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Teaching with Adverts: Women's Football

The FIFA Women's World Cup has inspired several interesting ads on the topic of women in sport and their relative fame and treatment to men. These three lend themselves especially well to being used in class. You'll probably want to avoid the slogan of the first one, "what the football?". Luckily it's transparent enough for students to take at face value. It features an American daughter and dad watching Brandi Chastain taking the match-winning penalty in the 1999 World Cup, hosted by the U.S.A. The dad jumps up to celebrate and knocks himself into a coma. He wakes up Rip Van Winkle style in 2023 and can't believe how much has changed in women's football. Actually this would make a nice addition to our resource on the Rip Van Winkle story! In any case there's plenty to discuss in the basic story and the visuals. The ad features 11 players: Ada Hegerberg (Norway), Alex Morgan (U.S.A.), Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria), Chloe Kelly (England), Debinha (Brazill), Grace Geyoro (France), Kadeisha Buchanan (Canada), Megan Rapinoe (U.S.A.), Sam Kerr (Australia), Sophia Smith (U.S.A.), and Wang Shuang (China). More advanced pupils should be able to pick out the ways the players are described and use similar expressions to describe their own sporting or other heroes. https://youtu.be/y5Jg9Wxc6yo This second ad celebrates players Alessia Russo (England), Lena Oberdorf (Germany) and Mary Fowler (Australia) and also features former England players David Beckham and Ian Wright, Leon Goretzka from Germany and Argentinian Lionel Messi alongside Wednesday actor and football fan Jenna Ortega. It's short and relatively simple, with the three women shooting and dribbling balls in a forest and a supermarket. It ends with a deadpan, "Clean up in aisle 23." Pupils can describe what's going on and be asked to compare their familiarity with the current female stars versus the male stars featured. https://youtu.be/iLNZdPDb5ps And finally, we couldn't resist this one, even though it's French, so we wouldn't usually suggest it for English class. But in this "English version", the French is only the audio football commentary, so why not use it without sound. It's perfect for éducation au médias: stop at 0'53 when you see "Only the Bleus can give us these emotions", then play on so pupils can discover that the whole first section was a fake: footage of the French women's team was altered to make it look like the men's players. (It's frighteningly well done.) Ask pupils if they feel differently about the footage once they know it was the women's team: would they have been as interested if you had shown the women playing first? You can also have a discussion about the video faking technology and some pupils might like to try doing a suitable excited commentary following the English subtitles in the first half. https://youtu.be/QVNZRHIZVL8

Victorian Book Illustrations in the North of France

As befits a castle bought by English gentry in 1848, until November, the Château d'Hardelot, Condette (62), is hosting an exhibition of illustrations inspired by Victorian literature from Alice in Wonderland to The Picture of Dorian Gray. And its summer season includes films and workshops on the theme of Lewis Carroll's heroine.

28 Juillet 2023

Victorian

Oscar Wilde

gothic fiction

2

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Analysing Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

This is the first part of an analysis of the 1993 animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas. We'll be publishing further parts in the coming months so you can study the film with A2-level pupils in class.

28 Juillet 2023

film

animation

children's books

Titanic Stories

Step on board the Titanic at an exhibition in Paris. Reconstructions and objects recovered from the wreck help tell the stories of those who were travelling on the ocean liner when it hit an iceberg on 15 April 1912.

28 Juillet 2023

history

exhibition

Escape Games cycle 4

Sélection culturelle

The Day We Pressed the Button

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is a film that will plunge you into the thrilling world of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the complex man who risked the lives of the world to save it. The film is inspired by the Pulitzer prizewinning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

27 Juillet 2023

Cinéma

movie

World War II

Rendez-vous

Young Inventors Sail Model Boats Around Antarctica

Scottish brothers Ollie and Harry Ferguson are just 13 and 11, but they’ve dedicated their lives to having adventures. The latest one is building two model boats that have been launched to sail around Antarctica and collect scientific data about the ocean and the air. Ollie and Harry already have a Guinness World Record for the longest distance travelled at sea by a toy boat: 15,000 km travelled by one they built out of Playmobil. But the Antarctic adventure has a historic inspiration: the Ross scientific expedition of 1839-43. British Captain James Clark Ross and his men, on two ships, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, discovered the Ross Ice Shelf, the largest Antarctic ice shelf. The same ships then participated in the tragic 1845 Franklin expedition trying to find the North-West passage north of Canada. The ships got trapped in pack ice and the men perished. When the wrecks of the ships were discovered in 2014 and 2016, it inspired the brothers to make model versions of the ships. It’s taken two years to build and test the one-metre-long ships and get official permission to launch them. They were launched on 11 July from South Georgia, a British territory in the South Atlantic. You can follow their progress here. The boys’ objective is for the ships to circumnavigate Antarctica, a journey of 20,000 km, which they estimate will take two years. As they travel, sensors on the ships will collect scientific data including air temperature, ocean temperature and ocean pH which can be markers of climate change. “We’re interested to collect data about climate change and also just trying to see what happens to the boats and the end result and – though there is a very low chance – to see if we will ever see them again.” Harry 500 Adventures The brothers, who live near Aberdeen, have been working their way through a list of 500 adventures for several years and have currently ticked 425 off their list, including sending Lego men to space, living in a cave, driving over 30 forms of transport and starting their own country. As well of course setting a Guinness World Record for the "most travelled toy boat". Their Playmobil boat named Adventure, travelled 6,072.47 km from Scotland to Barbados.

