Professeurs documentalistes Lycée

Il Gattopardo, la nuova serie

In streaming dal 5 marzo 2025, la serie è il secondo adattamento dopo il film del 1963 di Luchino Visconti. Il Gattopardo è una serie televisiva italo-inglese tratta dall'omonimo romanzo di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. La finzione è ambientata nella storica Sicilia del 1860 con l’arrivo della spedizione dei Mille...

Keep Calm and Carry On!

This slogan from 1939 symbolises British identity in 2025 . You can find it on T-shirts, mugs, postcards and posters.

La Chine, une puissance industrielle innovante

La Chine a renforcé sa position mondiale en remettant en valeur ses industries, en innovant et se spécialisant dans plusieurs secteurs clés.

L’état de l’environnement en France

Le rapport quinquennal du SDES évalue l'état des ressources naturelles, de la pollution, du climat et de la biodiversité en France.

Discours de la servitude volontaire - Étienne de La Boétie

Téléchargez gratuitement le livret pédagogique de Discours de la servitude volontaire , d' Étienne de La Boétie pour accompagner vos élèves dans l’étude de ce texte majeur de la pensée politique.

Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes - Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle

Téléchargez  gratuitement le livret pédagogique d' Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes , de Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle pour accompagner vos élèves dans l’étude de cette œuvre visionnaire.

Lettres d'une Péruvienne - Françoise de Graffigny

Téléchargez  gratuitement le livret pédagogique de Lettres d’une Péruvienne , de Françoise de Graffigny pour accompagner vos élèves dans l’étude de ce texte engagé.

Orangutan Eco-Warrior

Ozi: Voice of the Forest is an animated film with an ecological message. Its protagonist, Ozi, is a young orangutan who is separated from her parents during a forest fire. She finds refuge in a sanctuary where she learns sign language. But when she hears her parents are alive, she sets off to find them. Orangutans are humans' closest relatives in the animal world. They are a critically endangered species and live only in the Pacific, principally on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. There are fewer than 120,000 orangutans left in the wild and their habitat is threatened by human activity: the rainforests they live in are being cut down to create palm oil plantations to feed our desire for shampoo, chocolate spreads and cosmetics. That is the situation in the film, which is co-produced by actor Leo DiCaprio, well-known for his commitment to the environment. The film trailer will allow pupils to piece together the story. We see wildfires, Ozi explaining her life in the sanctuary she calls an orphanage, and her realisation she can and must try to save her parents and habitat. It introduces her friends, a monkey called Chance and a rhinoceros called Honkys. Pupils can make hypotheses about the place her parents are being kept and what the company GreenZar is doing taht is "destroying our island". https://youtu.be/URWqCWhyJRc This very short introductory scene narrated by Hugh Bonneville would be great for anticipation: how could this tiny ape "change the world"? https://youtu.be/Td1kDxvKJfI   This short clip entitled "Home Sweet Home" shows the paradisical life Ozi had as baby with her parents in the rainforest. It's good for revising family vocabulary. https://youtu.be/rgdCEYSmBXs This clip shows Ozi rediscovering the forest with Chance after living in the human world. (She has a tablet to take photos because she has become an influencer, helping the charity that helped her teach the world about he species.) [embed]https://youtu.be/8HihAJjnJyc[/embed] Going Further For more about orangutans, check out this article on the Greenpeace site, "10 Amazing Facts About Orangutans". And this article from the WWF site explains what products contain palm oil and how to find responsibly-produced palm-oil products. This film would make a great complement to Shine Bright 5e SnapFile 8 Save Rang-Tan, a beautiful animated poem about saving orangutan habitat created by Greenpeace and narrated by Emma Thompson.     Ozi: Voice of the Forest On general release 2 April 2025

Quais du Polar Lyon 2025

Lyon's Quais du Polar festival is celebrating its 21st edition from 4 to 6 April. This year the festival will welcome 160 authors from 17 countries, including several English-speaking ones.

Australian Election Called

Australia's Prime Minister, Labor's Anthony Albanese, has called a federal election for 5 May. Labor currently has a slim majority in parliament. Opinion polls put Labor neck and neck with the Liberal-National coalition led by Peter Dutton.

Favoriser le travail des mineurs aux États-Unis ?

Floride : un projet de loi pour assouplir la réglementation du travail des mineurs face à la pénurie de main-d'œuvre.

La filière de la betterave à sucre en France

La filière betterave à sucre française : de la culture aux produits transformés, un secteur agricole aux multiples débouchés.

World Autism Awareness Month

April is World Autism Awareness Month. It aims to raise awareness about the condition. This short video by a British schoolboy with autism is a great introduction for pupils to see how he experiences life and school, and the benefits of help he has received.

Les nouveaux programmes de Langues Vivantes au Lycée

De nouveaux programmes en langues vivantes vont être appliqués en 2de à la rentrée 2025. À partir des projets de programme publiés en janvier, nous avons synthétisé pour vous les changements apportés.

Down the Mississippi

The Mississippi is in the spotlight in April at the Institut Franco-Américain in Rennes. A talk and a documentary film explore the river. On 1 April, Hervé Nicolas, recently retired researcher from  l’Institut Agro Rennes-Angers, will give a talk about the effects of climate change on the fourth longest river in the world. On 3 April, there will be a screening of River to the Heart, a documentary following novelist Eddy L. Harris in 2019 as he repeated his own epic journey from thirty years before, kayaking the 2,500 mile length of the Mississippi from northern Minnesota to New Orleans. Harris wrote about the original journey in his first book, Mississippi Solo, and has continued to travel and explore the African-American experience of the country, in the South and in Harlem for example. In May, there will be three screenings of films about the environment and environmental activism. And while you're at the IFA, don't miss the exhibition about Susan B. Anthony , the suffragist campaigner, till the end of April. Mississippi and the Climate talk 1 April 6.30 p.m. Reservations (free) River to the Heart documentary 3 April from 6 p.m., film at 7 p.m. Reservations (free)   This would like well with the documents about the rivier in F File 27 Colours of Louisiana in Shine Bright LLCER AMC.

