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A Webinar on the "Grand Oral" for Your Students

To accompany you and your students as they prepare for the Grand oral, there will be a free webinar on the subject on 18 January. Mission Grand oral author Olivier Jaoui will explain how to prepare for, and succeed in the exam, and will also answer pupils' questions.

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Ready to Recite?

Why not encourage your pupils to participate in a competition to video themselves reciting a poem or prose text? Practising recitation can be a valuable activity in any language class. The Académie of Orléans-Tours is organising a competition for pupils to recite texts in the languages they are learning, which is open to pupils and students (up to the third year of university) all over France and in lycées français abroad. The Ciceronnades is a multilingual contest and for its second year is covering not just a wide range of modern languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French as a foreign language, French as a second language, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish) but also ancient Greek and Latin. Individual pupils make a simple video of themselves reciting their text. The deadline for entries is 11 March 2022, and the winners will be announced on 8 April. For secondary pupils, there are set texts, one a poem and the other a speech, one set for collège (cycle 4) and another for lycée . For collège , the poem is by Victorian poet Ernest Dowson , rather confusingly titled in Latin "Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam" . For lycée it is William Shakespeare's sonnet number 12, "When I Do Count the Clock that Tells the Time". In both categories, the speeches have an ecological theme.  Collège pupils will discover a speech given by a young Ugandan climate justice activist, Vanessa Nakate, at a conference on Earth Day 2021.  For lycée , pupils will recite a speech made by Britain's Prince Charles to the COP21 conference in 2015. You'll find all the information about the contest on the Académie Orléans-Tours website . Reciting can be a great way to get pupils speaking English without the stress of having to come up with something to say themselves. Focussing on rhythm and rhyme can really help their pronunciation skills, and memorisation is a great brain workout !If you and your pupils get the bug for reciting, you can find lots more suggestions of poems old and new on the site for the British schools' competition Poetry by Heart . You can hear Sonnet 12 on the site, and watch pupils performing different poems (these change regularly).

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Le soft power des plateformes de séries

Cet article met en lumière la puissance et la capacité d’influence des plateformes de streaming, Disney, Amazon et Netflix.

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Arise Sir Lewis!

The Formula One driver is no longer simply Lewis Hamilton, but Sir Lewis after being knighted by Prince Charles. The driver was awarded a knighthood in the 2021 New Year’s Honours list after he won his seventh World Championship.

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South Africa Mourns Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu had a unique role in the opposition to apartheid and transition to democracy in South Africa. Because he was not a political figure, but an activist and church leader, he was able to speak out when others were censored. He died at the age of 90 on 26 December.

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La francophonie, toute une histoire...

Une vidéo qui retrace l'histoire du mot "francophonie", de ses origines à son poids diplomatique.

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“The Matrix Resurrections”: the Future is Now!

Eighteen years after The Matrix Revolutions, which we thought was the third and final Matrix film, Lana Wachowski has directed a fourth: The Matrix Resurrections.

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Do You Know About... Christmas Crackers?

Christmas crackers are such an integral part of British Christmas dinner celebrations but do you know how they were invented? Hint: there's a French connection. Enjoy our animated slideshow with your students from A2.

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A Year in Words

Different dictionaries have been revealing their "words of the year” for 2021. The COVID pandemic has had a major influence on the words we use and look up. Vax, double-vaxxed, vaccine and pingdemic all show up, as well as perseverance, which we’ve all had to show.

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Miss France, un concours sexiste ?

Malgré les luttes actuelles contre le sexisme et les stéréotypes de genre, le concours reste très apprécié.

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Une photo du monde agricole français

Tous les 10 ans, le recensement décennal fait une photo du monde agricole français pour rendre compte de ses évolutions.

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La Nouvelle Calédonie : des ressources convoitées

Intéressée par les ressources naturelles de l'archipel, la Chine surveille les relations franco-calédoniennes.

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Fake News Exhibition in Your School!

The Fake News exhibition created by the CLEMI which is running in Paris till February 2022 is now also available as 10 A3-sized posters that you can print up and display in your school. There's a webinar and teaching pack to help you guide your pupils to get the most out of the experience.

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King Richard

King Richard is a film about a man with a mission: Richard Williams, who decided two years before his daughter Venus was born, that he would have two daughters destined to become tennis champions.

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Vers des guerres dans l'espace ?

La conquête spatiale met en compétition les puissances mondiales, autour d’enjeux économiques et géopolitiques.

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La situation démographique chinoise en 2021

La chute de la natalité et le vieillissement de la population : les limites de la croissance et de la puissance chinoise.

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L'industrie française, tributaire de la Chine ?

Cet article soulève la question de la dépendance extérieure de l’économie française.

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Analyzing inflation

The IFM intends to explain the recent evolution of inflation. It aims at lessening fears towards this phenomenon.  

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Développement, inégalités et risques en Chine

La Chine a connu un développement rapide mais doit faire face aux défis des inégalités et des risques. 

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Mentiras, propaganda y bulos disfrazados de noticias

Reportaje sobre los bulos y las fake news emitido por la cadena de televisión La Sexta en 2017.

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España vota no a la regulación del autocultivo de cannabis

Un proyecto de ley, para la legalización del cultivo particular de cannabis fue rechazada por el Senado español

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La diva del humor gráfico español: Flavita Banana

Flavia Álvarez-Pedrosa (Oviedo, 1987) es sin duda la viñetista más querida y celebrada del momento en España.

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La respuesta de los jóvenes en tiempos de pandemia

Solidaridad y participación ciudadana durante la pandemia de 2020.    

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Les enjeux de la connaissance

L’auteur montre comment la Chine accapare le savoir académique et technologique pour servir sa puissance. 

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Animal Farm Audio Book

If you're studying Animal Farm with your LLCER 1e students, check out the complete and unabridged audio book of Orwell's allegory on the BBC Sounds site.

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Josephine Baker: An Incredible Life

Our bioboxes are short "Who Am I?" quizzes to help introduce pupils to famous figures in the English-speaking world.  This one is on Josephine Baker as she enters the French Panthéon.

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