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Drama and Cabaret with Footsbarn Theatre

The wonderful itinerant Footsbarn theatre company has taken up residence at the Cirque Romanès in Paris till 26 February with two shows: a drama, Cuckoo's Nest, and a cabaret, Shakespeare Celebration.

24 Janvier 2017

Shakespeare

théâtre

music

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Women on Stage: How Shocking!

For three nights only, a play about the pioneer women actresses who were the celebrities of Restoration London in seventeenth century. In Shakespeare's plays, the women's roles were played by boy actors. In Puritan England, the idea of a woman acting on stage was considered scandalous. In fact theatres in general were considered immoral, and were banned within London's city walls. The royal family, however, adored theatre and their patronage kept the entertainment alive. During the Civil War, Cromwell's Puritan government closed theatres altogether from 1642 to 1660. Then, the Stewart kings were restored to the throne, and the Restoration saw the rise of the actress on the London stage. Playhouse Creatures tells the story of some of those early actresses, and the challenges they faced. The script by acclaimed British playwright April de Angelis ponders whether these women had an enviably privileged status in contemporary England, or whether they were manipulated by the men who ran the theatres. Did they have any power, or were they just pretty faces: playhouse creatures? The show will be staged this weekend by long-standing amateur company The International Players in St Germain en Laye (78). Playhouse Creatures Friday 27 and Saturday 28 January 8.30 p.m. Sunday 29 January 3 p.m Salle des Arts, St Germain en Laye (78)

24 Janvier 2017

Shakespeare

théâtre

Restoration

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Supreme Court Rules on Brexit Launch

Britain's Supreme Court has ruled that Parliament must vote on the government's plans to trigger Article 50 of Lisbon Treaty, to start the process of leaving the European Union.

24 Janvier 2017

Brexit

politics

UK

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Happy Birthday, Professor Hawking

In this article, students will learn about Stephen Hawking, one of Britain’s most famous scientists, as he unexpectedly reaches his 75th birthday in spite of a terrible neurological disease. The award-winning 2014 film "The Theory of Everything" , paid tribute to this exceptional man, played by Eddie Redmayne. This sequence would fit well in an EPI Sciences, technologie et société with physics.

20 Janvier 2017

space

maths

science fiction

Safer Internet Day

Tuesday 7 February is Safer Internet Day. On that day, and every day, it's time to get pupils thinking about what they post on the Internet, and what it says about them. This year's campaign focuses on images.

20 Janvier 2017

citizenship

EPI

videos

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Stephen Hawking at 75

Stephen Hawking is a phenomenal scientist and scientific phenomenon. He enjoys his unique position as a popular cultural icon as well as one of the most respected scientists of his generation. The man who doctors gave two years to live when he was 21 has just celebrated his 75th birthday.

20 Janvier 2017

space

maths

science fiction

Learning to Learn

How can pupils be helped to find the ways of learning which work best for them? Memorisation is essential to language learning but a stumbling block for many learners. These practical suggestions can help them adopt new habits that can transfer to all their learning.

19 Janvier 2017

apprendre à apprendre

EPI

memory

Shetland Viking Fire Festival

The Shetland Islands are the northernmost part of the U.K., and belonged to Norway until 1468. So it's no surprise that the highpoint in the Shetland cultural calendar is a spectacular Viking fire festival in January: Up Helly Aa.

19 Janvier 2017

celebrations

Scotland

Shetland

Up Helly Aa Webpicks

The highpoint of the cultural calendar in the Shetlands, Scotland, is a spectacular Viking fire festival in January: Up Helly Aa. This video and photo galleries are useful for discussing the festival.

19 Janvier 2017

celebrations

Scotland

Shetland

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A TV Series of Unfortunate Events

The bestselling teen books about the ill-fated Baudelaire children, "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events", have been given a second, equally doom-filled life in a new TV series.

18 Janvier 2017

books

U.S. culture

TV series

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Live By Night: Ben Affleck in Gangster Mode

Ben Affleck's latest film is a return to a classic film genre: the gangster movie set during Prohibition-era U.S.A.

17 Janvier 2017

film

mythes et héros

U.S. history

Prohibition

Ben Affleck's gangster film Live By Night is a great opportunity to introduce your classes to the period of Prohibition.

