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Films for Classes in Dinard!

The 33rd edition of the Dinard British Film Festival will take place in Brittany from 28 September to 2 October. The films in competition haven’t been announced yet, but you can get ready to sign up your classes to see some of the best British films from the last year at special schools showings.

09 Août 2022

film

Dinard

festival

New Reading Guide: Brooklyn

A new addition to the programme limitatif LLCER anglais Terminale is Brooklyn by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín (2009). It’s a very approachable novel covering themes of exile, homesickness, first love and personal choice. We’re preparing a Reading Guide for the novel, coming out just after the Toussaint holidays.

09 Août 2022

literature

New York

Brooklyn

Irish Population Returns to Pre-Famine Levels

The Irish Central Statistics Office recently announced that the country’s population had surpassed 5 million for the first time since the Great Famine (1845-49). A notable event in a country whose history and culture have been marked by waves of emigration. This excellent infographic would be a great addition to Shine Bright 1e File 9 The Emerald Isle, Shine Bright LLCER File 20 The Irish Art of Exile, History 1re The Irish Question, or LLCER Terminale novel Brooklyn.

09 Août 2022

Ireland

Irish history

Brooklyn

A Landmark Ruling Overturned

On 24 June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned one of its own “landmark rulings”, a rare event. There had already been leaks that the Court would reverse the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling that limiting a woman’s right to an abortion was unconstitutional.

27 Juin 2022

civil rights

U.S. culture

gender equality

Sélection culturelle

Paperback Festival in St Maur

Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (94) is delighted to once again welcome dozens of authors from around the world to its festival St Maur en Poche from 24 to 26 June. There will be lots of Anglophone authors present, including the inimitable Maggie O’Farrell, winner of the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction for Hamnet, her imagining of the life and death of Shakespeare’s son. Look our for John Boyne, author of The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, Heather Morris, who wrote The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Eve Chase, who is reinventing the English country house novel. There are many mystery writers too, such as Daniel Cole, James Delargy, R.J. Ellory, David Joy and Gilly Macmillan Maggie O’Farrell will discuss great literary figures and their descendants at an event on Saturday at 4.15 p.m. and Daniel Cole and James Delargy will be leading an event on the the British detective novel on Sunday at 4.30 p.m. Check out the authors and the programme.

22 Juin 2022

literature

festival

British literature

World Music Day

France's Fête de la Musique is 40 years old this year, and it has inspired other countries to celebrate music on the longest day of the year, 21 June. Make Music Day, as it's dubbed in English, made it to New York 15 years ago and has spread across North America, helped by a non-profit, MakeMusicDay.org . In 2021, despite COVID restrictions, 98 North American cities held 3500 events on 21 June. https://youtu.be/ilj4sN2rQrE It's such a good idea that the UK decided to get involved too, in 2014. https://youtu.be/14GnRsPn0JU They very much follow the original philosophy of amateurs coming out to play, calling it "the biggest DIY festival in the world!" Now, events take place in 125 countries for World Music Day! You can see videos from Nigeria, China, Connecticut and Australia, amongst many others.

21 Juin 2022

New York

U.K.

music

Sélection culturelle

The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll

Baz Luhrmann’s new film is a biopic of Elvis Presley, the founding father of rock ‘n’ roll.

21 Juin 2022

biography

U.S. culture

biopic

Spreading Swahili

7 July will be the first edition of World Kiswahili Language Day. The United Nations designated the official day in recognition of a language that is spoken by 200 million people across Africa. It is gaining in popularity and could one day replace English and French as a lingua franca native to the continent.

20 Juin 2022

colonisation

Kenya

Africa

Sélection culturelle

To Kill a Mockingbird: Changing the Point of View

A new production of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird as a play is now running in London as well as Broadway. Aaron Sorkin has dramatised the classic novel to put the focus on, and give a voice to, Tom Robinson, who is falsely accused of raping a white woman.

20 Juin 2022

civil rights

théâtre

ségrégation

Biobox: Who is It?

Who is the person describing themselves in the slideshow?

