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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

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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

Rendez-vous

Arise Sir Lewis!

The Formula One driver is no longer simply Lewis Hamilton, but Sir Lewis after being knighted by Prince Charles. The driver was awarded a knighthood in the 2021 New Year’s Honours list after he won his seventh World Championship.

31 Décembre 2021

sport

STEM

diversity

Rendez-vous

South Africa Mourns Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu had a unique role in the opposition to apartheid and transition to democracy in South Africa. Because he was not a political figure, but an activist and church leader, he was able to speak out when others were censored. He died at the age of 90 on 26 December.

30 Décembre 2021

human rights

Nobel prize

South Africa

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“The Matrix Resurrections”: the Future is Now!

Eighteen years after The Matrix Revolutions, which we thought was the third and final Matrix film, Lana Wachowski has directed a fourth: The Matrix Resurrections.

23 Décembre 2021

film

movies

science fiction

Sélection culturelle

It's Not Easy Being a Teen

If Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age film Licorice Pizza feels much more real than many films about teenagers, there’s a good reason: it was a project Anderson dreamed up in lockdown. When it was still impossible to do a COVID-compliant shoot, he roped in his kids’ friends and his friends’ kids to make a film about a couple of teenagers trying to figure out what they want to grow up to be in California in 1973.

22 Décembre 2021

film

movie

California

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The Garden of Privatised Delights

The British Pavillion at the Venice Architecture Biennale this year explored the theme of public spaces that are privately owned, like garden squares in London, our high streets or even pubs. It would make a perfect extension to Shine Bright 1e File 2 London is my backyard, or any sequence on espace privé et espace public. There are great, short videos, discussing six different issues.

20 Décembre 2021

teenagers

solidarity

Shine bright 1e

Do You Know About... Christmas Crackers?

Christmas crackers are such an integral part of British Christmas dinner celebrations but do you know how they were invented? Hint: there's a French connection. Enjoy our animated slideshow with your students from A2.

20 Décembre 2021

Christmas

British traditions

festive season

Rendez-vous

A Year in Words

Different dictionaries have been revealing their "words of the year” for 2021. The COVID pandemic has had a major influence on the words we use and look up. Vax, double-vaxxed, vaccine and pingdemic all show up, as well as perseverance, which we’ve all had to show.

17 Décembre 2021

language

gender

dictionary

Fake News Exhibition in Your School!

The Fake News exhibition created by the CLEMI which is running in Paris till February 2022 is now also available as 10 A3-sized posters that you can print up and display in your school. There's a webinar and teaching pack to help you guide your pupils to get the most out of the experience.

09 Décembre 2021

politics

exhibition

EMC

King Richard

King Richard is a film about a man with a mission: Richard Williams, who decided two years before his daughter Venus was born, that he would have two daughters destined to become tennis champions.

09 Décembre 2021

sports

film

biography

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Josephine Baker: An Incredible Life

Our bioboxes are short "Who Am I?" quizzes to help introduce pupils to famous figures in the English-speaking world. This one is on Josephine Baker as she enters the French Panthéon.

26 Novembre 2021

Martin Luther King

WWII

civil rights

St Andrews Day Online Resources

St Andrew's Day, 30 November, is the Scottish national day. Here are a couple of resources to talk about the celebration with collège classes, and a suggestion to get everyone moving!

25 Novembre 2021

holidays

video

EPI

Rendez-vous

400 Years of Thanksgiving

This year sees the 400th anniversary of the ancestor of today’s Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S.A. 400 years after the meal shared by Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in Massachusetts, efforts are gaining ground to see the event from the points of view of both communities.

25 Novembre 2021

U.S. culture

thanksgiving

Pilgrims

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West Side Story 2021

Sixty years after Robert Wise’s award-winning movie, Steven Spielberg’s much awaited remake of "West Side Story" aims at a much more authentic portrayal of the Puerto Rican protagonists in this Romeo and Juliet-inspired tale of star-crossed lovers in NYC.

24 Novembre 2021

film

Spielberg

Shakespeare

Why Black Friday?

As Black Friday approaches, we wonder why a specifically American date in the commercial calendar has taken over first the internet and now high-street shops aroind the world.

23 Novembre 2021

U.S. culture

thanksgiving

November

Thanksgiving with Wampanoag and Pilgrims

For many years, the Native Americans at the first Thanksgiving dinner were reduced to generic “Indians” in the national story. Today, the Plimoth Patuxet living-history museums at the site of the original Thanksgiving have created an online game to help school children learn about both the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.

23 Novembre 2021

U.S. culture

Pilgrims

U.S. history

A Native American View of Thanksgiving

Today, there is growing awareness that the "Thanksgiving story" told to young schoolchildren in the U.S.A., which provides much of the traditional imagery of the holiday, is just that: a story. Many Native Americans denounce the hypocrisy of portraying this origin story of the nation as a peaceful and cooperative meeting of peoples, when in reality it was a disaster for Native people, who would be decimated and dispossessed of their land and traditions.

21 Novembre 2021

U.S.A.

video

Native American

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Go West!

We’re all used to disclaimers at the end of movies saying, “This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.” The new Netflix twist on a western, The Harder They Fall, turns that on its head, opening the film with the disclaimer, “While the events in this film are fictionalised... These people existed.”

20 Novembre 2021

Hollywood

black history

western

Thanksgiving Stories

A Thanksgiving intergenerational project in the U.S.A. would make an excellent language activity anywhere.

19 Novembre 2021

video

audio

celebrations

Sélection culturelle

Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine 2021 to Joyce Maynard!

Joyce Maynard receives The Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine 2021 with for “Où vivaient les gens heureux” (« Count the Ways »), published in France, on August 19, 2021 by Philippe Rey in a translation by Florence Lévy-Paoloni

19 Novembre 2021

America

novels

American literature

Sur la piste des Sioux : the origins of “American Indian” iconography

The exhibition “Sur la piste des Sioux” which opened at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, takes us back to the origins of the limited and blinkered representation of the “American Indian” in Europe and France, and challenges many clichés .

18 Novembre 2021

U.S.A.

Native American

Lyon

Sélection culturelle

"West Side Story" is Back!

West Side Story – the stage musical and the film – is already a classic. Steven Spielberg wants to make it a more authentic classic for the 21st century. After many delays due to COVID, it's finally arriving in cinemas.

18 Novembre 2021

film

Spielberg

Shakespeare