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Bigger Than Us

This inspiring documentary features teen activists around the world who see a problem and try to fix it. From Malawi to Colorado they are fighting pollution, opposing child marriage, supporting education, freedom of speech and sustainable agriculture and demanding rights for the planet and indigenous people. Melati Wijsen and her sister founded Bye Bye Plastic Bags, to fight the plastic waste which washes up in the shores of Indonesia when they were just 12 and 10. Filmmaker Flore Vasseur met Melati while making a documentary, and a few years on, the pair decided to meet other young people trying to help their communities and the planet. In Africa they met two young women. Memory Banda in Malawi ran a campaign to raise the minimum age for marriage from 15 to 18 to protect girls from forced marriages and encourage their families to continue their education. Winnie Tushabe has helped 900 Ugandan families learn new agricultural techniques to gain food security. Like much of the continent, their land had been damaged by pesticides and Winnie taught them to use permaculture to grow crops and protect the soil. At the age of 12, Mohammad Al Jaounde, a Syrian living with his family in a refugee camp in the Lebanon, created a school for children like him. Today it has 200 pupils (top photo) and Mohammad continues to run it virtually from Sweden, where he has found refuge. British teenager Mary Finn also helps refugees from Middle-East conflicts, arriving in Greece. She’s now training as a midwife to continue her humanitarian work. Rene Silva lives in a favela in Brazil. At age 11 he created Vos das Comunidas to allow his community to create and share its own news. It now employs 16 journalists and campaigns for freedom of expression. Xiuhtezcatl Martinez began campaigning as a young teen in Colorado on environmental issues. He’s also a talented rapper and keen to share his First Nations culture. He is one of a group of teens behind a group-action case asserting the U.S. government is flouting their rights by not protecting them from climate change. All of these stories make up the feature-length documentary Bigger Than Us. So many of us find the problems we see around us so enormous they seem insurmountable. It’s inspiring to watch these young people who see a problem and decide to try to fix it, not wait for grown-ups to come along and do the job! See our Ready-to-use resource on Xiuhtezcatl Martinez. Watch the trailer Bigger Than Us On general release in cinemas The f ilm website gives lots of information about the different campaigners and their causes, and gives a link to contact each one. Could be a good class project!

10 Octobre 2021

refugees

video

film

Create a Poster: Halloween

We have a teacher recommendation for a site for creating posters for your classroom, and an example of a poster on the theme of Halloween to use in collège to work on the BE+ing present and reading comprehension around this celebration.

09 Octobre 2021

celebrations

sustainable development

Halloween

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Next Bond

With Craig’s retirement as James Bond after "No Time to Die", speculation has mounted over who will be cast to take over the role.

09 Octobre 2021

film

Cinéma

hero

Rendez-vous

Walking Across Europe for Refugees

Little Amal is anything but small: she’s a giant puppet of a Syrian refugee girl making her way across Europe. The 3.5-metre-tall puppet began an 8,000 kilometre journey in Turkey on 27 July. After the south of France in September, she’ll be making stops across the north in October before embarking for the U.K.

09 Octobre 2021

refugees

Syria

video

Rendez-vous

2021 Nobel Peace Prize Supports Freedom of the Press

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to two journalists with a long track record of fighting to protect freedom of expression: Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, working in the Philippines and Russia.

08 Octobre 2021

united nations

video

human rights

Rendez-vous

Captain Kirk Goes Back to Space!

The Canadian actor William Shatner, aka Star Trek Captain Kirk, will be aboard the next rocket from Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' company, on October 12, 2021.

07 Octobre 2021

space

Star Trek

captain Kirk

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2021 Nobel Prize for Literature Turns the Spotlight on East Africa

The 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah from Tanzania, whose own experience of colonialism and exile have informed his ten novels as well as short stories and academic works.

07 Octobre 2021

refugees

Nobel prize

colonisation

7

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complémentaires

Blood Manor: Halloween House

This spooky A1+ audio activity is an original way to celebrate Halloween. The scene is Blood Manor, a haunted house attraction in New York. There are lots of ghoulish sound effects. And pupils will be asked to practise listening for and producing "H" sounds (and also focus on when not to add a "phantom H" at the beginning of words). Finally, there is lexical work on body parts and scary places.

05 Octobre 2021

U.S.A.

audio

traditions

Halloween: Out of This World!

Halloween is celebrated by kids and adults all over the U.S.A…. even in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Every year, teams of space scientists take an hour off from pushing the boundaries of space to compete in the annual pumpkin carving contest. The winners are of course… over the Moon!

