4 weddings and A Funeral

20 years ago, on March 9th 1994, one of the most brilliant British comedies premiered on screens. It definitely made Hugh Grant a star and promoted WH Auden’s most vibrant poem….

Penguin Teacher’s note about the movie

Imdb’s introduction to the movie

The movie’s trailer on you tube

Wet Wet Wet ‘s hit Love is all around on you tube

Wet Wet Wet love is all around the text

WH Auden’s Funeral Blues, the text

WH Auden’s Funeral Blues read by actor John Hannah (with English subtitles)

Rotten Tomatoes’ critics of the movie

Movie analysis (university approach)

Macklemore

The 31-year-old rapper is also a complete activist, committed to social and political issues, visible in his recent hits like Thrift Shop, The Heist or Same Love, in which he didn’t hesitate to promote the legalization of gay marriage. In a word, is Macklemore the new face of rap?

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ victory at the Grammy Awards 2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx72y6MN-nA

The School of the Air

Since World War II, Autralia has established a unique kind of school: the School of the Air, a technological vision of school to help children scattered on the huge Autralian territory to have access to teaching and knowledge. The students used radio frequencies and now the satellite to attend their courses.

Consult the Australian gouvernment site about the School of the Air

Consult the School of the Air site

 

Dimension culturelle du site d’anglais en LP

Il est rappelé aux collègues d’anglais que les liens culturels figurant sur le site ne constituent que des suggestions. Ils témoignent de la vivacité des cultures anglophones que nous devons aussi  communiquer à nos élèves…

M.A.S.H. : a satirical view of US relation to war

On February 28th, 1983, it was the final episode of the MASH series. At the beginning, MASH was a movie released in 1970 before inspiring a popular and critically acclaimed TV series which ran from 1972 to 1983. The movie and the series narrated the satirical adventures of doctors from a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (or MASH), caught in the Korean conflict.