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Coming Very Soon: Shine Bright AMC

If you're teaching LLCER AMC or will be next year, let us introduce the latest addition to the Shine Bright collection: Anglais monde contemporain Cycle terminal. It includes 28 chapters of varying lengths covering all the themes of the curriculum and ranging across the English-speaking world.

24 Avril 2021

royalty

economics

India

Shine Bright AMC SnapFile 6 The Crown and the Houses

In our series of author videos presenting different chapters of Shine Bright AMC, here is SnapFile 6 The Crown and the Houses, about Britons' feelings towards their parliamentary monarchy, presented by its author Lynda Itouchène.

23 Avril 2021

British culture

democracy

Shine Bright AMC

Shine Bright AMC SnapFile 24 Five eyes, one power

In our series of author videos presenting different chapters of Shine Bright AMC, here is SnapFile 24 Five Eyes, one power, about a little-known espionage alliance between English-speaking countries, presented by its author Sophie Robin-Boudjenane.

23 Avril 2021

Australia

United Kingdom

New Zealand

Shine Bright AMC SnapFile 26 The world's drugstore

In our series of author videos presenting different chapters of Shine Bright AMC, here is SnapFile 26 The world's drugstore, about the Indian pharmaceutical industry, one of the biggest global producers of vaccines, presented by its author Eve Grandin.

23 Avril 2021

India

health

Shine Bright AMC

Shine Bright AMC Landmarks

As well the 28 Files, the Shine Bright AMC contains 34 pages of Landmarks: timelines and key information about the history and culture of English-speaking countries with an AMC angle. They were written by Juliette Hanrot, who teaches history and geography in DNL.

23 Avril 2021

politics

history

Ireland

Shine Bright AMC File 12 Standard English

In our series of author videos presenting different chapters of Shine Bright AMC, here is File 12 Standard English, about the status of English alongside other languages in the world today, presented by its author Cyril Dowling.

23 Avril 2021

English

English-speaking world

Shine Bright AMC

Searching for Answers in the West

"News of the World" has many features of a Western but its hero has much more psychological depth than Western heroes of old.

23 Avril 2021

film

Cinéma

U.S. culture

La semaine des langues vivantes

It’s la semaine des langues vivantes from 17 to 21 May. Whether you’re in or out of school at that point, there are lots of ideas to mix and match languages and take them out of the classroom. Last year’s preparations took place during lockdown, and teachers had lots of creative ideas to celebrate. Check out a selection!

22 Avril 2021

celebrations

cross-curricular

DNL

A Free Poster for Earth Day

This Earth Day, 22 April, President Biden is hosting an online Leaders' Summit on Climate ahead of the UN's COP 26 Climate Change Conference that is supposed to take place in Glasgow in November. And he made the surprise pledge to cut the U.S.'s carbon emissions by half in the next decade, double the previous promise.

22 Avril 2021

NASA

sustainable development

science

St George's Day

23 April is a day for celebration in England. It's the national day, in honour of England's patron saint, St George. It's both Shakespeare's birthday and death day. And in 2018, it saw the birth of new prince, son of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge. (Although he couldn't be named George since the name was already taken by his big brother.)

21 Avril 2021

animation

traditions

Shakespeare

Police Officer Convicted of Murdering George Floyd

The jury in the trial over the death of George Floyd has found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three charges: second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Floyd’s family and supporters expressed relief.

21 Avril 2021

Black Lives Matter

U.S. justice system

Biden

Vos manuels numériques pour assurer la continuité pédagogique

Pendant cette nouvelle période de classes en distanciel, tous les manuels Nathan, Le Robert et Bordas sont de nouveau en accès libre d'un simple clic sur le site adistance.manuelnumerique.com Sur le site adistance.manuel.numerique.com , vous trouverez tous les manuels existant sous forme numérique, de la 6e à la Terminale, dans toutes les matières. Pour accéder aux manuels, c’est très simple : Aucune identification n'est nécessaire. L'élève recherche son manuel grâce aux filtres. Celui-ci s’ouvre immédiatement en ligne sur notre site. Si vous avez des questions, nos équipes sont disponibles pour vous aider. Vous pouvez les contacter par mél . Bon courage pour vos cours à distance !

