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U.S. Presidential Marathon

The race to the White House is heating up, but there’s still a long way to go to the 3 November election.

03 Février 2020

elections

president

Trump

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Little Women

Greta Gerwig’s latest movie based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Women" will take you into a female world in which conventions are defied, questioned and challenged by four sisters. This lively and fast-paced trailer will enable your students to not only get a glimpse of what life was like for women at that time but also to feel the brewing change embodied by Jo and her sisters. This work on "Little Women" can be a good introduction to a sequence on coming-of-age stories.

31 Janvier 2020

coming-of-age

gender politics

autobiography

3

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1917

The new World War I drama from director Sam Mendes, "1917", unfolds in real-time, tracking a pair of British soldiers as they cross the Western Front on a desperate rescue mission. This trailer is a good addition to Shine Bright 1e Advanced File 18 “War will not tear us apart”. It can also be used with the Speakeasy Files 3e Euro sequence on heroism in wartime.

31 Janvier 2020

conflict

war

WWI

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Brexit Day

After more than three and a half years, and with no celebratory ringing of Big Ben, Brexit finally means Brexit. Sort of.

31 Janvier 2020

Brexit

Boris Johnson

UK parliament

He Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

William Wordsworth was a leading light of the Romantics, famous in habitant of the Lake District, and Poet Laureate. 2020 marks his 250th anniversary.

31 Janvier 2020

poetry

anniversary

British culture

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Brexit is Back On

With the Conservative Party winning an overall majority in the UK Parliament for the first time since 2017, Prime Minister Boris Johnson means to make good on his promise to, "Get Brexit done."

20 Décembre 2019

Brexit

elections

UK politics

Reading Guides for Your Students

We promised them and here they are. Our first four Reading Guides are available for books on the 1ère LLCER curriculum by Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell, Harper Lee and Mark Haddon. Designed for class or home use, they will help pupils successfully meet the challenge of reading their first full fictional works in English. Reading two books in English for the LLCER classes is a big ask for many pupils. And fitting work on the books into class hours is a challenge for teachers. We've designed these guides to reassure pupils and help you ensure they get the most out of the experience in an efficient, structured way. https://youtu.be/XvVwCI8BBkc Each guide opens with a section to help discover the author, the context the book was written in, and start making hypotheses from the book cover and blurb. The main section of the guide presents key extracts from the book, accompanied by step-by-step comprehension and analysis activities and intermediate tasks. For the Poe short stories, the guide contains the entire text. For the longer works, an activity after each extract encourages pupils to be active as they read on in the book. Finally, the guide concludes with four pages of ideas for connected works pupils could include in their portfolio for the Bac, and associated activities. You'll find a detailed downloadable teaching guide on the companion site for each book, as well as audio files and links to sites and videos used in the guide, which are also directly available by scanning the pages of the guide with the NathanLive app on a smartphone or tablet. You can browse samples of the guides by clicking on the titles: "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Allan Poe Animal Farm George Orwell To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon Coming later in the year: Of Mice and Men and The Importance of Being Earnest.

20 Décembre 2019

literature

Oscar Wilde

Edgar Allan Poe

5

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William Blake: Visionary

The Tate Britain exhibition on William Blake explores this talented 19th century artist whose poems and paintings are strikingly modern and pregnant with meaning. Differentiated activities from A2+ to B2 will allow you to add Blake to a sequence on the Gothic or the Romantic movements, for example Shine Bright 1ère Advanced File 1 “Freaky dreams”.

20 Décembre 2019

poetry

art

exhibition

Sélection culturelle

Last Christmas: Rom-com with a Message

It’s one of those ideas that seem so obvious you can’t imagine why someone has already had it. A Christmas movie inspired by one of the most perennially popular (though bittersweet) yuletide pop songs: “Last Christmas” by George Michael.

20 Décembre 2019

film

London

Christmas

Greta's Speech

The speech young climate activist Greta Thunberg made to the UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019 is a great example of a speech for students. It can be added to work on several Shine Bright 1e themes. Greta Thunberg would also be interesting to study in connection with the LLCER literature curriculum The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

20 Décembre 2019

video

speech

protest

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Impeached

On 18 December, President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives, only the third president in U.S. history to be rebuked in this way. The second stage of impeachment, before the Senate, is unlikely to succeed, but it will run into the beginning of primary season for the November presidential election.

