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Chansons du monde francophone
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The attached is for GCSE Foundation as I have 2 GCSE groups being entered at this level. We have a booster session tomorrow afternoon in advance of the exams on Tuesday.

Attached is a booklet I have made to help my students revise for the GCSE Spanish role play. It is for Foundation Level as this is what I am currently teaching to two groups. All of our students do a GCSE MFL and in these late stages we have settled on who should do Foundation. To help them, I have tried to break things down into chunks for them to learn the key vocabulary with Quizlet links to support - they seem to find these useful. There is a set of past paper role plays in the second half of the booklet. In practical terms, I have copied the booklet on A5 size to make it a bit more portable. I would be interested to hear any feedback on what people do to prepare students for the role play, in particular.

I have updated the vocabulary booklet to include some morphology exercises at the beginning e.g. suffixes like -ante, -dor, etc. There are Quizlets for all of the vocabulary which can be found in the following Padlet - https://padlet.com/njones38211/spanish-gcse-revision-2023-ei3dt5dpk5o0p9ph

Attached is an updated booklet for the GCSE AQA Spanish writing exam at Foundation. With my groups I find that lots of use of mini whiteboards to practise extended writing, esp. the 90 task helps lots. Regular practice using methods such as delayed dictation or showing a model answer which they write it down once removed from display all help to develop their memory and embed more complex phrases.

If anyone has any great ideas on how to improve writing esp. on the 150 word tasks at Higher, please share!

Attached are booklets based on the AQA reading and listening exams. Using past paper questions grouped together, the aim is to get the students to focus on some of the techniques needed. The Foundation booklet has been updated (April 2023).

Attached is a booklet I have put together guiding students through the requirements for the GCSE Higher Writing paper. It has been updated to take into account the advance information on the Spanish exam i.e. no topic of free time for the 90 and 150 word tasks at Higher Level. There have also been some further additions - idioms and in the translation section. I have not updated all of the 90 word tasks i.e. I have not removed the topic of free time, as I have mixed tier groups and the Foundation students will still need to cover free time. (I am confused by this, but perhaps I am missing the point - if anyone can help, please let me know). In the booklet I start with the 150 word task with the reasoning that if they can do this, the 90 word task will be easy! Let's see.

UPDATED VERSION POSTED 19.2.22 - This is version 3. I keep on adding to it! The PDF download will incorporate some of the fonts which may not appear on all computers. Use the Word version if you want to edit the booklet yourself.

QUIZLET LINK: https://quizlet.com/gb/661978767/key-phrases-for-higher-level-writing-aqa-gcse-spanish-flash-cards/

As we are being told that the exams in the summer 2022 will focus on the vocabulary listed in the specification along with words derived from these, we can work on getting al of our students to learn this language. The attached booklets are nothing special. They list the vocabulary as it is presented by the exam board AQA, but each section has a total and Excel spreadsheets are also attached which can be used to create Quizlets, etc. We are running competitions between groups and making pre-learning a large priority. I hope these may be of use.

I have put together some worksheets on suffixes and prefixes to help students work out patterns of words. It is aimed at GCSE students, but I guess that it can be adapted to pretty much any level. The worksheets can all be split into smaller units and dropped into lessons rather than covered all in one go.

Apologies for the multiple "f" in the file names!

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UPDATED APRIL 2023 - I have put two reading comprehension booklets together based on similar types of questions that have been appearing in the AQA GCSE exams. Skills are the key focus of the booklets, but it is good for students to experience different forms of questioning used in the exams. I have been working on a PowerPoint to accompany the Foundation version as I only have Foundation groups this year. This is saved in the same area below, but it is very much work in progress and will improve as I work through. Please note that all of the exercises in the booklets are taken from past papers and could include material you may could be using for assessments. You would need to remove those sections. Beware!
READING BOOKLETS: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pOn6dFPXdQbpKQN5nANqcdc8cVRZUlng?usp=sharing
I am sharing a homework task I have just put together for my A level Spanish students. I am going back over some of the topic areas we have previously covered. Summary skills have been an area they have struggled with, so I have been using homework to give them frequent practice. Hope this is of use.

WORKSHEET: SUMMARY READING el teletrabajo ha llegado para quedarse

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The attached is for GCSE Foundation as I have 2 GCSE groups being entered at this level. We have a booster session tomorrow afternoon in advance of the exams on Tuesday. Attached is a booklet I have made to help my students revise for the GCSE Spanish role play.

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Amazing ideas for using technlogy

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You may think I am obsessed with retrieval practice but it is so important in order to keep students motivated and make progress that a big percentage of my lesson time is dedicated to this.

A few weeks ago I read an article by Marc Enser on some research on retrieval practice. In the article Marc explained how two departments in their school (History and Geography) wanted to see the impact of retrieval practice in their students' results. They used quizzes in their lessons for this. Both departments got an improvement in their test results but Geography's were much higher. When they analysed the data and tried to explain this discrepancy, they discovered that History used to do a quiz in each lesson from previous knowledge but not related to the content of the actual lesson. Geography, on the other hand, did also a quiz but this was embedded in what students were learning in the lesson, hence, helping students to consolidate and embed learning in this long-term memory more successfully than the History department. This is powerful and it relates to my own practice.

All activities done in lessons with new material should include structures from old topics applied to these new contexts while also making reference to the content from past topics. Planned activities and homework tasks should give students opportunities to practise past content as a matter of fact: When asking students to practice sentences on school topic, why not including sentences from holidays and, most importantly, adapting those structures from holidays into the new topic of school? When planning activities for Y11 students on the topic of festivals, why not including also content from work, free time and holidays? why not applying structures seen in the topic of free time "juego al fútbol desde hace 3 años" in this new topic "trabajo de canguro desde hace 3 meses"?

In this post I wrote, extensively, about different apps that I use for retrieval practice but I would like to add a few which I have used since while still mentioning the old ones!

This is the new kid on the block in my teaching! Introduced to me by Laura Causer during the Show and Tell Webinar of the Language Show, this tool has revolutionised my retrieval practice strategy and saved me time!!!!

Spiral is basically, like Wooclap or Mentimeter, an interactive response tool. What's the difference with the two previous apps? You need zero preparation if you use the QuickFire light option!

Basically, you open an account, create a class (you don't need names), select the QuickFire light option from the home menu, select your class and share a special URL and code with your students (these will also be the same for that class every time you launch the QuickFire, so my students have bookmarked it). Similar to Kahoot, Mentimeter etc....

Pupils log in with that special code (not additional login required) and you will start seeing their names appearing on your screen. When you are ready to ask questions to consolidate and retrieval previous knowledge, you just press the green go button!

Students then start writing their answers to your question, which will appear on the screen, only when you click on "reveal answers". This option is great as students cannot copy each other and you can wait to reveal answers once everyone has submitted their input. To increase pace, I encourage early birds, either to check their answers or to extend them so they do not sit down doing nothing while partners submit answers, great for differentiation too!

At this point you may select "show names" too or "hide the names": I find this little action powerful as sometimes you may want to give confidence to students who tend to make mistakes and you may decide not to show their names until a later stage.

However, when you decide to do so, the students' names will appear with their answers on the screen! Big plus from Mentimeter or Wooclap and students can also modify/ improve their answer if you prompt them to do so. Great tool for feedback too.

Spiral is basically an interactive mini whiteboard and it is ideal for hybrid situations when you have students online and students in the classroom! Also no need to sanitise mini whiteboards after single use! In action it looks like the pictures below:

LearningApps

In my previous post I explained in lots of detail all the activities that can be achieved with this tool. The golden rule is to use these activities blended in the learning experience and incorporating structures and vocabulary from previous studied topics! Below there's a how to video guiding you how to use the tool.

How to use LearningApps video

Another great free tool for Retrieval Practice! The randomiser and Random Name picker are great tools for retrieval practice! Instructions are straightforward and you will need a Google account.

Extended uses of how to use Flippity can be found in this Post.

This tool allows you to create personalised interactive quizzes, incorporating sound too so great to revise oral questions while also checking listening comprehension!

How to use quizizz video

This is another of the new tools I have started to use in the last month. Designed by Adam Boxer, creator of Retrieval Roulettes, which Julia Morris talked about during the Show and Tell Webinar in the Language Show, Carousel Learning is also a free tool which allows you to upload a spreadsheet with as many items (Qs) as you want to include, and topics. As my input, I use short sentences that students need to translate into Spanish.

In your spreadsheet you must include your question (English sentence for me), the answer (Spanish translation) and the topic it refers to. There is a template in the site to get the setting right! Once this spreadsheet is uploaded, Carousel Learning allows you to create specific quizzes on particular topics, which you can rotate and assign to different classes. There are also many quizzes questions from the learning community for you to use too!

Why do I love Carousel learning? Because students do not get immediate feedback but they are presented with the right answers at the end of their quiz. Students then must decide if they were correct or not. I think this feature is extremely powerful for independent learning and making students take ownership for their own mistakes and improvement!!! What did I get right? What did I get wrong? Why? And look for help! Although it needs training!

Jane Basnett has created this súper video on how to set up a quiz on Carousel learning. It is extremely informative and well explained so a must watch!

I love this tool!! There are many talented Genially people in the UK such as Marie Allirot or Julia Morris who actually make their own genially activities from scratch!

However, I am lazy, so I use the templates provided in the gamification section! You have many interactive free games such as Snakes and Ladders or Escape Rooms, which you only need to modify to fit your retrieval practice input! I love genially because through games students reinforce those key structures! Genially also embeds smoothly into Onenote, which I use for my lessons, although you can just share your genially game with your classes the way you want to!