25 Juillet 2023

Scotland

inventions

Antarctic

Women on the Pitch

The ninth FIFA Women's World Cup will be held in Australia and New Zealand from 20 July to 20 August. The tournament is being billed as the biggest ever women's sporting event . More than a million match tickets have been sold and the tournament will involve the biggest number of teams, and therefore matches, in its 32-year history: 32 teams will compete, up from 24 in the 2019 World Cup in France.

21 Juillet 2023

sport

Australia

gender equality

Sélection culturelle

Save the Date: Rugby Exhibition

The Irish Cultural Centre in Paris is planning an exhibition on the links between French and Irish rugby, set to open on 8 September, the opening day of the Rugby World Cup hosted by France. And there will be an online version of the exhibition too.

17 Juillet 2023

history

Ireland

exhibition

4

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My New School

This A1-level activity will help you introduce or revise some basic school vocabulary at the beginning of the school year. Pupils can type in the vocabulary directly onto the image on the interactive pdf, or you can print it out and ask them to write the words in.

07 Juillet 2023

September

school

U.K.

Sélection culturelle

Tolkien in Landerneau

If during your upcoming vacation you find yourself in Brittanyand if you are a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's work, then you have two good reasons to go see this exhibition located in Landerneau. It's open until January, so it would make a good class visit for the new school year too.

07 Juillet 2023

exhibition

medieval

illustrations

Les RDV Shine Bright Lycée: Préparer sa programmation annuelle en 2de

Shine Bright lycée propose de vous accompagner avec de courts webinaires réguliers sur des problématiques concrets. La prochaine séance aura lieu mercredi 5 juillet à 17h30. Le thème : préparer la rentrée et sa programmation annuelle en 2de.

30 Juin 2023

Shine bright 2e

webinar

programmation

Les RDV Shine Bright Collège: Comment bien préparer sa rentrée Replay

Shine Bright collège propose de vous accompagner avec de courts webinaires réguliers sur des problématiques concrets. La première séance aura lieu mercredi 19 avril à 17h. Le thème : Comment évaluer vos élèves et les préparer aux tests de positionnement ?

30 Juin 2023

webinar

Shine bright 3e

Shine bright 4e

Meet the Authors: Your English Skills Webinar Replay

Découvrez la plateforme numérique YES via ce replay du live avec les auteurs. Camille Granata (autrice et professeure d'anglais au lycée François Villon aux Mureaux) et Corinne Escales (IA-IPR dans l'Académie de Versailles) y présentent le contenu, les fonctionnalités et les atouts de cette nouvelle plateforme pour les élèves, 100% numérique et innovante, qui les aidera à progresser dans toutes les activités langagières en autonomie.

29 Juin 2023

video

compréhension orale

compréhension écrite

Australia to Hold Referendum on Indigenous Representation

Australia will hold a referendum later this year on a change to the Constitution that would give Indigenous Australians a greater voice in the legislature.

26 Juin 2023

citizenship

civil rights

referendum

LLCER Update and Two Upcoming Reading Guides

There are a few changes in the LLCER 1ère set texts list for 2023-2026 and lots of you have been asking if we are going to publish a Reading Guide for Fahrenheit 451. The answer is yes, and we're also going to publish our first Film Guide for 1ère: West Side Story.

23 Juin 2023

literature

Cinéma

théâtre

Les RDV Shine Bright Collège: Comment bien préparer sa rentrée

Shine Bright collège propose de vous accompagner avec de courts webinaires réguliers sur des problématiques concrets. La première séance aura lieu mercredi 19 avril à 17h. Le thème : Comment évaluer vos élèves et les préparer aux tests de positionnement ?

23 Juin 2023

webinar

Shine bright 3e

Shine bright 4e

Reading Time

Many of you have told us you would like to introduce your younger pupils to reading fiction in English, in collège and seconde. So, we put our heads together with some teachers who already do reading projects in English. The result is our new Reading Guides anglais. Two first titles are in shops now!

