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Gurumbé,canciones de tu memoria negra

El documental Gurumbé, canciones de tu memoria negra, Miguel Ángel Rosales, 2016 nos descubre otra visión de España.

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Sleep for the Planet

As many of us get used to spending much more time than usual at home during the Covid-19 outbreak, it seems a perfect time to catch up on some of that sleep we all keep saying we don't get enough of. And it turns out we could help the planet at the same time.

19 Mars 2020

ecology

health

sleep

Your Students Have Talent: Once Upon a Time

We always love to see students' work. Here are some new twists on fairy tales pupils wrote and illustrated as their final task in a sequence from Shine Bright 2e: File 20 Once Upon a Time.

15 Mars 2020

creative writing

fairytale

Shine bright 2e

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Getting Closer to the White House

From a diverse field of almost thirty candidates, the campaign to find the Democratic candidate to oppose Donald Trump in November's election has narrowed to a choice between frontrunners representing the left and the right of the party.

13 Mars 2020

president

Trump

EMC

Sélection culturelle

An Extraordinary Theatre Experience

Taking folk tales from around the world, British company 1927 bring their latest category-busting show to Paris in English in March. Roots began with a book writer Suzanne Andrade found in the British Library. The Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index is a treasure trove of the world's folk tales. It gives short descriptions of stories, variations of which can been found from Scotland to Spain, Ireland to India, and classifies them into categories such as "transformation", "stupid husbands" and "foolish wives". Having selected likely stories, the company gave them "the 1927 treatment" developed in their previous shows such as The Animals and Children took to the Streets and Golem. 1927 combines silent-film-type performance, animation and music. And in this case, voiceover of the actual tales by friends and family of the company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-rx8_Hnz-k Andrade insists on the fact that these are folk tales, not fairy stories. They are rooted in real life, "different to the folk tales we grew up with, which, it became clear, had been bleached and cleaned up, trimmed and neatened, packed full of Christian morality, gender stereotypes, and ‘defanged’ to quote Angela Carter." Carter's unexpurgated and feminist tales in The Bloody Chamber (1979) and Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (1992) are a major influence. Roots 24-29 March 2020 In English, with French surtitles Théâtre de la Ville-Abbesses

11 Mars 2020

animation

théâtre

folk tales

Carmen y Lola

El primer largometraje de la directora Arantxa Echevarría (Bilbao, 1968) Carmen y Lola, 2018 cuenta la historia de dos jóvenes.

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Katherine Johnson Human Calculator Dies

The mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101.Her calculations were vital many NASA space missions.She was one of the "Hidden Figures" brought into the spotlight by the 2016 book and film.

25 Février 2020

Cinéma

NASA

space

5

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The Call of the Wild

A new film adaptation of Jack London’s famous novel returns to the original story and focuses much more on Buck, the dog, than previous films. Pupils will also enjoy recognising Harrison Ford and Omar Sy. The activities below include watching the film trailer without, then with sound, and reading a short, simple article.

24 Février 2020

video

film

animals

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Be a Sport!

Brits are gearing up to raise money for charity with Sport Relief on 13 March. The high-energy version of Comic Relief is asking people to lace up their running shoes, put on their swimsuits or get on their bikes to tackle issues such as mental health stigma, domestic abuse, homelessness and poverty, both in the UK and around the world.

24 Février 2020

sport

citizenship

video

Just Mercy

A new film tells the true story of a battle against endemic racism in the American justice system. It's based on a memoir by Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer in Alabama, and tells the story of his firm's battle to prove the innocence of Walter McMillian, who was condemned to death for a murder he didn't commit. A black man, the murder of a white woman in Monroeville: the story disturbingly echoes Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and questions whether anything has changed in the almost hundred years since that classic was set.

24 Février 2020

film

civil rights

racism

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Tales of the US Border in Theatres Around France

San Francisco theatre company Word for Word is back for its annual French tour. This year their show is a coming-of-age story by Mexican-American writer Octavio Solis, Retablos: Stories from a Life Lived Along the Border. They will perform it in Nancy, Paris, Angers and Lyon.

24 Février 2020

théâtre

U.S. culture

paris

Sport Relief Teaching Materials

Sport Relief is from 9 to 13 March in the UK. Like its twin, Red Nose Day, it has always had a big educational element. Schools participate massively in fundraising, but the charity also provides lots of teaching materials so classes can learn about the problems Sport Relief funds are helping to tackle.