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Elvis

Elvis. Just his first name is enough for everyone to know who we’re talking about! Or certainly for adults to know. The King of rock 'n' roll is still alive thanks to not only his fans but also Baz Luhrmann whose latest movie takes us into the King’s world.

17 Juin 2022

biography

U.S. culture

biopic

Sélection culturelle

Women's Prize for Fiction Winner 2022

Britain’s Women’s Prize for Fiction has been awarded to a book narrated by a book. American-Canadian author Ruth Ozeki’s fourth novel has the philosophical title The Book of Form and Emptiness, perhaps no surprise from an author who combines writing, teaching and being a Zen Buddhist priest. The teenage protagonist Benny finds the Book when he takes refuge in a public library to escape a difficult home life.

17 Juin 2022

literature

British literature

fiction

Your Students Have Talent: To Kill a Mockingbird

It's always lovely to see students' work. Here are some posters 1re LLCER students created to persuade other students to read Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, which they had studied.

17 Juin 2022

To Kill a Mockingbird

Reading Guides

students have talent

Bloomsday 100

In 1922, James Joyce's landmark novel Ulysses was published in Paris, since it wouldn't have passed censorship rules in his native Ireland. Every 16 June, Joyce fans pay homage to the book, which takes place over one day on 16 June, by dressing in period costume and acting out scenes from the novel. Ulysses was published by Sylvia Beach, who owned the Shakespeare and Co bookshop in Paris, so fittingly there are a number of events in the French capital, and at the bookshop for Bloomsday 2022, the centenary year. The book follows Harold Bloom's peregrinations through Dublin, a (then-) modern-day Ulysses on his odyssey. A picnic lunch in period dress will take place at the Irish Cultural Centre from 12.30 to 2.30, with members of the Paris Bloomsbury Group acting out scenes for the picnickers. The group will then move on to Shakespeare and Co from 3 to 6 p.m. to join in a public reading, where anyone who wishes can read a passage. The Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco will host events for adults and children on the day before Bloomsday, 15 June. From 1.45 p.m. there will be dramatic readings from the book during a walk. At 4 p.m. there will be a reading of Joyce's book Le Chat et le Diable for children. The Irish Foreign Ministry has released this video of people around the world reading from the book in different languages. (Yes, that is Stephen Fry!) https://youtu.be/2-vTpaTcM8I

10 Juin 2022

Ireland

Irish culture

Irish literature

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Queen Elizabeth II Comic Strip Part 2

We promised you a second part to our A1+ worksheet based on a comic-strip telling of Queen Elizabeth II's life. The first worksheet ended with her meeting with Prince Philip in Dartmouth, in the south of England. In Part 2, we follow Elizabeth through the Second World War, marriage and up to her coronation. Your pupils will learn a few basic elements of British history and will at the same time enlarge their grammar and vocabulary in order to be able to write and say a short text about some past and present famous British figures.

09 Juin 2022

WWII

Queen

biography

Lilibet the Queen Episodes 3 to 5

Here are the final three episodes of the comic strip about Queen Elizabeth II's life. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="http://www.speakeasy-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/BD_ANIM_001_LILIBETH_EPISODE3_R.mp4"][/video] [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="http://www.speakeasy-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/BD_ANIM_001_LILIBETH_EPISODE4_R.mp4"][/video] [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="http://www.speakeasy-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/BD_ANIM_001_LILIBETH_EPISODE5_R.mp4"][/video]

Marmalade Sandwich, Your Majesty?

The Platinum Jubilee Concert coverage on 4 June opened with a sketch that featured the Queen inviting Paddington Bear to tea. The short video is great. for class use, and would make a good complement to the "deep fake" Queen's Christmas speech that is featured in Shine Bright 3e Snapfile 11 Twist and Tell.

08 Juin 2022

Roald Dahl

video

The BFG

Meet the Authors: History 1re DNL Webinar

If you teach in a European Section and your pupils have history as their DNL subject, your history teacher colleagues will want to know about our new digital text book for DNL History in première. It will be available for the new school year but they can find out all about it by watching the replay of our webinar . Juliette Hanrot, co-director of the collection, presented History 1re and answered teachers' questions.

