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Harry Potter Reads Harry Potter

What more pleasant way to pass the time while practising listening to English? The Harry Potter website, Wizarding World, is having some famous faces and voices read the chapters of the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The readings were kicked off by none other than Harry himself: actor Daniel Radcliffe.

13 Mai 2020

video

teaching activities

Daniel Radcliffe

Our Girl Lollipop

Millie Small's global hit song "My Boy Lollipop" was one of most visible manifestations of the influence of Caribbean migrants' music on the British music scene. The Jamaican singer has died at the age of 73.

12 Mai 2020

Jamaica

music

Caribbean

Sioux Want to Stop Covid-19 Entering Reservations

Two Native American tribes are in a standoff with South Dakota governor Kristi Noem over checkpoints the tribes have erected to try to limit exposure to Covid-19 on their reservations. The tribes say it's a question of life and death since centuries of neglect mean their medical services are too limited to cope with an outbreak.

11 Mai 2020

South Dakota

U.S. history

Native Americans

Meet the Authors: Shine Bright Webinars

Les auteurs de Shine Bright Terminale and LLCE cycle terminal ont répondu à vos questions lors de deux webinaires en ligne.

07 Mai 2020

distance learning

LLCER

Bac 2021

Rendez-vous

Banksy Portrays Nurse as a Superhero

The new Bansky artwork is portraying a nurse as superhero

07 Mai 2020

painting

super heroes

street art

Shine Bright Terminale : en 3 minutes chrono

La réponse à toutes vos questions sur Shine Bright Terminale avec cette vidéo explicative: les thèmes, les séquences de taille variée, les outils numérique, la préparation au baccalauréat...

06 Mai 2020

video

lycée

textbooks

4

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Feelgood Music 2: "Waterloo Sunset"

For the second of our series of feelgood songs, we've crossed the Atlantic to the UK, 1967, and The Kinks' classic "Waterloo Sunset". Which gives plenty of scope to work on emotions, and London landmarks Waterloo Station and the Thames. Pupils can start by watching a Biobox about the year 1967 in music before going on to answer a quiz, learn about The Kinks and analyse the song.

06 Mai 2020

London

music

pop

Sélection culturelle

The Year 1967 in Music

Watch the video to find out what was happening in the world of popular music in 1967.

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Florence Nightingale

2020 is Florence Nightingale’s bicentenary. After she and a team of nurses managed to significantly reduce the death count by improving the appallingly unsanitary conditions at a British hospital during the Crimean War, she became an authority on public sanitation issues. She also earned a reputation for her statistician’s skills, and her charts would influence the direction of medical epidemiology. To this day, Nightingale is broadly acknowledged as the founder of modern nursing. In fact, during the current Covid-19 crisis, emergency field hospitals created to deal with the

06 Mai 2020

myths and heroes

British history

British culture

Scotland’s Birth Certificate

Seven hundred years ago, Scotland’s most powerful lords wrote a letter that many consider the country’s foundational document: The Declaration of Arbroath. In it, they swore they would never submit to English rule.

06 Mai 2020

anniversary

Scotland

Scottish history

Daily Routine with Rockwell

As we have said many times, teachers are finding amazing creative ways to keep providing their pupils with motivating, and feasible, work to do during lockdown. This sequence found on the Académie de Grenoble's English site can be done entirely in distance learning. It mixes culture and language in a class for 6e about daily routines sparked by a painting by Norman Rockwell. And why not extend it with audio and video from the BRNE anglais cycle 4?

06 Mai 2020

video

art

audio

Double Pulitzer for Colson Whitehead

African American novelist Colson Whitehead has joined an exclusive club of only four authors who have won Pulitzer Prizes for literature for two different novels. After 2017's The Underground Railroad, Whitehead has been awarded the 2020 prize for The Nickel Boys, set in the Civil Rights era and based on the true story of a notorious reform school in Florida.

