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Canadian Film Festival in Dieppe

Dieppe will be celebrating Canadian films, in English and French, from 24 to 27 March.

22 Mars 2022

film

WWII

Cinéma

More Red Nose Day Webpicks

Red Nose Day (18 March in 2022) 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, disability and homelessness, 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.

18 Mars 2022

sport

video

disability

Teaching with Films: Belfast

The trailer and the featurette for Belfast are both used in our Ready-to-use resource on the film.

14 Mars 2022

video

history

Ireland

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Branagh's Belfast

Belfast is the story of nine-year-old Buddy growing up in the Northern Irish capital in a friendly, working-class community until the Troubles brutally disrupt his life in 1969. The film and these activities will help the students discover more about the Northern Irish conflict and its human consequences. It is actor-director Kenneth Branagh‘s most personal film yet.

14 Mars 2022

history

Ireland

Irish history

The Power of the Dog

Ever since Jane Campion burst onto the world stage with an Oscar for The Piano, she has shown a deft capacity to depict buttoned up, repressed emotions. The Power of the Dog, nominated for 12 Oscars, is no exception. The Netflix new-generation Western stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plomens as Montana ranching brothers Phil and George who definitely don’t discuss their feelings when George disrupts the balance of their relationship by marrying Rose (Kirsten Dunst).

14 Mars 2022

U.S. culture

New Zealand

western

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Film Vocabulary

This worksheet was used as in introductory activity to a project on film musicals for 4e euro. You can read about the project in our Pedagogy section.

14 Mars 2022

film

U.S. culture

music

Put on a Red Nose and Fundraise

Red Nose Day is back on Friday 18 March in the UK. British charity Comic Relief has been encouraging people to don a clown's red nose and "do something funny for money" since 1988. This year, the event returns to its annual slot and Sport Relief will be back later in the year in conjunction with the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham (28 July-8 August).

14 Mars 2022

video

charity

download

Discovering musicals with 4e euro

Cultural projects based around a trip or an exchange with an English-speaking country have been curtailed by the pandemic. But necessity is the mother of invention, so two teachers in Toulouse decided to open their students’ horizons through studying musical films (Singin’ in the Rain, West Side Story and La La Land) thanks to their local cinemathèque.

11 Mars 2022

film

immigration

U.S. culture

In the Streets of Belfast

Belfast is actor-director Kenneth Branagh‘s most personal film yet. It’s the story of nine-year-old Buddy growing up in Belfast in a friendly, working-class community until the Troubles brutally disrupt his life in 1969. Belfast is set in 1969, when what were called “the Troubles” went from protests to violent riots in the space of a weekend. Opposition to British colonial rule of Ireland had led to Irish independence in 1921. But the population of the six north-eastern counties chose to remain part of the U.K., as Northern Ireland. The majority of the population was Protestant and often Unionist, supporting remaining in the U.K. A significant minority was Catholic and often Republican, supporting the unification of all of Ireland. The Catholic population was generally poorer and excluded from the best-paying jobs, best places to live, and limited in their access to the political system. From 1967 there had been a growing civil-rights movement demanding equal rights. But in August 1969, demonstrations in Derry Londonderry and Belfast degenerated into violence. The demonstrators blamed heavy-handed policing from the almost exclusively Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary . The British government reaction was to deploy the British Army on Northern Irish streets. They remained until 2007. To Stay or Not to Stay Buddy’s family in the film, and Kenneth Branagh’s in real life, were faced with a decision to make. Stay in what was effectively a war zone, or leave for mainland U.K. or somewhere else in the British Commonwealth. They would leave everything they knew, and their close-knit family. But they would gain safety and potentially a better future for the children. The father in the fictional and real family was already working in England, because he couldn’t get a well-paid job in Belfast. Did it make sense to stay when the economic situation was unlikely to improve and violence and hatred was making everyday life fraught with danger? [video width="640" height="480" mp4="http://www.speakeasy-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SN_belfast_clip.mp4"][/video] Branagh plunges the audience into this dilemma. Buddy is very attached to his grandparents, and the girl at school he doesn’t dare talk to but intends to marry. He is worried that no one will understand his accent if he has to go to England. But he also can’t understand how neighbours have suddenly become enemies and familiar streets are blocked with barricades. The film has been nominated for seven Oscars including best picture, director and screenplay and best supporting actors for Dame Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds. Branagh from Belfast Many cinema fans are unaware that Branagh is Northern Irish. The actor is famous for his Shakespearean roles and most recently directing himself as Hercule Poirot in two successful Agatha Christie adaptations. There’s no trace of Belfast in his drama-school-trained Received Pronunciation. He says that this is because when his family moved to England in the 1970s, their accent marked them out for suspicion. IRA attacks were frequent on the mainland and all Northern Irish people were viewed as potential terrorists. The young Branagh lost no time changing his accent to fit in with his new surroundings. But he never lost his love for his home city and during the Covid lockdown found himself thinking back nostalgically to the days when he played in the streets, often acting out the stories he loved to see in the cinema. Although his father was away working in England, there was plenty of affection from his mother and grandparents. He describes the feeling of belonging he had as a child, saying, "We were related to one half of Belfast and we went to school with the other half.” Coming next week: a B1+-B2 ready-to-use resource on Belfast . Belfast on general release 2 March

