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Spooky Britain

Our resource for Shine Bright 2de accompanies File 4: "Mysteries in the Countryside". You can find the illustrated map "Spooky Britain" in the textbook. This A2+-B1-level resource will guide your pupils to find out more about the locations on the map from a promotional text. A group activity aimed at enriching pupils' vocabulary to help them with the final task of writing part of a mystery story.

26 Janvier 2024

British history

British culture

legends

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The Fall of the House of Usher TV Series

Netflix has released its own version of Poe’s famous Fall of the House of Usher in which gothic becomes horror in a modern-world setting with a whirlwind of characters and action. This is a perfect occasion for LLCER students to not only work on the short story itself but also compare it to the mini-series and thus work on link words.

26 Janvier 2024

U.S. culture

TV series

short stories

Ireland Has a New Holiday

Ireland has a new bank holiday: St Brigid’s Day, the first to be in honour of a woman. From 2023, it is marked on the first Monday in February.

25 Janvier 2024

Ireland

traditions

celebrations

Sélection culturelle

Ciné O'Clock Villeurbanne 2024

The Ciné O'Clock British and Irish Film Festival in Villeurbanne will be presenting its 28th edition from 31 January to 4 February. There are some great previews of upcoming releases.

25 Janvier 2024

Roald Dahl

film

festival

The Color Purple Returns

Steven Spielberg's 1985 film The Color Purple was extremely unusual for having an almost entirely African-American cast. (Alice Walker, whose 1982 novel it is based on, was the first ever African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.) The film is an enduring classic, and the musical-theatre version of the story is now hitting screens, championed by Spielberg and star of the original film Oprah Winfrey.

24 Janvier 2024

civil rights

U.S. culture

U.S. history

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Waitangi Day in New Zealand

New Zealand is a unique country, so it’s not surprising that its national day is unique too!

24 Janvier 2024

history

celebrations

geography

Celebrate Black History Month in Rennes

In honour of Black History Month, the Institut Franco-Américain in Rennes has varied events about African-American culture and history.

24 Janvier 2024

Martin Luther King

civil rights

documentary

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Wallace, Gromit and Chicken Run 2

While the Cartoon Museum in London is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the classic Aardman Animations film The Wrong Trousers, starring the inimitable Wallace and Gromit, a sequel to Chicken Run was released by Netflix on 15 December. A good opportunity for teachers to work on stop-motion animation films and familiar characters.

23 Janvier 2024

animation

Bristol

Shine bright 4e

Rendez-vous

U.S Election: Nikki Haley

As of 21 January, Nikki Haley is the only opponent to Donald Trump in the Republican Presidential primaries. Who is the former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations?.

22 Janvier 2024

elections

president

Trump

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Chicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget

Bristol-based Aardman Animations made their reputation with short films and adverts using plasticine models brought to life with stop-motion animation. In 2000, they released Chicken Run, their first full feature-length film, a gargantuan task and a huge success. Twenty-three years later, they made a sequel!

21 Janvier 2024

animation

Bristol

Shine bright 4e

Poor Things: Frankenstein Revisited

Poor Things, adapted into an award-winning film from the novel by Alasdair Gray, imagines a female Frankenstein's monster who is fundamentally human, and her creator, who much like Dr Frankenstein, is perhaps more monstrous himself.

17 Janvier 2024

film

literature

British culture

Rendez-vous

On the Election Road: U.S.A. 2024

The electoral process for a U.S. President is long, with many candidates declaring their campaigns six or even 12 months before primary season opens in January. But this year, the primaries could lack suspense, with one incumbent candidate, President Joe Biden for the Democrats, and one Republican, Donald Trump dominating that party’s primary process despite not having participated in televised debates with his opponents.

16 Janvier 2024

elections

president

Trump

Rendez-vous

Teen Scientist Wins Award for Soap to Treat Cancer

Heman Bekele, 14, from Virginia, has been named America's Top Young Scientist 2023 for developing a soap that could replace expensive medicines as a treatment for some forms of skin cancer. The ninth-grade student was one of 10 finalists in this year's 3M Young Scientist Challenge.

16 Janvier 2024

video

science

STEM

Videos for Martin Luther King Day

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his leadership of the African American civil-rights movement. The Nobel committee has published a series of videos and a lesson plan for using them in class. Perfect for Martin Luther King Day, 17 January this year.

12 Janvier 2024

holidays

Martin Luther King

video

Rendez-vous

Caucus vs Primary

Traditionally, the U.S. presidential election primary season starts off not with a primary but with a caucus. What's the difference?

