 2021

Roman

harcèlement

beauvais

Tale of the Sea from Trinidad

The judges of this year’s Costa Book Awards in the UK chose two writers from the Caribbean island nation Trinidad and Tobago as winners in the best novel, best first novel and book of the year categories.

29 Janvier 2021

literature

Caribbean

folk tales

Celebrate Scotland's Burns Night Online

Every 25 January, Scots and Scotophiles around the world celebrate Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet. And since one of his famous poems is about the national dish, haggis, Burns Suppers are an occasion to taste haggis, recite poetry and enjoy Scottish music. You certainly won't be able to go to celebrate in Scotland this year, but one advantage of lockdown, is that you can enjoy some online Burns celebrations. On the day itself, available from 2 p.m. French time, you can enjoy a Postcards from Scotland, a concert where contemporary Scottish musicians explore their connections to Burns, a popular lyricist as well as poet. Find the performance here. From 8-9.15 p.m. French time, catch comedian Janey Godley's Big Burns Supper with loads of guests including singers KT Tunstall and Dougie Maclean, folk groups Manran and Skerryvore and the hilarious Ms Godley herself. For Scottish nostalgics everywhere, Maclean will no doubt perform his alternative Scottish anthem, "Caledonia". https://youtu.be/wP8A9rtg0iI And on Friday 29, also from 2 p.m., the Scottish Poetry Library has invited a bunch of modern-day Scottish poets to celebrate Burns.

22 Janvier 2021

poetry

music

haggis

African American History on the Web

This selection of sites and videos is useful for classes on African American history and culture, particularly the civil-rights movement and the Harlem Renaissance

15 Janvier 2021

history

civil rights

art

Sélection culturelle

Presidential Poet

The Biden-Harris inaugural committee has announced the line-up for the Inauguration and it includes an extraordinary young poet. Andrea Gorman was named the country’s inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, at just 18.

15 Janvier 2021

elections

president

poetry

He is Back*!

On Sunday January 10th, Terminator actor and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a powerful video on Twitter. He denounced the violent mob that overtook the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday 6th. Recounting his childhood in Austria after World War II, he linked the Capitol attack to Nazi Germany. https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1348249481284874240?s=20 The “Proud Boys” equivalent of Nazis In this seven-minute video, Arnold Schwarzenegger , compares the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol with Kristallnacht or the "Night of Broken Glass”, the attack on Jewish people that destroyed thousands of businesses, homes, and synagogues in Nazi Germany in November 1938 and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people. The "Night of Broken Glass" was a violent turning point in the early days of Nazi Germany which would escalate to the murder of 6 million people in the Holocaust. "It was a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys," said Schwarzenegger in his video. "Wednesday was the Day of Broken Glass here in the United States. The broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol." His video has more than 37,3 million views and over 1.2 million likes. … as irrelevant as an old tweet… Schwarzenegger was a Republican governor of California from 2003 to 2011, but has long been critical of President Donald Trump. In the video, he tells us that "President Trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst president ever… The good thing is that he will soon be as irrelevant as an old tweet." Schwarzenegger also opens up about his childhood in Austria where he was born two years after the end of World War II. He shares memories of his father, Gustav, a member of Austria's military police, getting drunk and then coming home and screaming at and hitting his family. The abuse in his family was not unusual, he added. The other fathers in the neighborhood did the same, the actor said, calling them "broken men drinking away their guilt over their participation in the most evil regime in history." "They were the people next door." "I did not hold him totally responsible because our neighbor was doing the same thing to his family," said Schwarzenegger, calling the experience a "painful memory." "Not all of them were rabid anti-Semites or Nazis. Many just went along, step by step, down the road," he said. "They were the people next door." He compared the rise of Nazi Germany to the attempted coup this week and blamed President Donald Trump, noting that in both eras, leaders' lies instigated violence. "It all started with lies, and lies, and lies, and intolerance," Schwarzenegger said. "President Trump sought to overturn the results of an election, and of a fair election. He sought a coup by misleading people with lies. My father and our neighbors were also misled by lies, and I know where such lies lead." At one point in the video, Schwarzenegger pulls out the sword from when he played Conan the Barbarian in the 1982 film, using it as an example of how democracy, like a tempered sword, becomes stronger under pressure. "To those who think they can overturn the United States Constitution, know this," Schwarzenegger said. "You will never win." Schwarzenegger is not the only Republican personality who doesn’t support the president anymore. Impeachment for "incitement of insurrection" The American Constitution states that a president can be impeached and removed from office for a number of reasons, including "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." On Wednesday January 13th, the US House of Representatives impeached President Trump, charging him with "incitement of insurrection" for his role in the violence at the Capitol. Ten Republican members of the House broke with their party and joined Democrats in approving the single article of impeachment. Trump will leave power as the first president in the nation’s 245-year history to be impeached twice. The vote to impeach Trump was 232 to 197. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will decide when to transmit the article to the Senate which will get the final word and where Trump could face a trial, which is likely to come after he's left office. If Trump is convicted in the Senate, he could be barred from ever seeking elected federal office again. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, said that the trial would begin after the Senate reconvenes on Tuesday, the day before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. At least 67 of the 100 senators are needed for conviction. Democrats will need at least 17 Republican senators to break ranks to convict Trump. * I'll be back https://youtu.be/-YEG9DgRHhA

