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Mary Anning: Dinosaur Discoverer

Mary Anning (1799-1847) was long left out of scientific records of the beginnings of palaeontology in the U.K. The fossil hunter and identifier is finally being recognised, and is in the news as two films are being made about her, and a teenage girl has headed a campaign to have her honoured with a statue in Lyme Regis, where she worked. This A2 article about Anning, who discovered some of the first dinosaur fossils on the Jurassic coast in Dorset, could be studied at various levels depending on teaching focus and students’ interests. It can be included in a unit devoted to science or in a unit centred on the place of women in society. Here we chose to provide teachers with general materials, including work on phonology through tongue twisters, usually seen by students as fun activities. As Mary Anning is most probably unknown to them, they will be able to ask genuine questions rather than grammar-oriented questions. Finally, the topic allows space for differentiation, some students could be asked to find out more about the dinosaurs Mary identified, while others might prefer to write a flyer for Evie’s campaign for example. Vocabulary and grammar the Jurassic period, fossils, archaeology, archaeologist, geologist, collector, excavating, extracting, identifying seashells, seashore, coast past simple of irregular verbs: found, bought, wrote passive: she wasn’t recognised expressing purpose: a campaign to create... Pronunciation Stress in compound nouns. Pronunciation of dinosaur . Pronunciation of women vs woman . /s/ vs /ʃ/ in tongue twister. Ammonite stars Kate Winslet as Anning. It's available on Canal plus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnDhlrs3XVM There is a trailer for independent film Mary Anning and the Dinosaur Hunters on Facebook.

27 Juillet 2021

film

Mary Anning

archaeology

Terrible Legacy of Canadian Residential Schools

The Residential School system which removed indigenous children from their families and forced them to assimilate, was described by a Canadian government as “cultural genocide”. Indigenous groups searching for information have carried out searches of schools looking for the traces of children who died there. Since May, more than 1,000 sets of remains have been found.

27 Juillet 2021

Canada

indigenous people

Shine bright 2e

Liverpool Loses Unesco World Heritage Status

In Shine Bright AMC File 19 A Tale of British Cities, we mentioned that Liverpool had been threatened with losing its UNESCO World Heritage status because of property develop plans in the historic heart of the city. On 21 July 2021, the announcement was made: UNESCO has stripped Liverpool of the status.

26 Juillet 2021

England

industrial revolution

Wales

Carson McCullers on the LLCER Reading List

One new book has been added to the programme limitatif for LLCER anglais: Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940). McCullers is often associated with Southern Gothic, along with authors like Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner and Harper Lee.

26 Juillet 2021

civil rights

American literature

To Kill a Mockingbird

A Unique Olympics

Postponed by a year because of COVID, doubtful till the last minute, and with no spectators, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have finally got underway. We look at some of the new sports at the games and particularly skateboarding. The postponed Olympic Games are taking place from 23 July till 8 August, and will be followed by the Paralympic Games from 24 August to 5 September. The Olympics includes several new sports. Softball (women) and baseball (men) isn’t strictly new but haven’t been in a Games since 2008. The Japanese are massive baseball fans and the atmosphere at games should have been amazing. There are four truly new sports making a first appearance: karate (again not a surprise in Japan), sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding. The last three are clearly meant to attract a younger audience to the Olympics. And not just a young audience, young athletes. Team GB has two skateboarders qualified for the Park event: Sky Brown and Bombette Martin. Sky is Britain’s youngest ever summer Olympian, at just 13. She’s also of mixed Japanese and British heritage so this Games is particularly special for her. Martin is barely older: just 14. Skateboarding and surfing seem logical partners to snowboarding and freestyle skiing in the winter games as well as sports like gymnastics which have an artistic element as well as the purely athletic side. But as Brazilian-American boarder Bob Burnquist explains, there’s more to skateboarding than sport. He says it feels, “Like the first time a lifestyle has been accepted into the Olympics." There will be two disciplines in the skateboarding competition: park and street. Park takes place in a “bowl” familiar to anyone who has ever seen a skate park. Street tries to reproduce urban street skating by including obstacles like stairs, handrails, walls and benches for skaters to use in their tricks. Just like in gymnastics or diving, boarders perform a series of moves or tricks. They are marked on the degree of difficulty, height, speed, originality and execution. Sky Brown has serious medal hopes but she’ll be up against tough competition, particularly from the U.S.’s Jordyn Barratt. This is one of a series of 5 mn videos presenting a competitor in each of the new Olympic and Paralympic sports. https://youtu.be/A5dkpYU1ImA If you want to know more about any of the new – or old – check out the “One Minute One Sport” videos. The information comes through cartoon images and onscreen text. Or check out the Olympic site for written descriptions of every sport.