You can also embed your LearningApps to the genially game questions! How cool is this?

How to use Genially video (using the app templates)

Wheel of names

One of my favourite apps! For an extensive explanation on how to use Wheel of names in the classroom and in a blended learning situation have a look at this post.

To find out how Wheel of Names works, have a look at the video below:

How to use Wheel of Names video

Let's not forget the basics! This is not free but it is brilliant for retrieval practice! I love every feature of it! It is very affordable. It is an improved online version of Taskmagic: same creator Martin Lapworth.

Example of Textivate activity based on Tourism and Trans port (embedding principle).

Other tools you can explore!

This is a tool which allows you to create your own little games, which you then share with students. Students get tokens and rewards for completing the games. In my opinion, more suitable for KS3. My only reservation is that the games are based on multiple choice, which, I, particularly, am not keen on. However, still a great tool to revise those key structures, especially similar ones in different tenses!

Similar to LearningApps but you can only create a limit of activities unless you go premium! You do not have the embedded audio facility, which is a shame! However, the activities are very eye-catching and attractive for young learners!

Many people are using this! It is not free and I have not used it myself yet! The Intruders game seems like a hit on twitter and many people have recommend it to me. I need to explore this one!

DECK TOYS (thanks to Jimena Licitra for this)

This was introduced to me only a few weeks ago by the amazing Jimena Licitra and it has lots of potential! However, it will require some time to create your resources. This app allows you to create interactive learning paths for your students! It looks very, very powerful and engaging but you will need to dedicate some time to it! You can have some free decks, or learning paths for free but after that there is a premium to pay. You can also use decks created by others! If structured well, this should be an extremely engaging tool for topic revision and retrieval practice of key structures. Watch this space!

So, retrieval practice is important, very important. So important that it should be present in every lesson you do by embedding content and structures from all topics all the time. Using these tools allows me to do so in a motivating and engaging way! However, do not get me wrong, retrieval practice can be done without technology.

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For quizzes (homework/remote tasks), questionnaires
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The evidence is in the practice

ESSA Level 3 correlation evidence in math and ELA, earned by teachers running frequent formative assessments.

When teachers run 30+ formative questions a week, the research is clear: they get more data-driven, their students get more engaged. Wayground is built to make that practice enjoyable ot run, attainable to fit a class period, and habitual enough to last past September.

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Quizizz is now Wayground | Teacher AI and Resources

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TILT Webinar: Music and Technology: Making Language Learning Memorable - Wakelet

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Quizzes and games
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French music ideas

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French Music for the Classroom - Wakelet

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Un week-end a Paris

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Un week-end à Paris

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Tu passes un week-end à Paris et avant de repartir, tu dois récupérer un souvenir à chaque monument. Les numéros associés à chaque souvenir te donneront accès au numéro du vol.

You are spending a weekend in Paris. You must collect a souvenir at each monument. The numbers associated to the souvenirs will give you your flight number.

Prends vite l'avion pour rentrer à Londres!

You are spending the week-end in Paris. You must collect a souvenir at each monument before boarding the plane. The numbers associated to the souvenirs will give you access to the flight.

Catch your flight to get back to London!

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Quel numéro as-tu trouvé?

Ces nuages sont un peu bizarres... Peut-être qu'ils cachent quelque chose?

Pour trouver le code du cadenas, complète la mission en cliquant sur la Tour Eiffel.

To find out the code, complete the mission by clicking on the Eiffel Tower.

These clouds look a bit suspicious... They might be hiding something?

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Quel numéro as-tu trouvé?

Clique sur l'Arc de Triomphe pour compléter la mission et trouver le code pour récupérer le souvenir.

Click on the Arc de Triomphe to complete the mission and find the code to collect the souvenir.

Quel numéro as-tu trouvé?

Clique sur la cathédrale Notre Dame et complète la mission pour trouver le code et récupérer le souvenir.

Click on Notre Dame cathedral and complete the mission to find the code and collect the souvenir.

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e.g. escape rooms, games, IT tools, other blogs

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Videos organised by theme
Contains a Google Earth link to greetings around the world

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Live questions

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through neuroeducation. Our applications are designed around Stanislas Dehaene's 4 pillars of learning: attention, active engagement, feedback on mistakes, and consolidation.

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French too

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This page lists Spanish terms related to gender and sex. They are alphabetically ordered according to the words in Spanish.

afeminado: effeminate

agénero: agender

aliado: ally

androginia: androgyny

andrógino/andrógina: androgyne

apariencia andrógina: androgynous look

asignado hombre al nacer (AHAN): AMAB, DMAB, CAMAB, MAAB

asignado mujer al nacer (AMAN): AFAB, DFAB, CAFAB, FAAB

cambio de nombre: name change

cisgénero: cisgender

cissexismo: cissexism

cisheteronormativo: cisheteronormative

cuir (pejorative)/queer: queer

femenino: feminine

femme: femme

feminidad: femininity

feminista radical transexclusiva: TERF

heteronormativo: heteronormative

Latin@ or Latinx or Latine. A gender-inclusive form of "Latino"/"Latina".

lesbiana: lesbian

malgenerizar (verb): to misgender

marimacha (pejorative, can be used as an insult): butch; tomboy

machorra (pejorative, can be used as an insult): butch, tomboy

maricón (pejorative): sissy

masculinidad: masculinity

masculino: masculine

multigénero: multigender / pangender

pangénero: pangender

pareja: partner (can be used for neutral term for significant other)

pronombre(s): pronoun(s)

testo: short for testosterona (testosterone), usually used in a similar way to English "T"

trava (pejorative, can be used as an insult): transvestite, transgender.

travesti: transvestite, transgender; a gender identity in some Latin American countries

travestismo: travestism

teoría queer: queer theory

teoría de género: gender theory

tercer sexo: third sex

transgénero: transgender

trigénero: trigender

transfobia: transphobia

tránsfobo/tránsfoba: transphobe

transfóbico/transfóbica: transphobic

transmisoginia: transmisogyny

transmisógino/transmisógina: transmisoginist

transición: transition (noun)

transicionar: transition (verb)

transgresión de género: gender transgression

transexclusión/transexcluyente: TERF

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Christmas traditions in french speaking countries

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Thank you for Watching! what they do Canada what they do what do they do Many Canadians have a day off work on December 25 and many spend the day with close relatives or friends. It is customary to exchange gifts, enjoy a special festive meal and, perhaps, attend a special church

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Christmas Time in Cote d'Ivoire Bon Voyage! Project by: Kaitlyn and Gillian Our Celebrations Compare & Contrast Both We have real snow We go to 8:00 p.m. Mass Christmas dinner in the afternoon on the 25th We decorate our houses with nutcrackers, garland. etc... Our mass goes for

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Song - Vive le vent

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Christmas resource for KS3 / KS4 French based around the French version of Jingle Bells. Includes link to Quizlet (Quizlet Live can be used as a class)

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A worksheet to accompany an online quiz about Christmas in France and French Christmas vocabulary. Pupils find the answers on the web page. Navigation inst...

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La grammaire en chansons Cela fait longtemps que j'avais envie de m'inspirer de tous les travaux de nos collègues qui enseignent le F.L.E et de créer ma petite liste de chansons françaises...

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Amusing opinion piece about words of 2020
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"Mince, mon masque !" Alors que vous sortez de votre immeuble, les regards médusés des passants vous signalent votre oubli. Cette année, plus question de sortir sans l'accessoire de mode saison 2020-2021, que ce soit pour descendre vos poubelles ou aller au travail. Sans ce précieux sésame, vous pouvez désormais dire adieu à toute forme de vie sociale. Las, vous remontez les trois étages qui vous séparent de votre appartement pour récupérer votre "couvre-bouche" comme disent les Québécois, et vous partez pour une journée avec cette chanson en tête.

L'année 2020 a changé vos habitudes et ajouté quelques mots à votre vocabulaire. Et il n'est pas question que du Covid-19. Franceinfo a sélectionné 20 mots qui ont fait leur apparition en 2020 et vous explique pourquoi vous continuerez à les utiliser et les entendre l'an prochain.

1Confinement, déconfinement et reconfinement

Il est loin le temps où nous regardions d'un air circonspect les Italiens passer leur mois de février coincés sur leurs balcons. L'arrivée du Covid-19 en France a d'abord entraîné la fermeture des restaurants, bars et commerces non essentiels le 14 mars, puis figé les écoles le 16 mars et, enfin, provoqué le confinement de tout le pays le 17 mars. Un bouleversement si soudain qu'Emmanuel Macron n'a même pas osé en prononcer le nom dans son adresse aux Français du 16 mars. Il préfère annoncer une réduction des déplacements "au strict nécessaire", sans pour autant négliger le fait que "nous sommes en guerre".

En découvrant le confinement, vous avez ensuite bénéficié d'une offre exceptionnelle, composée de trois mots pour le prix d'un. Est arrivé le 11 mai le déconfinement, puis le 30 octobre, le reconfinement. Un petit nouveau a même réussi l'exploit de faire son apparition en décembre : l' autoconfinement, le fait de s'isoler dans la perspective des retrouvailles des fêtes de fin d'année.

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à l'utiliser en 2021 ? Parce que vous n'êtes pas près de remettre les pieds dans un bar. La réouverture de nombreuses structures n'est pas encore actée : théâtres, cinémas, restaurants... Des dates indicatives ont été avancées par le gouvernement, mais restent soumises à l'évolution de l'épidémie.