19 Avril 2021

manuels

Give Me Five

Speakeasy Files 3e

Celebrating Jackie Robinson Day

On 15 April every year, all professional baseball teams in America celebrate Jackie Robinson Day, in honour of the player who "broke the color bar", becoming the first African-American player in Major League Baseball.

15 Avril 2021

sports

civil rights

U.S. history

A Prince Passes

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, died on 9 April, after more than 70 years of marriage to Queen Elizabeth II. The longest serving consort of a British monarch was just a few months short of his 100th birthday.

09 Avril 2021

royalty

Royal Family

Queen Elizabeth II

Seeking Justice for George Floyd

The death of George Floyd during an arrest in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020 sparked last summer’s wave of Black Lives Matter protests. The trial of the police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck opened on 29 March in Minnesota. Police were called after George Floyd bought a packet of cigarettes in a convenience story. The shop assistant believed the $20 note Floyd used to pay was counterfeit, and asked him to return the cigarettes. When Floyd refused, the police were called. Four officers struggled to get the 1m90 suspect into a police car. He told them he was claustrophobic. Video footage of officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd for over eight minutes, while Floyd said 27 times that he couldn’t breathe, is central to the case. A video was taken by a teenage passerby and Chauvin’s fellow officers were wearing body cameras. (Chauvin’s camera fell during the altercation.) Chauvin and his three fellow officers have all been fired by Minneapolis Police Department. The other three will be tried separately for aiding and abetting. Chauvin is charged with three separate counts, with prosecutors hoping they can obtain a conviction in the most serious, second-degree murder. If there isn’t judged to be enough evidence for that, two slightly lower charges of third-degree murder or second-degree manslaughter could be upheld. On the opening day of the trial, Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell told the jury that the arresting officers used "excessive and unreasonable force" to detain George Floyd. Derek Chauvin’s defence is expected to argue that the 46-year-old died of a drugs overdose, after swallowing drugs to avoid the police finding them. Trial by Jury The trial was preceded by several days of jury selection. The final jury included six people of colour and nine white people. Jurors can be rejected by either the prosecution or the defence, if they are considered to be biased in any way or know the suspect personally, for example. In this case, the defence asked to exclude a black prospective juror who said he had experienced racism and was critical of the Minneapolis Police Department. The judge also excluded two chosen jurors and three prospective ones after the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay the Floyd family $27 million in a lawsuit over George Floyd’s death. The five said they had been influenced by this settlement. The civil-rights case brought by the Floyd family alleged the officers violated Floyd’s rights when they restrained him, and that the city allowed a culture of excessive force, racism and impunity to flourish in its police force. The city clearly wanted to expedite the case, and to be seen doing the right thing towards the family. But the timing of the settlement, just before the case began could potentially effect jurors, whether that be to consider that if the city lost the civil case, Derek Chauvin must be guilty, or that justice has already been done towards the victim, or at least his family. Police Shooting Convictions It is extremely rare for police officers in the U.S.A. to be convicted for deaths caused while they were on duty. There are about 1,000 fatal shootings per year by police officers, and only about 2% result in charges, and far fewer in convictions. One reason for this lies in the prosecutor system. In each district and state, the public prosecutor (who can have one of several titles) has responsibility deciding to prosecute someone, and the charges they will face. They are dependent on the police force to gather evidence for them, which can lead to a conflict of interests in cases where the person charged is an officer. And almost all prosecutors are elected officials, meaning they tend not to want to decide on prosecutions that might be unpopular with the electorate. The trial continues, and is expected to last between two and four weeks. You can find more on racial equality in Shine Bright LLCER cycle terminal File 12 Equality on trial and more on the prosecutor system and the need for reform in the U.S. justice system in Shine Bright AMC File 15 Justice for all?