23 Juillet 2021

Olympics

sport

Paralympics

Bringing the Underground Railroad to the Screen

African-American author Colson Whitehead and film director Barry Jenkins both made the same mistake when they were children and first heard about the Underground Railroad. The historical Underground Railroad was a network of people who helped slaves escape from the American South to freedom in the northern states or Canada. Both Whitehead and Jenkins pictured a real trains travelling under the southern states to freedom.

16 Juillet 2021

civil rights

U.S. culture

U.S. history

Vote for Your Next Reading Guide!

Which books and films are you planning to teach in LLCER anglais next year? This year for Terminale, we published six Reading Guides. There are three works left on the list. We are planning to publish a guide on one of them in the autumn, which would you prefer?

12 Juillet 2021

British literature

multiculturalism

western

Sélection culturelle

Surrealism in American Art

Marseilles is an appropriate setting for an exhibition on surrealism in American Art: it was from its port that many members of the Surrealist movement fled Nazi occupied France for New York. Find out more at the centre de la Vieille Charité until 26 September.

09 Juillet 2021

art

exhibition

pop art

Rendez-vous

Queen Honours NHS Heroes

Queen Elizabeth II has awarded a George Cross medal to the National Health Service. It is one of the highest honours that can be awarded to British civilians, for “acts of the greatest heroism or of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger.”

06 Juillet 2021

UK

hero

award

The Doors Singer Morrison Remembered

Fifty years after his death, Jim Morrison is still remembered for his poetry, lyrics and sometimes outrageous performances with The Doors. His grave in Paris is a shrine to the American singer.

06 Juillet 2021

U.S. culture

music

rock

Sélection culturelle

Cannes is Back!

Yes, that is legendary American director Spike Lee peering out of the poster for the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. He is also the president of the jury for the 74th festival. Two months later than usual, and with cinema releases having been largely suspended for a year, it will be an unusual edition.

06 Juillet 2021

documentary

Cannes

film festival

Shine Bright AMC File 13 Land of the Free

In our series of author videos presenting different chapters of Shine Bright AMC, here is File 13 Land of the Free, presented by its author Rebecca Oudin-Shannon.

05 Juillet 2021

U.S. culture

freedom

liberty

Aboriginalities

If you find yourself close to Belgium this summer, it’s worth heading to Brussels for the Aboriginalités exhibition: more than 250 paintings by First Australian artists who innovate using traditional techniques and subject matter and modern materials.

05 Juillet 2021

art

Australia

Give Me Five 4e

What's Inside? Reading Guide: Jane Eyre

In our series of author videos presenting our Reading Guides, here's Jane Eyre presented by its author Lynda Itouchène.

05 Juillet 2021

Jane Eyre

British literature

Charlotte Brontë

What's Inside? Reading Guide: To Kill a Mockingbird

In our series of author videos presenting our Reading Guides, here's To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee presented by its author Lynda Itouchène.

05 Juillet 2021

civil rights

ségrégation

American literature

Sélection culturelle

Quais du Polar Lyon 2021

Calling all detective fiction fans: Lyon's Quais du Polar festival is back from 2-4 July with the cream of crime-fiction authors from around the globe in genres from adult to kids' fiction, comic books and more. A couple of Anglophone authors who caught our eye are David Vann from the U.S.A. and R.J. Ellory from the U.K. Alaskan author David Vann now teaches at the University of Warwick in England. His first novel, Legend of a Suicide ( Sukkwan Island) (2008) won the Prix Médicis étranger. His latest novel ( Komodo ) is only available in a preview French edition (Editions Gallmeister) (the English will follow). It is a family drama set, like so many of Vann's novels, by the sea, this time on Komodo Island in Indonesia where Californian Tracy has come to learn to dive with her brother. David Vann will be signing books on all three days, and participating in three panel discussions: Paradis noirs on 3/7 at 10.30 a.m. ; Ce qu'on est prêt à faire et défaire quand on est mère on 3/7 at 2.30 p.m. ; Le linge noir en famille on 4/7 at 11.30 a.m. Prolific author R.J. Ellory was born in Birmingham, England, and spent much of his childhood in orphanages. As well as writing, he's an accomplished blues musician, and his fascination with American culture means that most of his books are set in the U.S. His first novel, Candlemouth , was published in 2003 and he won the prix Nouvel Obs/BibliObs in 2009 for A Quiet Belief in Angels ( Seul le silence .) His latest novel, Three Bullets , published in French as Le jour où Kennedy n'est pas mort , is an alternative history tale, imagining that JFK was shot in November 1963, but didn't die. Two translators will "joust" over their translations of an R.J. Ellory text on 3/7 at 2.30 p.m. Ellory himself will take part in two panel discussion: Rural noir on 4/7 at 11.30 a.m. and Polar à fleur de pop on 4/7 at 3.30 p.m. Quais du Polar 2-4 July 2021 In real life and online

02 Juillet 2021

literature

festival

Lyon

Happy July Fourth!

On July 4th, the U.S.A. celebrates its independence. And where better to do that than in Philadelphia, home of the Liberty Bell, and where the Declaration of Independence was written?