2Gestes barrières

Plus forts que les mots de 2020, il y a les actes... et les gestes (barrières). Port du masque, distanciation sociale, lavage de mains régulier, aération des pièces, tousser dans son coude... Ces actions ont orchestré la lutte contre la propagation du Covid-19. Déjà utilisée dans les campagnes de prévention contre la grippe, l'expression "gestes barrières" a désormais intégré le vocabulaire courant et ne devrait pas le quitter en 2021.

#COVID19 | Le virus circule toujours.

Afin de protéger votre santé et celle de vos proches, continuons d'appliquer les gestes barrières.

Sauvez des vies, restez prudents. pic.twitter.com/m2MdDkpRE1
- Gouvernement (@gouvernementFR) September 26, 2020

On aurait pu également vous en parler : la quatorzaine et la septaine, ce délai d'isolement forcé des personnes positives au Covid-19, pendant 14 jours, raccourci à une semaine depuis septembre.

3"I can't breathe"

"Je ne peux pas respirer." La phrase martelée par George Floyd alors qu'il était molesté par les forces de l'ordre est devenu le nouveau slogan du mouvement Black Lives Matter ("La vie des Noirs compte"). Cet Afro-Américain de 46 ans est mort le 25 mai 2020, à Minneapolis (Minnesota), après avoir été maintenu pendant 8 minutes et 46 secondes au sol. Le genou d'un policier, plaqué contre sa nuque, l'empêchait de respirer.

Le point de départ de manifestations massives auxEtats-Unis pour défendre les droits des personnes noires et protester contre les violences policières. L'histoire de JacobBlake, un autre homme noir, touché par sept tirs à bout portant lors d'un contrôle d'identité sous les yeux de ses enfants, a aussi bouleversé le pays en août.

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à en entendre parler en 2021 ? Parce que l'affaire Michel Zecler a fait ressurgir le débat sur les violences et le racisme au sein des forces de l'ordre en France, après des manifestations en juin dans le cadre de l'affaire Adama Traoré. Emmanuel Macron a d'ailleurs annoncé un Beauvau de la sécurité afin de réformer les services de police.

4"Cancel culture"

Cet anglicisme se traduirait par "culture de l'annulation". Il désigne le fait de dénoncer des agissements problématiques d'une personnalité publique ou d'un groupe et de générer un boycott de ces personnes et de leurs œuvres, comme avec les films de Roman Polanski, accusé de viol, ou encore les livres de Gabriel Matzneff.

Mot de l'année 2019 en Australie, l'expression "cancel culture" arrive peu à peu en France où le débat sur le boycott des artistes soupçonnés ou condamnés pour des crimes et délits sexuels ressurgit régulièrement. En février, le cinéaste franco-polonais avait été couronné du César du meilleur réalisateur. Une récompense qui avait provoqué le départ fracassant de l'actrice Adèle Haenel, qui affirme elle-même avoir été victime de violences sexuelles de la part d'un autre cinéaste.

A l'annonce du César de la Meilleure Réalisation pour Roman Polanski ("J'accuse"), Adèle Haenel quitte la salle.

Le meilleur des #César2020 > https://t.co/ipnVwouBeV pic.twitter.com/7xa0CTbU3H
- CANAL+ (@canalplus) February 28, 2020

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à l'utiliser en 2021 ? Parce que la parole des femmes continue de se libérer et des agissements sexistes et délictueux sont toujours dénoncés sur les réseaux sociaux. Plusieurs comptes ont vu le jour sur Instagram comme Balance ton stage, ou encore Balance ton agency, qui rapporte les comportements sexistes, racistes et homophobes dans le milieu de la publicité.

5Haut-Karabakh

Vous savez enfin placer sur une carte cette région du Caucase. Enclavé dans l'Azerbaïdjan, ce territoire peuplé en majorité d'Arméniens a été cet automne le théâtre d'une guerre qui a opposé les Arméniens et les Azéris. Chacun revendique l'autorité sur ce territoire peuplé en majorité d'Arméniens. Une guerre y avait déjà fait plus de 30 000 morts, entre 1991 et 1994, à la suite de l'éclatement de l'URSS, chacun des Etats nouvellement indépendants revendiquait la région. Le territoire avait été placé sous autorité azerbaïdjanaise. La situation demeurait tendue, mais une certaine stabilité était actée.
>> Caucase : l'article à lire pour mieux comprendre le conflit dans le Haut-Karabakh

Les équipes de secours s'activent dans les ruines d'une maison frappée par un tir de roquette, à Gandja, le 17 octobre 2020. (UMIT BEKTAS / REUTERS)

Soutenu par son allié turc, l'Azerbaïdjan a lancé une offensive le 27 septembre dans la région. Les combats ont fait plus de 600 morts en deux mois. Sous l'égide de la Russie, un accord a été trouvé entre les deux gouvernements le 9 novembre, mais le Haut-Karabakh est resté sous tutelle azerbaïdjanaise. Le Premier ministre arménien est depuis très critiqué pour avoir entériné cet accord. De nombreux Arméniens ont quitté le territoire, après avoir brûlé leur maison pour ne rien laisser aux forces ennemies.

On aurait également pu vous en parler : le Tigré, un territoire au nord-est de l'Ethiopie, dont les habitants pro-indépendance sont en proie à de violents affrontements avec le gouvernement fédéral depuis le mois de novembre. Plus de 45 000 personnes ont déjà fui la région et se sont réfugiées au Soudan voisin.

Naïf, vous avez découvert en 2020 que vos narines étaient d'une profondeur insoupçonnée lorsque vous avez dû passer votre premier test PCR afin de savoir si vous étiez atteint du Covid-19. Asymptomatique ou non, membre d'un cluster (ou foyer épidémique) ou non, même tarif. Vous avez dû vivre ce moment assez désagréable, peut-être à plusieurs reprises, souvent après de nombreuses minutes d'attente dans une file à un mètre de distance de vos concitoyens.

Si vous non plus, vous ne supportez plus la vue de ces coton-tiges géants et souvent douloureux pour vos fosses nasales, sachez que des tests salivaires ont déjà été conçus. L'Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament doit désormais donner son feu vert pour leur déploiement à grande échelle.

On aurait également pu vous en parler : la zoonose, le terme qui désigne une maladie qui se transmet de l'animal à l'homme et que pourrait être le Covid-19. Un temps avancé comme remèdes contre le virus, l' hydoxychloroquine et le Remdésivir ont été désapprouvés par des études scientifiques durant l'été.

7Glottophobie

Une discrimination ou une moquerie liée à l'accent d'une personne, c'est ce que l'on appelle la "glottophobie". La découverte de ce mot a accompagné l'arrivée au premier plan de la scène politique de Jean Castex, nommé en juillet au poste de Premier ministre.

L'accent du Sud-Ouestdu chef du gouvernement a été qualifié de "rocailleux genre 3e mi-temps de rugby", voire "d'accent du terroir" par plusieurs éditorialistes politiques. Des remarques qui ont fait ressurgir l'idée de sanctionner d'éventuelles discriminations liées à l'accent.

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à l'utiliser en 2021 ? Parce qu'une nouvelle proposition de loi a été adoptée en novembre par l'Assemblée. Le fait de discriminer une personne en raison de son accent pourrait être passible de trois ans d'emprisonnement et 45 000 euros d'amende.

Avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre. Voilà comment on pourrait qualifier l'attitude du groupe audiovisuel sino- espagnol Mediapro. Devenu en août 2020 le diffuseur majeur de la Ligue 1 en France, via la chaîne Téléfoot, il avait acquis en 2018, à la surprise générale, les droits de diffusion de la première division du football français pour la période 2020-2024, pour plus de 800 millions d'euros par an.
>> Droits TV : cinq questions que pose le nouveau refus de paiement de Mediapro
Mais depuis septembre, l'entreprise de Jaume Roures n'honorait plus ses paiements à la Ligue professionnelle de football (LFP), soit un manque à gagner de plus de 350 millions d'euros pour l'instance française. Un conciliateur avait été nommé par le tribunal de commerce de Nanterre et un accord a été trouvé en décembre. Mais celui-ci est aux dépens de la survie de Téléfoot.

Les studios de la chaîne Téléfoot, à Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), le 18 août 2020. (BERTRAND GUAY / AFP)

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à en entendre parler en 2021 ? Parce que la fermeture de la chaîne a été actée le 11 décembre. Téléfoot a diffusé sa dernière journée de Ligue 1 le 23 décembre.

9Séparatisme

Prononcé par Emmanuel Macron pour la première fois en octobre 2019, le terme "séparatisme" est utilisé depuis par l'exécutif pour dénoncer les atteintes aux valeurs de la République, principalement dans le cadre de l'islamisme radical. Annoncé en juillet, le projet de loi du gouvernement contre le séparatisme a vu le jour début octobre, présenté par le président de la République aux Mureaux (Yvelines). " Le problème, c'est le séparatisme islamiste", a déclaré le chef de l'Etat. Critiqué pour sa stigmatisation de l'islam, le texte a depuis été rebaptisé "projet de loi confortant les principes républicains".
>> Du "communautarisme" au "séparatisme" : comment une notion floue est devenue un concept politique
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Pourquoi vous allez continuer à en entendre parler en 2021 ? Parce qu'après l'assassinat de Samuel Paty le 16 octobre 2020, l'ensemble de la classe politique a une fois de plus dénoncé les conséquences dramatiques de la radicalisation islamiste en France. Le projet de loi "confortant les principes républicains" sera étudié à l'Assemblée nationale début 2021, après avoir été présenté le 9 décembre par le gouvernement.

