Professeurs documentalistes Lycée

Rugby Exhibition Online and in Paris

The Centre culturel irlandais in Paris is hosting an exhibition on the links between French and Irish rugby, which opened on 8 September, the opening day of the Rugby World Cup hosted by France. And there is an online version of the exhibition if you can't make it in person.

Spanish soccer and sexism

As pressure had been building on Luis Rubiales, he decided to submit his resignation as the Spanish soccer federation's president.

Utopie et dystopie : une certaine vision de la société et de l'individu

Conseil lecture : « Ceci n'est pas un Atlas »

Décalé et passionnant, ce livre repense les outils de la géographie classique pour proposer une approche nouvelle de l'espace.

Teens Sue Montana Over Climate Change

The first of a series of lawsuits by young U.S. citizens against state and federal governments over climate change has come to trial. Held v. Montana was the subject of a two-week court case in June. Sixteen young Montanans accused their state of  violating their constitutional rights to a “clean and healthful environment”; to seek safety, health, and happiness; and to individual dignity and equal protection of the law.

Une nouvelle capitale administrative en Égypte

Le projet de nouvelle capitale administrative témoigne des mutations et de la recomposition des espaces métropolitains.

Back to School

It's the beginning of the school year and working on school vocabulary can reassure pupils and help them realise they CAN actually remember some of what they learned in previous years. A video and a quiz from the BBC Newsround site are a great way to start the year.

Multilingual Story Competition for Collège

If you teach in collège, you might like to sign your pupils up for an original multilingual story competition. It asks classes to write a story using elements of languages other than French. You need to sign up by 30 September 2021 but then you have till 8 March to send in your project. .

Films for Schools in Dinard!

The 34th edition of the Dinard British Film Festival will take place in Brittany from 27 September to 1 October. We'll be writing about the films in competition shortly, but you can get ready to sign up your classes to see some great British films  at special schools showings. You need to register between 1 and 8 September for showings between 18 and 22 September.

Mes forêts, Hélène Dorion

Au fil des siècles, la question du consentement

Le groupe nominal dans Mes forêts, et des textes du parcours associé

Hercule Poirot in Venice

After Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot, in the shape of Kenneth Branagh, continues to travel across the world solving crimes. A Haunting in Venice is based on Christie’s Hallowe'en Party, and is suitably spooky to work on at this time of year. Poirot, officially retired, is persuaded to attend a seance by a medium played by Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once), and he once again has a murder to elucidate.

200 Years of Rugby and a World Cup

The tenth men’s Rugby World Cup will take place from 8 September to 28 October. For the second time, France is hosting the tournament. And this year, the game is celebrating its 200th anniversary.

Time for Rugby

This A2/A2+ level article and audio can be used shortly after the beginning of the year. It can be tied in to a unit reviewing hobbies while using the context of the Rugby World Cup starting on 8 September in France and finishing on 28 October. All through the tournament, match results can be discussed as parts of warming up activities.

La mort des salons de coiffure ?

Face aux difficultés des salons traditionnels, de nouveaux modes d'organisation émergent dans les secteurs de la coiffure. 

La Russie se replace dans la conquête spatiale

Dans la course à l'espace, l'appropriation de la Lune attise les rivalités entre les puissances internationales

Onwards and Upwards: the Invictus Games 2023

The Invictus Games, created in 2014 by Prince Harry to help the rehabilitation of military personnel, is holding its 6th edition in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 9 to 16 September. Over 500 athletes from a record 22 countries will be participating, and will be accompanied by the friends and family who are so vital to their recovery.

Your English Skills Online Platform

Selon les tests de positionnement Ev@lang de 2022, plus de 50% des élèves de 3e sont entrés au lycée sans avoir atteint un niveau A2. YES est une plateforme numérique qui permet de faire de la remise à niveau et de la remédiation avec vos élèves de Seconde mais également utilisable jusqu’au niveau B2.

Deauville : Back to America

The 49th edition of Deauville American Film Festival will run from September 1st to September 10th, 2023. The official competition jury will be presided by Guillaume Canet and the jury for "La Révélation" will be chaired by Mélanie Thierry.

Deauville 2023: Eastwood, A Family Affair

After being the guest of honour at the 9th Festival of Cinema and Film Music in La Baule, Kyle Eastwood will now be attending at Deauville. On the same day as the release of his new album (Eastwood Symphonic) dedicated to the music of his father's greatest films, he will be invited to participate in the festival's opening ceremony on September 1st.

La forêt des contes, hier et aujourd’hui

L'Inde et la Chine, deux géants démographiques

Cet article compare la démographie des deux géants asiatiques et présente un court portrait socio-économique de l'Inde.