01 Juillet 2021

U.S. history

women's rights

U.S. traditions

Sélection culturelle

The Leprechauns and the Crock of Gold

Multi-national, multi-lingual theatre company Footsbarn will be playing a few dates of their new show Crock of Gold in the Allier and Paris before setting off for a summer tour of Ireland.

29 Juin 2021

Shakespeare

théâtre

music

Time for Tennis at Wimbledon

For two weeks every summer, London is the world capital of tennis. Wimbledon is more than just a tennis tournament. It's a national institution with some typically British eccentricities. This year's tournament begins on 3 July.

28 Juin 2021

sport

UK

London

Wimbledon 2021 Videos

The summer holidays are approaching, and it's time for tennis with the Wimbledon tournament. These short videos will make an entertaining end-of-term activity.

28 Juin 2021

sport

UK

London

What's the Score?

Tennis has a very idiosyncratic scoring system, and no one is sure why.

28 Juin 2021

sport

UK

London

Rendez-vous

Marcus Rashford: Football Against Food Poverty

England’s football players have been taking the knee at Euro 2020 to protest against racism but one in particular has been standing up for Britain’s poorest children.

25 Juin 2021

U.K.

poverty

protest

Sélection culturelle

Musical New York Taken to New Heights

A musical about Latino communities in New York – it’s not Steven Spielberg's long-awaited remake of West Side Story but In the Heights – by Hamilton creator Lin Manuel Miranda. It’s all singing, rapping and dancing and screams “summer”!

24 Juin 2021

théâtre

U.S. culture

musicals

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The Secret Garden

We’ve been promising you a resource on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story about an orphan girl who discovers a hidden garden and decides it will help cure her sickly cousin. It’s perfect for coming-of-age stories in LLCER, but we also wanted younger students to be able to enjoy it, so we’ve provided three different resources for A2, A2+-B1 and B2.

24 Juin 2021

literature

children's books

coming-of-age

Rendez-vous

Juneteenth Becomes a Federal Holiday

Juneteenth (19 June) marks the day when the most distant part of the United States received news of the end of slavery. On 19 June 1865, the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas finally discovered that Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had actually freed them two-and-a-half years earlier. As of 17 June 2021, it will be a federal holiday in the U.S. The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act passed through Congress with almost unanimous support and bestows official recognition on a date that has long been celebrated in Texas, and by African-Americans more and more widely. From now on, federal offices will be closed on 19 June and federal employees benefit from a holiday. The Act was introduced by four Democratic Congresspeople (Senators Ed Markey (Massachusetts), Tina Smith (Minnesota), Cory Booker (New Jersey) and Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas), and one Republican Texan Senator, John Cornyn. A Vocal Activist One of the people present at the White House as President Biden signed the Act was Opal Lee, 94. She has spent decades campaigning to have Juneteenth declared a federal holiday, since her family home in Texas was burned down on Juneteenth when she was 12. This short video would be a fabulous way to introduce the topic to your pupils, it's very straightforward and could be used from A2. https://twitter.com/i/status/1406326358993743876 For lots more on Juneteenth, its origins and celebrations, check out our article and our webpicks .

17 Juin 2021

civil rights

U.S. history

African American

Rendez-vous

Mount Recyclemore

This giant sculpture has been installed as a message to the G7 leaders meeting for a summit in Cornwall, England. It's made entirely of electronic waste and is designed to draw attention to the environmental problems caused by the 53 million tonnes of phones, tablets, computers and other electronic devices discarded every year.

11 Juin 2021

video

UK

art

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Nomadland: On the Road for the 21st Century

Nomadland, the multi-Oscar-winning film by Chloé Zhao, makes an excellent extension to Shine Bright LLCER File 7 On the Road for 1ère, or File 19 Modern Western for Terminale. It could also be interesting to use with Shine Bright AMC File 13 Land of the Free in connection with Freedom from Want. The story of modern-day nomads living in camper vans and trying to pick up short-term work to supplement minimal pensions echoes with Kerouac's hobos and the families fleeing the Dustbowl in John Steinbeck's novels, as short video clips from the film show.

11 Juin 2021

video

film

Frances McDormand

Euro 2020 in Six Questions

A quick rundown on Euro 2020 in six essential questions.

10 Juin 2021

sport

video

geography

James Joyce and Bloomsday

Ireland has a rich literary heritage and is fond of honouring it. On 16 June every year, it is author James Joyce who is remembered, as Joyce fans all over Ireland and the world celebrate Bloomsday in honour of his novel "Ulysses".

09 Juin 2021

Ireland

festival

paris

Sélection culturelle

On the Road: Nomadland

Nomadland is a fascinating insight to a largely invisible U.S. community: modern-day nomads not so far removed from the Depression-era migrant workers from John Steinbeck’s novels.

09 Juin 2021

film

Frances McDormand

western