10Bamboche

Ce terme un peu désuet, qui désigne la fête, a été repopularisé, malgré lui, par Pierre Pouëssel, préfet de la région Centre-Val de Loire. Lors d'une intervention chez nos confrères de France 3 Centre-Val de Loire, le 22 octobre, il est interrogé au sujet des règles sanitaires à appliquer, et sa réponse est sans appel : "On ne fait plus la fête. La bamboche, c'est terminé."

#StopCovid A retenir de l'intervention du préfet de la région Centre Val de Loire ce soir... pic.twitter.com/ELNXwcPFjh
- France 3 Centre-Val de Loire (@F3Centre) October 22, 2020

En une phrase, Pierre Pouëssel a réussi à résumer le deuil de nos soirées au bar, des sorties en boîte de nuit et autres thés dansants qui devront attendre des jours meilleurs. Le succès est même allé jusqu'à la création de tee-shirts et de sacs portant la fameuse inscription.

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à l'utiliser en 2021 ? Parce que la bamboche ne va pas pouvoir reprendre de sitôt. Les restaurants pourraient rouvrir le 20 janvier si la situation sanitaire le permet (et c'est loin d'être assuré à ce jour), mais aucune date n'a été avancée pour les cafés, les bars ou les établissements de nuit.

11Distanciel

Cours en distanciel, réunions en distanciel, 2020 est par excellence l'année du distanciel. Construit par opposition au présentiel, ce terme désigne le fait pour un événement ou un cours de se tenir en version numérique à suivre à distance pour les personnes concernées, au lieu de les réunir. Le protocole sanitaire de l'Education nationale prévoit que la moitié des cours se tiennent en distanciel au lycée. Dans l'enseignement supérieur, le distanciel est obligatoire, à l'exception des travaux pratiques.

On aurait également pu vous en parler : plusieurs méthodes ont vu le jour pour inciter les consommateurs à poursuivre leurs achats, comme le "click and collect", mis en place par de nombreux commerçants. Dans le monde de la culture, les spectacles et concerts dématérialisés ont été une maigre alternative pour permettre à certains artistes de continuer leurs représentations.

Le réseau social chinois, lancé en septembre 2016, a explosé cette année : son application a dépassé les 2 milliards de téléchargements et environ 800 millions d'utilisateurs actifs sont recensés. Vidéos humoristiques, challenges de danse, tout le monde a débarqué sur TikTok, y compris les politiques. Emmanuel Macron y a félicité les bacheliers en juin, et répondu à quelques questions dans le cadre d'une interview à Brut, donnée le 3 décembre.

@brutofficiel
Un album de rap pour @emmanuelmacron ? ➡️ Le lien de la story Snap en bio.
♬ original sound - Brut.

TikTok a aussi donné lieu à une guerre commerciale entre les Etats-Unis et la Chine. Donald Trump a voulu interdire le réseau social outre-Atlantique - qu'il accusait d'espionnage industriel - s'il ne passait pas sous pavillon américain. Le président a depuis été contredit par plusieurs décisions de justice, qui ont donné raison à l'entreprise chinoise ByteDance, propriétaire de l'application.

On aurait également pu vous en parler : Zoom ! Le sauveteur mondial du télétravail vous a valu de merveilleux échanges avec vos collègues. "Coupe ton micro ! Mais je ne vous vois plus. Appuie sur le bouton, là, à gauche. Ça capte plus." Côté innovation, les Fleets, équivalent des stories sur d'autres réseaux sociaux, ont été lancés sur Twitter à la mi-novembre. Sur Instagram, ce sont les Reels, des vidéos en format court qui sont apparues.

Et pour éviter de passer pour un has-been au dîner de Noël, vous pouvez toujours évoquer Yubo, le réseau social qui monte chez les ados. Créé par des Français, ce "Tinder des centres d'intérêt" permet de créer un groupe de discussion avec des utilisateurs ayant des passions similaires aux vôtres.

13"Tu hors de ma vue"

En toute logique, si un membre de votre foyer a plus de 8 ans et moins de 18, vous n'avez pas pu échapper à Wejdene cette année. La jeune artiste de 16 ans, originaire de La Courneuve, a connu le succès grâce à ses vidéos sur... TikTok justement. Sa chanson , dans laquelle elle raconte sa rupture avec son petit ami après qu'il l'a trompée, est devenue l'un des tubes de 2020. Elle est même dans le Top 50 des chansons françaises de l'année sur Spotify. Wejdene est aussi l'artiste la plus recherchée de l'année en France sur Google.

L'expression "tu hors de ma vue" que Wejdene emploie à plusieurs reprises, est devenue l'une des punchlines de sa chanson. Jean-Luc Mélenchon l'a même parodié sur la plateforme sociale en transformant les paroles de Wejdene en "Macron, tu hors de ma vue".

@melenchonjl
Eh ##Macron ! Tu hors de ma vue ##pourtoi ##anissa ##TikTokTutos ##Melenchon ##premiertiktok
♬ son original - Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à en entendre parler en 2021 ? Parce que son premier album "16", est sorti le 25 septembre 2020 et que le deuxième extrait, Coco, compte déjà plus de 50 millions de vues sur YouTube.

Complotiste, raciste, suprémaciste... La mouvance américaine QAnon s'est formée sur le site 4chan en 2017. Un internaute a publié sous le pseudonyme de "Q", une série de messages dans lesquels il sous-entendait être un membre de l'administration américaine. Le contenu de ces publications portait sur l'existence d'un réseau pédophile sataniste qui regrouperait de nombreux politiques américains (notamment Hillary Clinton). Les messages anonymes sont devenus plus réguliers et plusieurs théories complotistes ont émergé autour.

Pour les adeptes du mouvement, Donald Trump agirait en secret pour détruire le complot. Aucun lien n'a été établi entre ce collectif et lui, mais l'ancien président américain n'a jamais condamné ces propos, même lorsqu'il était invité à démentir les théories fallacieuses. Depuis la présidentielle du 3 novembre, "Q" n'a plus posté de message, mais les complotistes continuent de relayer ses informations.

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à en entendre parler en 2021 ? Deux adeptes des théories QAnon ont été élues à la Chambre des représentants au mois de novembre. Marjorie Taylor Greene et Lauren Boebert ont d'ailleurs été félicitées par Donald Trump pour leur élection.

15Steak in-vitro

"On mange quoi ce soir ? Des cellules souches." Qui sait, dans quelques années, ce pourrait bien être la réalité. La viande cultivée est réalisée à partir de cellules souches d'animaux. Démultipliées par un processus scientifique, ces cellules forment ensuite une fibre musculaire, comparable à celle des êtres vivants. La viande artificielle permet de consommer un produit équivalent, sans abattage d'animaux. Et donc sans élevage de masse, principal argument des pro-viande cultivée.
>> Fabrication, promesses, craintes... Cinq questions sur la viande artificielle, bientôt commercialisée à Singapour
Pourquoi vous allez continuer à l'utiliser en 2021 ? Parce que les autorités sanitaires de Singapour viennent d'autoriser la vente de morceaux de poulet artificiels dans les restaurants, et qu'en France, la société Gourmey souhaite créer un foie gras in-vitro d'ici à 2022.

16Coronapistes

Plus envie de prendre le métro ou le bus ? Eh non ! Avec l'arrivée du déconfinement et des beaux jours, vous êtes nombreux à avoir choisi d'enfourcher votre bicyclette direction votre lieu de travail. Merci les coronapistes ! Plus de 500 km de pistes cyclables temporaires ont vu le jour en France pour faciliter les déplacements à vélo. Une aubaine quand le trafic des transports en commun et des véhicules était fortement réduit dans les grandes villes.

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A Paris, 50 kilomètres de coronapistes ont été pérennisés à l'issue du confinement, et la rue de Rivoli restera interdite aux voitures, selon les modalités annoncées en septembre par la mairie. Vous n'avez désormais plus d'excuses pour ne pas vous y mettre.

On aurait également pu vous en parler : les "whatsapéros" et leurs variantes, ces apéritifs en visio avec sa famille ou ses amis pour discuter autour d'un verre, chacun confiné chez soi.

Non, il n'y a aucun lien entre cette technologie et l'apparition du Covid-19. Pas plus que les antennes 5G ne transmettraient le virus plus facilement. Aucun lien n'a été établi entre les deux. La 5G accroît le débit des connexions et permet le développement des contenus en réalité augmentée. A vous Netflix dans le métro ! Depuis le temps que vous attendiez de pouvoir occuper vos trajets autrement qu'avec les réseaux sociaux, ou pire, un livre.
>>Les débats sur la 5G sonnent dans le vide pour les habitants des zones blanches : "Chez moi, j'ai toujours zéro barre !"
Attribuées en octobre par l'Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse (Arcep), les fréquences 5G sont actives dans plusieurs villes de France depuis le 1er décembre. La mesure fait toutefois débat, notamment chez les élus Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV). "Grosso modo la 5G, c'est pour nous permettre de regarder des films porno même quand vous êtes dans votre ascenseur en HD", avait déclaré Eric Piolle, maire EELV de Grenoble, en juillet dernier sur RTL.

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à l'utiliser en 2021 ? Parce que la 5G sera déployée progressivement en France tout au long de l'année et environ 3 000 nouveaux pylônes seront installés d'ici à 2022 pour permettre le bon fonctionnement du réseau. Vous pourrez en profiter pour regarder dans les transports Le Jeu de la dame, l'une des séries qui a cartonné cette année.

18Crew Dragon

Ce n'est pas un nouveau groupe de rap, mais bien le nouveau moyen de transport spatial dont vous avez découvert l'existence cette année. Le vaisseau Crew Dragon est une capsule créée par l'entreprise Space X, propriété du milliardaire Elon Musk. Envoyé dans l'espace le 30 mai 2020, avec à son bord trois astronautes, il a rallié la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) sans incident, et ramené sur Terre deux autres membres de la station en août.

