Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 19 January 2023 > Pedagogy
Our challenge last year was to get 4e students interested in musicals! As we couldn’t take them abroad on an exchange, we felt like taking “a bit of abroad” to them, through musicals. You can read what we planned to do here, and below you’ll find our conclusions about what worked and what didn’t. Though … Continue reading “Assessing musicals with 4e euro”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 19 January 2023 > In the News
After the Midterm elections in November, the 118th Congress has been sitting since 3 January. The Midterms were expected to result in a defeat for the Democrats and a lame-duck presidency for the next two years. But the Democrats have kept hold of the Senate and although the Republicans have a small majority in the … Continue reading “What’s Going On in the U.S. Congress?”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 22 December 2022 > What's On
A chance meeting between novelist Kazuo Ishiguro and actor Bill Nighy led to Ishiguro remaking Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Living, setting it in post-WWII London. Nighy plays a buttoned up English civil servant who changes his attitude to life when he is told he is dying. It may not sound like it but it’s a … Continue reading “When a Nobel Laureate Remakes a Cinema Masterpiece”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 21 December 2022 > What's On
The strange, gothic Addams family have been a staple of American cultures since cartoonist Charles Addams created them for The New Yorker in 1938. And when you think Gothic, Tim Burton is definitely one of the first filmmakers who comes to mind. He has created a Netflix series, Wednesday, about the daughter in the Addams … Continue reading “The Addams Family, Tim Burton Style!”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Sunday 18 December 2022 > Celebrate
In the U.S.A., the holiday season starts with Thanksgiving at the end of November and encompasses Christmas and New Year. For over 50 years, African Americans have had another holiday to celebrate: Kwanzaa, from 26 December to 1 January. The celebration was conceived by a civil-rights activist and doctoral student in African studies at the … Continue reading “Happy Kwanzaa”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 16 December 2022 > In the News Shine Bright Lycée
The British Royal Foundation is awarding five Earthshot prizes a year till 2030 for innovative ideas to help the planet. The 2022 winners were announced at a ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts, on 2 December hosted by Prince William. The winning projects are based in Australia, Britain, India, Kenya and Oman. The first Earthshot Prizes were … Continue reading “The Earthshot Prizes: Class of 2022”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 16 December 2022 > In the News
Various dictionaries have been revealing their “words of the year”, including “permacrisis”, “goblin mode”, “gaslighting”, and “homer”. Not in your vocabulary yet? We’ll give you all the info you need on the words people are talking about and why. For the first time, Oxford Dictionaries asked the public to vote for its word of the … Continue reading “Words of the Year: Talking about 2022”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 15 December 2022 > Ready to Use
The Addams Family is back in a Netflix series, Wednesday. It features eight episodes, four directed by Tim Burton. It centres around Wednesday, the daughter in the Addams family, played by Jenna Ortega, and who is starting at Nevermore, boarding school for outcasts. The Addams Family, created by American cartoonist Charles Addams for The New … Continue reading “Wednesday Addams: School for Outcasts”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 14 December 2022 > Pedagogy
Des élèves moins inhibés mais « pourvu qu’ils parlent… », est-ce suffisant ? Il est indéniable que les élèves d’aujourd’hui sont, dans l’ensemble, moins inhibés et intimidés par le fait de s’exprimer en langue étrangère que ne l’étaient leurs homologues des années 1980 ou 1990. Et c’est à porter au crédit des professeurs qui, conscients de l’absolue nécessité … Continue reading “Consolider les compétences orales des élèves”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 14 December 2022 > Pedagogy
Force est de constater que le recours massif, tout au long de la scolarisation et dans de nombreuses matières, à une pratique de classe que l’on appelle souvent « cours dialogué » fondé sur un échange de questions-réponses entre l’enseignant et un seul élève à chaque fois, n’est guère propice au développement progressif de la … Continue reading “Les compétences orales: remise en cause de l’approche frontale”
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