17 Janvier 2017

mythes et héros

U.S. history

gangster

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2020: The Year of Women

There may or may not be a woman in the White House in 2016. But there will be a lot more women featured on American banknotes by 2020 after a campaign to get a woman's image on the $20 bill by 2020, the centenary of the year women in the U.S. finally got to vote!

16 Janvier 2017

money

national symbols

Presidents

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Women Unite

There will be a big event in Washington on 21 January. No, not the Inauguration. The day after Donald Trump enters the White House, women's organisations are calling for women to mobilise to make it clear that they will defend their rights against any threat from the new administration.

16 Janvier 2017

Martin Luther King

civil rights

lieux et formes de pouvoir

Martin Luther King Day on the Web

These videos will help you discuss Martin Luther King Day in class.

16 Janvier 2017

citizenship

Martin Luther King

video

5

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Sing: Animals Have Got Talent

In this A1 towards A2 article, your students will read about Sing (Tous en scène), the animated musical film about a music competition on the principle of TV programmes like Britain’s Got Talent.

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Born to Sing

Sing is a feelgood movie about a singing competition designed to save a failing theatre in a city entirely populated by animals.

06 Janvier 2017

film

animals

music

Teaching with Trailers: Sing

The trailers for Sing, an animated musical film about a singing competition, provide lots of opportunities for language teaching – vocabulary about animals and music, following or telling a simple story, or organising a talent show.

06 Janvier 2017

film

animals

music

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The Queen and her Prime Ministers

The Crown offers a fabulous insight in the British government in the second half of the twentieth century.

06 Janvier 2017

lieux et formes de pouvoir

Queen

mythes et héros

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The Big Founder!

McDonald's is the company which represents what people love or hate the most about America. This biopic, based on the book of the same name covers the main moments in the company's history. It begins in 1954 when Ray Kroc (the Founder of the title) meets the McDonald brothers in their fast-food restaurant in San Bernardino, California and discovers that he could make a lot of money with…!

20 Décembre 2016

lieux et formes du pouvoir

film

Cinéma

Apprendre à apprendre

Comment aider les élèves de trouver les méthodes d'apprentissage que sont les plus efficaces pour eux? La mémorisation est essentielle dans l'apprentissage des langues, mais demeure difficile pour beaucoup d'élèves. Voici des suggestions pratiques pour aider vos élèves d'adopter de nouvelles habitudes.

20 Décembre 2016

apprendre à apprendre

memorisation

Les méthodes et outils pour apprendre

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2016: That Was the Year the Was

It's been quite a year of surprises. And definitely not a good one for opinion poll companies and forecasters. From Brexit to Trump, refugee athletes to the rock 'n' roll Nobel Literature laureate, we look back at 2016.

16 Décembre 2016

Brexit

Clinton

elections

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Electoral College: the Final Hurdle?

In an exceptional electoral year, there is one more chapter to come in the saga of the 2016 Presidential election. The electoral college, normally a very discreet part of the electoral process, could be the scene of unusual drama on 19 December.

16 Décembre 2016

elections

president

U.S.

Australia Day

Australians celebrate their national day on 26 January, the anniversary of the first British colonisation of the continent in 1788.

15 Décembre 2016

citizenship

history

celebrations

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Memory Interview

In this audio interview, actress Kathryn Hunter discusses her role in Peter Brooks' play The Valley of Astonishment : Sammy Costas, a mnemonist who can remember large quantities of numbers and text. The play is based on the real experiences of patients described by Dr Oliver Sacks. The extract tackles both the theme of memory and of the importance of being able to forget, a theme which is very relevant in the modern world. At 1'39, it works for practising listening comprehension for the Bac exam, on the theme of L'idée de progrès. Vocabulary and structures present simple and past simple passive modals memory Notions culturelles l'idée de progrès Before pupils listen, you may want to introduce the topic of the play. You can find details in our article .

15 Décembre 2016

audio

memory

L'idée de progrès

Mobilising Life Skills to Aid Language Learning

Cooperation, problem-solving, decision-making, critical thinking: all of these vital "life skills" can be acquired and mobilised in language class, and contribute to Domaine 2 of the Socle commun : Les méthodes et outils pour apprendre.

15 Décembre 2016

life skills

cooperation

problem solving

5

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Christmas Shopping

This A1+-level interactive picture and audio will introduce beginners to Christmas vocabulary and Anglophone traditions for the festive season.

