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Who Am I? Competition Winners

Here are the winning quizzes in our A2-level writing competition to write a 10-question “Who Am I?” quiz about a famous English-speaker. As promised, we’ve transformed their questions into “Biobox” videos. Can you guess who they are?

26 Avril 2019

biography

competition

writing

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Becoming Michelle Obama

The release of the former First Lady’s memoir and her accompanying conference tour is a great occasion for pupils to learn more about her biography, and about the role of the First Lady, which Patricia Nixon described as, Patricia Nixon (First Lady from 1969 to 1974) described it as “the hardest unpaid job in the world”. After reading an article, pupils can complete an individual or interactive writing task.

26 Avril 2019

biography

U.S. politics

White House

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Biobox: Queen Elizabeth II

Our bioboxes are short "Who Am I?" quizzes to help introduce pupils to famous figures in the English-speaking world. This one was written by pupils for our "Who Am I?" contest.

26 Avril 2019

British

biography

Royal Family

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Biobox: Sherlock Holmes

Our bioboxes are short "Who Am I?" quizzes to help introduce pupils to famous figures in the English-speaking world. This one was written by pupils for our "Who Am I?" contest.

26 Avril 2019

London

biography

Victorian

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Biobox: Beyoncé

Our bioboxes are short "Who Am I?" quizzes to help introduce pupils to famous figures in the English-speaking world. This one was written by a pupil for our "Who Am I?" contest.

26 Avril 2019

biography

music

pop

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Biobox: Charles Darwin

Our bioboxes are short "Who Am I?" quizzes to help introduce pupils to famous figures in the English-speaking world. This one was written by pupils for our "Who Am I?" contest.

26 Avril 2019

biography

British culture

science

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Biobox: Emma Watson

Our bioboxes are short "Who Am I?" quizzes to help introduce pupils to famous figures in the English-speaking world. This one was written by a pupil for our "Who Am I?" contest.

26 Avril 2019

united nations

feminism

biography

ANZAC Day

While most countries involved in World War I commemorate those who served in that and later wars on 11 November, the date the War ended, in Australia and New Zealand, the main commemoration is ANZAC Day, 25 April, the day in 1915 when their servicemen first saw action, in the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign.

24 Avril 2019

conflict

war

commemoration

Sélection culturelle

This is the end…

The world of Pop culture will remember April 2019 for two things: the release of Avengers: Endgame and the final series of Game of Throne s . Both mark the culmination of tentacular stories with many iconic characters which could die at the really end… or not. As Game of Thrones approaches the midpoint of its final season*, Marvel, after eleven years and 22 movies, reaches a conclusion to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with "Avengers: Endgame” coming into theaters on April 24. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans) and their fellow superheroes are getting a second shot at Thanos (Josh Brolin) after their brutal Infinity War defeat one year ago. https://youtu.be/TcMBFSGVi1c If you haven't seen all of the MCU movies, it would be a bit hard to go into this one filled with callbacks and meta winks to every movie in the series. So, if you have the time, the main arc to watch or rewatch is the one with these three films : "Captain America: Winter Soldier" (2014), "Captain America: Civil War" (2016) and "Infinity War" (2018). They are all directed by the Russo brothers and written by the same screenwriters, the same team who wrote and directed "Endgame” What is the Marvel Cinematic Universe and why did Marvel start with these characters? The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is composed of 22 films. Each relates its own distinct story but is also connected with other films in the MCU, to tell an overarching tale. It's a technique Marvel Comics pioneer Stan Lee also used in his comics. Some Marvel characters appear in films that don't connect to the MCU because in 2007 Marvel was recovering from bankruptcy and had sold the film rights of some of the company's most popular characters like the X-Men and Spider-Man. Marvel still owned Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor and Captain America who form the core of the Avengers team. Marvel used the early MCU films to introduce these heroes, then brought these characters together for the crossover film Avengers Assemble . This crossover was planned from the very beginning. The MCU is the most successful film franchise of all time, making more than $18.4 billion so far. Here is the complet list of the MCU films. Iron Man (2008) The Incredible Hulk (2008) Iron Man 2 (2010) Thor (2011) Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) The Avengers (2012) Iron Man 3 (2013) Thor: The Dark World (2013) Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) Guardians Of The Galaxy (2014) Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2015) Ant-Man (2015) Captain America: Civil War (2016) Doctor Strange (2016) Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Black Panther (2018) Avengers: Infinity War (2018) Ant-Man And The Wasp (2018) Captain Marvel (2019) Avengers: Endgame (2019) *Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen and their allies are set to battle the White Walkers at Winterfell. The April 28 episode stands to be the biggest action sequence in the Emmy-winning drama's history!

24 Avril 2019

comic book

movies

science fiction

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Take Your Students to “An American in Paris”

The Châtelet Theatre in Paris is re-opening in September and returning to its tradition of putting on large-scale musicals, in their original language. The opening offering is George and Ira Gershwin’s An American in Paris. There are special matinée performances for schools on Thursdays 12 and 19 December at 3 p.m.

