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Trooping the Colour

Among many other special qualities, Queen Elizabeth II has two birthdays every year: the real on on 21 April (she was 95) and her official one on the second Saturday in June. That is marked by one of the great moments of British pageantry: the Trooping the Colour ceremony.

09 Juin 2021

Britain

royalty

Queen

Raise the Flag

14 June every year is Flag Day in the United States. It commemorates the date in 1777 when the United States approved the design for its first national flag, a version of the familiar red, white and blue “Stars and Stripes” that survives today.

09 Juin 2021

celebrations

U.S. history

U.S. traditions

Memory Tricks: Their, There and They're

We stumbled across this simple visualisation to help pupils remember the spellings of the homophones their, there and they're. We couldn't resist sharing.

03 Juin 2021

memory

infographic

spelling

Collective Storywriting: Well Done!

As part of the Semaine des langues 2021, schools in the Académie de Nice took part in a collaborative writing project, Histoires communes in English, German, Italian and Spanish. Stories written collectively, often remotely, and across languages and/or across borders.

Escape Games Webinar

Thank you for all your interest in our new Escape Games pack for collège. Now it's time to find out more as two of its authors invite you to a free webinar so they can present the concept and answer your questions.

28 Mai 2021

WWII

British history

Spanish

Death of Eric Carle, Enchanter of Childhoods

Author and illustrator Eric Carle passed away on 23 May at the age of 91. He had enchanted children the world over with his colourful picture books, and especially the best selling The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

28 Mai 2021

children's books

U.S. culture

illustrations

Acquérir et retenir du vocabulaire

Il est indéniable que, bien souvent, l’autonomie langagière et la capacité à communiquer se mesurent davantage à l’étendue et à la richesse du lexique qu’à la correction grammaticale même si cela peut sembler contre-intuitif dans un pays où les progressions pédagogiques en cours de langue ont longtemps été déterminées par « les points de grammaire » à faire acquérir.

25 Mai 2021

memorisation

games

vocabulary

La mémorisation en présentiel en langues vivantes grâce aux roues numériques

Le travail de mémorisation en présentiel n’est malheureusement pas assez pratiqué dans les cours de langues. Est-ce par manque de temps ? Pourtant, les sciences cognitives préconisent un effort conséquent en tout début d’apprentissage pour une meilleure rétention des notions. Cet apprentissage, rebutant pour certains élèves, peut, en réalité, se faire de manière ludique grâce à l’utilisation d’une roue numérique.

25 Mai 2021

memorisation

games

vocabulary

Five Eyes

The Five Eyes Alliance is a very discreet intelligence-gathering agreement between five major Anglophone countries: the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand. It was created during the Cold War with the former Soviet Union. But it is currently in turmoil over the five nations’ relations with China.

25 Mai 2021

video

UK

USA

"Strange Fruit": a Searing Protest Song

Jazz singer Billie Holiday’s 1939 recording of “Strange Fruit” has become one of the most potent protest songs in U.S. history. Its images of lynched African Americans accompanied the civil-rights movement but still evoke uncomfortable truths today.

25 Mai 2021

civil rights

U.S. culture

protest songs

Rendez-vous

The First Native American U.S. Interior Secretary

New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland has become the first Native American to lead the Department of the Interior, which manages federal lands and natural resources, and includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

24 Mai 2021

Native American

Indian reservation

U.S. politics

5

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David Copperfield

Dickens’ classic, David Copperfield, is given new life in this movie by Armando Ianucci. Beyond the slightly reinvented plot itself, we are given to experience a new way of telling stories, as boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred if not crossed. What’s more, this brand-new funny version features colour-blind casting and leads us to reflect on biopics and the writing process in general.

