Operation "Tell me ten words"
The awareness campaign «Tell me ten words» invites everyone to play and express themselves from September to June, in a literary and/ or artistic form, around ten words chosen by different French-speaking partners: France, Belgium, Quebec, Switzerland and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (representing 88 states and governments).
A francophone awareness campaign
« Tell me ten words ” as well as the French Language and Francophonie Week are organized in collaboration with the network OPALE (Francophone Network of Linguistic Policy and Planning Organizations).
This network is composed of the language management organizations of Francophone countries and regions representing the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the France, the Quebec and the French-speaking Switzerland, as well as theInternational Organization of La Francophonie.
These five French-speaking partners choose together the theme of each edition, as well as the ten words that illustrate it. This theme is intended to convey a message about the French language: writing, orality, language as a social link, the modernity of language, the ability of language to express the intimate, to welcome verbal inventions, etc.
2023-2024: «Tell me ten words on the podium»
French is the official language of the Olympic and Paralympic Games alongside English. It is indeed thanks to Baron Pierre de Coubertin that the tradition of the Olympic Games, born in Ancient Greece, was restored in modern times. He initiated the creation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which he chaired for nearly 30 years.
«Tell me ten words» invites you this year to appropriate the vocabulary of sport and Olympism. Sport is not only essential to health, it helps instill values of respect (play collectively, stick together) and surpassing oneself (raise adrenaline, go on a breakaway, perform feats, become a champion). Sport is also about determination (the mind), it is also about accepting the rules (the false start, the offside) and the need to take a break (go to oranges).
Physical activities help fight against school failure and promote the reduction of social and cultural inequalities; «Tell me ten words» offers you to take up this theme and illustrate your love or disenchantment with sport, fear of failure and a taste for victory. Let’s not forget that it’s also about fun and sharing.
Training, repetition, determination are essential elements to progress in any discipline and climb on the podium. But sport is also about team and solidarity. It is driven by a collective dynamic like French, which lives and enriches itself in the diversity of its expressions around the world.
adrenaline; going to oranges; champion; collective; breakaway; false start; offside; prowess; mental; sticking together.
Let everyone dedicate…the time it takes!
The declinations of «Tell me ten words on the podium»
All versions were initiated by the Ministry of Culture (general delegation to the French language and the languages of France) in connection with its partners: the «school competition» with the Ministry of National Education and Youth; «Ten words, ten clichés» with the Ministry of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Maison de la Francophonie in Marseille; «Tell me ten words, voice of detention» with the Ministry of Justice; «Tell me ten words to create a link» with the inter-ministerial delegation for the reception and integration of refugees; «Dis-moi des nouvelles plurilingues» with France Éducation international; «Dis-moi dix mots en forme paralympic» in complicity with the general delegation for transmission, to territories and cultural democracy (DG2TDC) with the association APF France handicap; «Tell me ten words to take care» with the DRAC and the Regional Health Agency Île-de-France and the reference poles for the Francophonie (the Cité internationale des arts, the Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, the Zébrures de Limoges).
The cultural, social and active actors mobilized
« Tell me ten words ” invites everyone to play and to express oneself in a literary and/or artistic form, from September to June. There are many actors involved, including:
- cultural (media libraries, bookstores, museums, theatres, monuments, storytellers, slammers, etc.)
- social (hospitals, nursing homes, social centres, penitentiaries, etc.)
- educational (kindergartens, schools, colleges, high schools, universities, documentation centres, etc.)
These actors are invited to seize the ten words proposed and to organize events around the French language: writing or calligraphy workshops, dictations, poetry competitions, literary meetings, shows, slam tournaments, photo exhibitions, improvisation or eloquence matches, etc.
The operation « Tell me ten words » offers the possibility to create a social link on a territory by involving in educational, artistic and/ or playful projects very varied populations and sometimes distant from cultural practices.
The Ten Words School Competition
A Ten Words School Competition is organized each year, in partnership with the Ministry of National Education and Youth, for elementary and secondary classes, in France and abroad (AEFE, MLF and LabelFrancEducation networks).
This contest invites participating classes to to produce a collective artistic and literary production, resting on a language work from the ten words. The productions take very varied forms: notebooks, frescoes, screen prints, rap songs, contemporary choreography, tales, stop-motion videos, newspaper, board game, investigation game, etc.
The classes work on their project from September to the end of January; the juries deliberate in February; the laureates are invited for an award ceremony atFrench Academy during the French Language and Francophonie Week .
The school competition is open!
You will find all the modalities on the site Eduscol.
Calendar : registration on Simplified procedures until 19 January and award ceremony during the French Language and Francophonie Week March 16 to 24, 2024.
The teaching booklet allows teachers to engage the first and second degree classes in a collective artistic production process fully in line with the teachings, educational devices and educational paths. This document offers them an overview of the possibilities offered to implement the competition through the student’s academic career.
The contest «Ten words, ten clichés»
The House of the Francophonie in Marseille (MDFM), the General Delegation for the French Language and the Languages of France (DGLFLF) and the Ministry of Sport and Olympic and Paralympic Games organize a photo contest «Ten words, ten shots» around the words of the edition «Tell me ten words on the podium».
The photographs must illustrate in an original way one of the ten words by giving them an original, funny or singular title including the chosen word or suggesting it.
This competition has a dual objective: to encourage amateur photography and illustrate the mastery of the French language. It is aimed at the general public, French-speaking photography enthusiasts, in France and abroad (seniors, people with linguistic insecurity, teenagers, others...) but not at professional photographers.
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