17 Avril 2019

film

théâtre

high school

Aretha Franklin Honoured with a Pulitzer Prize

Soul singer Aretha Franklin has been posthumously honoured with a Pulitzer Prize. The 2019 winners list revealed on 15 April also included Richard Power’s extraordinary novel The Overstory and The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for their investigations on President Donald Trump.

17 Avril 2019

U.S. culture

music

U.S. history

Sélection culturelle

Dancing Nina Simone

Britain’s celebrated modern dance company, Rambert, is celebrating singer Nina Simone with a dance-theatre piece featuring musicians live on stage. Simone, who died in 2003, was one of the great, and unclassifiable, popular singers of the 20th century, and a strong proponent of Civil Rights.

11 Avril 2019

civil rights

dance

music

Sélection culturelle

Winter is Here

After 8 seasons, "Game of Thrones" is finally coming to an end…. until a series of prequels hit our screens.

11 Avril 2019

books

videos

Series

Screen Tourism: “Game of Thrones” Fans Flock to Northern Ireland

Game of Thrones may be set in the imaginary Seven Kingdoms, but it was filmed in real locations around the world. Many locations, and all the studio work, were done in Northern Ireland and the country is attracting crowds of tourists anxious to walk in the footsteps of their heroes.

11 Avril 2019

books

exhibition

Series

Sélection culturelle

Discovering Oceania

A new exhibition at the Musée Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac explores the vast continent of Oceania, where water is omnipresent in real and metaphorical senses. The exhibition was originated at the Royal Academy in London to commemorate the journeys of James Cook in search of a mythical southern continent in the late Eighteenth Century. Cook never found the inexistent land mass geographers believed must exist to balance the globe. What Cook and his crew encountered on arrival was a vast number of island civilisations covering almost a third of the world’s surface: from Tahiti in Polynesia, to the scattered archipelagos and islands of Melanesia and Micronesia. The exhibition includes unique historic artefacts from museums collections but also work by contemporary Oceanian artists around the themes of meetings, memories, past and future. Oceania: exhibition trailer from Royal Academy of Arts on Vimeo . The exhibition opens with a section on journeys. From 8000 BC till 1300 AD, skilled South Asian navigators explored the South Pacific and made its islands their homes. Common origins mean there are similarities in the languages and lifestyle of the different islanders but isolation and specific geographical conditions meant that each adapted and adopted its own specific characteristics. The exhibition is full of artefacts from across the region — often examples of indigenous cultures that Europeans collected, while trying to replace the cultures that created them with Christianity and “civilisation”. Past, Present and Future The exhibit isn’t only facing towards the past. It also features many works by contemporary artists from Oceania. A monumental blue "wave" marks the entrance of the exhibition. It is made using a traditional Maori weaving technique but it is woven from blue plastic tarpaulins which are omnipresent in Maori communities. The collective who created it share their stories and experience on the exhibition site. A magnificently carved piano again confronts indigenous and colonial culture, referring to Jane Campion’s film The Piano (1993) based on a classic New Zealand novel where the clash of cultures is exemplified by European missionaries trying to transport a grand piano to a. inaccessible place with a totally inappropriate climate for the sensitive instrument. The work, by Michael Parekowhai, is entitled He Korero Purakau mo Te Awanui o Te Motu: story of a New Zealand river. The piano, symbol of European civilisation, has been transformed in turn with the technique Maori use for the canoes or wake that transported them thousands of miles over the Pacific. In a video installation, another Maori artist, Lisa Reihana, reinvents a 19th century European representation of exotic Oceania: French artist Jean Gabriel Charvet’s panoramic wallpaper entitled The Savages of the Pacific Sea. Reihana's work, In Pursuit of Venus (Infected) , pictures Captain Cook’s expedition’s encounters with different Pacific peoples. Cook’s expedition was ostensibly a scientific mission to observe the planet Venus. Reihana reimagines the meetings of cultures from the point of view of the peoples of Oceania. Less romantic idyll and more colonial nightmare, with the arrival of infectious diseases brought by the Europeans which decimated local populations. The exhibition closes on a major contemporary problem: rising sea levels threating the future of many island nations. In this video, poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner from the Marshall Islands describes the attachment that island peoples have to their land. She concludes, Tell them we don’t want to leave we’ve never wanted to leave and that we are nothing without our islands. https://youtu.be/w9D88ST9qbw Océanie Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac Till 7 July See our webpicks for some excellent videos exploring works and themes from the exhibition.

08 Avril 2019

art

exhibition

Australia

Oceania Through Videos

The Oceania exhibition that is now on at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris originated at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The RA has a number of videos in English online in connection with the exhibition that are excellent for class work on the topic.

08 Avril 2019

video

art

exhibition

Destination: Moon

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landings, take your pupils on a guided visit in English of the Moon exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris before the summer holidays.

02 Avril 2019

NASA

space

astronaut

Sélection culturelle

Singing the Great Famine

One of Ireland's most popular folk singer-songwriters, Declan O'Rourke, spent fifteen years writing a song cycle of stories about the Great Irish Famine. He'll be presenting his award-winning songs at the Irish Cultural Centre on Thursday 4 April.