02 Juin 2022

history

DNL

classes européennes

The Queen's Birthdays

Why does the British monarch have two birthdays?

02 Juin 2022

Queen

British history

British culture

Sélection culturelle

Everything You Wanted to Know about Northern Ireland

An evening at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris will provide lots of insights on Northern Ireland, a nation with a still fluctuating identity and status 101 years after its creation. Activist art, thought and song will all combine on 8 June.

26 Mai 2022

commemoration

Brexit

UK

Sélection culturelle

Cannes 2022: A festival on the Rocks!

Anglophone music and musicians from the early and more recent days of rock music are being highlighted at the Cannes Festival this year. Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and David Bowie, are all featured in films playing at the festival.

25 Mai 2022

documentary

David Bowie

Coen brothers

Sélection culturelle

Talk in English: Queen's Platinum Jubilee

Everything you need to know about Queen Elizabeth II's seventy years on the throne in the last of the British Council Paris's "Talks in English" for this school year: 2 June at 7 p.m.

25 Mai 2022

Queen

British history

British Council

Meet the Authors: Shine Bright 3e Webinar

If you teach 3e classes, you should be receiving your specimen copy of Shine Bright 3e right around now. And to find out more, many of you joined us online on 25 May for a webinar where two of the authors presented the textbook, the first in our new collection for collège. The video replay is now available to watch.

23 Mai 2022

collège

cycle 4

distance learning

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Cannes 2022 : The Palmes before the Palme

After two years of COVID-19, the Cannes Film Festival is back on track and takes place from 17 to 28 May 2022 for its 75th edition. This year, the jury is led by French actor Vincent Lindon and 21 films* are competing for the prestigious Palme d'or. In 2021, the honour went to the French body horror drama "Titane," directed by Julia Ducournau.