14 Janvier 2021

U.S.A.

elections

Trump

Traduire l'« humanité ordinaire » de George Orwell - Entretien avec Stéphane Labbe, traducteur

Propos recueillis par Claire Beilin-Bourgeois Soixante-dix ans après sa mort le 21 janvier 1950, George Orwell fait une entrée tonitruante dans le domaine public. Sa lucidité, ses projections troublantes, son talent formidable de conteur justifient les rééditions de ses œuvres. Stéphane Labbe, qui a traduit Peter Pan de James Barrie, propose aux éditions Le Livre de poche jeunesse une nouvelle version de La Ferme des animaux . Traducteur, est-ce un métier, est-ce votre métier ? Traducteur, c’est évidemment un métier, mais ce n’est pas le mien… Je suis avant tout professeur de français en collège et lycée. Mais particulièrement intéressé par la littérature de langue anglaise. J’ai déjà traduit le Peter Pan de James Barrie, écrit un livre et une foule d’articles sur les sœurs Brontë… Dans quelles circonstances avez-vous entrepris la traduction de La Ferme des animaux ? C’est un essai de Jean-Pierre Martin ( L’Autre Vie d’Orwell ) dont j’ai fait la critique pour une revue qui m’a fait sentir l’humanité d’Orwell. Mes lectures de lycée m’avaient laissé l’image d’un écrivain un peu sec, et j’ai voulu le relire. J’ai eu l’impression, le relisant, de le découvrir. Bien sûr, il y a du pamphlet, de la politique dans les récits d’Orwell mais il y a aussi, avant tout, une véritable célébration de l’humanité ordinaire. Avez-vous besoin d’aimer un texte pour le traduire ? Bien sûr. J’étais un inconditionnel de James Barrie dont on méconnait la modernité et je suis devenu un inconditionnel d’Orwell dans lequel on voit aujourd’hui, et à juste titre, une figure de prophète. Je crois en outre qu’ Animal Farm est son meilleur livre. Il illustre déjà tous les mécanismes que met en place une dictature pour asseoir son autorité : réécriture de l’histoire, double pensée. Tout ce qu’il va développer et théoriser quelques années plus tard dans 1984 . Pour La Ferme des animaux , le fait qu’il s’agisse d’une édition pour la jeunesse vous a-t-il influencé ? Absolument pas. Je suis professeur de français et j’estime que la littérature doit se lire à tout âge. Shakespeare peut fonctionner en Quatrième et en Terminale. C’est au professeur d’exercer son savoir-faire et de montrer la valeur de telles œuvres. La Ferme des animaux est un texte subtil, j’espère lui avoir rendu hommage mais je n’aurais pas voulu l’affaiblir en appauvrissant le lexique par exemple. Avez-vous travaillé à partir d’autres traductions ? La traduction de Jean Quéval est la troisième, il y a d’abord eu celle de Sophie Dévil, puis une traduction anonyme de chez Gallimard et enfin celle de Jean Quéval. J’ai traduit le texte chapitre par chapitre sans m’y référer. Mais à la fin de chaque chapitre j’allais voir ce qu’avaient fait mes prédécesseurs. Sophie Dévil est souvent très littérale, alors que Jean Quéval s’éloigne beaucoup du texte pour parvenir à une langue très littéraire. Disons que je me tiens entre les deux. Qu’avez-vous fait des noms des personnages ? Chez Sophie Dévil et son successeur, Napoléon devenait… César ! Sans doute s’agissait-il de ne pas heurter l’admiration des Français pour leur figure légendaire. J’ai longtemps hésité : maintenir les noms anglais ou les traduire ? C’est la seule concession que j’ai faite à un public jeune. J’ai opté pour une traduction quasi littérale des noms. Squealer, le porte-parole des cochons (Brille-Babil dans la traduction de Quéval) est devenu Cafteur. Clover (Douce chez Quéval) est devenu Anthyllis, un synonyme de « trèfle ». Napoléon et Boule de Neige ont gardé leur nom mais Boxer (Malabar chez Quéval), qui se rattache très fortement à la mythologie du boxeur dans les années quarante, est devenu Boxeur. À votre avis, qu’est-ce qu’il ne faut surtout pas rater dans le récit d’Orwell ? Dans La Ferme des animaux , Orwell joue énormément avec l’ironie dramatique. Il oppose la candeur des animaux à la perversité des cochons. Je crois donc qu’il faut rendre sensible cette dimension. Que le lecteur comprenne très vite le parti-pris et s’indigne du comportement des cochons. Orwell disait que la confiscation du lait par les cochons était le premier acte de la marche forcée qui conduit à la dictature ; il avait évidemment raison. Plus on avance dans le récit, plus les mensonges des cochons sont gros. Le lecteur le comprend, pas les animaux, qui représentent la « décence ordinaire », cette vertu du peuple qu’aimait Orwell. C’est ce mécanisme qu’il faut rendre sensible. NRP - Janvier 2021