Première entreprise privée à réaliser un tel exploit, en partenariat avec la Nasa, Space X ne va pas s'arrêter là. Six allers-retours vers l'ISS sont prévus selon le contrat signé avec l'agence spatiale américaine. Une réussite qui marque la fin de la dépendance aux structures russes pour les missions américaines.

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à en entendre parler en 2021 ? Parce qu'un nouveau vol commercial de la capsule Crew Dragon aura lieu au printemps, avec à son bord le spationaute français Thomas Pesquet.

Chaque mission sur le Crew Dragon @SpaceX aura son propre dragon. Après celui de Crew1 qui était bleu, voici le nôtre, orange, l'air déterminé et prêt à s'envoler au printemps prochain. On lui trouve un petit nom? #patches pic.twitter.com/jVVvj76smW
- Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) December 4, 2020

Le jeu vidéo créé en 2018 a été installé par plus de 100 millions d'utilisateurs sur Android, mais a surtout été le jeu le plus recherché sur Google en 2020. Un pic d'un million et demi de joueurs simultanés a été enregistré dans cet univers de science-fiction où des équipiers sont réunis au sein d'un vaisseau spatial. Leur objectif ? Identifier des traîtres infiltrés (les "imposteurs") et s'en débarrasser. Pour leurs ennemis, la mission est à l'inverse, de ne pas se faire repérer et d'éliminer peu à peu les autres concurrents.

Même la démocrate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, membre du Congrès américain, s'est livrée à une session de jeu en streaming sur Twitch, pour promouvoir le vote auprès des autres joueurs durant la campagne électorale pour la présidentielle américaine.

Sometimes it really be the people closest to you https://t.co/yM7JrfMetR
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 22, 2020

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à en entendre parler en 2021 ? Parce que les soirées entre amis, pour le moment, ce sera plutôt à travers un écran. Et pour ça, de plus en plus d'internautes utilisent Twitch, une plateforme où ils se filment en direct en train de jouer à des jeux vidéo. Une bonne alternative aux whatsapéro ?

Calqué sur le Brexit, le "Megxit" désigne le retrait d'Harry et Meghan, duc et duchesse du Sussex, de leurs activités royales. Le couple a annoncé le 8 janvier 2020 la nouvelle, en expliquant vouloir être "indépendant financièrement" et s'occuper de leur famille, avec l'arrivée de leur fils Archie, en mai 2019. Ils ne représenteront donc plus la reine lors de leurs déplacements. Harry et Meghan perdent également leur prédicat d'altesse royale, et vivent désormais aux Etats-Unis.

Pourquoi vous allez continuer à l'utiliser en 2021 ? Parce que Philip, prince consort et grand-père du duc de Sussex, fêtera son 100e anniversaire le 10 juin. La présence d'Harry et Meghan au Royaume-Uni pour l'événement sera particulièrement scrutée.

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Translate a poem from any language, ancient or modern, into English

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The Stephen Spender Prize is growing! For the first time, teachers can register to involve their students. All those who register will receive regular resources and activities to help them to integrate creative translation into their teaching.

This year the prize opened for entries on 6 May and closes on 16 July 2021. Translate into English any poem from any language - ranging from Arabic to Uzbek, from Danish to Somali-and win cash prizes!

The Prize is an annual competition for poetry in translation, with categories for young people (14-and-under, 16-and-under, and 18-and-under) as well as an open category for adults. All entrants must be UK or Irish citizens or residents, or pupils at a British School overseas.

The Stephen Spender Prize 2021 is generously supported by the Old Possum's Practical Trust, the Rothschild Foundation, the John S Cohen Foundation, the Polonsky Foundation and Robert and Olivia Temple and The Björnson and Prodan Foundation.

Stephen Spender 2021

Spotlight Prize

Our Spotlight Prize encourages young people to engage with community languages. Our focus for 2021 is Urdu.

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Open Entry

To welcome newcomers to the open category, this year we will continue to award special commendations for the best first-time entries received.

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Youth Prize

Our youth prize has categories for 18-and-under, 16-and-under and 14-and-under, and last year saw a record-breaking number of entries!

Find out more

Judges

Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra is an award-winning poet, and a lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University, London. He has published four poetry collections with Faber & Faber. He has won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem and Best First Collection, the South Bank Show Decibel Award and the Cholmondeley Award. He is the inaugural Poet-in-Residence for Radio 4 & 4 Extra, and presents a weekly programme, Poetry Extra, on Radio 4 Extra. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was elected to its Council, and is a trustee of the Arvon Trust. He has judged many prizes including the Samuel Johnson Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Prize, the David Cohen Prize and the National Poetry Competition.

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Samantha Schnee

Samantha Schnee is the founding editor of Words Without Borders. Her translation of The Goddesses of Water, a collection by Mexican poet Jeannette Clariond, is forthcoming from Shearsman Books in the UK (August 2021) and World Poetry Books in the US. Her translation of Carmen Boullosa's penultimate novel, The Book of Anna, was published by Coffee House Press last year and her translation of Boullosa's Texas: The Great Theft was shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize. She is a trustee of English PEN, where she chaired the Writers in Translation committee from 2014-17 and currently serves as secretary of the American Literary Translators Association. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, she now lives in Houston, Texas.

Khairani Barokka

Khairani Barokka is an Indonesian writer, artist, and translator in London, whose work has been presented extensively, in fifteen countries. She was Modern Poetry in Translation 's Inaugural Poet-In-Residence, is on the Board of Shadow Heroes, and is Research Fellow at UAL's Decolonising Arts Institute, Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing (UK), and UK Associate Artist at Delfina Foundation. Among Okka's honours, she was an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow and is a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change. Okka is co-editor of Stairs and whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (Nine Arches), author-illustrator of Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis; Vietnamese translation published by AJAR Press), and author of debut poetry collection Rope (Nine Arches Press).

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Resources and inspiration

Are you an educator interested in using poetry translation in the classroom, or an adult entrant looking for some guidance about translating poetry? Read on for resources, as well as tips and inspiration from previous winners and former judges of the Stephen Spender Prize.

Go to our Multilingual Creativity site for a multitude of resources - from worksheets to video tutorials and booklets of international poetry

Scroll down to download our PDF resource for adult newcomers to poetry translation, and the booklets of winning poems from previous years

More ideas for using translation with children and young people can be found on our Translators in Schools sub-site, and on the Modern Poetry in Translation websites

Selecting a Poem and the Ethics of Translation

When you enter the Stephen Spender Prize, we want you to translate poems that speak to your heart; poems that inspire you.

Through the act and process of translation, we want to open people's eyes and minds to unfamiliar cultures and languages, and for them to engage with the linguistic traditions that form part of their own lives.

Poetry can be moving, funny, sad, intense and exciting. It can also be challenging. Poems from different times and places sometimes embody attitudes that may offend some readers, and some poets are controversial because of things that they did or said off the page.

In some instances, the sharing of a writer's work is questioned when such controversy arises. We believe that it is important to make such matters part of public debate, rather than removing uncomfortable issues from sight.

The Stephen Spender Prize is a celebration of dialogue between cultures, and good dialogue depends on both freedom and respect.

And so, we ask two things of you when you are selecting a poem for translation.

Firstly, make sure that you are comfortable with the attitude of the poem and the conduct of the poet (if this is known), and think sensitively about how it may be read by others. If you are selecting poems for children to translate, then please take care on their behalf.

Secondly, if you think the poem is challenging for either of the above reasons, but would like to translate it anyway, you may wish to reflect on this in your commentary.

Previous Winners

Stuart Lyons (2020 winner, open category)

Our 2020 winner in the open category was Stuart Lyons, for his translation from Chinese of Xu Zhimo's 'Wild West Cambridge at Dusk'. Mary Jean Chan, our 2020 head judge, said: 'The open category once again proved to be the most varied and challenging for the judges to agree upon. We were enamoured of the playfulness and irreverence of this translation, particularly in terms of the translator's use of syntax throughout, which allows the English version to take on a life of its own'.

Maryam Zaidi (2020 winner, 18-and-under category)

Maryam Zaidi won the 18-and-under category in 2020 for her translation from Italian of 'Lemons' by Eugenio Montale. In the words of 2020 judge Mary Jean Chan, Zaidi's poem was selected as our unanimous winner 'for its lyric sensibility and ability to inspire hope through an appreciation of nature's bounty'.

Megan Turtle (2020 winner, 16-and-under category)

Megan Turtle won the 16-and-under category in 2020 for her translation from Russian of Joseph Brodsky's 'do not leave your room', which judge Daljit Nagra says 'shows a translator able to find a poem that is apt for the times; it is written simply, yet with verve, and
conveys the fear of going outside as institutions and ideals collapse'.

Hannah Kripa Jordan (2020 winner, 14-and-under category)

Hannah Kripa Jordan won the 2020 14-and-under category for her translation from Tamil of 'And Yet - Our Tamil Life' by Manushya Puthiran. In the words of Daljit Nagra: 'I was delighted that a poem translated from Tamil became our winner, especially as this indicates the wide range of languages our winning entries came from.
'And Yet - Our Tamil Life' is both funny and moving, and the translator's commentary was also an enjoyable read'.

Download prize booklets

Booklets featuring all the prizewinning poems from 2020 to 2004 can be downloaded below. Booklets are in PDF format.