23 Mai 2021

film

British literature

coming-of-age

Sélection culturelle

Literature Festival in Lyon

The Littérature Live Festival will take place in Lyon and the surrounding region, as well as online, from 25 to 30 May 2021. It's the successor of the annual Assises internationales du Roman and this year features 40 different contemporary authors, quite a few of whom write in English. As well as events at the Villa Gillet , there will be readings and talks all over the city as well as in Vienne, Villeurbanne, Saint-Flour, Grenoble, Chambéry... Most of the non-French-based authors will take part over video links from Dublin, Leipzig, London, New York, Beirut, Milan or Rio. Some events will centre on translators. Here are some Anglophone highlights: Wednesday 26 May 5-6 p.m . La scène littéraire internationale 2/3 Meena Kandasamy is a novelist from Chennai, India. She tackles difficult subjects in her novels. Her first, The Gypsy Goddess , was about the murder of a group of low-caste striking Tamil labourers. When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife tackles domestic abuse from her own experience of a brief, abusive marriage. Aanchal Malhotra is a oral historian from New Delhi. Her 2017 Remnants of a Separation: 21 Objects of a Continent Divided is a social history of the Partition of India, the greatest mass migration in history, through the objects individuals saved from their previous lives. She purses this vast project with the digital depository The Museum of Material Memory . Thursday 27 May 7-8 p.m. La scène littéraire internationale 3/3 Prize-winning Nigerian short-story writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim 's first novel Seasons of Crimson Blossom is an unconventional love story between a young man and an older widow. It has been published in French by Folio . The heroine of Odafe Atogun's most recent novel Wake Me When I'm Gone is also a widow embroiled in the traditional expectations in Nigerian society. Thursday 27 May 7-8 p.m . Conversation croisée Lyon-Dublin Includes Sinéad Gleeson , whose essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life has been translated into French as Constellations. Éclats de vie Saturday 29 May, 8-9 p.m. Regards féminins South-African-born British novelist and memoirist Deborah Levy has been writing a "living autobiography". The fourth volume Cost of Living won the Prix Femina étranger 2020. It tells the chapter of Levy's life where she decided to leave her marriage behind and start over at 50. The eagerly awaited fifth volume, Real Estate, has just been published. Saturday 29 May, 8-9 p.m. Grand entretien : Will Self The English novelist and columnist needs no introduction, or rather his most recent book, Will , is an introduction of sorts: to his younger self, addicted to heroin. Sunday 30 May, 5-6 p.m. Les trois écritures : littérature, cinéma et traduction Another English novelist needs little introduction: Jonathan Coe . His latest offering is Mr Wilder and Me: a portrait of the film director Billy Wilder once his star is on the wane, through the eyes of a young Greek woman working on the set of one of his films. The translation is published by Gallimard . Sunday 30 May, 7-8 p.m. Exils et frontières Another Irish writer Colum McCann will be part of a discussion on Exiles and Borders on 30 May. His most recent novel Apeirogon is the entwined story of two men, one Palestinian, the other Israeli. It's also available in French and indeed won le prix du Meilleur Livre étranger 2020. At the same time: Sunday 30 May, 7-8 p.m. Identités et origines American author Thomas Chatterton Williams will be discussing identity, which is very much the topic of his book Self-Portrait in Black and White Family, Fatherhood, and Rethinking Race, published in French as Autoportrait en noir et blanc . Désapprendre l’idée de race You can find the full programme here . (It starts with the furthest date and moves down to the closest.) We just serendipitously stumbled upon some podcasts on the bookshop Shakespeare & Co's website featuring several of these authors. Jonathan Coe talking about a book he was writing, which is Mr Wilder and I . Deborah Levy on The Man Who Saw Everything , Sinéad Gleeson on Constellations, and Meena Kandasamy on When I Hit You.

21 Mai 2021

festival

British literature

Lyon

7

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All New Tom and Jerry

The new Tom and Jerry film made us smile so much, we decided to create resources for two levels on it. The film mixes animation and live action and stars Chloë-Grace Moretz, whose first task as a wedding planner is to rid a Manhattan hotel of Jerry the mouse before the big day. At A1, pupils will work on a short article, and at A2 they’ll discover the trailer.