La gastronomie, une arme diplomatique

Des grands banquets de chefs d'État à la diffusion mondiale de la cuisine thaïe, la gastronomie est une alliée …

Teaching with Adverts: Women's Football

The FIFA Women's World Cup has inspired several interesting ads on the topic of women in sport and their relative fame and treatment to men. These three lend themselves especially well to being used in class. You'll probably want to avoid the slogan of the first one, "what the football?". Luckily it's transparent enough for students to take at face value. It features an American daughter and dad watching Brandi Chastain taking the match-winning penalty in the 1999 World Cup, hosted by the U.S.A. The dad jumps up to celebrate and knocks himself into a coma. He wakes up Rip Van Winkle style in 2023 and can't believe how much has changed in women's football. Actually this would make a nice addition to our resource on the Rip Van Winkle story! In any case there's plenty to discuss in the basic story and the visuals. The ad features 11 players: Ada Hegerberg (Norway), Alex Morgan (U.S.A.), Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria), Chloe Kelly (England), Debinha (Brazill), Grace Geyoro (France), Kadeisha Buchanan (Canada), Megan Rapinoe (U.S.A.), Sam Kerr (Australia), Sophia Smith (U.S.A.), and Wang Shuang (China). More advanced pupils should be able to pick out the ways the players are described and use similar expressions to describe their own sporting or other heroes. https://youtu.be/y5Jg9Wxc6yo This second ad celebrates players Alessia Russo (England), Lena Oberdorf (Germany) and Mary Fowler (Australia) and also features former England players David Beckham and Ian Wright, Leon Goretzka from Germany and Argentinian Lionel Messi alongside Wednesday actor and football fan Jenna Ortega. It's short and relatively simple, with the three women shooting and dribbling balls in a forest and a supermarket. It ends with a deadpan, "Clean up in aisle 23." Pupils can describe what's going on and be asked to compare their familiarity with the current female stars versus the male stars featured. https://youtu.be/iLNZdPDb5ps  And finally, we couldn't resist this one, even though it's French, so we wouldn't usually suggest it for English class. But in this "English version", the French is only the audio football commentary, so why not use it without sound. It's perfect for  éducation au médias: stop at 0'53 when you see "Only the Bleus can give us these emotions", then play on so pupils can discover that the whole first section was a fake: footage of the French women's team was altered to make it look like the men's players. (It's frighteningly well done.) Ask pupils if they feel differently about the footage once they know it was the women's team: would they have been as interested if you had shown the women playing first? You can also have a discussion about the video faking technology and some pupils might like to try doing a suitable excited commentary following the English subtitles in the first half. https://youtu.be/QVNZRHIZVL8

Victorian Book Illustrations in the North of France

As befits a castle bought by English gentry in 1848, until November, the Château d'Hardelot, Condette (62), is hosting an exhibition of illustrations inspired by Victorian literature from Alice in Wonderland to The Picture of Dorian Gray. And its summer season includes films and workshops on the theme of Lewis Carroll's heroine.

Analysing Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

This is the first part of an analysis of the 1993 animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas. We'll be publishing further parts in the coming months so you can study the film with A2-level pupils in class.

Titanic Stories

Step on board the Titanic at an exhibition in Paris. Reconstructions and objects recovered from the wreck help tell the stories of those who were travelling on the ocean liner when it hit an iceberg on 15 April 1912.

The Day We Pressed the Button

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is a film that will plunge you into the thrilling world of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the complex man who risked the lives of the world to save it. The film is inspired by the Pulitzer prizewinning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

Young Inventors Sail Model Boats Around Antarctica

Scottish brothers Ollie and Harry Ferguson are just 13 and 11, but they’ve dedicated their lives to having adventures. The latest one is building two model boats that have been launched to sail around Antarctica and collect scientific data about the ocean and the air. Ollie and Harry already have a Guinness World Record for the longest distance travelled at sea by a toy boat: 15,000 km travelled by one they built out of Playmobil. But the Antarctic adventure has a historic inspiration: the Ross scientific expedition of 1839-43. British Captain James Clark Ross and his men, on two ships, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, discovered the Ross Ice Shelf, the largest Antarctic ice shelf. The same ships then participated in the tragic 1845 Franklin expedition trying to find the North-West passage north of Canada. The ships got trapped in pack ice and the men perished. When the wrecks of the ships were discovered in 2014 and 2016, it inspired the brothers to make model versions of the ships. It’s taken two years to build and test the one-metre-long ships and get official permission to launch them. They were launched on 11 July from South Georgia, a British territory in the South Atlantic. You can follow their progress here. The boys’ objective is for the ships to circumnavigate Antarctica, a journey of 20,000 km, which they estimate will take two years. As they travel, sensors on the ships will collect scientific data including air temperature, ocean temperature and ocean pH which can be markers of climate change. “We’re interested to collect data about climate change and also just trying to see what happens to the boats and the end result and – though there is a very low chance – to see if we will ever see them again.” Harry 500 Adventures The brothers, who live near Aberdeen, have been working their way through a list of 500 adventures for several years and have currently ticked 425 off their list, including sending Lego men to space, living in a cave, driving over 30 forms of transport and starting their own country.  As well of course setting  a Guinness World Record for the "most travelled toy boat". Their Playmobil boat named Adventure, travelled 6,072.47 km from Scotland to Barbados.