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When I first found out about lock-down, my first question was whether to teach synchronously or asynchronously. Most teachers in my school chose the first format but I was not sure it would work for MFL, except for small groups such as Alevel students. I made the choice to teach using a mixture of both methods. I was lucky that our school had signed for Office 365 and we had Teams!

My school also chose to respect our normal timetable, so students were expected to join our Teams lessons at the times we would have had our lesson anyway. Students joined via a link sent to them from Firefly, our school intranet and the method we use to set normal homework tasks. Once on Teams, I would have a 5 minute starter synchronously, which I allowed late arrivals to join in. The starter would normally be a question and answer recap from our previous lesson (retrieval practice). For this Starter, I would also use Mentimeter , Quizlet, Quizizz or Classroom Screen. I can also recommend using Spiral.ac! This would last 5/10 minutes. The rest of the time, students would work independently, on a well thought out and structured lesson plan using Onenote from Microsoft. Students and I were still on Teams so, if a question rose, they could asked me directly or they could use the chat. At the same time, Onenote would allow me to check the work students were doing live and give live feedback verbally via Teams or in writing.

So, Onenote was key for my learning distance lessons! The second element was Youtube and Loom. What I did, was to screen cast my lessons in 20/30 minute videos, where I would do everything I would normally do in a lesson using the MARS EARS approach explained in previous posts. This means, showing a particularly Sentence Builder sheet and carry out over different Onenote lessons the activities I would normally carry out in face to face lessons: Repetition via TaskMagic/Textivate, Flippity activities, dictation activities, translation activities in writing and orally (Onenote allows you and students to insert audio). After I created my videos, I would upload them onto my Youtube channel ( this step is not necessary, as I can share my videos via a Loom URL, but I like using Youtube as videos get automatically embedded in my Onenote pages/lessons). Below there is an example of a lesson/Onenote page shared with my students using one of my videos:

My third element was the use of Bitmojis! I used Bitmojis to engage with my students, to give merits to present listening, reading, writing work etc... see example above.

In order to give structure to my students, I created frames in my Onenote pages for them to insert the answers to the interactive videos: translations, dictations, oral input etc..

Onenote allows you to create virtual exercise books for each of your teaching groups. You create a Onenote for each of your sets and add the students to it. Students will then have an individual area in the Onenote only visible by you and them. You also have the Content Library, an area visible for everyone. I create my lessons in the Content Library: I recommend a page per a week's worth of lessons. In the Content Library I also have different tabs: a grammar section, sentence builder section, mark scheme section etc.. Finally you also get a collaborative section, also visible for everyone, where students can collaborate and see each other inputs:

I used to distribute my lessons or pages to my students at the beginning of the first lesson of the week, remember that each page has work for the whole week, so every student would have the lesson in their own area, watch my video, do the activities and these could be corrected by me!

After a few lessons with videos, I would also embed or link other activities in their pages:

Quizizz activites, Quizlet learning courses, Flipgrid assignments, Genially escape rooms, Listening activities via Forms and use of Bitmoji, LearningApps, Deck Toys, Flippity activities, Wheel of Names, Padlet entries or just a writing frame!

Onenote and Teams have proved invaluable during lockdown and the feedback from my students and parents has been extremely positive! If a student could not join in a lesson live, they could always complete the work any other time! Synchronous lessons were also very slow with big classes so this approach allowed students to work at their own pace!

What can be taken forward?

In my MFL department we are definitely planning to continue the use of Onenote as from September. We are not going to get rid of traditional exercise books but this is an excellent way to share IT tools easily with all students with a structure. Onenote is great for oral practice too, as one of the examples above show, students can repeat after you (using a video), doing reading activities, practise Photocards or recording presentations which you can hear straight away and give instant feedback, orally too!

We are going to to continue the use of videos (screencasting) for specific listening, oral modelling and homework tasks!

Finally, if you are absent, your worksheets and any material, such as PPTs etc.. can be shared there for your students. The same works if a pupil is absent and needs to access the missing work.

Feedback is extremely easy to give and much quicker than in conventional exercise books, so when pressed for time, we intend to use Onenote for homework tasks, to which we can respond with specific oral or written (via a digital pen) feedback.

We are planning to work with two exercise books: one digital (a Onenote for each set which will be created in September) and one physical. Students will be required to work with both in lessons, meaning they will need to bring their laptops/ tablets to lessons. We are lucky we have a set of iPads in the department, so students can always access their exercise book even if they forget their own device.

In other words, the lock down has allowed me, and my department, to explore a wide range of IT tools. This skill cannot be wasted but used to enhance the learning experience of our students by making the learning memorable. Remember the use of IT tools is not the outcome but the means to facilitate our outcome: language proficiency!

For an insight on how Blended Learning can be incorporated into MFL lessons, listen to the following round table discussion among Joe Dale, Helen Myers, Janet Basnett and myself hosted by Rob Walden from Real World Education for the IFL Festival.

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Blended learning: The use of Onenote and Screen Casting during lockdown and followup

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Школа испанского языка "Дон-Оскар" предлагает курсы испанского языка в Санкт-Петербурге. Все преподаватели - аккредитованные преподаватели-носители языка из Испании, Аргентины, Эквадора, Перу, Мексики, Кубы, Колумбии, Коста-Рики, итд. Это единственные курсы испанского языка в Санкт-Петербурге, которые предлагают полную видео поддержку, по самым низким ценам на рынке. Спешите записаться на пробный урок или на новые начальные группы!

La serie 'Traición' narra la historia de cuatro hermanos y sus padres miembros de una de las firmas de abogados más importantes del país. El padre, Julio, reúne a los demás miembros de la familia para anunciarles que tiene una enfermedad terminal. Además de esto, él quiere realizar una serie de cambios que pueden afectar seriamente a los demás miembros de la familia...

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Blended learning, we have definitely heard this term over and over again since the first lockdown when schools were shut, as the future of education.

What is Blended Learning?

The way I see it, Blended Learning means that students learn through the combination of face-to-face and on-line teaching methods, all blended into one, to maximise their learning experience. In other words, learning occurs via traditional methods, such as worksheets, Question and Answer sessions, activities via a textbook or a worksheet, combined with the use of IT tools which, via careful planning, help students in their learning journey.

When I think about Blended Learning, I think about the different spaces where learning takes place and the different ways in which such learning can occur.

Why different places for learning?

Students do not just learn in the classroom, they may learn on the bus, at home in their bedroom or during a school trip. They can access knowledge from any space, as long as they are doing a learning activity, like the school trip example, or, most importantly, have a device from which to carry out learning! That's why when blending learning, I think carefully, where students can access different activities.

Why different ways of learning?

Practice is key in learning and making progress. However it can be tedious to do such practice in just one way, say via worksheets using paper and a pen. This can be the case for young learners, who are bombarded with stimuli and immediate feedback experiences via technology at all times: you like a series, you binge it and watch it all! Accessing information and learning via videos, online images or collaborative tools can be extremely engaging and productive.

Blended Learning, allows me to take the learning experience outside the classroom if and when students or I choose to do so and teach in many different ways, which in the process, allows me to revisit content over and over again from different angles, without a feeling of repetition or dejá vu. This experience, in exchange, engages my students, makes them more independent, more involved in their learning process and, ultimately, makes their learning more in tune with their 21st century experience.

How to Blend Learning?

Planning a sequence of lessons:

First of all, I would advise to have a vision of what you would like your students to achieve by the end of series of lessons and move backwards from there. For example, t o be able to talk about their holidays last year.

Secondly, think about what elements do your learners need to get there? This means structures, including vocabulary and grammar. A Sentence Builder with the potential sentences that students should be producing/understanding by the end of your sequence of lessons can be extremely powerful or just a model text.

Finally, think about how are we going to take them there? What steps do we need to plan for the students to practise and embed our planned structures? It is, in this final step where we can blend learning!

Elements for blending learning

Use an online platform with your students so that you can share your planned activities, aka, learning steps, with them: Google Classroom, Firefly, Onenote/Classnote, Teams are the most common platforms, I believe, schools are using.

Plan the activities for your lessons and think, at each stage, which and how IT tools can assist you and your students to enhance the learning experience. For this I have a list of potential IT tools that I could use at any stage. You do not need to use them all but it is important that you are aware of them.

In my case my Blended Learning IT tools ready at my disposal are these:

In the centre I have Microsoft 365 as the core of my blended learning classroom:

Teams (for remote teaching)

These main apps are supported by Firefly (our School Virtual Learning Platform) which I use for online libraries for my students, not class specific, and Smartboard Software for the delivery of in-class lessons.

Finally there is a wide range of apps and tools that I can use for my teaching and students' learning:

LearningApps, Quizlet, Wheel of Names, Flippity, Loom, Peardeck, Memrise, Genially, Quizizz, Edpuzzle, Padlet, Canva, Mentimeter, Wooclap, ClassroomScreen,Thinglink or Wordwall.

I use, Onenote (Class Notebook) to share the links to these online activities with my students, who need to bring their own device to my lessons. I share my lessons with students weekly. Consequently, students have access, via Onenote, to all worksheets we work with during lessons and to links which will take them to different interactive activities which need to be carried out during lessons or at home, for reinforcement, or as part of homework.

A normal set of lessons (3 in this case) looks like the example below on Onenote. As you can see there are classic activities such as Battleships (which I could photocopy if I want to) but also links to other interactive activities like Flippity or Wheel of names, to be carried out orally in pairs, or in writing. Reference materials, such as the formation of the past tense in Spanish, are easily shared this way too:

I teach normally, using my Smartboard, and when prompted by me, students access their Onenote and carry out the online activities with blue links. If using Microsoft apps, such as Word, Forms, Flipgrid, or Genially and Youtube videos, the apps appear automatically embedded on my onenote, which is visually nice! Depending on the activity, students may work on their own, but also in pairs, like in the case below, where Y9 students accessed a Genially interactive game and played in pairs:

Students can also work collaboratively via the Collaboration space on Onenote or a Padlet or Google Document. This is great for brainstorming of ideas on a given topic.

