1. What is changing in cities around Europe? What are some of the reasons for this makeover? Do a reading comprehension exercise HERE.
2. What role could two-wheels play in London in the future? What is at stake for Londoners?
3. Freddie Mercury was inspired to write this song after watching a stage of the 1978 Tour de France. Read a PASSAGE from American novelist Ernest Hemingway, also a fan. Practise your grammar skills HERE.
1. Listen to the audio book version of the excerpt you have to study. Find HERE the list of all the documents we used this year. Feel like revising a bit of grammar? Find HERE a wide selection of activities.
2. Colson Whitehead telling more about his book to French readers in 2017.
3. It might look like kid stuff but Mr Q can actually help you grasp the legacy of Harriet Tubman.
4. The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project wants to tell the full story of slavery.
5. How can a book start a war? Study a passage from another book by a former slave HERE.
1. Who is Avi Shiffmann? How did he get to be so popular? Read more HERE. YOUR TASK: Imagine you’ve interviewed Avi. Write an article reporting your interview: WRITING TIPS.
2. Click on the pic below to access Avi’s website.
3. Prepare for the listening exam. Watch and listen to the story. Then write a brief account of it in French.
2. Watch the video by VOA and note down arguments proving or disproving that “Harriet, the movie, advances the slave narrative on screen”. Focus on the words spoken by the people interviewed in the video.
3. Listen to author Colson Whiteson telling about the history of the Underground Railroad. Click on the painting to answer a few questions.
1.What gave Dickens such powerful influence over his contemporaries? Oscar Wilde’s criticism of “Dickens’s over sentimentalism” did not prevent him from taking his inspiration from his predecessor. What did Wilde borrow from Dickens? Here’s your TASK.
2. Through farce and satire, Oscar Wilde, too, was sending up the high society of his time to expose its intrinsic hypocrisy.
3. Like Cecily, Queen Victoria “Wrote in [her] journal”. Read more on Victorian diary writing HERE.
1. How much do you know about Halloween history? Take this QUIZ.
2. Why has Airbnb decided to ban ‘party houses’? Read more HERE.
3. What is the message of this ad? Why do you think it was made? Find out more HERE.
4. Learn more about the Fairbnb coop HERE. You are in charge of the Fairbnb campaign to promote its platform with regional tourist boards. Make a speech to convince the Ardèche tourist board officials to adopt the coop as one of their official partners.
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