02 Avril 2021

Black Lives Matter

U.S. justice system

Shine bright LLCER

Black Lives Matter Honoured

The Black Lives Matter movement has been awarded the Sweden’s Olof Palme civil-rights prize, and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

02 Avril 2021

civil rights

Nobel prize

Black Lives Matter

Women’s Prize Book News

The longlist has been announced for Britain’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021, which will be awarded in July. The prize was created after the 1991 Booker shortlist contained no books by women writers. To celebrate its 25th year, readers voted for a “winner of winners”: Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun , which won the 2007 prize. The Women's Prize was created in 1996 by authors and editors motivated to make a change after the 1991 Booker shortlist contained no books by women writers, despite 60% of novels that year having been written by women writers. It's gone by various sponsors' names over the years: the Orange Prize, the Bailey's Prize. The 16 authors on the 2021 longlist are from the U.K., the U.S; Barbados, Canada, Ireland and Ghana. They include a trans author for the first time, Torrey Peters for Detransition Baby, and six début novelists alongside well-established authors like Susanna Clarke, comedian Dawn French and Scottish author Ali Smith, who is nominated for the final novel in her seasonal quartet, Summer . The full list: Because of You by Dawn French Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi Consent by Annabel Lyon Detransition , Baby by Torrey Peters Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones Luster by Raven Leilani No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers Summer by Ali Smith The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller Find out more about them on the Women’s Prize site or watch a short presentation of each by the five judges below. https://youtu.be/uFZRogQm7cM The shortlist for this year's prize will be announced on 28 April. The winner will be announced on 7 July. Best of the Best The prize recently celebrated its 25 th anniversary by inviting readers to choose the “best of the best” of previous winners. It was awarded to 2007 winner: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun . Half of the Yellow Sun is set against the background of the bloody civil war known as Biafra, which shook Nigeria from 1967 to 1970, starting just seven years after the country became independent from colonial British rule. It was made into a film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton in 2013. You can download a reading guide for Half of a Yellow Sun . The video below shows all 25 winners, features an extract from Half of the Yellow Sun, and Adichie answering readers’ questions about inspiration, Lagos and feminism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l--x-H2WYTw Adichie is a prolific writer of short stories and essays as well as three novels. Her most recent book is Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017). You can find out more about her on her publisher’s site . Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is also an inspiring speaker. Check out her speech “The Why Factor” in File 3 Brave New Women in S hine Bright LLCER , as well as an extract from the 2017 Women’s Prize winner, The Power by Naomi Alderman. You may also be interested in SnapFile 4 Lagoon about Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel set in Lagos.

24 Mars 2021

video

literature

British literature

World Autism Awareness Week

World Autism Awareness Week 2021 (29 March to 4 April) is part of World Autism month. Why not use some of these excellent resources to sensitise your pupils to this issue? Perfect if you’re studying The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time for LLCER but well worth the time for any class from A2.

23 Mars 2021

disabilities

videos

diversity

3

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Bite Back Food Campaign

Bite Back 2030 is a campaign led by British young people aiming to redesign what they call the "food system" to put young people's health first. This resource features an eye-opening social experiment the campaign carried out to show volunteers just how much they were influenced by advertising when it came to making food choices.

23 Mars 2021

video

campaign

food

Rendez-vous

Leading World Trade

The World Trade Organisation has a new Director-General: Dr Nkozi Okonjo-Iweala. It’s the first time a woman, or an African, has led the international commerce body. Could a new perspective take the WTO in a different direction?

Teen Convinces Florida District to Switch to Electric School Buses

A middle-school student from Florida used a science-fair project to convince the Miami-Dade School District to begin converting its fleet of school buses over to electric. Eighth-grader Holly Thorpe measured CO2 levels inside the diesel school buses and her alarming results convinced the district to make the switch.

22 Mars 2021

school

sustainable development

ecology

Sélection culturelle

David Copperfield: Dickens for the 21st Century

"The Personal History of David Copperfield" is far from the first adaptation of Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel. But Armando Iannucci has given the story a very new feel, while keeping Dickens' humour and playing with that idea of autobiography and the art of inventing oneself through the act of writing.