20 Décembre 2019

U.S. politics

U.S. elections

Congress

Greta's Year

It’s been quite a year for Greta Thunberg. As well as leading millions of people in climate protests around the world, the 16-year-old activist has addressed the United Nations, met and harangued world leaders. It’s no wonder that Time Magazine named her its Person of the Year.

19 Décembre 2019

protest

ecology

environment

7

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The New Face of Congress

A young Latina woman from the Bronx, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shatters our traditional vision of Congressional Representatives. This article explores her life, both private and public, from the Bronx to Washington, D.C. after the recent midterm elections: how can “one of us” sit in Congress at barely 29 and champion the average working class person’s rights? This article comes in 2 versions: B1 and B1+/B2 which enables you to have the whole class work on the same subject, with the same worksheet (making it easier for you to correct the activities with the whole group).

18 Décembre 2019

video

New York

gender equality

5

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Charlie Chaplin: Music Man

In this A2 article, your students will learn about Charlie Chaplin’s life and films, and about the importance of music in both his life and his art. Although he could not read music, he was able to compose and play the violin by ear, and even direct an orchestra. Most of his films were silent, but music played a major role in them. For those of you who teach in or near Paris, the exhibition at la Philharmonie is well worth a visit.

10 Décembre 2019

video

film

biography

Do Good in December

Do you fancy using an advent calendar in class in December as a cultural reference, but want to avoid the religious connection? How about using this fabulous December Kindness Calendar instead?

02 Décembre 2019

Christmas

calendar

wellbeing

Your Students Have Talent: United Colours of Harlem

We always love to read students' work. Here are some diary entries pupils wrote as their final task in a sequence from Shine Bright 2e: File 1 United Colours of Harlem.

24 Novembre 2019

poetry

New York

Harlem renaissance

5

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Discovering Tolkien’s World

A review of the Tolkien exhibition currently on at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris is the occasion for pupils to learn more about the author of The Lord of the Rings and the extraordinary universes he created with languages, maps and illustrations.This B2-level article and its B1 satellite columns can be used for two different types of classes: a “Terminale” class within the notion of “Myths and Heroes”, or a “1ère” class within the approach “Fictions and realities”. How do imaginary worlds help us travel and escape reality whilst inviting us to reflect upon the world we live in?

22 Novembre 2019

exhibition

fantasy

British literature

Sélection culturelle

This is England... in Rouen

The This is England short films festival is returning to celebrate British films in Rouen. The expanded version runs from 16 to 24 November. Short films are a brilliant way to introduce British culture to language learners, and special schools screenings and teaching packs are provided to spread the message.

15 Novembre 2019

Brexit

film

festival

Born Almost Free

South Africa’s rugby captain was born one day before the official end of apartheid in 1991. Yet he is truly part of the “born-free generation”.

08 Novembre 2019

sport

rugby

South Africa

Born-Free South Africa

Our article on the South African Springboks' first black captain Siya Kolisi is great addition to Shine Bright 1e File16 "Born-Free South Africa" . It can also be used in conjunction with Shine Bright 2de File 13 "Running for Africa" (South Africa's team spirit).

08 Novembre 2019

sport

rugby

South Africa

Your Students Have Talent: Punk is not Dead

It's always lovely to see students' work. Here are some collages created at the end of a sequence from Shine Bright 1e: SnapFile 10 Punk is not dead.

05 Novembre 2019

art

music

British culture

Vampires from "Dracula" to "Twilight"

The cinema industry has long had a love affair with vampires, most often Dracula, based on Eastern European legends and Bram Stoker’s eponymous book. An exhibition at the Cinémathèque in Paris is a great opportunity to revisit the fascination with the undead across the arts: literature, painting, TV and film.

25 Octobre 2019

exhibition

movies

trailer

3

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Keith Haring Street Art

Tate Liverpool is running an exhibition of Keith Haring's iconic street art, which will then transfer to Bozart in Brussels. We've concocted activities to work with Haring's art at different levels from A2 to B2. It would be interesting to compare Haring with another street artist from a different generation and continent: Banksy, the subject of Shine Bright 2e Snapfile 8: "Will You Get Banksy-ed?".