04 Mars 2022

history

Ireland

Irish history

Random Acts of Welshness for St David's Day

St David's Day, 1 March, is Wales's national day, in honour of its patron saint. This year, the Welsh government is encouraging people to share "random acts of Welshness" on social media. So what are some distinctively Welsh things to do on 1 March?

28 Février 2022

UK

videos

music

Rendez-vous

What is the State of the Union Address?

President Biden will give his first State of the Union Address on 1 March.

28 Février 2022

war

president

speech

Koalas in Danger

The Australian government has announced that it now considers koalas an endangered species in three out of five of the states and territories where they are native. Palace populations have declined precipitously in just a decade. The 2019-20 bushfires were the last straw.

11 Février 2022

Australia

conservation

climate change

A Historic Milestone

Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee this year, marking 70 years on the throne, a milestone no other British monarch has reached.

07 Février 2022

Britain

royalty

Queen

Your Students Have So Much Talent

Thank you so much to all the dedicated teachers who sent in the stories their students wrote inspired by Vivian Maier's photographs. We received thousands of stories and they are incredibly imaginative! And we’ve chosen our favourites for publication.

04 Février 2022

exhibition

creative writing

U.S. history

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Death on the Nile

Five years after the success of Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh is back as Hercule Poirot in another Agatha Christie adaptation, Death on the Nile. In this A2-A2+ resource, pupils learn about the film and Agatha Christie in an article before watching the film trailer and making hypotheses.

04 Février 2022

video

film

biography

Vivian Maier Winners A2

We received thousands of fabulous entries to our Vivian Maier creative writing contest. Here are our favourite texts entered as A2 and those who chose the 100-word limit.

04 Février 2022

New York

exhibition

creative writing

Vivian Maier Winners Seconde

We received thousands of fabulous entries to our Vivian Maier creative writing contest. Here are our favourite texts from 2nde students.

04 Février 2022

New York

exhibition

creative writing

Vivian Maier Winners Collège B1

We received thousands of fabulous entries to our Vivian Maier creative writing contest. Here are our favourite collège texts entered as B1.

04 Février 2022

New York

exhibition

creative writing

Vivian Maier Winners Première

We had so many fabulous entries to our Dorothea Lange creative writing contest that we've chosen 30 winners instead of 10. Here are the winning texts from collège and Seconde pupils, in alphabetical order except where we've regrouped texts about a single photo.

04 Février 2022

New York

exhibition

creative writing

New Reading Guide: The Buddha of Suburbia

As promised, our latest Reading Guide for Terminale LLCER, The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi Is at the printers and will be available at the beginning of March.

04 Février 2022

literature

British literature

multiculturalism

Vivian Maier in Brittany

Vivian Maier has proved incredibly popular with teachers and students alike in our creative writing competion. Now those of you in Brittany have an opportunity to get close up and personal with her work with a double exhibition at the Museums of Quimper and Pont Aven. The Quimper exhibition focuses on Maier’s street photography in New York and Chicago, where she lived for many years. Pont Aven meanwhile is focusing on self-portraits, which she took throughout her career. The video below and downloadable brochure give more information. https://youtu.be/Fqbnl0jXK8s Resources and Visits for Teachers There's a game booklet (in French) you can download for students. Each museum has a day when it will present its exhibition to teachers in preparation for a class visit. At Pont Aven it is on Wednesday 23 February, 2 p.m. to 4.30. At Quimper it is on Wednesday 2 March 2-4 p.m. There will also be an online training session on the theme of self-portraits proposed by Canopé on Thursday 3 March at 5 p.m. A teaching pack will be available soon. Vivian Maier e(s)t son double 4 Feb-29 May 2022 Quimper and Pont Aven . Maier’s self-portraits would make an excellent subject for an LLCER sequence on Expression et construction de soi Axe 2 : Mise en scène de soi. For example File 15 of Shine Bright LLCER , United Selves of America: What does the art of self-portrayal reveal about the American experience?