27 Mars 2019

Ireland

Irish history

music

Save the Date: Rockwell in Caen

To commemorate the 75th anniversary the D-Day landings, the Mémorial de Caen is hosting a touring exhibition dedicated to Norman Rockwell's depictions of President Roosevelt's vision of a post-war future.

26 Mars 2019

WWI

human rights

civil rights

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Don McCullin: War Photographer

Although Don McCullin hates to be described as a war photographer. Yet his black-and-white photographs bear witness of the major conflicts the world has been experiencing for the last 60 years. From Cyprus to Syria, from Vietnam to Biafra. A retrospective at Tate Britain will allow students to think about the impact of press images on public opinion, using a written interview, slideshow and video. B2 level.

26 Mars 2019

war

exhibition

photojournalism

Sélection culturelle

Short Stories on Stage Paris, Angers, Nancy

For 25 years, San-Francisco-based theatre company Word for Word has been putting on innovative productions of prose pieces performed as theatre. And each year, they do a small tour of France, giving audiences in Paris, Angers and Nancy the chance to experience their unique style of theatre. They’re back in April and May with two stories by American short-story greats Tobias Wolff and George Saunders.

25 Mars 2019

théâtre

paris

short stories

Sélection culturelle

Fabulous Irish Music in Rennes and Colomiers

Stretch St Patrick celebrations for one more night with traditional Irish band Altan, in concert in Rennes on 19 March. They’re also in Colomiers on 13 April.

19 Mars 2019

Ireland

folk music

St Patrick

Rendez-vous

Christchurch Students Perform Haka for Shooting Victims

Students from across the New Zealand city gathered for a vigil in honour of those who were killed or injured in the Christchurch mosque shootings. They performed an emotional haka together. The vigil, one of several which have taken place, was organised by Okirano Tilaia , the Head Boy of nearby Cashmere High School. At least seven people connected with the school, including three current students, are believed to have been killed or injured. Thousands of students came together to chant karakia, Maori prayers, and sing a waiata, or mourning song, before performing a haka. Although it is often described as a war dance, hakas are regularly performed to honour the dead at funerals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqskKalF5Pw Students from different high schools joined in. The prefects at St Margaret's College had made paper chains. A student representative explained that they represented the idea the gunman had "tried to tear a city down like paper, but he didn't realise that we are linked".

18 Mars 2019

school

protest

New Zealand

Rendez-vous

School Strike for the Planet

A quiet revolution is building momentum around the world as school pupils strike and march to try to get their elders to take serious measures to limit climate change.

15 Mars 2019

Australia

protest

ecology

Explore English Through Shakespeare

A free online course from the British Council lets you, and your students, explore Shakespeare's plays and language.

14 Mars 2019

literature

MOOC

Shakespeare

Rendez-vous

Happy Birthday World Wide Web

It’s the thirtieth anniversary of the conception of the World Wide Web. In seems incredible to imagine that something billions of us use hundreds of times a day was the brainchild of one man trying to solve a practical problem.

12 Mars 2019

digital

EMI

science

Green Book: Online Resources

"Green Book"— winner of the 2019 Best Picture Oscar —is a road movie about friendship and race relations in the 1960s American South. The film takes its title from a guide book published for almost thirty years from 1936: The Negro Motorist Green Book. These online resources will help you explore the real Green Book.

28 Février 2019

books

film

civil rights

Love in Harlem: Teaching Tools

If Beale Street Could Talk, a love story set in 1970s Harlem, is the first English-language film adapted from one of James Baldwin’s novels. This video and interactive book can be used in class to explore Baldwin's work and the film.

27 Février 2019

U.S.A.

video

film

6

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Two Queens

This B1+-B2 article explores the fates of two queens who reigned in neighbouring kingdoms in the 16th century. Both linked and opposed, they had to rule in a man’s world, in a conflict-ridden society, where religious and political unrest were rife and conspiracy and treason were the norm. Through the new biopic, "Mary Queen of Scots", we ask pupils to think about how, and why, we remember historic figures, and how we reinvent them for our own needs.

27 Février 2019

video

film

biography

Professeurs documentalistes Lycée

Who Am I? Competition Winners

Becoming Michelle Obama

Biobox: Queen Elizabeth II

Biobox: Sherlock Holmes

Biobox: Beyoncé

Biobox: Charles Darwin

Biobox: Emma Watson

ANZAC Day

This is the end…

Oops!

Take Your Students to “An American in Paris”

Aretha Franklin Honoured with a Pulitzer Prize

Dancing Nina Simone

Winter is Here

Screen Tourism: “Game of Thrones” Fans Flock to Northern Ireland

Discovering Oceania

Oceania Through Videos

Destination: Moon

Singing the Great Famine

Save the Date: Rockwell in Caen

Don McCullin: War Photographer

Short Stories on Stage Paris, Angers, Nancy

Fabulous Irish Music in Rennes and Colomiers

Christchurch Students Perform Haka for Shooting Victims

School Strike for the Planet

Explore English Through Shakespeare

Happy Birthday World Wide Web

Green Book: Online Resources

Love in Harlem: Teaching Tools

Two Queens