e for English

Year published/aired: (2014) 2017 (2022)

Year produced/filmed: 2016 ?

# of episodes: 

Grade: A2-B1 (3-6)

Genres: basics, grammar

Sub-subject: culture

Broadcaster: -

Production company:

Producer: 

Story: Mathias Degoute, Severine Bourdet, others

Editor: Catherine Laurent

Director: 

Media: DVD

Media distribution: Editions Didier (now: Editions Hatier)

Additional media: books, audio CDs, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM

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Material publisher:

Novel available:

Other literature:

Plot (short): Another French course by Editions Didier. Now also DVDs for grades 3+4. But few vids in 5+6. This time also including many trailers from feature films, (so fewer clips of interest). But most clips are set in the USA. 

New edition from 2017 (Edition2016-2017). There is also a brand new edition 2021-2022. Pic from 4e (vid 2) Zach and Jenny (USA). Taken from the book. The previous edition is from 2014 (Not sure if this has DVDs as well).

Episodes: DVD length differs ~19-45 minutes (total)

 

e for English 3e (45 minutes)

1-2. The 2015 Google Science Fair: trailer & Awards Ceremony
3. Early Alzheimer's diagnosis (teen boy UK)
4. Diagnostic device for Ebola (teen girl USA)
5. Darcy Oake at Britain's Got talent, 2104
6. A spoof advert (video game?)
7. Earth Hour 2015 Official Video
8. extract from film Ali, 2001 (Will Smith)
9. Separate but equal (Civil Rights movement)
10. Martin Luther King's early life
11. I have a dream
12. Fighting for Freedom (Rosa Parks)
13. extract from film Equilibrium (dystopia)
14. An interview with artist Shepard Fairey (Obama Hope poster)
15. Banksy does New York (Art in the Streets)
16. Take a tour of New Zealand
17. Step into the moko shop (tattoo artist)
18. Shakespeare Lives - Anniversary trailer
19. Great British actors deliver Shakespeare's immortal line
20. Alastair Sooke about The Farm, Joan Miro (painting)

 e for English 4e

1. An extract from the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2. An interview with American pupils Zach and Jenny
3. Peek into an American high school! (Spirit Week Day)
4. Happy Birthday Canada!
5. Discover the Secret to suspenseful stories with British writer Chris d'Lacey, author of The Last Dragon Chronicles.
6. Freestyle hurling (Gaelic Spirit)
7. It's not just about scoring. (Gaelic Athletic Association) hockey?
8. 2006 100 year of the Easter Rising (Dublin Croke Park stadium)
9. The Irish language today (singer, also on audio CD)
10. A flash mob at Dublin Airport (Irish dancing)
11. An extract from the film Knowing, 2009 (Time capsule)
12. A time capsule is opened 100 years later on Oklahoma
13. Chat with your future self (girl and computerized girl)
14. Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock
15. Beat Bullying (British footballer Rio Ferdinand, anti-bullying wristband)
16. The BFG trailer
17. Romeo + Juliet, trailer 1996 (DiCaprio)

 

  e for English 5e (total 19 minutes)

1. Trick-or-Treat with the President and First Lady (Obama)
2. Haunted White House tour (wax museum ?)
3. A day in New York City (teen boys Jack and Finn)
4. A place that I've fallen in love with (NYC)
5. extract from film Big Hero 6 (animated)
6. It's really fun (design a robot)
7. Meet Grayhawk Perkins (Native American singer and storyteller from Louisiana)

  e for English 6e

1. Meet Rile's emotions! (animation)
2. Where are you from? What is the BCSS Academy? (Bobby Charlton Soccer Academy)
3. Keep calm and...  (Simon Says "Keep Calm!") at class
4. 11-year-old Akeelah in the movie Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
5. An extract from the film Baryard, 2006 (animated)
6. An extract from the film Hook, 1992
7. An extract from the film Paddington