Homework, may include a video, which can be embedded into Onenote, which I have previously recorded with Loom (screencasting) where students need to follow instructions and complete a series of activities directly on Onenote in the box supplied:

Homework can be oral practice, via the Insert Audio function on Onenote, which allows me to carry out a dictation, ask questions which students need to answer, or just repeat after me for pronunciation work. In the example below, students had to click on the Quizizz activity for practice, before listening to my questions which they had to answer using the audio insert on onenote:

By blending learning and having a platform (Onenote) to share my online activities, as well as worksheets, with my students, I can create Learning Libraries, with resources for specific classes to which students have access at all times, in all spaces. The resources will also include a wide range of activities using different tools. They are all under Content Library and are classified in different Tabs. See the example below from my Y11 Onenote:

The way I blend learning is by maximising the use of a wide range of online resources in the classroom, via Onenote.
Students can access their Onenote, and their interactive personalised activities in lessons but also in any other space (bus, home, library). The online, interactive tasks allow learners to practise key vocabulary and structures (sentence builders) in many different ways and shapes, making the learning experience innovative, catchy, memorable and sticky, just like the different social media platforms, so embedded in our students' lives, do! The difference is, that I use technology not just for entertaining the kids but to enhance their learning experience in all different ways and spaces!

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One of the fun things about teaching Spanish is sharing the music and culture from Spanish-speaking countries. You can use music and dance as brain breaks, rewards, or a special end-of-the-week ritual, as in baile viernes.

The positive benefits of dance are well-documented, too. According to the Culture Owl,

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In this post I've collected dance and zumba videos for young kids to adults, all in Spanish. If you plan to use these in your classroom, of course be sure to preview and make sure they are school-friendly for your context.

For those of you teaching online, dance videos would be a fun assignment and break for kids who are sitting in front of a computer all dong, with distance learning. Try some of these to shake up the routine!

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Dance and Zumba Videos in Spanish for Kids to Adults | Spanish Mama

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Episode 25 of The #MotivatedClassroom is all about Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) and the most common questions people have about it as a way to help learners acquire language more naturally. I go through some of the questions you have submitted about assessment, units, planning and many others! This is a very practical episode for language teachers who are trying out TPRS and still have lots of questions. For full details a list of these strategies, check out the programme notes with further information and links to research and resources at www.liamprinter.com/podcast. Are you a regular listener and enjoying The Motivated Classroom podcast? Join me on my patreon page here. Follow The Motivated Classroom on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation with the hashtag #MotivatedClassroom Keep sharing and spreading the word. I'd love to know what you think, please get in touch or leave me a review 🙏

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Inside: in Spanish class. Resources for the movie on Netflix Vivo to use in Spanish class. Vivo en la clase de español

All the Spanish teachers are so excited to see a new appropriate Netflix movie set in a Spanish-speaking country. My little boys actually found this animated musical on Netflix. As soon as I saw it I knew it would be perfect for any level of Spanish class. The film is set in Cuba and South Florida and has a positive Afro-Latinx representation. It has great music, including Lin-Manuel Miranda and Gloria Estefan. It is rumored the film is based on the life of Celia Cruz. (So that could be a fun cultural exploration and comparison for upper levels).

I think this film would work well with elementary Spanish all the way to high school. It is PG with a run time of 1 hour and 35 minutes & can be found on Netflix. It would be a perfect film for Hispanic Heritage Month.

What audio and subtitles to use?

First, it all depends on your goals and level of students. The great thing about Netflix is you can easily change the language of the audio and subtitles. See how to change the audio and subtitles HERE

As always, do what works best for your classes. Here is what I personally do:

Spanish audio & Spanish subtitles - upper-level students

Spanish audio & English subtitles - novice level students

English audio - exploratory Spanish or culture class

Below are resources you can use to teach the film. (In addition to my Vivo movie guide).

Trailers to use for Vivo in Spanish class

First, play these videos to build interest. For lower-level classes, you could use them movie talk style, pausing and describing in basic Spanish. Or take screenshots of the video and project them. Then have students write or discuss what they see and what they wonder. Finally, you could have students find cultural elements and then research to make predictions as well.

1st Teaser Trailer - English with Spanish Subtitles

Trailer - español

Trailer - English

More Videos for Vivo in Spanish class

Also, for upper-level classes, you could use some of these videos in Spanish. They would be great authentic listening comprehension related to the film.

Song - Inside your Heart - Gloria Estefan - Spanglish

VIVO (NETFLIX) Reseña y Opinión - Musical Animada

Vivo Resumen (Netflix) spoliers save for after

Authentic Readings about Vivo

Novice reading for Encanto in Spanish class - Authentic Tweet

More advanced authentic readings for Vivo in Spanish class

If you are looking for a ready-to-go guide for every level you teach, this is Vivo movie guide for you. It includes character identification, 15 questions in English OR Spanish to use while watching, and post-viewing questions and character matching. It is the same format as many of my other popular movie guides.

Other Film Resources

If you are not interested in Vivo, here are some other movie resources to save you time.

If you have more resources for Vivo in Spanish class, please share in the comments and I will add them!

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Inside: in Spanish class. Resources for the movie on Netflix Vivo to use in Spanish class. Vivo en la clase de español All the Spanish teachers are so excited to see a new appropriate Netflix movie set in a Spanish-speaking country. My little boys actually found this animated musical on Netflix.

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The members of the Colombian duo Bomba Estéreo have been slowly unveiling glimpses of Deja, their upcoming album that will be divided into four ambitious parts inspired by the earth's four elements. After releasing three-song EPs for (water) and Aire (air), the band is coming back to earth with three more tracks that make up Tierra, including the kinetic single "Conexión Total" with Nigerian star Yemi Alade.

Previous songs from the project, such as " Lento" and "Agua," have been built from more tempered melodies that incorporate layered chants and gentle samples plucked from natural settings. "Conexión Total," however, is all upbeat energy: The maximalist production kick-starts with singer Li Saumet's spiky, spitfire vocals as she launches into a verse in Spanish about wanting to disconnect from the daily grind and lose herself on the dance floor. Alade, who memorably sang on "Don't Jealous Me" off Beyoncé's Black Is King project, dives in immediately afterward, her rich voice adding warmth as it springs over bassist and beatmaker Simón Mejía's maze of electronic jolts and airy flutes. Bomba Estéreo have always been interested in weaving traditional rhythms into high-voltage electro-pop, and the intricate arrangement on "Conexión Total" is both folksy and forward-looking at the same time.

The instrumentation is also a powerful nod to the African roots found in music all over Latin America. "Colombia's folk music owes a lot to the mother continent... That powerful mix of African drums and marimbas, with indigenous flutes and chants, is the base of the incredible soundscape of this country," Mejía'said in a statement. "Yemi is a great artist and has an amazing voice. We're really happy to keep on extending the cultural and ancestral ties that bond Africa with South America." That bond echoes across the track, particularly as Saumet and Alade's voices wind in and out of each other.
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Il existe plusieurs façons de travailler la grammaire en classe de FLE...

D'abord, il est intéressant de partir d'une compréhension écrite ou orale

Autrement dit : partir d'un contexte

Mais ensuite, on fait souvent face au problème suivant :

Comment faire pour que l'apprenant n'oublie pas la règle de grammaire ?

Souvent, les profs de FLE ont tendence à blinder les apprenants d'exercices structuraux

Qui sont certes utiles à donner en devoirs, mais pas très amusants pour les élèves

Aujourd'hui, dans la vidéo du jour, nous allons voir comment faire retenir les règles de grammaire aux apprenants grâce aux chansons françaises

TOP 7 des meilleures chansons :
Je vous suggère de bien rester jusqu'à la fin de la vidéo pour découvrir les 7 meilleures chansons pour travailler la grammaire en classe de FLE.
Pour travailler les temps suivants :

Le passé composé (A1/A2)

Une excellente chanson d' Alain le lait pour travailler le passé composé. Ce chanteur a composé beaucoup de chansons destinées aux professeurs de FLE (en particulier pour les niveaux A0, A1 et les enfants).

Il a également fait des chansons comme l'alphabet, les formules de politesse, la météo, les parties du corps...

Les verbes réflexifs (A1)

Une excellente chanson du chanteur Matt Pokora pour travailler le thème des habitudes avec un point de grammaire sur l es verbes réflexifs.

La chanson s'appelle " Comme d'habitude " et est sortie en 2016. La chanson originale est de Claude François (il y a également une version anglaise intitulée " My Way ". Il est toujours intéressant de travailler des chansons remises au goût du jour avec ses apprenants.

Le pronom EN (A2)

Voici un chanteur qui a bercé mon enfance. Henri Destraz (plus comunément appelé " Henri Dès ") est un excellent chanteur pour les enfants et les niveaux débutants en classe de FLE. Voici une suggestion de chanson pour réviser le pronom " en " après avoir vu les verbes partitifs au niveau A2. Cette chanson s'appelle " la petite Charlotte ", et elle est très adaptée au niveau A2.1.

Le conditionnel et le futur simple (B1)

Voici une super chanson de Keen V " dans un monde meilleur ". Elle donne non seulement la patate, mais permet aussi de travailler le mode conditionnel ainsi que le futur simple. Beaucoup de choix de verbes dans les paroles de cette chanson, très adaptée à une classe de FLE de niveau B1.