05 Octobre 2021

NASA

space

Halloween

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Jane Campion Honoured at Lyon's Lumière Festival

The Lumière Festival in Lyon from 9 to 15 October has a great programme of films in various languages including English. And it will be giving the prestigious Prix Lumière to New Zealand director Jane Campion, as well as showing a retrospective of her films.

05 Octobre 2021

Lyon

African-American culture

film festival

Winning Films at Dinard

The Dinard British Film Festival is over for another year. But before it closed, the juries announced the winners of the various prizes. Here is a rundown.

04 Octobre 2021

refugees

Dinard

Northern Ireland

Read Poems Out Loud for National Poetry Day

It's National Poetry Day in the UK on 7 October . On that day, or any day, why not have fun with poems in class? They're a great way to explore language and practise diction.

01 Octobre 2021

literature

poetry

memorisation

The Big Reveal: Our Next Reading Guide Will Be...

Thank you to all of you who answered our poll about which of the oeuvres intégrales for Terminale LLCER you would like a Reading Guide for first. And the winner is… The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) by Hanif Kureishi, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a boy with an English mother and Pakistani father growing up in the 1970s in the London suburbs.

30 Septembre 2021

literature

British literature

multiculturalism

Creative Writing Competition: Vivian Maier’s Photography

Vivian Maier's extraordinary photos of New York and Chicago streets, portraits and self-portraits, were discovered by chance in 2007. A selection is currently on show at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris and we'd like to challenge your pupils to write stories inspired by the images.

30 Septembre 2021

exhibition

documentary

U.S. history

Get Your Fill of British Film!

The Dinard British Film Festival is a wonderful event, and this year you can enjoy it even if you can’t make it to Normandy between 29 September and 3 October. A large number of the films selected are also available to watch online.

29 Septembre 2021

refugees

Dinard

Northern Ireland

Innovation en Education

Venez assister aux conférences, débats et présentations pour découvrir de nombreuses innovations pédagogiques et échanger avec des enseignants et formateurs lors du Congrès Innovation en Éducation les 2 et 3 octobre. Assistez aux conférences et débats en présentiel ou en ligne. Sophie Martinez, la créatrice de la mallette de jeux Still English, participera à un débat sur le bonheur à l’école.

29 Septembre 2021

games

ludification

jeux

5

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James Bond

The 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die , should prove of interest to pupils, the more so as the vast majority of them will be familiar with the hero. This A2 article gives a few clues about his personality. Your pupils will also learn about Ian Fleming and the making of the films. The suggested activities are for the most part open to personal views, and are meant to provide starting points for discussion whenever possible.

23 Septembre 2021

film

Cinéma

hero

Sélection culturelle

Vivian Maier: Portraits of America and Self

Vivian Maier is now considered a major American photographer but she never published her work and died in obscurity, not knowing the interest her work would provoke. Maier was born in New York City in 1926. She spent her childhood and early twenties between the States and France, her mother's home country. She returned to New York in 1951 and spent the rest of her life as a nanny there and in Chicago. She had been interested in photography since childhood. When she was four, she and her mother shared an apartment with a well-known portrait photographer, Jeanne Bertrand. Maier never left home without her camera, and her work includes incredible street photography, portraits and also many self-portraits. But to the families she lived with for so many years, she was just the children’s nanny. She showed her work to no one and at some periods didn’t even have money to develop her films. Towards the end of her life, three siblings she had looked after came to her financial aid. She spent the final months of her life in a nursing home after a fall, and no longer kept up payments on a storage facility. The contents of her storage box were sold at auction in 2007.John Maloof bought a lot of negatives. He was a real-estate agent but he was working on a book of local history. He thought the lot contained architectural photos. When he saw it didn’t, he set them aside, but returned to them two years later. Although no photography expert, he could see the photos were exceptional. He wanted to find out more about the photographer. He found her name on an envelope in the box, and found a reference to her with an Internet search. Unfortunately, it was to an obituary: Maier had died days earlier. Maloof managed to locate much of the rest of Maier’s work: over 100,000 photos as well as documentary films. He went on to make a documentary, Finding Vivian Maier. https://youtu.be/8ZoYG1kgMNo Self-portraits Maier took self-portraits throughout her career, often using techniques such as mirrors or shadows to signal her presence without facing the camera. Portraits She also took many candid photos of people she met on the city streets. They have a natural spontaneity. As far as can be pieced together from the memories of the children she cared for, she simply walked up to people she found interesting and asked to take their picture there and then. City Streets Maier’s images of New York and Chicago draw a portrait of the cities as they became modern metropolises through the 1950s and 60s particularly. As with her portraits, she was attracted to the poor and underrepresented rather than the wealthy parts of town. Children Maier spent her professional life around children and there are many images of them in her collection, both those she cared for and ones she met in her wanderings. The exhibition trailer gives a glimpse of Maier’s different subjects. https://youtu.be/VdkR4p5_aKI 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? We’re organising a creative-writing competition inspired by Maier’s photos. You can find more details here . Vivian Maier Musée du Luxembourg, Paris Till 16 January 2022 There will also be a selection of photos on display in seven Métro stations: Hôtel de Ville, La Chapelle, Luxembourg, Saint-Denis Porte de Paris, Gare de Lyon, Madeleine and Pyramides. The Vivian Maier website has a large selection of her photos.

