Drama Activities in English Class

Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 24 April 2018 > Pedagogy

Comment utiliser la pratique théâtrale pour favoriser l'expression en cours d'anglais ? Témoignage d'un projet mené avec une troupe de théâtre au collège.

Robert Redford: A Star Among the Stars

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 17 September 2025 > In the News

Robert Redford died on September 16, 2025, at the age of 89, in his Sundance (Utah) home. A charming actor, Oscar-winning director, and founder of the world’s most important independent film festival, he spanned six decades of American cinema by combining seduction and rigor, star power and political conscience, Hollywood heritage and a desire for independence.

On Country

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 16 July 2025 > Shine Bright Collège Shine Bright Lycée What's On

When Aboriginal Australians say they are, or are going, “on country”, they don’t just mean they are physically on the lands their ancestors have inhabited for 60,000 years. It also implies that they are shaped by the place, connected to it, and recognize a responsibility to care for it. It is this meaningful phrase that is used as the title of an exhibition at the Arles Photography festival that explores the concept.

Wicked

Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 12 December 2024 > Ready to Use

The famous Wicked musical is now a film. How about embarking your 6e students on a trip to Oz and the Emerald City in order to make them discover the world of Wicked while revising the present simple and learning words about school and wizardry?

Dub Poet: Benjamin Zephaniah

Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 08 December 2023 > Celebrate

We were very sad to hear of the sudden death of Benjamin Zephaniah, one of Britain’s most popular poets. Benjamin Zephaniah said the art of poetry, and of life, is in how you look at things. Perhaps not surprising for a man of many faces: a dyslexic who left school at 13, who became a university professor. A Rasta poet who was by turns fiercely political and a children’s favourite.

Ken Loach Trying to See the Hope

Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 24 October 2023 > Shine Bright Lycée What's On

At age 87, veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach says The Old Oak will be his last film and it closes the trilogy set in the north-east of England after I, Daniel Blake (Cannes Palme d’or 2016) and Sorry We Missed You (2019). It looks at the arrival of a group of Syrian refugees to be housed in a rundown north-eastern town, the reactions of different locals and the bonds that are formed between the communities.

Deauville : Back to America

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 09 August 2023 > What's On

The 49th edition of Deauville American Film Festival will run from September 1st to September 10th, 2023. The official competition jury will be presided by Guillaume Canet and the jury for "La Révélation" will be chaired by Mélanie Thierry.

Edward Hopper Winners Lycée B1

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 26 April 2023 > Pedagogy

We received thousands and thousands of fabulous entries to our Edward Hopper creative-writing contest. Here are our favourite B1-level texts from lycée students.