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Celebrate your Language Assistants!

7 December will see the first ever International Day of Language Assistants. We'd love to hear your shout outs to your language assistants. What is the most helpful thing they do for you? What is the most important thing you can do for them?

04 Décembre 2023

competition

language assistant

guide

Short Christmas Film

This three-minute film with no dialogue is a great basis of a discussion about Christmas with your classes. It also fits with the theme of being different, and starts in a boarding school.

01 Décembre 2023

school

video

traditions

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Posy Simmonds: Drawing Literature

Posy Simmonds is a British cartoonist and writer. She is best known for her work in the field of comics and graphic novels, particularly her contributions to The Guardian newspaper. She is currently being celebrated at the Bibliothèque Publique d’Information (BPI) at the Centre Pompidou (Paris) in a retrospective exhibition until April 1st, 2024.

01 Décembre 2023

comic book

exhibition

Comics

Black Legends

Black Legends is a musical comedy that traces more than a century of African American music along with landmarks in the civil-rights movement and Black American history. We know some of you took classes when it was on last year. It's back on in Paris until at least the end of January.

30 Novembre 2023

Martin Luther King

civil rights

music

Sélection culturelle

Six Books for the Booker

The Booker Prize shortlist 2023 contains books by two Irish, two American, a Canadian and a British author exploring identity, family dynamics and societal collapse. All of them have been shortlisted for the first time, and two of the books are debut novels. The winner of the U.K.’s most prestigious literary prize will be announced on 26 November.

22 Novembre 2023

U.S.A.

history

Ireland

3

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Bullying Is Never OK

Anti-bullying actions are taking place in November in the United Kingdom, in Australia, and in France too. Anti-Bullying Week 2023 is coordinated in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the Anti-Bullying Alliance. This year it has the theme “Make A Noise About Bullying” and will take place from Monday 13 to Friday 17 November. The week will be kicked off with Odd Socks Day on Monday 13 November, where adults and children wear two different socks to celebrate what makes us all unique.

09 Novembre 2023

citizenship

video

UK

This is England 2023 films for Young Learners

The This is England short-film festival in Rouen has a specific programme of short films for CM1, CM2 and 6e classes that explore original and age-appropriate ways to tackle difficulties faced by children.

06 Novembre 2023

refugees

film

festival

This is England 2023 films for Collège Classes

The This is England short-film festival in Rouen has a specific programme of short films for collège classes. This year’s selection takes us back to the First World War and forward to imagined futures in 2053 and 2087 as well as films on the UK today and contemporary issues.

06 Novembre 2023

film

festival

racism

This is England 2023 films for Lycée Classes

The This is England short-film festival in Rouen has a specific programme of short films for lycée classes. The varied selection this year includes odes to two very different British landscapes, family relations, mindfulness, racism, a music video based on an historic Scottish figure and a documentary about a prosthetic leg.

06 Novembre 2023

film

London

festival

Rendez-vous

What is the King's Speech?

All through Elizabeth II's long reign, the Queen's Speech was shorthand for the UK's State Opening of Parliament, which takes place annually at the beginning of each parliamentary session. The monarch reads out a speech to the assembled Houses of Lords and Commons detailing the government's programme of legislation for the upcoming year. On 7 November, King Charles III will give his first King's Speech.

06 Novembre 2023

UK

royalty

traditions

Fahrenheit 451 In Theatres around France

If you are studying Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 with your LLCER 1ère students, you may want to take them to see this theatre adaptation in French which will be touring the country from January.

03 Novembre 2023

literature

théâtre

science fiction

Save the Date This is England Short Films Festival in Normandy

"This is England" is a great festival of British short films based in Rouen and the surrounding region with a special programme of screenings and teaching materials for primary, collège and lycée classes. The 2023 edition will take place from 11 to 19 November.

02 Novembre 2023

film

festival

British culture

5

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Celebrating Bollywood

Everyone has at least heard of Bollywood but how many of us really know how huge and culturally-loaded this industry is? This is what this article explores! You and your students will get to understand how powerful Bollywood is and how it hinges on both tradition and modernity to appeal to its audience. The Quai Branly museum is organising an exhibition from October 2023 to January 2024,

31 Octobre 2023

Cinéma

exhibition

Indian history

Sélection culturelle

Killers of the Flower Moon

Based on the best-selling book by David Grann, "Killers of the Flower Moon"Directed by Martin Scorsese, delves into a dark chapter of American history. The story unfolds in 1920s Oklahoma, where a series of mysterious murders takes place in the Osage Nation's reservation.

27 Octobre 2023

movies

Native Americans

First Nations

3

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Analysing Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Parts 4 and 5

We published the first part of an analysis of the 1993 animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas in July. Here are parts 4 and 5 out of 8. We'll be publishing further parts during the autumn so you can study the film with A2-level pupils in class.