24 Février 2020

citizenship

video

homelessness

Mientras dure la guerra

Mientras dure la guerra es una película del director español Alejandro Amenábar, estrenada en 2019.

NBA Giant

Kobe Bryant was a hero to basketball fans in the U.S.A. and around the world. They were devastated to learn about the former NBA star’s death in a helicopter crash on 26 January, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.

16 Février 2020

sport

hero

U.S. culture

Sélection culturelle

Bringing African Faces to the Foreground

In an exhibition in Bordeaux, a British artist pulls African characters from the background of European paintings and puts them centre stage. Lubaina Himid was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania but brought up in England. She was a leading figure of the Black British Art Movement in the 1980s and won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2017. The installation on show in Bordeaux consists of 100 life size cut-out figures of black slaves or servants who featured in paintings as far back as the 17th century. Having a black servant in a painting signalled the main subject’s wealth and status. As Lubaina Himid explains , "They often provided the entertainment just by looking different and were at their most useful as the greatest conspicuous display of wealth imaginable." In 2004, Himid took the figures from the paintings and gave them back an existence of their own. They each have an invented name and story. But lest the bright colours and cheerful faces fool you, their stories take the form of invoices attached to their backs. My name is Walukaga They call me Sam I used to chase wild boar Now the dogs do it for me And they have the meat My name is Asiza They call me Sally I loved to work the clay Now I sweep the yard But I love the mud Himid called the piece Naming the Money , as the black characters literally represented wealth. The installation takes extra meaning from the venue in Bordeaux: the CAPC is housed in a warehouse built in 1824 to store the coffee, sugar, cotton, rum and spices that were imported into the city from France's colonies. This video gives a good sense of the installation: [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92dRBiWfeM[/embed] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92dRBiWfeM Lubaina Himid: Naming the Money CAPC Bordeaux Till 23 February 2020

07 Février 2020

art

Africa

British artists

Sélection culturelle

Alex Taylor on What it Means to Be British

What does it mean to be British, French or European? In the light of Brexit, journalist Alex Taylor will discuss this thorny question in a free talk at the British Council on Thursday 5 March.

06 Février 2020

Brexit

europe

civil rights

Sélection culturelle

Little Women: Big Film

Greta Gerwig’s new adaptation of the classic coming-of-age story Little Women retells the story of the novel in parallel with the life of its author, Louisa May Alcott.

05 Février 2020

coming-of-age

gender politics

autobiography

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U.S. Presidential Marathon

The race to the White House is heating up, but there’s still a long way to go to the 3 November election.

03 Février 2020

elections

president

Trump

3

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Little Women

Greta Gerwig’s latest movie based on Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Women" will take you into a female world in which conventions are defied, questioned and challenged by four sisters. This lively and fast-paced trailer will enable your students to not only get a glimpse of what life was like for women at that time but also to feel the brewing change embodied by Jo and her sisters. This work on "Little Women" can be a good introduction to a sequence on coming-of-age stories.

31 Janvier 2020

coming-of-age

gender politics

autobiography

3

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1917

The new World War I drama from director Sam Mendes, "1917", unfolds in real-time, tracking a pair of British soldiers as they cross the Western Front on a desperate rescue mission. This trailer is a good addition to Shine Bright 1e Advanced File 18 “War will not tear us apart”. It can also be used with the Speakeasy Files 3e Euro sequence on heroism in wartime.

31 Janvier 2020

conflict

war

WWI

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Brexit Day

After more than three and a half years, and with no celebratory ringing of Big Ben, Brexit finally means Brexit. Sort of.

31 Janvier 2020

Brexit

Boris Johnson

UK parliament

He Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

William Wordsworth was a leading light of the Romantics, famous in habitant of the Lake District, and Poet Laureate. 2020 marks his 250th anniversary.

31 Janvier 2020

poetry

anniversary

British culture

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Brexit is Back On

With the Conservative Party winning an overall majority in the UK Parliament for the first time since 2017, Prime Minister Boris Johnson means to make good on his promise to, "Get Brexit done."

