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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

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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

Sélection culturelle

“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

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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

3

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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

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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

Animal Farm Audio Book

If you're studying Animal Farm with your LLCER 1e students, check out the complete and unabridged audio book of Orwell's allegory on the BBC Sounds site.

26 Novembre 2021

BBC

LLCER

George Orwell

1

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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

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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

5

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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

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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

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"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

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Colin Kaepernick: Birth of an Activist

"Colin in Black and White" is a new Netflix mini-series directed by Ava Duvernay. It’s ostensibly the story of Colin Kaepernick’s high-school years, before he became an NFL Star and started his “take a knee” protests. In fact, it’s a sort of manifesto with the older Kaepernick using his younger self to illustrate how he came to hold his present views about systemic racism and chose to express them, at the risk of his career.

18 Novembre 2021

U.S. politics

protest

American football

Josephine Baker Enters the Panthéon

On 30 November, Josephine Baker will become the sixth woman, and the first black woman, to enter France’s Panthéon, where the country honours its greatest heroes. The Franco-American dancer and singer was an active member of the Resistance in WWII and civil-rights activist in the U.S.

18 Novembre 2021

Martin Luther King

WWII

civil rights

Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Found Liable for Defamation Over Sandy Hook Shooting

Controversial U.S. broadcaster Alex Jones has been found liable in defamation cases brought in Connecticut and Texas by parents of children killed in the 2012 mass school shooting. Jones has spread conspiracy theories for years saying the shooting was a government hoax aiming at promoting gun control. Twenty children and six adults were shot dead by a lone gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut on 14 December 2012. The gunman also killed his mother, and took his own life. Jones, a talk-radio host, businessman and founder of right-wing websites such as Infowars and Newswars, was sued by parents who are horrified by his claims that they were actors and the tragic events never really happened. The bereaved parents have been victims of trolling and harassment by Jones’ followers. The parents also accused Jones of making financial profit from his claims. In cases judged in Connecticut, and Texas, where Jones is based, judges found him liable of defamation. However, in all of the cases, the judgements were by default, because Jones and fellow defendants refused to provide the court and the families’ lawyers with documents demanded by the court, including financial records. His lawyers claimed that Jones’ statements were protected under First Amendment free speech, but the default rulings mean that those claims were not tested in court. In a bizarre twist, Jones actually admitted in an official deposition for a 2019 case in Texas brought by Sandy Hook parents, "And I, myself, have almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I've now learned a lot of times things aren't staged." Juries in both Connecticut and Texas will now decide the amount of damages Jones will be ordered to pay to the plaintiffs. His defence team has indicated he will appeal. Fake News This is far from being Jones’ only farfetched conspiracy claim. He also says the 2018 Parkland shooting was another gun-control motivated hoax, that 9/11 was perpetrated by the government and the “Pizzagate” hoax he helped spread about Democratic Party officials including then Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton being involved in a child-trafficking ring based in a pizzeria basement is believed to have affected her election results. Jones was banned by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in 2018 for hate speech and abusive behaviour. But he still hosts a popular talk radio show on the GCN network as well as running websites. Much of his funding is believed to come from selling dubious but unregulated health supplements according to reports by the New York Times. This article is an update on the documents on Alex Jones in Shine Bright AMC File 7 Media on screen, page 69. You could also use it as an example in connection with the section on freedom of speech in Shine Bright AMC File 13 The land of the free.

17 Novembre 2021

fake news

social media

conspiracy theories

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Death of F.W. De Klerk: Last Apartheid-Era South African President

F.W. De Klerk, South Africa’s last President of the apartheid era, and instrumental in ending it, has died aged 85.

15 Novembre 2021

Nobel prize

South Africa

Nelson Mandela

Anti-Bullying Week

It's Anti-Bullying Week in U.K. schools from 15 to 19 November. The theme is kindness, how saying one kind word can potentially break the cycle of bullying. It lends itself well to a language activity on expressing kindness.

12 Novembre 2021

citizenship

EMC

videos

Travel to Dublin or Norwich for Language Training Courses

Every year, the Education Ministry finances 400 courses in language and culture in EU countries for language teachers in primary or secondary. Applications need to be in by 17 January 2022.

05 Novembre 2021

UK

Ireland

teaching

Short Films with your Lycée Students

The This is England short film festival in Rouen has a specific programme of short films for lycée classes covering topics from ballet to hip hop, flat earth theory to fox hunting.

05 Novembre 2021

film

animation

festival

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Eternals: A Team is Born

The expanse of the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline is about to get much wider with the arrival of Eternals, whose storyline will span thousands of years. Directed by Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), Eternals is visually distinct from many other Marvel films.

04 Novembre 2021

comic book

superhero

Cinéma