22 Mars 2021

film

British literature

coming-of-age

Sélection culturelle

A History of Women in U.S. TV Series

How have women been portrayed in U.S. TV series in the past, and how has that been changing since #MeToo? That's the topic of an online talk from the Institut Franco-Américain in Rennes on 23 March.

22 Mars 2021

U.S. culture

TV

TV series

Red Nose Day is Back!

Since 1988, British charity Comic Relief has been encouraging people to don a clown's red nose and "do something funny for money". Red Nose Day is back on Friday 19 March and this time, it's plastic free! In 2019, for the last Red Nose Day, Comic Relief received hundreds of letters from children and schools asking about the plastic noses that are one of the charity's main fundraisers. Was there no way to make them that was better for the planet? The boffins got to work, and this year's collection of noses is plastic free: they are made from bagasse, a by-product of sugar cane. And in keeping with their environmentally friendly production, they are in the shape of woodland creatures such as snails, badgers, ladybirds and robins. Red Nose Day is usually an occasion for many people across the country, and especially schools, to have a laugh while raising some serious money, whether simply wearing a red nose to school or work or taking part in more complex comic activities. The Comic Relief team have worked hard to find ways to allow people to continue their fundraising. For example, the Share a Smile campaign encourages people to write their favourite joke on a downloadable poster and put it up in their window or garden to give passersby a smile. And hopefully encourage them to send in a donation. The money collected is used in the UK and around the world to support charities working on homelessness and poverty, mental and physical health and gender discrimination. You can find out more here . On 19 March, a TV special will see comedians and celebrities join in the fun, and show stories of the people who have been helped with funding. https://youtu.be/UXZblRmcqRo Billy's Challenge One big supporter of Red Nose Day went above and beyond to raise money in February. 21-year-old Billy Monger was on track to become the next Lewis Hamilton, when he was seriously injured in a crash while racing at the age of 17. Both his legs had to be amputated. Less than a year later, Billy returned ot the race track in a specially adapted car, and he has continued racing as well as starting a career as a Formula 1 commentator. Billy now walks with prostheses but he decided to take on a triathlon-style challenge in aid of Comic Relief. He walked, cycled and kayaked 140 miles (224 km) despite pain, exhaustion and atrocious weather. He finished on 26 February doing his last 50 miles on foot and bike in laps around Brand's Hatch racing circuit. You can see the highlights of his challenge here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88SckHTRUgs Red Nose Day will return next year: the event is reverting to an annual slot. Sport Relief, which had been alternating with Red Nose Day every second year, will now take place in conjunction with major sports events.

17 Mars 2021

video

charity

download

Webinar Replay on the Grand Oral

Your students no doubt have lots of questions about the Grand oral. Why not suggest they watch this webinar for lots of practical tips, and to ask questions? It will be given by Olivier Jaoui, who is in charge of the collection Mission Grand oral.

15 Mars 2021

baccalauréat

Bac 2021

grand oral

Red Nose Day Webpicks

Red Nose Day (19 March in 2021) encourages people to raise money for projects in the UK and the developing world by "doing something funny for money." But it also aims to raise awareness of poverty, particularly among schoolchildren, who are massive supporters, along with school staff, of Red Nose Day. Here are a selection of teaching resources provided by Comic Relief for Red Nose Day.

10 Mars 2021

video

charity

download

Study Abroad and Internships in the Current Climate

Normally if we were writing about Fulbright Scholarships, it would be about opportunities to study in the U.S. Of course that's complicated at the moment. But one positive point about the current restrictions is that they've led to lots more opportunities to access online education from foreign institutions. This video seminar from Fulbright covers the new virtual student experience whether it's studying or getting work experience with internships.

10 Mars 2021

online learning

study abroad

work experience

St Patrick's Festival 2021

The St Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin was one of the first victims of the COVID pandemic last year and it's been cancelled again this year for the same reason. But never fear! Let's face it, most of us were not going to get to Dublin to celebrate Paddy's Day on 17 March, but we can soak up lots of Irish culture with the online St Patrick's Festival.

