Professeurs documentalistes Lycée

Faut-il interdire TikTok ?

Le réseau social chinois TikTok suscite beaucoup d’inquiétudes et fait débat aux États-Unis comme en Europe. 

La voiture électrique : une domination chinoise

Au regard des enjeux qu’elle représente, la voiture électrique exacerbe la compétition entre acteurs et territoires.

Les agriculteurs face aux politiques de l'UE

Inégalités, concurrence, enjeux de compétitivité : les agriculteurs en colère face à l'UE.

Une loi pour combattre l'ultra fast fashion ?

Le projet de loi pour combattre l’ultra fast fashion répond à des raisons économiques et éthiques.

Chariot of Fire: The Eric Liddell Story

A hundred years ago, a Scotsman became famous for NOT running a race at the Paris 1924 Olympic Games. Eric Liddell's story was immortalised in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. And a play about his life is coming to Paris for two performances on 23 March.

Le Parlement européen : pouvoirs et fonctionnement

Dans la perspective des élections européennes, ce podcast fait le point sur le rôle des eurodéputés.

Qu'est-ce que le CETA ?

En mars 2024, le traité du CETA entre l'UE et le Canada était soumis à l'approbation des sénateurs français.

Romeo and Juliet Without Words

British choreographer Matthew Bourne and his company New Adventures pride themselves in finding new ways of "telling stories without words". In Romeo and Juliet, Bourne has taken one of the best-known words in the English language and transformed the familiar story in a reinvention which plays on the dystopian elements of the original script.

U.S. Congress Tries to Ban TikTok

On 13 March, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill which would ban the social-media app TikTok from the country unless it is no longer owned by a Chinese company. The legislation was rushed through in record time, although it is not certain it will be confirmed by the Senate. What risk does Congress believe TikTok represents?

Time to Put on a Red Nose

Red Nose Day is back on Friday 15 March in the UK.  British charity Comic Relief has been encouraging people to don a clown's red nose and "do something funny for money" since 1988. 

Qu'est-ce que la guerre ?

Quand peut-on dire « nous sommes en guerre » ? De l’importance de définir le terme de guerre pour décrypter son usage …

Rumours, Rumours

Definitely not one to show your pupils! Wicked Little Letters is a delicious comedy with Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley,  set in a 1920s English seaside town, where the population starts receiving defamatory letters full of profanities. An Irish migrant with a good stock of swear words in her vocabulary, Rose Gooding is accused of being the author of the letters. But the women of the town begin to doubt her guilt. The film is actually based on a real case, which took place in Littlehampton, a seaside town in Sussex. In the days before internet trolling, poison-pen letters fulfilled the same role of venting your fury. In this case, most of the ire seems to be directed at innocuous spinster Edith Swan (Colman), who lives at home with her mother (Gemma Jones) and domineering father (Timothy Spall). But much like trolling today, the poison-pen letters had real-life consequences when single mother Rose (Buckley) is charged with criminal libel. https://youtu.be/EofbpYnLj3E This is the second time Olivia Colman (The Crown, The Favourite, The Father, Wonka) and Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, The Woman in White) have starred together. Buckley played the younger version of Colman's character in the 2021 adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel The Lost Daughter. Look out for Buckley in the upcoming adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet by Chloe Zhao and Colman in Wicker with Dev Patel. This video gives some of the background about the true story, including that of the first female police officer in Sussex, played by Anjana Vasan, but doesn't contain spoilers. https://youtu.be/hFlDmqTb9Do Wicked Little Letters On general release 13 March.

Des travailleurs des plates-formes mieux protégés

Un accord supposé renforcer les droits des travailleurs des plates-formes a été signé par les pays de l'UE.

And the Oscar Goes to

2023 was the year "Barbenheimer" revived cinema attendance around the world. But despite leading the box office, Barbie received only one Oscar, for best song, while Oppenheimer dominated this year's Awards, taking home seven statuettes.

La loi et les mœurs

Récemment, la France et la Grèce ont pris des mesures progressistes pour les droits humains. 

Irish Referendum on Women's Role in Society

On International Women's Day 2024, France is including the freedom to have an abortion in its constitution while Ireland is holding a referendum to remove clauses from its constitution which promise the Irish state will do everything it can to allow women to stay in the home.

Benediction: Siegfried Sassoon Biopic

Siegfried Sassoon was one of the most famous of the British World War I poets but unlike Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke or Edward Thomas, Sassoon survived the war he had despised while serving brilliantly. Terence Davies’ final film traces both the war service and the long life looking for meaning which followed, with Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi playing the younger and older Sassoon.

La Suède renonce à son ambition climatique

Si la Suède a été à la pointe des politiques climatiques, son nouveau gouvernement remet tout en question.

Conseil lecture : « Le monde sans fin »

Une bande-dessinée pour comprendre les questions de l'énergie et du changement climatique.

L’interrogation et la négation dans Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées

L’e-sport, un nouvel outil d’influence des États

L’e-sport pourrait devenir une nouvelle discipline olympique et la compétition entre les États est lancée.

Happy Leap Day!

If you are born on 29 February, you can consider yourself very special… or very unlucky!

Vers une fragmentation géopolitique des mers

Les mers sont devenues des nouveaux espaces de conflictualités où se projettent les ambitions géopolitiques. 

Des prix planchers dans l'agriculture française ?

Suite à la mobilisation des agriculteurs, E. Macron souhaite instaurer des « prix planchers », qui ne font pas l'unanimité.

Les Choses humaines, une affaire intime à travers le prisme de la justice

Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées de Balzac - séquence

Ready for the Semaine des Langues?

What are you planning for la Semaine des langues? This year’s edition is from 18 to 23 March and is on the theme of « L’important, c’est de communiquer ! », which we would happily adopt as our motto here at Speakeasy News. The event makes special reference to the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer in France: a multi-lingual, cross-cultural event like no other! Lots of schools have events planned. Here’s a selection of initiatives and ideas.

Happy Feet

When humans have trouble walking, they can get help with orthopaedic shoes or prosthetics. What happens when an animal has a problem? San Diego Zoo in California fitted one of its penguins with customised shoes to help with a degenerative foot condition.

Creative Writing Competition: Sport

It won’t have escaped your notice that this is an Olympic year. To get into the swing of things, we’d like to take sport as the theme of our annual creative-writing competition. We’d like pupils to use their imagination to write a story about sport in any way they want.

Doing the Right Thing

Most people would feel proud of saving hundreds of mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia just before the outbreak of World War II. But Sir Nicholas Winton was haunted by all the children he couldn't save. Until a surprise 50 years later on a TV programme showed him all the good he had done. A new film, One Life, starring Johnny Flynn and Anthony Hopkins as the younger and older Winton tells this true story.