21 Mai 2021

animation

cartoons

Hanna and Barbera

Sélection culturelle

Billie Holiday: Blues and Civil Rights

A new biopic of Billie Holiday alleges the blues singer was persecuted by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics over her support for the civil rights movement and her insistence on singing the powerful anti-lynching anthem "Strange Fruit." Jazz singer Andra Day won a Best Actress Golden Globe for her portrayal of Holiday.

20 Mai 2021

civil rights

biography

U.S. culture

Scottish Independence Debate Videos

If you would like to explore the debate around a possible second Scottish independence referendum, IndyRef2, in class, these videos have some useful material.

19 Mai 2021

Brexit

politics

UK

Rendez-vous

100 Years Ago: Northern Ireland Came into Existence

1921 has been described as a year of anniversaries in Northern Ireland, marking 100 years since the partition of Ireland which led to the creation of Northern Ireland. But nobody seems sure which dates to mark or celebrate, or indeed if they should be marked at all. A century after the border was created, and in raised tensions due to the new sea border resulting from the Brexit negotiations, Northern Ireland is having a bit of an identity crisis.

13 Mai 2021

commemoration

Brexit

UK

Meet the Authors: Shine Bright AMC Webinar

If you are teaching LLCER Anglais, monde contemporain next year, you should be receiving your specimen copy of Shine Bright AMC right around now. And to find out more, you can watch the replay of the 12 May webinar where two of the authors presented the book. Thank you to the many teachers who participated!

12 Mai 2021

distance learning

Bac 2021

webinar

Rendez-vous

Scottish Independence Back on the Agenda

After elections to the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish National Party has emerged the leading party for the fourth consecutive election, achieving just one seat short of a majority in an electoral system specifically designed not to produce overall majorities. The party of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had campaigned on the promise of a new independence referendum, dubbed IndyRef2, after the country rejected independence in the 2014 referendum.

12 Mai 2021

Brexit

UK

elections

Meet the Baby Ravens at the Tower of London

The Ravenmaster at the Tower of London is pleased to announce the arrival of four new raven chicks: the birds whose presence legend says protects the existence of the Tower.

05 Mai 2021

history

London

British history

New Reading Guides

Two more Reading Guides for LLCER Terminale are available: Paul Auster's novel Moon Palace and Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman.

04 Mai 2021

film

literature

Cinéma

Audio Resources for the Tower of London

If you are working on London monuments or specifically the Tower of London, there are audio files with interactive activities in the BRNE anglais cycle 4 to help you.

04 Mai 2021

history

London

audio

Your Students Have More Talent: Masters and Servants

Your students seem particularly inspired by the final task in a sequence from Shine Bright Terminale: File 4 Masters and Servants: writing a diary entry for one of the household of an aristocratic British home. This is the second set of entries we're publishing. In this sequence, in Axe 2 Private Space and Public Space, students considered to what extent private and public spaces are codified by British society. As their final task, they were asked to write the diary entry of a member of a British household as part of an exhibition to be held at Highclere Castle, the setting of Downton Abbey. Here are two really creative entries by pupils at Lycée Français Molière, Zaragoza, Spain. Thank you to Liliana for and Irene for their excellent texts, and Mr Culleton for taking the time to send them to us. The photo above is a clue to Liliana's story: We think Irène is a gothic fiction fan!: Your students have talent, too! We are always happy to celebrate students' work at any class level. If you have examples you would like to share, please send them to us , letting us know about the task pupils were responding to.

04 Mai 2021

world of work

Downton Abbey

Shine bright Ter

A New Webinar on the Grand Oral for Your Students

To continue accompanying you and your students as they prepare for the Grand oral, there will be another free webinar on the subject on 11 May, this time focusing on giving the prepared presentation and exchanging with the jury. Mission Grand oral author Olivier Jaoui will also answer pupils' questions.

03 Mai 2021

baccalauréat

Bac 2021

grand oral

Shine Bright AMC File 5 Black Lives Matter

In our series of author videos presenting different chapters of Shine Bright AMC, here is File 5 Black Lives Matter, presented by its authors Lynda Itouchène and Laura Pires.

30 Avril 2021

civil rights

U.S. culture

U.S.