09 Mars 2021

Ireland

celebrations

videos

Sélection culturelle

Irish Author Edna O'Brien Honoured

Her books were once considered so scandalous that they were banned in Ireland, but at age 90, The Country Girls author Edna O'Brien received the honour of being declared a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot on 7 March. O'Brien has been prolific since the first of The Country Girls trilogy was published in 1960. Written in just three weeks, it was an outpouring of the frustration of being brought up in the strict, stifling atmosphere of rural, Catholic Ireland. O'Brien was born in 1930 in small town County Clare. By the time she wrote her first novel, she had studied pharmacy in Dublin, scandalously married an older, divorced man, and moved to London to further his literary career. It turned out that she was the writing talent in the family, and the marriage didn't survive her success. In the first book of the trilogy, Kate and Baba are expelled from convent school and set out to find love and excitement in Dublin. Over the course of the following two books, they will have generally unsatisfying sexual encounters and make marriages that are no more successful (the title of the third book is clearly ironic: Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). In the 1960s, Ireland was still under the thumb of the Catholic church, and "girls" were meant to become pure and faithful mothers and wives, not independent women. The books were banned, as were several of her later works. But for a generation of young women, sneaking in contraband copies, they were a revelation, a vision of a life that seemed a million miles away from their reality. https://youtu.be/LzKdKo5VyfQ?t=87 Portrait of the Artist O'Brien says she had an appropriately epiphanic moment when she first read James Joyce, and knew she had to be a writer. One of the younger generation of Irish writers, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, dubs The Country Girls The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman , a coming-of-age novel to rival Joyce's own. Like Joyce, she has spent her adult life outside Ireland but constantly drawn to write about it. To many Irish readers, she is the chronicler of their experience and society, over 28 books as well as short stories, plays, biographies and screenplays. And then, in her late eighties, O'Brien suddenly decided to tackle a topic of which she had no direct knowledge. She was so moved by the fate of the Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok in 2014 that she devoted her 2018 novel Girl to the story. Not one to be put off by difficulties, she made two arduous trips to the country to meet the released schoolgirls and the people working to help them overcome their trauma. The result is the story of young woman who is forced to bear the child of one of her abductors. When she manages to escape, she has to find a way to love the baby. As O'Brien accepted her award on 7 March, there was still much of the spark of indignation at the fate of women in the world. The many authors and fans who paid tribute to her work expressed the hope that she will continue to surprise them with her words. Like everything else these days, the ceremony took place on line. The Cercle Littéraire Irlandais , which hosted the event, has made a video available for 30 days, with the award by the Culture Minister, O'Brien's acceptance speech and warm tributes from the likes of author Collum McCann and actor Gabriel Byrne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weZFZedDr8k

08 Mars 2021

awards

coming-of-age

Irish literature

Ten-Minute Stories for World Book Day

World Book Day is on 4 March this year. In the UK, schoolchildren receive a £1 book token they can spend on a selection of books chosen for the day. The authors have recorded ten-minute readings great for classroom use. Here's a selection. The readings are part of a project to share stories by recording readings, which would be a fabulous language-learning project. Some pupils really gain confidence in speaking when they can say someone else's words rather than having to come up with their own. Then they can use that confidence to work on their own expression. Here a three of this year's World Book Day authors sharing their stories. This is Humza Arshad reading from his book, L ittle Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties. The scene is in a classroom, so it's good for school vocabulary and it's a great example of doing a dramatic reading, with different voices for the characters. https://youtu.be/20ExqQZ35F8 In this reading, from her book, What A Waste, Jess French shows that non-fiction books can have a dramatic reading too. Great for an ecology theme. https://youtu.be/U9qam_JW0Vs Katherine Rundell reads from her novel, Rooftoppers. It has a great mysterious feel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NgzQIj-xTs You can find more 10-minute readings on the Day's YouTube channel , including readings of a Roald Dahl story and one by his granddaughter Sophie, and ones by children's fiction stars Jacqueline Wilson, David Walliams and Cressida Cowell. There are even more resources on the website , including some great audiobooks .

03 Mars 2021

Roald Dahl

books

video