Art & media
Language is also a way into art: street art, pop art, songs, movies and TV series. Choose a topic and practise your English with real documents.
Harry Potter (A1-B1)
A complete course built around the Harry Potter characters, from A1 to B1.
- Start the course Texts, audio and quizzes for each character, at your level.
A visit to the National Portrait Gallery (A2/B1)
Famous faces, school trips and gallery rules in the heart of London.
- Watch, look and listen Join a school group in London's gallery of famous faces. Can you take photos? Can you touch the paintings? Watch and find out!
- More portraits: The Royal Portrait Gallery Crowns, robes and curtains: learn to read the portraits of kings and queens.
Dora the Explorer (A1/A2)
Sing along with Dora and Boots, and follow the map!
- The map song Watch the video and drag the missing words into the song.
- The map song, original version The same song in its original version. Have fun!
Back to school (A2)
A cheerful song about friendship and the first day back at school.
- Watch and complete Drag the right words into the song as you listen.
- Vocabulary Fence, bugs, worms... learn the words of the song, verse by verse.
Lion (B1-B2)
A five-year-old boy lost in India finds his way home 25 years later: an incredible true story.
- Start the unit Saroo's search on Google Earth, the plot of the film, the past perfect... and the real Saroo.
Andy Warhol and Pop Art (B1)
Campbell's soup cans, silk screens and the birth of Pop Art.
- Start the activities Popeye, Marilyn, 32 soup cans and the Factory: the king of Pop Art, from his life to the meaning of his work.
I am stronger (B1/B2)
A powerful song against bullying.
- Watch and complete Drag the right words into the song as you listen.
- Read the lyrics closely Three verses, three stories: read each one carefully and answer the questions. Stuck? Switch the questions to French.
Banksy (B1/B2)
Who is the mysterious street artist, and is graffiti art or vandalism?
- Start the activities Why does nobody know who he is? And why did Bristol keep his naked man on the wall?
- Read the article Graffiti: art or vandalism? An article from the British Council.
Lost (B1/B2)
46 survivors of a plane crash are stranded on a mysterious island.
- Jack meets Locke: start the activities Lost luggage at the airport: one lost his knives, the other lost his father's coffin!
Bruce Springsteen in concert (B2)
Long hair, a father who can't understand, a war in Vietnam... and two words the Boss never forgot.
- Start the activities Who is the Boss? Why did he spend winter nights in a phone booth? Listen, complete the speech, then write the father's side of the story.
Paris, Texas (B2)
Travis tells Jane a long story about two people he used to know.
- Start the activities Behind a one-way mirror, a man tells a story about « two people in love »… but who are they really?
Lord of the Rings (B2)
Elves, hobbits and the ring that corrupts everyone who bears it.
- Start the activities Ten things you should know about Tolkien's world… and why power corrupts everyone who touches the ring.