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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

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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

8

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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

3

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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

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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

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