20 Décembre 2019

Brexit

elections

UK politics

Reading Guides for Your Students

We promised them and here they are. Our first four Reading Guides are available for books on the 1ère LLCER curriculum by Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell, Harper Lee and Mark Haddon. Designed for class or home use, they will help pupils successfully meet the challenge of reading their first full fictional works in English. Reading two books in English for the LLCER classes is a big ask for many pupils. And fitting work on the books into class hours is a challenge for teachers. We've designed these guides to reassure pupils and help you ensure they get the most out of the experience in an efficient, structured way. https://youtu.be/XvVwCI8BBkc Each guide opens with a section to help discover the author, the context the book was written in, and start making hypotheses from the book cover and blurb. The main section of the guide presents key extracts from the book, accompanied by step-by-step comprehension and analysis activities and intermediate tasks. For the Poe short stories, the guide contains the entire text. For the longer works, an activity after each extract encourages pupils to be active as they read on in the book. Finally, the guide concludes with four pages of ideas for connected works pupils could include in their portfolio for the Bac, and associated activities. You'll find a detailed downloadable teaching guide on the companion site for each book, as well as audio files and links to sites and videos used in the guide, which are also directly available by scanning the pages of the guide with the NathanLive app on a smartphone or tablet. You can browse samples of the guides by clicking on the titles: "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" Edgar Allan Poe Animal Farm George Orwell To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon Coming later in the year: Of Mice and Men and The Importance of Being Earnest.

20 Décembre 2019

literature

Oscar Wilde

Edgar Allan Poe

5

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William Blake: Visionary

The Tate Britain exhibition on William Blake explores this talented 19th century artist whose poems and paintings are strikingly modern and pregnant with meaning. Differentiated activities from A2+ to B2 will allow you to add Blake to a sequence on the Gothic or the Romantic movements, for example Shine Bright 1ère Advanced File 1 “Freaky dreams”.

20 Décembre 2019

poetry

art

exhibition

Sélection culturelle

Last Christmas: Rom-com with a Message

It’s one of those ideas that seem so obvious you can’t imagine why someone has already had it. A Christmas movie inspired by one of the most perennially popular (though bittersweet) yuletide pop songs: “Last Christmas” by George Michael.

20 Décembre 2019

film

London

Christmas

Greta's Speech

The speech young climate activist Greta Thunberg made to the UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019 is a great example of a speech for students. It can be added to work on several Shine Bright 1e themes. Greta Thunberg would also be interesting to study in connection with the LLCER literature curriculum The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

20 Décembre 2019

video

speech

protest

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Impeached

On 18 December, President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives, only the third president in U.S. history to be rebuked in this way. The second stage of impeachment, before the Senate, is unlikely to succeed, but it will run into the beginning of primary season for the November presidential election.

20 Décembre 2019

U.S. politics

U.S. elections

Congress

Greta's Year

It’s been quite a year for Greta Thunberg. As well as leading millions of people in climate protests around the world, the 16-year-old activist has addressed the United Nations, met and harangued world leaders. It’s no wonder that Time Magazine named her its Person of the Year.

19 Décembre 2019

protest

ecology

environment

7

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The New Face of Congress

A young Latina woman from the Bronx, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shatters our traditional vision of Congressional Representatives. This article explores her life, both private and public, from the Bronx to Washington, D.C. after the recent midterm elections: how can “one of us” sit in Congress at barely 29 and champion the average working class person’s rights? This article comes in 2 versions: B1 and B1+/B2 which enables you to have the whole class work on the same subject, with the same worksheet (making it easier for you to correct the activities with the whole group).

18 Décembre 2019

video

New York

gender equality

Professeurs documentalistes Lycée

Gurumbé,canciones de tu memoria negra

Sleep for the Planet

Your Students Have Talent: Once Upon a Time

Getting Closer to the White House

An Extraordinary Theatre Experience

Carmen y Lola

Katherine Johnson Human Calculator Dies

The Call of the Wild

Be a Sport!

Just Mercy

Tales of the US Border in Theatres Around France

Sport Relief Teaching Materials

Mientras dure la guerra

NBA Giant

Bringing African Faces to the Foreground

Alex Taylor on What it Means to Be British

Little Women: Big Film

U.S. Presidential Marathon

Little Women

1917

Brexit Day

He Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Brexit is Back On

Reading Guides for Your Students

William Blake: Visionary

Last Christmas: Rom-com with a Message

Greta's Speech

Impeached

Greta's Year

The New Face of Congress