25 Octobre 2019

art

exhibition

street art

3

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The Dream of Being an Artist

With over a hundred works from different areas and spanning several centuries, the “Dream of Being an Artist” exhibition in Lille’s Palais des Beaux Arts until January questions the way artists have been considered in society and perceive themselves. The subject fits the new syllabus for the seconde : “Axe 6: la création et le rapport aux arts”. In this A2-B1 sequence, students can discover contemporary artists and start a reflection about arts and artists in society.

25 Octobre 2019

art

exhibition

portraits

Sélection culturelle

Two Books for the Booker

The 2019 Booker prize has been awarded to two authors: the established star Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and the first ever black woman winner Bernardine Evaristo for Woman, Girl, Other. Atwood’s long-awaited sequel to A Handmaid’s Tale seemed a shoe-in for the prize (although another literary icon, Salman Rushdie was also on the short-list). The Canadian author had been shortlisted for Handmaid’s and made the shortlist two other times, as well as winning the prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin. But the judges decided they couldn’t whittle the list down further and broke the competition rules to name joint winners. Bernardine Evaristo has written eight books as well as both radio and theatre drama. In the 1982, she founded the Theatre of Black Women theatre company with two fellow graduates from drama school, to tell stories that weren't being seen on stage. Today, she is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London. Like Atwood’s book, Woman, Girl, Other is told through multiple female voices, but set firmly in modern day, multicultural Britain. Evaristo intertwines the stories of 12 characters, mostly black British women. Growing up in 1960s working-class London, one of eight children born to an English mother and Nigerian father, Evaristo was the only non-white pupil in a girls' grammar school. She explained in an essay for BBC Radio 3, "I had grown up mixed-race in a suburb of London with my Nigerian father and English mother, and other than my immediate family, the world I knew was an almost exclusively white one." 'What, then, does it mean to not see yourself reflected in your nation’s stories? This has been the ongoing debate of my professional career as a writer stretching back nearly forty years, and we black British women know, that if we don’t write ourselves into literature, no one else will” Paulette Randall, co-founder of the Theatre for Black Women and today a TV and theatre director commented, “It’s really funny because we had met up not that long ago and I was saying to her, “'Of course I want you to win, but I am a bit tired of us being the first of doing everything. Because it is 2019 and we’re still talking about being the first Black to do this or the first whatever.' Of course, I’m thrilled and over the moon that she’s done it but that just shows you that we’ve still got a lot of work to do."

25 Octobre 2019

literature

Margaret Atwood

literary prize

Pump up Pupils' Language skills

Not enough time in class to work on pupils’ language skills: grammar, vocabulary and phonology? Our Pump it up work books allow pupils to work at their own pace and are perfect for blended learning.

25 Octobre 2019

phonology

Pump it up

grammar

Sélection culturelle

Ken Loach Takes on the Gig Economy

Ken Loach is famous for his socially committed films, and his new film, "Sorry We Missed You", is no exception. Loach brings the kitchen-sink drama bang up to date with this indictment of the gig economy in the UK with a family struggling to survive in the modern world of work.

23 Octobre 2019

film

Ken Loach

social realism

Tolkien's World

Anyone who has read "The Hobbit" or "The Lord of the Rings" knows that JRR Tolkien was a past master at creating astonishing worlds and civilisations. A new exhibition in Paris shows that his published work was merely the tip of the iceberg. Detailed maps, chronologies, and dozens of illustrations give a glimpse of the entire universe Tolkien spent his life inventing.

22 Octobre 2019

exhibition

fantasy

British literature

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Word of the moment: Impeachment

There has been talk of impeaching President Trump practically from the day he took office in 2017, originally over alleged electoral irregularities. But on 24 September, impeachment proceedings were actually launched in the House of Representatives, although they have little chance of being approved by Congress. What exactly is impeachment?

18 Octobre 2019

U.S. politics

Congress

word of the moment

Your Students Have Talent: War Will Not Tear Us Apart

We always love to read students' work. Here are some poems pupils wrote as their final task in a sequence from Shine Bright LLCER: File 5 War Will Not Tear Us Apart.

10 Octobre 2019

WWI

poetry

WW1