06 Mai 2020

Martin Luther King

civil rights

U.S. history

Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer

Florence Nightingale is one of Britain's most recognisable names. The Victorian nursing pioneer and statistician left an indelible mark on the world of medicine. The first woman ever to be featured on a British banknote, her influence is such that 200 years after her birth, the emergency hospitals created for the coronavirus pandemic in the UK have been named Nightingales.

06 Mai 2020

myths and heroes

British history

British culture

Florence Nightingale Video

Watch the video and answer the worksheet.

Rendez-vous

Saving Proms 2020

Many teenagers in the U.S. have been terribly disappointed to miss those major life milestones that are their high-school proms and graduations this year. But they’ve been using great ingenuity to still have memories to keep for ever. High school senior year in the U.S. is a time for rites and traditions. Yearbook, Senior Prom and graduation are all time-honored traditions that even non-Americans feel part of thanks to their ubiquitous presence in films, books and TV series. Many students plan for months, or even years ahead for the prom. Having the perfect clothes and the perfect date (to whom they make a "promposal") is an obsession. Sharing a limousine to the event, having photos taken, choosing the Prom King and Queen are all essential elements. So when most 2020 proms were cancelled, many students tried to find ways to reproduce some of the prom experience. Dressing up in the outfit planned for the prom (for those organised students who had already bought them), or ones improvised with the clothes available. They joined virtual proms, which often attracted many more attendees than there were students at the schools. Carson High School in Carson City, Nevada, announced its Prom King and Queen on a Zoom meeting (below). Actor John Kraskinski has been hosting a YouTube programme from his home called Some Good News . Kraskinski starred in the U.S. version of The Office and plays the Jack Ryan in the TV adaptation of Tom Clancy's books. He decided to hold a virtual prom for students all over the country. More than 200,000 people tuned into a live stream, not just those missing their prom this year, but some who hadn't been invited to their own prom back in the day. Kraskinski got into the festive mood with a tuxedo over a prom dress, and persuaded guests Chance the Rapper, the Jonas Brothers and Billie Eilish to provide that prom essential: music. You can see highlights here: https://youtu.be/VQLi2GYVULc?t=427 The SGN prom worked so well, Kraskinski also hosted a virtual graduation. Prom or Bust Some people will never let adversity get them down. A mother in Florida didn't want her son and girlfriend to be disappointed, so she hosted a prom just for the couple, including the 1920s themed decor and food that had been planned for the original event. The two families had been in contact during the lockdown, and the couple had been meeting regularly. Check out the photos here .

05 Mai 2020

U.S.

U.S. traditions

prom

Frankenstein and Antony and Cleopatra in Your Living Room

The next couple of free online streaming treats from the UK's National Theatre are "Frankenstein" and Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra".

30 Avril 2020

video

Shakespeare

théâtre

Staging Emotions: West Side Story

An online class about West Side Story would be great for students studying Shine Bright LLCER File 13 "Staging Emotions", or the film West Side Story, which is on the list of oeuvres intégrales for LLCE Première. Or any class interested in musicals, Puerto Rico or Romeo and Juliet.

28 Avril 2020

Shakespeare

musicals

musical comedies

Pirate Radio Pioneer Dies

1964 was the height of the Swinging Sixties in the UK. The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were topping the charts. But their music was barely played on the radio. So Ronan O'Rahilly decided to start Radio Caroline, a "pirate" radio station on a ship in the North Sea.

24 Avril 2020

film

radio

BBC

Patrick Stewart Reads Shakespeare

You may know him best as Captain Picard in the series Star Trek, or Professor Xavier in the X-Men films, but Sir Patrick Stewart is a classically trained actor who was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for 16 years. Currently in lockdown in Los Angeles, Stewart decided to start reciting a Shakespeare sonnet a day and posting the videos on social media.