Threats to the U.S. Department of Education

On March 20, headlines around the world announced that President Donald Trump had dismantled the U.S. Department of Education. What does the Department of Education do, and has it really been closed?

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Les chaînes de valeur au défi des droits de douane

Entre protection nationale et flux mondiaux, les droits de douane redessinent la géographie des échanges commerciaux.

Innovation für den Klimaschutz

Kühlschränke waren einst eine revolutionäre Erfindung. Aber sie produzieren auch viele Treibhausgase. Ein junges deutsches Unternehmen aus Darmstadt hat ein neues, nachhaltigeres System erfunden, um unsere Lebensmittel kühl zu halten.

Eine Geschichte der deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen

Historisch und auch aktuell: die Geschichte der deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen im 20. Jahrhundert. Vielleicht auch eine gute Gelegenheit, zusammen mit Ihren Englischkollegen zu arbeiten …

Civil Rights Map

What about a Civil Rights Trail Map to commemorate and remember this decade-long fight to reach equality? The map and website studied here offer a geographical exploration of the period rather than a more common and historical one, a good means for your B1-B2 students to see the Civil Rights movement from a different perspective.

Canada on the Brink of an Election

When Justin Trudeau resigned as Canadian Prime Minister on 6 January, he was hoping to give the Liberal Party a chance of winning the election that had to be held by 20 October. But since Donald Trump's inauguration, the Liberal Party has leapt up in opinion polls. Now the newly chosen Prime Minster Mark Carney is expected to hold a snap election to try to benefit from that new popularity.

Kids Take Over Parliament

On 28 February, the average age in the House of Commons debating chamber was a lot younger than normal. Instead of the usual MPs, the chamber hosted the annual sitting of the UK Youth Parliament: more than 300 11-18-year-olds elected by their peers. 

L’administration Trump attaque la science

Comment les décisions budgétaires de l'administration Trump transforment-elles l'avenir de la recherche américaine ?

Nouveaux programmes 2025 en Collège et Lycée

Du changement s'annonce pour la rentrée 2025, en cycle 3 (Français, Maths et Anglais 6e) et EMC 4e ; ainsi que pour le Lycée (Langues Vivantes). Retrouvez ici tout ce qu'il y a à savoir sur les nouveaux programmes annoncés.

Red Nose Day is Celebrating a Big Birthday

Red Nose Day is back on Friday 21 March in the UK.  And this is incredibly the charity Comic Relief's 40th birthday. They've been encouraging people to don a clown's red nose and "do something funny for money" since 1988. 

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L’Allemagne et la fin du frein à l’endettement

L'Allemagne s'apprête à réviser sa règle d'or budgétaire : Friedrich Merz veut lever le frein à l'endettement pour réarmer le pays.

Well-targeted responses to Trump’s tariff measures

As Trump imposes tariffs on foreign imports, other countries are retaliating with their own tariffs designed to hurt his voter base.

Wes Anderson Exhibition at the Cinémathèque

Wes Anderson is one of those film directors who has such a personal style that you can instantly recognise one of his films, whether it's live action or animation. An exhibition at the Cinémathèque recreates the singular vision of the director of Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr Fox and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Wes Anderson was born in Texas in 1969 and started making Super 8 films when he was a teenager. He met actor Owen Wilson while he was at college and together they made a short film, Bottle Rocket, that was a success at the Sundance festival and they made into a feature film. Anderson co-wrote his next couple of films with Wilson, Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). The themes of eccentric teenagers and dysfunctional families recur in The Darjeeling Limited (2004), The Life Aquatic (2007) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012). Meantime, Anderson turned to stop-motion animation with his adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's book Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) (image at the top of the page). His love affair with Dahl would bring him his first personal Oscar after many nominations, in 2024 for The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar , the first of his short-to-medium film adaptations of Dahl's short stories for adults for Netflix. He would return to stop-motion with Isle of Dogs (2018). 2014's The Grand Budapest Hotel is probably Anderson's best-known film, and it garnered him three more Oscar nominations as well as 4 wins in different categories. Anderson credits Austrian novelist Stephan Zweig for inspiring the film, set in a a fictional Eastern European city. The miscellaneous staff and guests of a luxury hotel face a time of conflict and tyranny with humour and resilience. The film stars Ralph Fiennes and Saoirse Ronan as well as Anderson regulars Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe and Tilda Swinton. https://youtu.be/KVyf-fzv-mA Anderson continued his love for visiting a perhaps more stylish past with The French Dispatch (2021), set in 1960s France, and Asteroid City, and the height of Hollywood glamour with Asteroid City (2023),  complete with a Marilyn-Monroe starlet played by Scarlett Johansson. Look out later in the year for Anderson's latest film, a spy thriller called The Phoenician Scheme starring many of the stable of actors who recur in his films, such as Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Benedict Cumberbatch. Wes Anderson Cinémathèque Paris 19 March-27 July 2025 The exhibition will then move to London's Design Museum before going on a world tour. It is possible to book guided visits for classes 4e level and up (in French). They will last 90 minutes and cost 145 € per class, up to 30 pupils et 6.50 € for each extra pupil up to a maximum of 34). Check out the teachers' page for contact details.