04 Février 2022

exhibition

documentary

U.S. history

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Valentine's Day Slideshow

This A1+-A2 slideshow will provide your students with information about the tradition of Valentine’s cards but also about the origins of Valentine’s Day, according to legend, and a connected celebration in Ghana, Chocolate Day. The accompanying activities help develop speaking and writing capacities.

04 Février 2022

celebrations

EMC

poem

Vivian Maier Winners Terminale

We received thousands of fabulous entries to our Vivian Maier creative writing contest. Here are our favourite texts entered from terminale classes. (You'll also find some LLCER and Euro classes in the C1 winners.)

04 Février 2022

civil rights

New York

exhibition

Vivian Maier Winners C1

We received thousands of fabulous entries to our Vivian Maier creative writing contest. Here are our favourite texts entered from LLCER and Euro lycée classes.

04 Février 2022

exhibition

creative writing

competition

1

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Interactive Civil Rights Timeline

For Black History Month, or any time you want to talk about the civil-rights movement in the U.S., why not use our interactive timeline with some key dates and succinct information about Jim Crow, segregation, Rosa Parks and MLK?

03 Février 2022

Martin Luther King

civil rights

protest

Groundhog Day: What's the Weather Like?

Will it be a long, cold winter, or will spring come early? On February 2, in Pennsylvania, an animal gives its prediction.

28 Janvier 2022

film

animals

weather

Toasting Robert Burns

Not many countries have an annual celebration of their national poet. In fact not all countries have a national poet. But Scotland does and millions of people around the world celebrate him on Burns Night every 25 January.

21 Janvier 2022

holidays

poetry

British culture

Rendez-vous

Sidney Poitier: Death of a Legend

The Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier who died on January 6, 2022 at age of 94, was the first Black person to win the best actor Oscar in 1964. He was also a humanitarian who was active during the civil rights movement.

17 Janvier 2022

civil rights

Oscars

Hollywood

A Webinar on the "Grand Oral" for Your Students

To accompany you and your students as they prepare for the Grand oral, there will be a free webinar on the subject on 18 January. Mission Grand oral author Olivier Jaoui will explain how to prepare for, and succeed in the exam, and will also answer pupils' questions.

11 Janvier 2022

baccalauréat

webinar

grand oral

Ready to Recite?

Why not encourage your pupils to participate in a competition to video themselves reciting a poem or prose text? Practising recitation can be a valuable activity in any language class. The Académie of Orléans-Tours is organising a competition for pupils to recite texts in the languages they are learning, which is open to pupils and students (up to the third year of university) all over France and in lycées français abroad. The Ciceronnades is a multilingual contest and for its second year is covering not just a wide range of modern languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French as a foreign language, French as a second language, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish) but also ancient Greek and Latin. Individual pupils make a simple video of themselves reciting their text. The deadline for entries is 11 March 2022, and the winners will be announced on 8 April. For secondary pupils, there are set texts, one a poem and the other a speech, one set for collège (cycle 4) and another for lycée . For collège , the poem is by Victorian poet Ernest Dowson , rather confusingly titled in Latin "Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam" . For lycée it is William Shakespeare's sonnet number 12, "When I Do Count the Clock that Tells the Time". In both categories, the speeches have an ecological theme. Collège pupils will discover a speech given by a young Ugandan climate justice activist, Vanessa Nakate, at a conference on Earth Day 2021. For lycée , pupils will recite a speech made by Britain's Prince Charles to the COP21 conference in 2015. You'll find all the information about the contest on the Académie Orléans-Tours website . Reciting can be a great way to get pupils speaking English without the stress of having to come up with something to say themselves. Focussing on rhythm and rhyme can really help their pronunciation skills, and memorisation is a great brain workout !If you and your pupils get the bug for reciting, you can find lots more suggestions of poems old and new on the site for the British schools' competition Poetry by Heart . You can hear Sonnet 12 on the site, and watch pupils performing different poems (these change regularly).

07 Janvier 2022

poetry

speech

reciting