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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

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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

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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

Rendez-vous

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

Sélection culturelle

The Jungle Book on Stage

Robert Wilson's new stage adaptation of The Jungle Book will be on in Paris, Aix-en-Provence and Clermont-Ferrand over the next few months. The visually striking production combines dialogues in French and original songs in English. Wilson created the show with Cocorosie, a music group composed of two American sisters based in France. The show follows the "man cub" Mowgli from his arrival in the jungle, where he is accepted into a family of wolves, until he comes of age and has to leave the only place he has known as home to enter the world of humans. https://youtu.be/xo8-i9UV2qk Jungle Book Théâtre de la Ville – 13e Art 30 avenue d'Italie 75013 Paris 6 October to 8 November From age 8 Tickets 10-28 euros Part of the Festival d'automne Grand Théâtre de Provence , Aix en Provence 17 to 22 December La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand 22 to 24 January 2020

30 Septembre 2019

théâtre

music

India

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Orange Shirt Day

In Canada, 30 September is marked as Orange Shirt Day, in support of the generations of First Nations children who were separated from their families and sent to Residential Schools where they were banned from speaking their languages or following their cultures. This resource accompanies "Shine Bright 2de" Snapfile 11 First Nations Territories. It includes a website text and the trailer and an extract from the film "Indian Horse".

20 Septembre 2019

film

Canada

indigenous people

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Downton Abbey: Masters and Servants

This document aims to allow you to work on the trailer of the upcoming movie "Downton Abbey" at a B1 level. "Downton Abbey" was originally a British historical period drama television series that aired from 2010 to 2015. It was set as a fiction based in a historical landscape between 1912 and 1926, in the post-Edwardian era where historical events had a real influence on the British social hierarchy. The movie takes place after the end of the last season. Fans will definitely recognise the famous characters.

20 Septembre 2019

video

film

Cinéma

Sélection culturelle

Downton is Back

Britain’s favourite aristocratic household is back — this time on the big screen. Downton Abbey is a flurry of activity in preparation for a royal visit.

20 Septembre 2019

video

film

Cinéma

War Horse Play in Paris

One of the biggest successes in British theatre in recent years will be on stage in Paris for the first time in November and December. The National Theatre’s production of War Horse by Michael Morpurgo is an emotional rollercoaster of a story about a teenage boy and his horse during the First World War. The award-winning production will be performed in English.

20 Septembre 2019

play

paris

World War I

Celebrate Scotland in St-Germain-en-Laye

St-Germain-en-Laye in the Yvelines has a long historic connection with Scotland, and is twinned with the Scottish seaside town of Ayr. For the weekend of 21-22 September, St Germain will be taken over by kilts and bagpipes for a Highland Games.

20 Septembre 2019

music

Scotland

St Germain en Laye

Sélection culturelle

Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch" on Screen

The Goldfinch is a stunning coming-of-age story set in New York, Las Vegas and Amsterdam. Donna Tartt’s 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been adapted for the screen.

19 Septembre 2019

film

American literature

novel

Sequel to "The Handmaid’s Tale"

The literary event of the year in the Anglophone world is Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale 34 years after the original.

19 Septembre 2019

literature

TV series

Canada

Rendez-vous

Word of the Moment: Prorogation

The noun prorogation and the verb prorogue were not part of most British people's vocabulary until August 2019. Now, they're the words on everyone's lips.

13 Septembre 2019

Brexit

word of the moment

Boris Johnson

Sélection culturelle

Women's Voices at Deauville 2019

The 45th Deauville American film festival, taking place from 6 to 15 September, has a particularly feminine slant this year, with a large number of female-directed films, and two women jury presidents, Catherine Deneuve for the competition jury, and Anna Mouglalis for the revelation jury.

04 Septembre 2019

film

Cinéma

festival

Sélection culturelle

Bend it Like Bruce

The latest film by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha is Blinded by the Light, the story of a teenager in Thatcher-era northern England whose life is changed by the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen. The coming-of-age story is based on the real-life experiences of Safraz Manzoor, growing up a first generation Pakistani-Briton and trying to form an identity between his parents’ expectations and his own desires.

Payback for Slavery

Students at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, have voted to pay reparations to the descendants of 272 slaves sold by the Jesuit university in 1838. A long-running campaign by students has identified descendants of the 272, who were sold to plantations in Louisiana. A student referendum voted for each student to pay a small amount each semester into a charitable fund.