Fake News Exhibition

No, it isn't fake news: Covid permitting, there will be an exhibition on Fake News running from 27 May 2021 to January 2022 at the Fondation EDF in Paris. Designed for school groups as well as the general public, it will be a great opportunity to have your pupils develop their critical-thinking skills.

27 Avril 2021

politics

exhibition

EMC

Sélection culturelle

Online Talk about "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell

The winner of the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction, Maggie O'Farrell, is doing a talk at the Irish Cultural Centre, or rather online, for the ICC, on 29 April. She'll be discussing her winning novel, Hamnet , an imagined biography of Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at the age of 11. O'Farrell had been convinced that there was a connection between Hamnet and Hamlet since she studied the play at school and heard that Shakespeare's son with almost the same name had died. She imagined that death in the context of the Plague in the novel, and fleshed out the very little information we have about Shakespeare's wife, Ann Hathaway, to bring her to life. See our article on the Women's Prize for more information. An Evening with Maggie O'Farrell Centre culturel irlandais Thursday 29 April at 8 p.m. This online event is free but you need to sign up to receive the link. The event is in English but coincides with the publication of the French edition of the novel by Belfond. Also available on the CCI's Facebook page , even without a Facebook account.

26 Avril 2021

Shakespeare

Hamlet

British literature

5

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News of the West

"News of the World" is a not-so-classic Western starring Tom Hanks as a newsreader travelling across the U.S. during a violent and tumultuous period after the American Civil War. In a neat inversion of Indian abduction narratives like John Ford's classic The Searchers, the Confederate veteran here is trying to return a child to her family, but Johanna just wants to return to the tribe she loves.

26 Avril 2021

film

Cinéma

U.S. culture

Time to Escape

Immerse your students in an adventure that will get them working in teams, and in English, without even noticing! Three escape games set in a haunted Scottish castle, on the Titanic and in London during evacuation from the Blitz are easy to put in place and full of cultural content for cycle 4. The Escape Games pack comes with a game each for 5 e , 4 e and 3 e . Each game has a set of six different posters, for six groups, photocopiable games sheets and a teaching guide with full instructions. Pupils can access audio and video clues using the Nathan Live! app on a smartphone or tablet. And all the resources are available in digital format so they can be videoprojected to the class, including a teaser video to set the scene for each challenge. The games are designed to be completed in one class session, and have been tested in class. All is explained in this short video: https://youtu.be/epFsblPqjx4 Find the Clues! Each game comes with a teaser video to set the scene and get your pupils ready for their challenge. We’ve hidden the three videos around our site. Your mission, if you choose to accept it: unravel the clues to find the three videos. 5 e : Trapped in a Scottish castle! Your pupils will need to escape from the iconic Eilean Donan Castle, outwitting a kelpie, a mythical water horse. To find the video, search for the patron saint of Scotland. St George St Andrew St David 4 e : Whodunnit on the Titanic A violinist in the ship’s orchestra has had his violin stolen. He has to get it back before his next concert. And to find the video, look for a popular British TV series and film that starts with the sinking of the Titanic , which changes the future of an aristocratic family. Peaky Blinders Bridgerton Downton Abbey 3 e : Keep calm and beat the Blitz Can your pupils help the Brown children get to the train that’s going to evacuate them from the capital to keep them safe from air raids? To find the video, what was the name of the evacuation scheme in 1939? Operation Pied Piper Operation Dick Whittington Operation Churchill This demo shows you the Titanic game. Pochette Escape Games 59 euros Available to order now. Find out more . Your colleagues may be interested in the set of three games for Spanish cycle 4 classes. You can find a video presentation here .

26 Avril 2021

WWII

British history

Spanish

Sélection culturelle

Oscars 2021

It was a night of lots of superlatives. The first socially distanced Oscars ceremony, held in the vast halls of LA’s Union Station two months after the original date. The first woman of colour to win best director, and only the second woman at all. The oldest best actor, and a Korean-speaking best supporting actress, and the oldest woman to win an Oscar: 89-year-old Ann Roth, the costume designer for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

26 Avril 2021

Cinéma

Oscars

road movie