23 Septembre 2021

exhibition

documentary

U.S. history

Sélection culturelle

No Time to Die James Bond

It's finally (almost) here: the 25th Bond film that was delayed by on-set accidents during stunts, and then by COVID. Daniel Craig is appearing as Bond (but not 007) for the last time in a film that was co-written by Fleabag and Killing Eve creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

23 Septembre 2021

film

Cinéma

hero

Rendez-vous

Canada Elections: Status Quo

Canada went to the polls two years early on 20 September. The situation after the election looks almost exactly the same as that before, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party losing the popular vote but winning the most seats, though not enough for a majority. Trudeau will now form another minority government.

22 Septembre 2021

politics

elections

parliament

Sélection culturelle

Free Films in Dinard

The Deauville British Film festival proper stars on 29 September, but if you can't wait, there are three free showings of British films on 26-28 September. The Dinard fait son cinéma showings are: Downton Abbe y 26 September at 5.30 p.m. Rocketman , the biopic of singer Elton John, Monday 27 September at 8.30 p.m. (Photo above.) Sorry We Missed You by Ken Loach, Tuesday 28 September at 8.30 p.m.

22 Septembre 2021

Dinard

Ken Loach

Elton John

Multilingual Story Competition for Collège Classes

If you teach in collège, you might like to sign your pupils up for an original multilingual story competition. It asks classes to write a story using elements of languages other than French. You need to sign up by 30 September 2021 but then you have till 8 March to send in your project. .

20 Septembre 2021

théâtre

creative writing

competition

Teachers Talk: Using "Still English" Games in the Classroom

If you're tempted to use more games in your classroom but aren't completely sure how, listen to a colleague describe how she uses the Still English game pack with her collège classes.

16 Septembre 2021

video

différenciation

games

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Back to the Dune: Denis Villeneuve's latest movie

Denis Villeneuve's latest movie, Dune, is one of the most anticipated upcoming films. Dune is an epic space opera film and the adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel of the same name. The film covers about the first half of the book.

15 Septembre 2021

movie

science fiction

novel

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Booker Prize 2021 Shortlist

Ready for some reading? The 2021 Booker Prize shortlist has been published and, despite eliminating Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s longlisted Klara and the Sun, contains plenty of intriguing titles.

14 Septembre 2021

U.S.A.

literature

U.K.

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A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting Trailer

Here is the trailer for the Halloween-themed film A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting.

Sélection culturelle

Bilingual Comedy All Around France

The British have their pet bugs about the French language and culture, and the French feel much the same about les Rosbifs. Paul Taylor enjoys laughing at both, and he'll have audiences rolling in the aisles as he tours France with his new show "So British ou presque."

13 Septembre 2021

comedy

bilingual

stand-up

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America Seen by Georgia O'Keeffe

A retrospective exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe’s long career at the Pompidou Centre is a great opportunity to work with pupils on her depiction of the U.S.’s wide open spaces.

13 Septembre 2021

video

art

New York

Escape Game Pack: What's Inside?

So you've heard of our Escape Games pack, but what does it really look like? We reveal all in this short video!

13 Septembre 2021

WWII

British history

British culture

Back-to-School Masked Self-Portraits Activity

Drawing or writing self-portraits is a classic activity for the beginning of the school year when teachers are getting to know their pupils and vice versa. But how can it be adapted to mask-filled classrooms in the Covid era? Nathalie Legendre tested a masked self-portrait activity in collège . Mme Legendre teaches in Collège Barbey d'Aurevilly in Rouen. She tried this sequence with her three 3e classes. The pupils followed the instructions on a crafts video to create a portrait folded so that the face is first masked but can then be opened to reveal the bottom half. As well as the comprehension of the video, an additional language element was asking pupils to find positive and varied adjectives to define themselves on the unmasked portrait. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgaQUGo3AUM You can see the masked version of 3e5's portraits above, and here are the unmasked versions: You can see the other classes' work on the collège site. It would be possible to use video with lower-level classes, with lower objectives for oral comprehension. The presenter shows everything she is doing in detail, which helps pupils follow. As well as the work on adjectives, it's a good revision of parts of the face.

10 Septembre 2021

video

self-portraits

coronavirus pandemic