05 Janvier 2024

elections

president

Trump

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Edgar Allan Poe 21st Century Reboot

The new Netflix TV series The Fall of the House of Usher is inspired by the famous Edgar Allan Poe story but in a pretty tangential way. The horror mini-series keeps the Usher twins Roderick and Madeline but far from being the last members of a dying family they are the heads of a family pharmaceutical dynasty with members aplenty. Until they start dying in mysterious ways… If you are studying it with your LLCER pupils, they might like to compare it to the original for their Portfolio.

04 Janvier 2024

U.S. culture

TV series

short stories

West Side Story on Tour Around France

The West Side Story production that has just finished in Paris will be touring to Bordeaux, Lyons, Rouen and Nantes in February and March. A full stage production, it is in English with French surtitles.

04 Janvier 2024

Shakespeare

théâtre

song

Happy Hogmanay!

Hogmanay is the name for New Year's Eve in Scotland. It was traditionally a much bigger celebration than Christmas in Scotland, and is still a big event. It's associated with many traditions, some which will seem familiar and some specific to Scotland.

29 Décembre 2023

holidays

British culture

Scotland

New Rules Make School Trips to the UK Easier

New rules about identity papers come into force on 28 December that will make taking school groups to the post-Brexit UK a bit easier.

20 Décembre 2023

U.K.

class trip

voyage scolaire

Gertrude Stein Multi-talented

Gertrude Stein is probably best known for her "salon" in Paris where she nurtured artistic talents as diverse as Matisse and Braque, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce. But her experimental, minimalist writing has been highly influential on generations of creatives right up to today, as is shown in the Gertrude Stein and Picasso: Inventing Language exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris.

15 Décembre 2023

poetry

art

exhibition

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"Wheel to Wheel" Short Story

This B1-level short story was written by an American teenager. It would fit in well with a theme on the Paralympics.

12 Décembre 2023

Paralympics

sports

disability

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Starting a Revolution with Tea in Boston

On 16 September 1773, an event took place that went on to spark the American Revolution: citizens of Boston, Massachusetts, dumped hundreds of crates of tea into the sea to protest against British "taxation without representation". This December, the city is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

11 Décembre 2023

U.S. history

colonisation

Native Americans

Dub Poet: Benjamin Zephaniah

We were very sad to hear of the sudden death of Benjamin Zephaniah, one of Britain’s most popular poets. Benjamin Zephaniah said the art of poetry, and of life, is in how you look at things. Perhaps not surprising for a man of many faces: a dyslexic who left school at 13, who became a university professor. A Rasta poet who was by turns fiercely political and a children’s favourite.

08 Décembre 2023

poetry

Jamaica

British literature

Benjamin Zephaniah Interview

After the sudden death of Benjamin Zephaniah, we decided to share the interview we had the great privilege of doing with one of Britain’s most popular poets in 2012. He had just been appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University. He shared some of his very eclectic thoughts with us.

08 Décembre 2023

poetry

Jamaica

British literature

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Analysing Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Parts 6-8

We published the first part of an analysis of the 1993 animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas in July. Here are parts 4 and 5 out of 8. We'll be publishing further parts during the autumn so you can study the film with A2-level pupils in class.

07 Décembre 2023

film

animation

U.S. culture

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250 Years of U.S. Democracy: The Boston Tea Party

On 16 December 1773, an event took place that went on to spark the American Revolution: citizens of Boston, Massachusetts, dumped hundreds of crates of tea into the sea to protest against British "taxation without representation". This December, the city is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

07 Décembre 2023

U.S. history

colonisation

Native Americans

Elliott Erwitt: A Life in Photos in Lyon

We were sad to hear of the death of Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt at the age of 95. He had been taking photos for 80 years. The retrospective exhibition he curated himself at the Musée Maillol in Paris last year is currently on show in Lyon, till 17 March. It is a rich record of his home country of the U.S.A. and all those he visited, the people who fascinated him and a lot of dogs!

07 Décembre 2023

exhibition

documentary

U.S. history

Sélection culturelle

2023 Booker Prize Goes to an Irish Dystopia

The Booker Prize 2023 was awarded to Paul Lynch for his dystopian novel set in his native Ireland, Prophet Song.

06 Décembre 2023

Ireland

literature

dystopia

Words of the Year: 2023

'Tis the season for various dictionaries to reveal their “words of the year”. It has been the word on everyone's lips, so it's not surprising that the UK's Collins Dictionary, as well as Australia's Macquarie Dictionary people's choice was AI. But we came across a few we were unfamiliar with, such as "rizz" and "cozzie livs" and we set out to discover more.

06 Décembre 2023

Australia

language

social media

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Wonka

Most pupils will be familiar with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and its main character: Willy Wonka. Yet, how much do we know about him? This new film by Paddington director Paul King– starring Timothée Chalamet as Wonka – explores Willy Wonka’s young adult life, his wishes and how he started his chocolate empire with a dream!

06 Décembre 2023

Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

literature