23 Mai 2022

movies

Cannes

films

Queen Elizabeth II: 70 Years on the Throne

In the U.K., the weekend of 2-5 June 2022 will be given over to celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: the monarch has reigned for a record seventy years. Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born on 21 April 1926, the daughter of the Duke of York, who was second in line to the throne. He, as a second son, normally wasn’t destined to become king, and so Elizabeth wasn’t destined to become queen. But in 1936, George’s brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in order to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee. So his shy brother, who had a bad stammer and struggled to speak in public, was pushed into the role of king. And, since he had no sons, his eldest daughter later became queen. Elizabeth and her sister Margaret, as was typical for royalty at the time, were educated at home by tutors. Once her father became king, Elizabeth received extra lessons in law and religion to prepare her for her future role. When World War II broke out in 1939, the King and Queen chose to stay in London, even after Buckingham Palace was bombed, to share the danger of German air raids with the population during the Blitz. Elizabeth and Margaret, like so many other children, were sent away for their safety, spending much of the war at Windsor Castle or Balmoral in Scotland. Once Elizabeth turned 18 in 1944, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women’s branch of the Army, and trained to become a driver and mechanic. In 1947, Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, a distant cousin with royal lineage from Greece and Denmark. He was a Naval officer and for the first years of their marriage were spent where his postings took them. They had the first of their four children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. The King’s health had been fragile for some time, and Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip were replacing him on a royal visit to Kenya when they received news of his death on 6 February 1952. Elizabeth immediately became Queen, although her coronation only took place on 2 June 1953. Celebrating 70 Years The Platinum one will be the Queen’s fourth Jubilee after the Silver (25 years), Golden (50) and Diamond (60), and it will involve many familiar and traditional elements. It will, though, be the first Jubilee the Queen has celebrated without her late husband. At 96, and having suffered several health problems recently, she will only attend some of the events, with other Royals hosting the remainder. It will start on Thursday 2 June with the annual Trooping the Colour parade that marks the monarch’s official birthday with over 1,400 soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians. That evening, 1,500 beacons will be lit around the country and in the capital cities of the 54 countries of the Commonwealth. The fires were traditionally used to signal news. Until 1987, the Queen rode a horse at Trooping the Colour.On Friday 3 June there will be a Thanksgiving Service at St Paul’s Cathedral and on the Saturday the Queen will be able to indulge in one of her favourite activities, watching horse racing, at the Epsom Derby. The Queen was a keen rider and owns several racehorses. That will be followed by a Platinum Party at Buckingham Palace, a concert with a plethora of stars. The Jubilee will wind up on Sunday with another national tradition: street parties. Dubbed the Big Jubilee Lunch, people around the country are being encouraged to enjoy an outdoor meal with neighbours and friends (weather permitting!) In London, a Platinum Pageant and parade will feature lots of puppets, floats and performers, including participation by many schoolchildren. Children have sent in pictures of their hopes for the planet over the next 70 years, some of which have been reproduced on 200 silk flags which will be paraded down the Mall as a “River of Hope”. The Royal Family has been encouraging individuals and groups to “plant a tree for the jubilee”, contributing to the Queen’s Green Canopy . More than a million trees have been planted since October. The sculpture above, “Tree of Trees” by Thomas Heatherwick, will be placed in front of Buckingham Palace for the Jubilee weekend. It is made of recycled steel and 350 native British tree saplings, which will be distributed for planting after the weekend. All Change As the Queen looks back on the last 70 years, she will see a vastly changed society. Her coronation took place in the aftermath of World War II, when London was still full of bombed out buildings and food was still rationed. At her request, her coronation was televised, giving a boost to the young television industry, and beginning an era when the media would have much greater access to the life of the Royal family than ever before. Ironically, since she became Queen because her uncle was not allowed to reign if he married a divorcee, three of the Queen’s four children have themselves divorced, although she herself had a long and apparently happy marriage. She and Prince Philip celebrated their 73rd anniversary before his death in 2021. In 2013, the law was changed to allow the eldest daughters of monarchs to accede to the throne even if they have younger brothers. (At the same time, ban on the monarch marrying a Catholic was removed.) Queen Elizabeth II has survived thirteen governments – Boris Johnson is the fourteenth Prime Minister of her reign – and many tragedies and scandals. The death of Princess Diana, the fire that ravaged Windsor Castle, the popular opposition to the cost of the monarchy that led her to become the first monarch to pay income tax, the recent Prince Andrew legal case and the feud between Prince Harry that saw him resign from royal duties and leave the country. For many in the U.K., she has provided a fixed, familiar figurehead through their own and the country’s ups and downs. Millions will be out on the streets celebrating this very British institution over Jubilee weekend.

13 Mai 2022

Queen

British history

British culture

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Queen Elizabeth II Comic Strip

This comic strip about Queen Elizabeth II will get your pupils ready to understand what will be happening for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations that will be concentrated around the weekend of 2-5 June. These two pages are devoted to Elizabeth’s childhood and her first meeting with Philip, and accompanied with activities at A1+ level.

13 Mai 2022

Queen

biography

British history

Australia Goes to the Polls

Australia's Prime Minister, Liberal Scott Morrison, has called a federal election for 21 May. "ScoMo" and the Liberals were the surprise winners of the 2019 election and currently have a single seat majority in the 151-seat parliament. Opinion polls are favouring Labor and its leader Anthony Albanese over Morrison, who has been accused of bullying and a pitiful record on climate change. But the pollsters got it completely wrong three years ago. Can ScoMo come up with another miracle?

13 Mai 2022

citizenship

elections

Australia

Lilibet the Queen Episodes 1 and 2

Here are the first two episodes of the comic strip about Queen Elizabeth II's life. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="http://www.speakeasy-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/BD_ANIM_001_LILIBETH_EPISODE1_R.mp4"][/video] [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="http://www.speakeasy-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/BD_ANIM_001_LILIBETH_EPISODE2_R.mp4"][/video]

Biobox: Who is It?

Who is the person describing themselves in the slideshow?

Queen's Platinum Jubilee Resources

There are lots of online resources for the Platinum Jubilee you could use in class.

12 Mai 2022

video

Queen

British history