When is it legal to sell your wife?
Constance, from the Lycée Ampère, Lyon, invites you to 18th century Britain to discover the phenomenon of "wife selling" or "wife auctions" as documented in Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge".
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A simple tool for in-depth critical analysis.
Dell Hymes' S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G model offers students seven simple tools for the analysis of any discourse, document or cultural phenomenon. Where does it come from? What is it for? What are the codes and norms involved?
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Fashion : a means to rebel? Or to conform?
Marylou Jonvaux & Marine Descamps-Bonnefoy of the Lycée Ampére, Lyon, ask where current hipster fashion trends come from and whether they are an invitation to rebel or to conform.
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Hollywood in the seventies and eighties: the Spielberg era
In order to understand Hollywood's late twentieth century history, two students set out to look at Hollywood's second Golden Age: the 1970s and 1980s, otherwise put, the age of Spielberg and the blockbuster.
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‘You’ve got to find what you love’.
Louis Champavier and Lou Dubreuil present their homage to the late Steve Jobs We are Louis and Lou, we are at the Lycée Ampère...
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Feedback from students about AngloXchange.com
Below you will find a few comments from students at Lyon's Lycée Ampère regarding their use of AngloXchange in the classroom and at home.
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When the Brits rock the world
by Rachel Darmon and Maria Masterova of the Lycée Ampère, Lyon. We are pupils in a French state high school. We are...
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What makes an image “iconic”?
Dr. Martin Kemp sets out to explain what makes an image 'iconic'.
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[VIDEO] England? UK? Great Britain? Commonwealth? What’s what?
The United Kingdom, England, Great Britain? Are these three the same place? Different places? Do British people secretly laugh those who use the terms wrongly? Who knows the answers to these questions? I do and I’m going to tell you right now.
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British tales, myths and legends
Rome Servet and Myriam Bahaffou from the Lycée Ampère, Lyon, France, offer you a potted history of the tales, myths and legends that have been handed down from generation to generation among the peoples of Great Britain.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Two students from Lyon introduce Shakespeare's play and Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation.
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What are they eating in Lyon?
La cuisine lyonnaise is a French regional cuisine from Lyon, France. In the sixteenth century, Catherine de...
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Gap Years
Gap years (une année sabbatique ou une parenthèse utile): a waste of time or the time of your life ?
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We know when you’re lying
Soledad from the Lycée Ampère in Lyon, France, tells us about the new emotion detector that can see when you're lying
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Bob Dylan
Disover the famous film clip that accompanies Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and learn about the social and political context of the song.
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Common mistakes (Vol I)
A teacher of English in France lists the 20 most common mistakes in French students' English written expression.
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Martin Luther King
Re-discover Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech" in French and English. Learn about the social and political context and the allusions and references he uses.
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1066 and all that
One man shares his vision of the teaching of British history in UK schools.
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Scientists can record your thoughts
Be afraid! Scientists can now record your thoughts and dreams as video. This is not science fiction: it already exists!
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