12 Décembre 2016

audio

traditions

food

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Innovative Indian Dance Shows Tour France

Akram Khan, a British-born Bangladeshi dancer and choreographer, brings two shows to France which fuse classical Indian dance and stories with contemporary dance. Catch Until the Lions or Chotto Desh in and around Paris, Miramas, Angers, Sète, Brest or Reims between December and May. The 42-year-old Khan began his professional career at just 13, in Peter Brooks' mammoth production of the Indian epic The Mahabarata , which was nine hours long and toured the world for four years. The young Khan was trained in the classical Indian dance form Kathak, which means "story telling". But from the outset he was interested in other forms of dance too. He vividly describes going from being an introverted nobody at school into the most popular boy in the playground after a performing his version of Michael Jackson's "Thriller". After the long tour of The Mahabarata, he went on to train in contemporary dance. He co-founded the Akram Khan Company in 2000. As a choreographer, Khan has worked with artists as different as actress Juliette Binoche, pop singer Kylie Minogue, artist Anish Kapoor or prima ballerina Sylvie Guillem. He also choreographed part of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony. Until the Lions Inspired by Karthika Naïr's poetry collection Until the Lions: Echoes from The Mahabarata , Khan decided to revisit the Hindu epic, but to focus on the female characters who are never centre-stage in the original. The title is taken from an African proverb, "Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." Or, history is always told by the victors. The show tells the story of Amba, a princess who is abducted on the day she was to choose a husband. Bheeshma, the prince who abducted her, has taken a vow of celibacy, so won't marry her. But she has lost her honour in the eyes of her own people, and is considered unmarriagable. She vows revenge and undertakes years of penance before she has a vision telling her she will destroy Bheeshma in her next life. She kills herself and returns as an ambivalent female/male character, Shikhandi, who will kill Bheeshma in battle. Akram Khan plays Bheeshma, Ching-Ying Chien plays Amba and Christine Joy Ritter plays Shikhandi. In an interesting coincidence, the voiceover is by Kathryn Turner, who is playing in Peter Brooks' The Valley of Astonishment in Paris at the same time as Until the Lions' Paris run. This is definitely not Bollywood. The colours are sober and the emotions powerful. The music is an integral part of the show, which is played in the round, on a cleverly engineered stage which resembles a cut section of a tree trunk. The musicians are in full view, around the stage and using it for percussion. The whole effect is mesmerising. https://www.youtube.com/embed/6xtrmMwNABU Chotto Desh Chotto Desh means "little homeland" (Bangladesh is "the homeland of the Bengali people"). It is a child-friendly reworking of Desh , a Akram Khan 80-minute solo piece drawing on his own experiences and ancestry, weaving together Bangladeshi and British myths. Find all the dates for both shows around France below. You can find more information about reservations on the Akram Khan Company site. Until the Lions Till 17 December 2016 La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris 19 16 February 2017 Le Quai, Angers (49) 21-22 February 2017 Scène Nationale de Sète et du Bassin de Thau Sète (34) 26-27 February 2017 Le Quartz, Brest (29) 3-4 March 2017 Opéra de Reims (51) 21- 23 April 2017 Théâtre des Gémeaux, Sceaux (92) 5-6 May 2017 Théâtre-Sénart Lieusaint (77) Chotto Desh 26- 30 December 2016 Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris 18 26-28 January 2017 Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen (93) 31 January 2017 Théâtre des Bergeries, Noisy Le Sec (93) 9-11 March 2017 Maison de la musique, Nanterre (92) 21 March 2017 Théâtre de la Colonne, Miramas (13) 21 April 2017 Théâtre Romain Rolland, Villejuif (94)

12 Décembre 2016

dance

Peter Brooks

Bangladesh

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

New story, new characters — Rogue One is not Star Wars Episode VIII but a stand-alone film exploring one of the mysteries of the saga: How did the Rebel Alliance get the Death Star plans?

12 Décembre 2016

Walt Disney

Star Wars

George Lucas

Christmas on the Web

'Tis the season to be jolly! Before the winter holidays, why not do a little cultural comparisons, looking at how Christmas is celebrated in English speaking countries in the northern and southern hemisphere? These digital resources will help you.

09 Décembre 2016

video

Britain

audio