16 Août 2019

civil rights

U.S. politics

U.S. history

On Route 66

Route 66 has mythical status in the U.S.A. and around the world. It’s been immortalised in songs, novels and films. Although it’s no longer a major highway, it still draws visitors keen to experience the iconic home of the road trip. Every September, enthusiasts gather in Springfield, Illinois, for the Mother Road Festival, using the nickname coined by novelist John Steinbeck for Route 66. For a weekend, Springfield echos to the sound of vintage cars from the road's heyday , not to mention Nat King Cole urging them to "get your kicks on Route 66". Probably the most famous road in the world, Route 66 has been in terminal decline since the 1980s. But like all good myths, it lives in the hearts and minds of people across the U.S.A. and beyond. Route 66 ran 2,448 miles from Chicago to Los Angeles. It’s always described in that direction, as if it was fundamentally linked to the country’s historical expansion west. In fact Cyrus Avery, an Oklahoma businessman who had been instrumental in getting the highway built, had travelled west in a wagon train as a boy. Avery was one of the people pushing for a decent road network to match the increase in cars on the roads. There were half a million registered motor vehicles in the U.S.A. in 1910. That rose to 10 million ten years later. The first sections of Route 66 opened in 1926. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, it saw the hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing the Dust Bowl in the Mid-West who were immortalised in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath . Ironically, it was finally completely paved between 1933 and 1937 by the unemployed given work by Roosevelt’s New Deal solution to the Depression. Trucking and Tourism In the early days of the road it was adopted by the new road cargo industry that was taking over from trains in the movement of freight. The diagonal route of Highway 66 linked agricultural producers in the Midwest with the booming urban centers of California. It avoided the northern routes that were prone to bad winter weather. From the outset, Route 66 was a leisure and tourism destination. In 1927, just a year after it opened, the U.S. Highway 66 Association was founded to boost tourism. Soon cabin camps, motels, diners and eccentric roadside art were put up to cater to tourists. After World War II, as prosperity to returned to the country, Americans loved to spend their hard-earned cash and leisure time on road trips. For the Beat Generation, that desire for movement seemed to become an end in itself. It was immortalised in Jack Kerouac's On The Road , published in 1957 but based on diaries of his road trips from the late 40s. The Beginning of the End Route 66 was born out of one technological revolution and eclipsed by another. Trucks and automobiles had become so much part of American life that they were literally destroying the highways that hadn't been designed for this enormous increase in volume. During the Cold War, President Eisenhower advocated developing a modern highway network modeled on the German Autobahns he had seen used to great effect to move troops during World War II. He believed it was critical to be able to move troops rapidly in the event of attack. So he persuaded Congress to pass the Federal Aid Highway Act in 1956, financing a new network of four-lane Interstates. It was the death knell for Route 66 and it’s like. In 1985, Highway 66 was finally decommissioned, meaning the state wouldn't ensure its continued upkeep. Nevertheless, the road remains imprinted on the American psyche and still attracts visitors from far and wide. Various schemes are trying to protect part or all of the road. Parts of it are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, or as National Scenic Byways. When Congress passed the Route 66 Study Act 1990, mandating the National Park Service to consider plans to preserve the road, it recognized that Route 66 had, "Become a symbol of the American people’s heritage of travel and their legacy of seeking a better life." You can download this poster for your class. Have a good trip! You can find documents on Kerouac's On th e Road, Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath , Dorothea Lange's Dust Bowl migrant photos and Route 66 in Shine Bright 1re Advanced File 4: "On the Road".

08 Août 2019

Kerouac

U.S. culture

U.S. history

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On Route 66 Poster

Celebrate the Mother Road festival in September with this illustrated Route 66 poster has lots of interesting landmarks to be found along "American's Main Street". You can download it for class use.

08 Août 2019

Kerouac

U.S. culture

U.S. history

Illustrated Route 66 Poster

To accompany Shine Bright 1re Advanced File 4: "On the Road, you can download this Route 66 poster illustrated with lots of interesting landmarks to be found along the Mother Road.

08 Août 2019

Kerouac

U.S. culture

U.S. history

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The Great Hack

The Great Hack is a new documentary made for Netflix on the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal over the use of social-media users' data to potentially manipulate the outcome of elections including the 2016 U.S. Presidential election and the UK Brexit referendum. This B1-level resource based on an interview with the two directors of the documentary is a great complement to the documents on Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and whistleblowers in Shine Bright 1e File 13 Digital Democracy.

01 Août 2019

Brexit

documentary

education aux medias