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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

Ressources
complémentaires

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

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