Tiger's Corner
Lessons 2025-2026
Videos, texts & vocabulary
Introduction : What’s in the News? September 2025
Tenez-vous au courant de l’actualité, en regardant /écoutant plusieurs reportages par semaine.
Sur le site de la BBC ou de CBS, vous trouverez des séquences diverses et variées (liens ci-dessous) : regardez-en très régulièrement.
BBC News (one minute world news)
CBS (top stories of the day)
Comment (et pourquoi) intégrer les actualités dans votre apprentissage
Topic n°1 : plastic used to be fantastic September
Video 1 : Can robot sharks clean up our waterways? (BBC News)
text1: Global plastic talks collapse (BBC)
HOMEWORK : Who is polluting the ocean with plastic? (The Economist)
(Turn off the plastics tap : installation by Canadian artist Benjamin Von Wong)
Topic n°2 : The Special Relationship October
Video : Thousands join anti-Trump protests in the UK (DW News, 17 september 2025)
Text: Labour cosies up to US tech firms with little thought of downsides (The Observer, 21 September)
Bonuses : the special relationship & the Queen (Sky news)
the special relationship & Prime Ministers (CNN)
Topic n°3 : A different viewpoint October / November
Video 1 : World's first disabled astronaut takes part in flying exercise - BBC News
(Video 1b : Highlights from ESA’s first open day in the UK)
VIdeo 2: NASA accelerates Artemis II mission timeline (Global News)
Text 1: NASA races to keep Artemis II on schedule, even when workers aren’t being paid (Ars Technica)
text 1b: The 2025 government shutdown by the numbers (CBS)
Topic n°4 : Commemorations & holidays November
Video 1: For the first time, Montana celebrates Indigenous peoples' day
Video 1B : Understanding Indigenous peoples' day
(homework & correction BV2) : It's all about listening and sharing (Guardian)
Video 2: The cost of a Thanksgiving feast in 2025
translation (MP-MP*) Strange visitors
Topic n°5 : January
Video 1a :
Video 1b :
Video 2 (Homework):
text:
Topic n°6 : February / March
The Un-Locked Logbook
Presentation
A selection of articles, videos, and exercises
done during Lockdown from March to June 2020, with some contributions from students
19th March: ‘’I want to break free’’
20th March: Karma Police
21st March: ‘’Have you seen our house?’’
23rd March : Calculus Rhapsody
24th March: Reach for the stars
25th March : I believe in a better way
27th March : between London and Dublin
28th March : Enjoy yourself
30th March: The Man who Sold the World
31st March : I wanna dance, I wanna win, I want that trophy
1st April: What a fool I am !
3rd April : I’m walking these empty streets
5th April: 5 feel-good movies that will get you through hard times
6th April: Mambo !
7th April : Don’t worry, be happy
8th April : Loaded guns
10th April: Crazy, Or not crazy?
Correction for the translation exercises from 19/03 to 10/04
27th April: Enjoy the ‘’sunny afternoon’’...
29th April: Every cloud has a silver lining
1st May: Lust for life
3rd May: 5 documentaries for free
5th May: Fly me to the Moon
9th May: Let’s Dance (Native American style)
11th May: I’m a Tiger
13th May: Take a walk on the wild side
15th May: Ode to joy (and democracy)
25th May: Mad World
29th May: Down by the riverside
Correction for the translation exercises from 29/04 to 29/05
6th June: Don’t bend the knee, take it.
17th June : When the music’s over...
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