Amanda Gorman delivers at Joe Biden's inauguration

Watch Amanda Gorman deliver her poem.

Then, you can watch  Anderson Cooper, a well-known American TV journalist with Amanda Gorman.

https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1352117969271328768

Don't you like the sound of  it too? (a 10/10 for any of my pupils who will tell me what she refers to.

#keeptrying) I do.

Answers to a "thank you"

Begin at 1'55'

Follow-up after Radium Girls trailer

This video is only 3 mn long and that one 10mn.

 More on the subject

Human zoos : a legacy

Discrimination movies. Eye-opening cinema.

1) Green Book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZxoko_HC0

2) Loving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRXuCY7tRgk

Discrimination

 Movies teach you a lot about many things. 

Learn about discrimination in the South with those two trailers.

 1) Green Book

 2) Loving 

("for appropriate audiences" says the Motion Picture Association of America)

... very appropriate in my opinion.

 

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Radium Girls Trailer #1 (2020) | Movieclips Indie

History - Not for easily impressed people

In April 2018, yes, it takes time for the truth to come out. The "museification" of one of the darkest hours of that huge country, the USA. (14 times France, remember.)

So here is the official site of the Legacy Museum:  From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration.

museumandmemorial

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 Follow-up articles 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/aug/15/400-years-since-slavery-timelin

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/28/lynching-memorial-backlash-montgomery-alabama

 

Payzee Mahmod | TEDxLondonWomen - A true story.

Over my thirty four years of teaching, pupils and students have often told me that they like true stories.

Here is a gut-wrenching one. This TEDxLondonWomen talk lasts 18mn.

It's worth the while. Those of my pupils who will tell me at what time she says in this 18'45'' vid :
 

" Childhood, up to 18 should be a time to learn, to grow and to pursue your dreams.", 

So those pupils who will tell me when she says that in the video ;-) will get a good grade... 

They can even ask, in the comment section of this post, some indication... I do want you all to succeed in learning English as your second language, or third or fourth. The larger the number of languages we speak, the better.

In French for once!

In French but really a thrill especially the answer to the last question at 2:03:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLFUnCUyPko

Students Built World's Fastest Electric Monowheel

Love the Rhino! ... I mean the RYNO. Kuddos to Chris Hoffmann.

http://rynomotors.com/chris-hoffmann-overview/

http://rynomotors.com/

Sir Ken Robinson 1950-2020

Sir Ken Robinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU4Q17t4muY

Life is short but wisdom, values remain.

Sir Ken Robinson died Last August from an aggressive cancer, not from Covid, eventhough this is 2020.

I hope you'll listen to it all. 

"People love to learn he says."

What he says before and after that is really something. 

"There is an opportunity, it takes bravery and imagination and we have plenty of that in store."

You've heard of the boiling frog syndrom. Haven't you?

 

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