27 Octobre 2023

film

animation

U.S. culture

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The Armour of Light: Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge

34 years after the beginning of the saga, British author Ken Follett returns to Kingsbridge, an imaginary town in the south of England, with a fifth installment, The Armor of Light. With this book, Follett achieves to cover a period of more than 800 years, from the end of the Dark Ages to the time of the Battle of Waterloo.

27 Octobre 2023

British history

DNL

friendship

Bollywood Superstars

Hollywood is often used as a synonym for the cinema industry but Bollywood in India actually releases more films. The Indian film industry makes 2000 films every year, about three times as many as Hollywood.

26 Octobre 2023

Cinéma

exhibition

Indian history

Rendez-vous

Found: Speaker

Three weeks after Kevin McCarthy became the first ever Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to be voted out of the Speaker’s chair, the House finally elected a new Speaker on 25 October, the fourth candidate to attempt election: Mike Johnson from Louisiana.

26 Octobre 2023

elections

voting

U.S. culture

Ken Loach Trying to See the Hope

At age 87, veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach says The Old Oak will be his last film and it closes the trilogy set in the north-east of England after I, Daniel Blake (Cannes Palme d’or 2016) and Sorry We Missed You (2019). It looks at the arrival of a group of Syrian refugees to be housed in a rundown north-eastern town, the reactions of different locals and the bonds that are formed between the communities.

24 Octobre 2023

refugees

film

Ken Loach

Halloween Cake to Tell the Future

Long before it made it to the U.S. and Canada, Hallowe’en was an ancient Celtic festival, Samhain*. One of the four major Celtic festivals, it celebrated the dead. One of the major traditions at Samhain was rituals that predicted the future. This is a tasty Scottish way to do that.

21 Octobre 2023

video

celebrations

Halloween

Australia Says No in Indigenous Representation Referendum

On 14 October, Australians voted 60-40% against a referendum proposal on a change to the Constitution that would have given Indigenous Australians a greater voice in the legislature.

18 Octobre 2023

citizenship

civil rights

referendum

Rendez-vous

Wanted: Speaker

On 3 October, Kevin McCarthy became the first ever Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to be voted out of his role. He had already made the news when had had to face 15 separate votes before being elected Speaker in January – most of the opposition coming from his own Republican Party.

06 Octobre 2023

elections

voting

U.S. culture

Poetry in the Classroom

This year's UK National Poetry Day is on 5 October. A great opportunity to get some poetry into your class, and to explore this year's theme: Refuge.

05 Octobre 2023

literature

poetry

creative writing

Succession: Murdoch Media Empire

For decades, Rupert Murdoch has dominated the media, first in his native Australia, then the U.K., the U.S.A. and other countries around the world. He started with one newspaper inherited from his father in Adelaide and built an empire that has included at various times Sky TV, The Sun and The Times in the U.K., Fox News, Fox Film and The Washington Post in the U.S.A. Now the 92-year-old says he's semi-retiring and handing the reins of his empire to one of his sons.

03 Octobre 2023

U.S.A.

UK

Australia

Free Resources for Class Singing

Radio France has an amazing website that provides resources for teachers wanting to have their pupils sing. Logically most of the songs are in French, but there are four in English and several in German.

29 Septembre 2023

peace

music

singing

3

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France vs Ireland: 120 years of Rugby

This A2/A2+ level article and audio can be used shortly after the beginning of the year. It can be tied in to a unit reviewing hobbies while using the context of the Rugby World Cup starting on 8 September in France and finishing on 28 October. All through the tournament, match results can be discussed as parts of warming up activities.

27 Septembre 2023

history

Ireland

France

3

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Roald Dahl's Henry Sugar on Film

Although he is most famous for his children's stories, Roald Dahl wrote intriguing short stories for adults too. Director Wes Anderson, who already adapted Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox as an animated film, has now made four short films for Netflix based on four of the adult short stories. The first to be released, on 27 September, is The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. This A2-B1 resource has students work with the trailer and an article.

26 Septembre 2023

Roald Dahl

video

film

3

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Analysing Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Parts 2 and 3

We published the first part of an analysis of the 1993 animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas in July. Here are parts 2 and 3 out of 8. We'll be publishing further parts during the autumn so you can study the film with A2-level pupils in class.

26 Septembre 2023

film

animation

U.S. culture

Sélection culturelle

Exploring British-Bangladeshi Identity

Akram Khan's Chotto Desh blends dance, projections and theatre to explore the choreographer's British-Bangladeshi identity. You can catch new tour dates in October in Paris and Cherbourg.

22 Septembre 2023

dance

Peter Brooks

Bangladesh

Sélection culturelle

Dinard British Film Festival 2023

The annual Dinard Festival celebrates British film production. This year's edition takes place from 27 September to 1 October. There are six films in competition as well as a short film section come on an Irish film section and special events: such as a homage to Jane Birkin and a preview screening of Ken Loach's latest film The Old Oak (released on 25 October).

22 Septembre 2023

video

film

Dinard