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Paris 2024 Paralympics

Here’s a quick guide to the 17th Paralympic Games in Paris.

26 Août 2024

Olympics

sport

Paralympics

200 Years of Care for Animals

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in London in 1822, and soon added an R to the SPCA when Queen Victoria made it a royal society. Today the Society helps rehome over 100 pets every day in England and Wales. It has campaigned to introduce many laws to protect animals and make their lives better, whether they are pets, wildlife or farm animals.

20 Août 2024

charity

animals

anniversary

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Kindness Champion

Orion Jean, 13, has one goal in life: to spread kindness and encourage other people to be kind too. At age nine, he won a competition to write a speech about kindness. He used the prize money to donate toys to a children’s hospital. Then went on to fundraise for 100,000 meals for the hungry and 500,000 books for children. Now he wants people to to perform a million acts of kindness.

16 Août 2024

U.S.A.

wellbeing

kindness

3

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Beautiful Britain: Discover the U.K.’s UNESCO sites

This resource focuses on an illustrated map, leaflet and website detailing the 58 sites in the UK which UNESCO has honoured with status Biosphere Reserve, Creative City, Global Geopark or World Heritage Site. This document can be studied from many different points of view and levels. We chose to target A2 students with a dual focus on British geography and sustainable development as defined by UNESCO.

12 Août 2024

geography

sustainable development

U.K. culture

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U.S. Election: Tim Walz

On 6 August, Kamala Harris announced her running-mate for the Democratic ticket for the 5 November presidential election. The vice-presidential candidate is Tim Walz, a former school teacher from the Mid-West who has been a Representative for Minnesota and is currently in his second term as the state’s governor. The announcement came somewhat as a surprise since Mr Walz hadn’t featured on the many media lists of potential VP picks such as Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro or Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. Neither his home state of Nebraska or his adopted one of Minnesota are battleground states, with the former being solidly Republican and the latter equally solidly Democrat. But the Harris campaign clearly believes his affable, man-in-the street style and long record in elected office are positives. Mr Average Walz is far from being from a privileged background. His father was a school administrator and army veteran, his mother a homemaker. Walz joined the National Guard as an army reservist at 17, serving for 24 years. He worked in manufacturing jobs before going to university thanks to the G.I. Bill. He was a high-school social-studies teacher and American football coach before becoming a member of Congress for a seat in Minnesota, his wife’s home state. After 12 years in Congress, he was elected Governor of Minnesota. As a Midwesterner, the campaign will hope he appeals to middle America more than Kamala Harris, the child of immigrants brought up in progressive California. But the Trump campaign immediately attacked him as a dangerous left-winger. The Trump campaign also attacked him for being too slow to call in the National Guard to oppose protests after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis during his first term as Governor. In his time as governor, he has brought in gun-control legislation, despite having been formerly endorsed by the National Rifle Association. Minnesota was the first state to safeguard abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v Wade ruling. And Walz championed new paid family leave and sick pay legislation. Harris and Walz now have three months to try to win the election. They immediately started out for battleground states, before preparing for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois starting on 19 August.

08 Août 2024

president

Trump

EMC

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Creating a Sustainable Smart City in Sierra Leone

British actor Idris Elba is hoping to build an eco-friendly "smart city" on an island in Sierra Leone. The Wire, Luther and Mandela star’s father was from the West African country and Elba is working with locals to transform Sherbro Island, creating income through sustainable tourism and bringing wind and solar farms to a region that doesn’t have electricity.

02 Août 2024

sustainable development

ecology

conservation

Sélection culturelle

Henry VIII's Six Wives

King Henry VIII is such an overwhelming character in British history that his six wives tend to be reduced to a footnote of history. A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London puts the women in the spotlight.

26 Juillet 2024

biography

exhibition

British history

Sélection culturelle

Hollywood sur Mer

The Deauville American Film Festival will take place from 6 to 15 September in Normandy, giving us a glimpse of some great films to be released over the next few months. The 50th edition of the festival will pay tribute to actor Michael Douglas and present a selection of 50 American films that have changed the way we look at the world, starting in 1916.

26 Juillet 2024

Deauville

Cannes

film festival

5

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U.S. Election: Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris has transformed rapidly from Vice-President to presidential candidate since Joe Biden withdrew from the race to the White House on 28 July.

24 Juillet 2024

president

Trump

EMC

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U.S Election: J.D. Vance

On 15 July, Donald Trump announced his running mate for the 5 November Presidential election: Senator J.D. Vance. The new Republican candidate for Vice-President is a conservative serving his first term in the Senate and a former critic of Trump.

19 Juillet 2024

elections

president

Trump

Mission prof': L'expression orale au collège

Notre nouvelle collection de guides pratiques Mission Prof' accueillit son deuxième livre : Stimuler l'expression orale. Une mine d'idées pour aider vos élèves à s’exprimer au collège !

18 Juillet 2024

oral expression

collège

cycle 4

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Labour Wins a Landslide in the U.K.

The British Labour Party won a landslide victory in the general election on 4 July. Labour Leader Keir Starmer was named Prime Minister on 5 July, replacing the Conservatives' Rishi Sunak.

05 Juillet 2024

citizenship

politics

Prime Minister

Sélection culturelle

Lee Miller: Photographing World War II

Lee Miller was one of the rare women war correspondents in World War II, photographing and reporting on D-Day, the liberation of Europe and some of the first images of Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. An exhibition celebrates her reporting of the siege of Saint-Malo in August 1944, before a biopic arrives on cinema screens, starring Kate Winslet as Miller.

04 Juillet 2024

conflict

war

d-day

Becoming American on the Fourth of July

Independence Day is a celebration for all Americans, but for some it has special significance. It's a traditional day for holding naturalisation ceremonies, welcoming new citizens to the U.S.A.

01 Juillet 2024

citizenship

U.S. history

U.S. traditions

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The UK Goes to the Polls

On 4 July, British citizens will vote in a general election. It is widely expected that the Conservative Party, which has been in power for 14 years, will be defeated.

27 Juin 2024

citizenship

politics

Prime Minister

Let's Dance at the Olympics

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games welcomes a new sport: breaking, or break dancing. Breaking originated in the Bronx in the 1970s. It has its roots in hip-hop culture, but has long been a competitive sport. In Paris, 16 men and 16 women (known as "B-Boys" and "B-Girls") will engage in an epic battle for the first Olympic breaking medals.

27 Juin 2024

Olympics

sport

Paralympics

Sélection culturelle

Women's Prize Winners 2024

Britain’s Women’s Prizes for 2024 have been awarded. The prize for fiction goes to American author V. V. Ganeshananthan for Brotherless Love, set during the Sri Lankan civil war. And the non-fiction prize, awarded at the same time this year, goes to Canadian author Naomi Klein for Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, about how being regularly mistaken for another, very different writer taught her about our polarised societies, conspiracy theories and social media.

26 Juin 2024

literature

Canada

fiction

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Cannes 2024: Americans' Rush for Awards

The 77th Cannes Film Festival, held from May 16 to 27, 2024, was marked by a strong presence of American cinema, both in the official selection and in the awards given. Despite the disruptions caused by the actors' strike in 2023, independent and established American filmmakers managed to distinguish themselves on the Croisette.

29 Mai 2024

film

Cinéma

American cinema