23 Avril 2020

video

poetry

Shakespeare

50 Years of Earth Day

2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day marches to support the environmental movement. Like so many events in 2020, the marches and events planned to mark the anniversary on 22 April will have to become virtual. But these videos of 50 Voices for Earth Day, from age 8 to 80, from around the world can allow your pupils think about the Earth even in lockdown.

22 Avril 2020

video

NASA

sustainable development

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London National Park City

London officially became the first National Park City in July 2019. This article from the London Council website works really well with Shine Bright Première File 2: London is my backyard . After working on reading comprehension, pupils can do a short written expression assignment.

22 Avril 2020

London

national parks

ecology

Edward Hopper: Telling Stories

Evocative American painter Edward Hopper was to be the subject of an exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland this spring. But since visitors can't go to the museum, the museum can come to them online. Hopper's paintings are wonderful jumping off points for creative writing, or, as film director Wim Wenders explains, for imagining unmade films.

22 Avril 2020

video

art

creative writing

Rendez-vous

Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Governments, ministers and authorities around the world are asking their populations to make sacrifices in the fight to contain Covid-19. In New Zealand, the government and public-service leaders are showing that they really will share the efforts they are asking others to make.

21 Avril 2020

EMC

New Zealand

Jacinda Ardern

Celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday on World Book Night

William Shakespeare is believed to have been born and died on 23 April (in 1564 and 1616 respectively). Which is why the UK celebrates World Book Night on that date (and St George's Day, England's national day!)

20 Avril 2020

video

audio

Shakespeare

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Chewing Gum and Doing Good

How to take a pollution problem - discarded chewing gum - and turn it into a green resource by recycling it and using the result to make products like re-usable coffee cups. This A1+ document aims at developing your students’ reading skills and autonomy. Its general theme is protecting the environment, and should prove of interest to most young people.

17 Avril 2020

ecology

ethical consumption

pollution

Rendez-vous

Raising Funds for the NHS at Age 99

Traditionally, as they approach 100 years old, most British people's main ambition is to receive a telegram from the Queen on their birthday. Captain Tom Moore is walking using a walking frame to raise money for National Health Service charities during the Covid-19 pandemic.

16 Avril 2020

citizenship

UK

WWII

Time to Shine!

They're finally here. (Well they're in warehouses waiting for schools to reopen!) Our teams of teachers, editors, picture researchers, graphic designers, layout artists and more have been hard at work for months preparing two new textbooks. And we can now let you have an exclusive look at them.

14 Avril 2020

culture

lycée

news

Rendez-vous

Bye-bye Bernie

On 8 April Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, effectively opening to road to Joe Biden to become the party's official candidate for the White House in November's election.

09 Avril 2020

president

Trump

EMC

3

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Feelgood Music

Music has great power to inspire us and lift our mood. Which we could all do with a bit of at the moment. We were trying to think of work to set pupils at home that was positive and good for the soul: what better than a little soul music? So here is the first in a series of resources on feelgood songs. In this case, Nina Simone and her version of "Feeling Good".

06 Avril 2020

civil rights

protest songs

song

5

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Caremongering Article and Video

This B1 resource is around a positive news story your pupils can study during the current quarantine. An article, and a video report from Canadian CTV News give examples of the trend for “caremongering”: using social media to organise, or ask for help during the Covid-19 lockdown. The downloadable worksheet can be filled in directly in the pdf, then saved with a new name so it can be sent to the teacher for correction. Vocabulary and structures social media: trolling, connecting people, posts, #/ hashtag, networks, streaming… epidemic/ health issues: quarantine, virus, to spread, medicines, social distancing, self-isolation, pharmacy, hand sanitiser, outbreak… helping/ social interactions: run errands, community, camaraderie, chat, offer help/ advice, neighbours, network, care, (not) e alone. . personality: kind/ kindness, polite, kind-hearted, generous present simple vs be ING present passive voice by + v -ing

06 Avril 2020

Canada

social media

distance learning