08 Janvier 2021

traduction

George Orwell

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Studying "The Buddha of Suburbia" in LLCER

"The Buddha of Suburbia", by Hanif Kureishi, one of the novels proposed as an oeuvre intégrale on the LLCER Terminale curriculum, deals with many themes that are relevant to students today: the search for identity, race, and racism and integration.

08 Janvier 2021

literature

British literature

multiculturalism

Rendez-vous

Georgia on their Minds

Amidst all the chaos in Washington, D.C. on 6 January, as Congress tried to certify Joe Biden’s presidential win, a quieter but possibly just as revolutionary election event was taking place in the deep South. In Georgia’s runoff Senate elections, both seats were won by Democrats, giving Biden a tiny but working majority in Congress. Because of the checks and balances system in the U.S.A., a President’s power to pass the legislation he won his election promising is limited by the composition of the two houses of Congress. These can change every two years, once at the midterm elections and once at the presidential elections. In this year’s elections, the Democrats retained a reduced majority in the House of Representatives, and came close to equal numbers of seats in the Senate. Because of a local election law, Georgia’s two Senate seats weren’t decided in November because no candidate got 50% of the vote. That meant there had to be a run-off between the two candidates with the most votes for each seat. In each case it was a Republican incumbent and a Democrat opponent. Georgia, a traditionally conservative state, had not elected a Democrat as President since 1996, but this time, Biden had won by a small margin (contested by Trump) of just 12,000 votes or 0.2%. Casting Vote Joe Biden knows a lot about the difficulties of passing legislation without a majority in both houses. He was Barack Obama’s Vice-President and for all but the first year and a half of his two terms, the House of Representatives had a Republican majority. President Trump had the opposite scenario: the Senate had a Republican majority for his whole term, but the House swung to the Democrats in the 2018 midterms. The Democratic Party mobilised everyone they could in Georgia to try to gain the two seats that would mean they had a majority: It would equalise numbers of Republicans and Democrats (plus two independents who vote with them) and give Vice-President Kamala Harris the casting vote in case of equal votes. While all eyes were on the riot in the Capitol, news came through that both Democrat candidates had won, by small margins but not enough to require a recount. Raphael Warnock became the first African American Senator chosen by the state (and only the 11th black Senator at all). He is a 51-year-old Baptist pastor, who preaches in the church where Dr Martin Luther King, Jr was pastor. Jon Ossoff, just 33, is a documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist, whose interest in politics dates back to high school, when he interned for legendary civil-rights activist Congressman John Lewis. The majority their victories give President Biden mean that he has a better chance of getting Congress to pass his legislation, such as the $2000 stimulus cheques for citizens suffering financial hardship due to the pandemic that Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently blocked. It also means it will be easier for him to obtain the necessary Senate approval for his appointments to his cabinet and to the judiciary once he is inaugurated on 20 January.

08 Janvier 2021

U.S.A.

U.S. elections

MLK

Professeurs documentalistes Collège

Red Nose Day is Back!

Webinar Replay on the Grand Oral

Red Nose Day Webpicks

Study Abroad and Internships in the Current Climate

St Patrick's Festival 2021

Irish Author Edna O'Brien Honoured

Ten-Minute Stories for World Book Day

Le journalisme de guerre – En association avec Madmagz Éducation

Golden Globes 2021: Congratulations Chloé Zhao!

Celebrating Wales

Design as Activism Honoured in Beazley Awards

West Side Story Free for Classes

Ruby Bridges, Civil-Rights Icon

Romantic Poetry: John Keats 200

Your Students Have Talent: Masters and Servants

February is Black History Month

Making Mardi Gras Covid-Safe in New Orleans

Discover Louisiana

The Last Post for Captain Tom

Sujets type bac clé en main pour la spécialité AMC

Online Talk About President Kennedy

Les Petites Reines de Clémentine Beauvais

Tale of the Sea from Trinidad

Celebrate Scotland's Burns Night Online

African American History on the Web

Presidential Poet

He is Back*!

Traduire l'« humanité ordinaire » de George Orwell - Entretien avec Stéphane Labbe, traducteur

Studying "The Buddha of Suburbia" in LLCER

Georgia on their Minds