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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Seventy Years a Queen

At 96 years old, Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee after seventy years on the throne. This “who is it” animated quiz and B1 article will allow pupils to learn about the woman who has represented Britain for the whole of the lives of many Britons today, and yet who was not originally destined to reign.

12 Mai 2022

Queen

British history

British culture

Your Students Have Talent: Chicago Swing

And in our series Your Students Have Talent, here are three excellent song lyrics written for Shine Bright Terminale Short File 20 Chicago Swing, considering how the city of Chicago uses music as a means of inclusion in a very multicultural urban space.

12 Mai 2022

music

jazz

Chicago

Shakespeare's Women at the Entente Cordiale Cultural Centre

The Entente Cordiale Cultural Centre at the Château d'Hardelot, Condette (62) is hosting a season from 12 to 28 May exploring women and gender in Shakespeare's works. Shakespeare Nights will be filled with characters such as Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, Beatrice and Juliet through nine theatre pieces and a live film projection of A Midsummer's Night Dream. If you're studying Much Ado About Nothing with your LLCER students, there's a performance on 28 May that's a little different...

11 Mai 2022

women

Shakespeare

théâtre

What's Up Doc?: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name. The film is a sequel to Doctor Strange and tells us the further adventures of Dr. Stephen Strange, the Master of the Mystic Arts. With this film, the MCU unlocks the Multiverse and pushes its boundaries further than ever before.

10 Mai 2022

movies

Marvel

super heroes

Earth Day 2022

April 22 is Earth Day and its organisers are encouraging us all to "invest in our planet", the theme of this year's event. It certainly needs us all to pay more attention to its needs. Earthday.org and NASA provide lots information and teaching tools to engage students and offer practical actions to take.

20 Avril 2022

video

NASA

sustainable development

Historic Supreme Court Nomination

On 7 April, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court Justice — the first ever African-American woman in the court's 233-year history. Despite hostile Senate hearings, three Republican Senators gave their votes to confirm the nomination. When he fulfilled an election promise by nominating Ms. Brown Jackson, President Biden explained, “For too long our government, our courts haven’t looked like America.” President Biden nominated Ms Brown Jackson after Justice Stephen Breyer announced he would retire this summer. Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life. They are nominated by the President but have to be confirmed by the Senate. Breyer is currently one of three “liberal” Justices along with six “conservatives”. Presidents generally nominate Justices associated with their own politics, so liberal Brown Jackson was a logical pick for Biden. Since the Senate is currently split 50-50 Republican and Democrat, the nomination was likely to pass, as Vice-President Kamala Harris has a casting vote. In the event, three Republican Senators “crossed the aisle” to support the nomination. If any Democratic Senators lose their seats at the Midterm elections in November, this may be Biden’s only opportunity to have a nominated judge confirmed. Justice Brown Jackson Brown Jackson,51, has had a long career in many aspects of the justice system. She was brought up in Florida, and pointed out in her confirmation speech t hat her family has gone from segregation to Supreme Court Justice in one generation. Both her parents were teachers. Her mother went on to be a school administrator. Her father went to law school when Brown Jackson was a child, inspiring her to follow in his footsteps She studied at Harvard and was was editor of the Harvard Law Review like one of her role models, Barack Obama. After law school, she worked as a clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer, a public defender and a defense attorney in private practice. She served as a District Court Judge before joining the DC District Court of Appeals last year. When President Obama was nominating a Justice in 2016, Brown Jackson’s the-11-year-old daughter wrote to him asking to add her mother to his list. In over 200 years, 120 Justices have served on the Supreme Court, 115 of them men and 117 white. The first woman, Sandra Day Connor, was only appointed in 1981. The first African American Justice was Thurgood Marshall, appointed in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson, after he led the NAACP case in Brown Vs Board of Education, the landmark ruling on school desegregation. Defenders vs. Prosecutors Marshall was also the last Justice before Brown Jackson who had experience as a public defender — a lawyer appointed by the courts to defend the accused. Of the judges in the U.S. court system as a whole, former prosecutors outnumber defense attorneys by four to one according to a recent study by the Cato Institute . It could be argued that having preponderance of judges whose principal experience is on one side or the other of the prosecution-defence divide can skew the system in one direction. Some of the most aggressive and hostile questioning Brown Jackson faced from Republican senators during the confirmation hearings was about her time was a public defender, implying that by defending criminals she somehow sided with them. You can find more on the need for reform in the U.S. justice system in Shine Bright AMC File 15 Justice for all?

15 Avril 2022

civil rights

U.S. culture

gender equality

The Invictus Games are Back

The Invictus Games for injured and sick military personnel and veterans was founded by Prince Harry, himself a veteran, in 2014. The Invictus Games 2020, the fifth edition, are finally being held from 6 to 13 April 2022 in the Hague, Netherlands. More than 500 participants from 20 countries will compete. As importantly, they will be accompanied by friends and family who have helped them in their recovery. Prince Harry was inspired to create the games after attending the Warrior Games in the U.S.A. He wanted to take the concept of helping service personnel in their recovery through sport, but add an international element, bringing together athletes from around the world. The first event in London in 2014 surpassed even the organisers’ hopes, showcasing inspiring stories of resilience from the athletes. https://youtu.be/PpnYcXJVWNM The Games’ motto is a neat variation on Julius Caesar’s “Veni, vedi, vici” (I came, I saw, I conquered): We came. We saw. We are unconquered. That chimes with the poem “Invictus” which inspired Nelson Mandela in prison, and which gave its name to the games. William Henley (1849–1903), the poet, knew what it was like to suffer from ill health – he developed tubercular arthritis as a teenager and had to have a leg amputated. Christ Martin from Coldplay took the last lines of the poem as the chorus to the anthem he wrote for the Games: I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. [embed]https://youtu.be/XFM5dgPoLrE[/embed] In the Hague , 500 competitors will participate in one or more out of the ten sports: athletics, archery, cycling, indoor rowing, a driving challenge, powerlifting, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair basketball, and wheelchair rugby. Competitors are using sport to help them recover from both physical injuries and the effects combat can have on mental health. Prince Harry is still very much involved in the Games, as can be seen in this tongue-in-cheek video of him trying to learn some Dutch before the opening ceremony. [embed]https://youtu.be/N_Zu0vd0g5M[/embed] The next games are planned in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2023. You can find a whole SnapFile on the Invictus Games in Shine Bright Terminale: Snapfile 21.

14 Avril 2022

sport

video

disability