Le participe présent (B1)

Voici la musique idéale pour travailler le participe présent (ou gérondif) avec vos apprenants en classe. La musique est une reprise par la chanteuse Louane, qui est la bande originale du film " la famille Bélier " (2014). Chanson idéale à travailler avec une classe de niveau B1. On peut aussi leur demander de produire une tâche finale, en leur demandant de remplacer tout les participes présent par d'autres verbes et de lire les paroles à haute voix.

Le subjonctif pour exprimer un souhait (B1+)

Voici une chanson du groupe de Raggae Sinsemilia " tout le bonheur du monde ". Chanson parfaite pour présenter l'expression d'un souhait et introduire le subjonctif au niveau B1/B1+. Les paroles de la chanson sont également assez intéressantes à travailler avec vos apprenants d'un niveau intermédiaire. En effet, beaucoup de thèmes y sont présents (la liberté, l'amour, le bonheur, la paix...)

Le subjonctif pour exprimer un objectif (B1/B2)

Une chanson parfaite pour introduire une autre utilisation du subjonctif présent, cette fois-ci pour exprimer un objectif. Il s'agit d'une chanson de Céline Dion " pour que tu m'aimes encore ". Il est possible de demander aux apprenants de réaliser une tâche finale et de leur demander d'exprimer leur propres objectifs en utilisant " pour que " et " afin que " en utilisant le modèle de cette chanson.

Le conditionnel hypothétique (B1)

Voici une super chanson de Gérard Lenormand " si j'étais président " (de la République). La chanson est à la fois très amusante (et bien illustré sur YouTube) et permet de travailler le conditionnel hypothétique avec la condition " si ". On peut également faire un petit point culture pour y présenter les différents personnage présents dans la chanson (Mickey premier ministre, Picsou aux finances...) et demander aux apprenants de réaliser une tâche finale : " que feriez-vous si vous étiez présent de la République ? "

N'hésitez pas à vous abonner à la chaine : Enseigner le FLE en ligne - par Jérémy Fulep pour ne pas râter tout le contenu exclusif réservés en enseignants du Français Langue Etrangère en ligne !
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Le célèbre roman du Martiniquais Joseph Zobel vient de faire l'objet d'une publication sous forme de bande dessinée. En 1983, il avait été adapté sur grand écran par la réalisatrice Euzhan Palcy.

" La Rue Cases-Nègres " est un grand classique de la littérature antillaise moderne. La publication de ce roman en 1950 avait fait la notoriété de son auteur, Joseph Zobel. Très vite épuisé, le livre fut remis en circulation dans les années 1970 à l'initiative de Présence Africaine. C'est encore à la vénérable maison d'édition de la rue des Ecoles à Paris que nous devons son adaptation aujourd'hui en bande dessinée.

Le roman doit son succès à la force de son évocation de la vie ordinaire de la petite paysannerie noire et à la limpidité de son écriture campant les personnages dans leur réalité. Nous sommes dans la Martinique des années 1930. Le jeune José vit avec sa grand-mère, M'man Tine, rue Cases-Nègres. L'existence est particulièrement rude pour tous les habitants du quartier. Leurs seules ressources proviennent de l'exploitation des champs de canne à sucre qui appartiennent aux Békés, les Blancs de Martinique. José va à l'école communale, où son instituteur lui enseigne le sens d'une certaine liberté et l'aide à obtenir son certificat d'études. Il passe avec succès le concours et obtient une bourse, à la plus grande joie de M'man Tine. Celle-ci, en effet, n'a d'autre ambition que de permettre à son petit-fils d'échapper à leur condition misérable...

En re-racontant cette histoire, les auteurs de la BD, le scénariste Michel Bagoé et la dessinatrice Stéphanie Destin, donnent un nouveau souffle au livre de Joseph Zobel. Le roman avait déjà bénéficié d'un traitement cinématographique magnifiquement réussi qui avait totalisé 3 millions d'entrées, sous la signature de la réalisatrice Euzhan Palcy, ce qui n'est certainement pas étranger à la grande visibilité dont il jouit aujourd'hui à travers le monde francophone.
Un récit initiatique
Récit très largement autobiographique, " La Rue Cases-Nègres " raconte la société martiniquaise rurale des années 1930, les plantations, la hiérarchisation sociale, la faim et la pauvreté dont souffrait encore la population antillaise noire plus de huit décennies après l'abolition de l'esclavage. A travers les tribulations de son jeune protagoniste, Zobel a raconté sa propre enfance dans les villages du sud de la Martinique, ses blessures et ses joies d'antan. C'est cette vie, faite de douleurs et de bonheurs, à l'ombre d'un système social et politique oppressant, que les deux auteurs de la BD ont tenté de capter, souvent avec succès, dans leur album, mêlant l'image à la poésie de la parole créole.

Le succès du duo réside surtout dans la pureté des dessins qui rappellent les albums de science-fiction, tout en restant proches de la dureté de la réalité et du vécu. L'illustratrice Stéphanie Destin, dont c'est la première BD, s'est beaucoup documentée pour rester fidèle aux paysages de la campagne martiniquaise avec des champs de cannes à sucre à perte de vue où le romancier martiniquais a campé son récit.

La fidélité à l'œuvre originale a été l'une des préoccupations majeures des auteurs de la BD. " J'ai tout repris, contrairement au scénario extrait par Euzhan Palcy pour l'adaptation cinématographique du roman, affirme Michel Bagoé qui connaît l'œuvre de Joseph Zobel depuis sa petite enfance. Cette BD est pour moi une forme d'hommage à ce grand écrivain que j'ai connu de près quand, petit adolescent, je vivais à Ziguinchor, en Casamance, avec ma famille. Joseph Zobel était alors le directeur du collège où mon père enseignait. Comme nos deux familles avaient beaucoup sympathisé, je me suis senti légitime de relever le défi de m'attaquer à ce monument de la littérature martiniquaise qu'est La Rue Cases-Nègres. "

Auteur-compositeur-interprète de formation, Michel Bagoé s'est recyclé en scénariste de bande dessinée depuis 2011. Le succès est manifestement au rendez-vous comme le prouve l'intérêt que suscite son adaptation du roman de Zobel, en collaboration avec l'illustratrice Stéphanie Denis. Dans le viseur du duo : D'Jhébo, le Léviathan noir (1957), l'œuvre de César Pulvar, un autre grand de la fiction martiniquaise et incidemment grand-père de la célèbre journaliste Audrey Pulvar.
La Rue Cases-Nègres
Michel Bagoé et Stéphane Destin
Editions Présence africaine
90 pages
18 euros

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Le célèbre roman du Martiniquais Joseph Zobel vient de faire l'objet d'une publication sous forme de bande dessinée. En 1983, il avait été adapté sur grand écran par la réalisatrice Euzhan Palcy. " La Rue Cases-Nègres " est un grand classique de la littérature antillaise moderne.

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As part of Black History Month, the African & Caribbean Society and MFL @DulwichCollege invite Year 12 pupils to a screening today of Sembène!, a documentary about the acclaimed Senegalese film director Ousmane Sembene @BhmUK #bhm2020

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While I aspire to create engaging lessons for my students, I rarely use suspense as a hook. The 2010 movie Une Vie de chat (A Cat in Paris), however, instills a sense of excitement in its very plot line - a quality that I find rare in films for children. There are some interesting characters (a police captain mom, a silent daughter, a "good" thief) and lots for beginning students to discuss: what will happen next? why does the daughter get her voice back? how can the police captain fall in love with the burglar? There are some great resources at this site which inspired my mini-unit and I've pinned all resources here.

I spent 6 days on this film, which is a squeeze. My student Can-Dos for the unit are:

I can name and describe the main characters in this film
I can describe the overall story arc of the film
I can summarize key scenes from the film
I can talk about themes in the film

My essential questions are:
What makes someone good or evil?
How do families change over time?
I've made a packet with all my student materials for this unit here. It includes:

1. Listening guide for the trailer (regrettably, I can no longer figure out where I got this activity from - please let me know if you find it so that I can provide proper credit!)
2. Important vocabulary - words kids need to know in order to talk about the plot
3. Table to record information about key characters (I assign one character per student; then we do a jigsaw share at the end)
4. Activity from this site with descriptions of characters to match to their pictures
5. Just a few key questions about the film

You can see my daily lesson plans here if you're interested. I spend the whole first day setting the scene, studying the trailer, and making predictions. I assign each student 1 character to "follow" and take notes on during the film and they share these notes in a jigsaw activity at the end of the unit. The next 3 days we watch about 20-25 minutes of the film each day (my classes last 45 minutes), stopping to discuss and ask questions. Days 5 includes mapping the story and making a fortune-teller to ask one another key questions about the film. Fortune-tellers are so easy to make using this template - I really recommend them and have Valerie Shull at Proficiency From The Start to thank for this idea! We watch an authentic video about how to fold a fortune-teller (thanks to Creative Language Class for the inspiration here) and then kids work in concentric circles, changing partners and asking each other the "big" questions about the film.

The unit concludes on Day 6 with 3 stations, the last of which is an assessment:

1. J igsaw share about characters using table in the packet

2. Play Celebrity (basically a combo of Taboo and Charades) with the vocabulary and characters

3. Write a paragraph about how Dino is the same and different from "regular" cats OR how Zoé changes during the film OR the main events of the film (for students who are still working on narrating in the past). We call this a fluency count and students try to write as much as possible in 10 minutes; they save all their writing in a folder to review throughout the year.

The other film I teach in French 8 is Les Choristes. You can read about my mini-unit here. ​

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