23 Juin 2023

children's books

reading

fiction

What is the NBA Draft?

There has been a lot of news about the NBA draft recently. But what is the draft in the NBA and other U.S. sports?

23 Juin 2023

sport

U.S. culture

basketball

Sélection culturelle

Asteroid City: Seeing Stars

Wes Anderson’s new film is about a 1950s space cadet convention in a desert town famous for its asteroid crater. After an alien sighting, the government puts the town into lockdown with a media blackout. But the ingenious cadets want to get out.

22 Juin 2023

video

movies

films

Meet the Authors: Enseigner l'anglais par le jeu Webinar Replay

Notre nouvelle collection de guides pratiques Mission Prof' a désormais son premier livre: Enseigner l'anglais par le jeu. Vous y trouverez 60 jeux clés en main pour enseigner l'anglais, ainsi que des conseils pour créer vos propres jeux. Les auteurs, Cindy Mathieu et Charlie Rollo, utilisent les jeux en classe au quotidien. Charlie Rollo a partagé leurs expériences lors d'un webinaire le 20 juin à 17h30. En voici le replay.

22 Juin 2023

video

collège

cycle 4

5

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Windrush Day

Windrush Day is coming! But what is it exactly? It has been celebrated annually in the UK since 2018. It takes place on 22 June, the date in 1948 when the arrival of a ship called the HMT Windrush heralded the beginning of a wave of immigration from British colonies,. This 75th anniversary year will be an opportunity to celebrate the thousands of Caribbean people who emigrated to the U.K. in order to help rebuild the country in the aftermath of World War Two. On arrival, not only were they shocked at the unfriendly weather but they also felt rejected by the unfriendly British people.

20 Juin 2023

video

immigration

anniversary

King Charles Trooping the Colour

The British monarch has two birthdays every year: the real one on 14 November (he was 74) and an official one on the second Saturday in June. That is marked by one of the great moments of British pageantry: the Trooping the Colour ceremony.

16 Juin 2023

Britain

Buckingham Palace

royalty

Sélection culturelle

What the Dickens? 2023 Women’s Prize Winner

The UK’s 2023 Women’s Prize has been awarded to Barbara Kingsolver for "Demon Copperhead", her retelling of Dickens’ David Copperfield set in modern-day Appalachia. She is the first author to win the prize twice, after winning in 2010 for "The Lacuna".

16 Juin 2023

literature

British literature

fiction

A Poster for World Sea Turtle Day

June 16 is World Sea Turtle Day. You can use this free downloadable poster to raise awareness about sea turtles and the dangers they face.

16 Juin 2023

video

ecology

environment

A Summer of Romanticism and Costume Drama on ARTE

As we swelter in unseasonable heat, what better prospect than a summer spent watching rainy British costume dramas? ARTE has a great season lined up called “English Passions” with lots of Jane Austen, Jane Eyre and the reboot of the series that inspired Downton Abbey. Settle back with a cup of tea and enjoy!

16 Juin 2023

video

New York

British history

Rendez-vous

Cormac McCarthy : the Road Ends

The American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy, passed away on Tuesday 13 June, in Santa Fe, New Mexico (U.S.A.) at the age of 89. Known for his dark and gripping narratives, McCarthy left an indelible mark on the literary world with his most famous masterpieces, "The Road" and "No Country for Old Men."

15 Juin 2023

American literature

novel

American West

Sélection culturelle

Welcome to Tim Burton’s World

Tim Burton has a quirky vision of the world and his films like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland and the TV series Wednesday are full of intriguing visual details. A new exhibition invites visitors into his visual world. Rather than going through the looking glass, visitors plunge into a labyrinth that ensures no two experiences are the same.

09 Juin 2023

citizenship

film

Cinéma

5

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Rendez-vous

Book Bans in U.S. Schools

Amanda Gorman, who wrote and performed her poem “The Hill We Climb” for Joe Biden’s inauguration, is the latest author affected by a wave of book bannings in U.S. schools and libraries. She took to social media to denounce her book being banned after one single complaint from a parent.

09 Juin 2023

books

Culture et création artistiques

Langages artistiques

Banksy in Brest

If you are in or near Brest in the next couple of weeks, don't miss this free exhibition of 280 works by mysterious street artist Banksy! It's at the Ateliers des Capucins from 10 to 25 June.

09 Juin 2023

charity

art

exhibition

5

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Basquiat, Music and Warhol

The late New-York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat went from graffiti to high-end art. His lively and colourful paintings are on display in Paris in two exhibitions. One about, how his music and art mutually influenced each other and the other a display of works produced in collaboration with Andy Warhol

08 Juin 2023

art

exhibition

music