One of the nice results of the current lockdown, from an audience point of view, is that the UK’s National Theatre is going to be making selected shows available for a week at a time on YouTube. The National Theatre has announced a show a week for the month of April. They are filmed shows … Continue reading “Watch UK’s National Theatre Productions at Home!”
The lycée lessons in English on France 4 which started on 25 March have been such a success that there are now programmes every week for the different collège levels. The collège-level lessons are 30 minutes long. You can find the detailed schedule here. The subjects for the first two lessons for 6e-5e are … Continue reading “Classes on TV for your Collège Students”
Judy Garland was a child singing star and a global star of stage and screen. Her starring role in The Wizard of Oz at 17 made her a household name. A new film stars Renée Zellweger playing Garland in the final year in her short life, when stardom and the Hollywood studio system had taken … Continue reading “Judy Garland”
The Education Ministry has commissioned a series of filmed lessons for pupils, to be shown on France 4. There are classes in English for lycée level, every Wednesday, starting on 25 March. The first lesson is on written comprehension, for 1ère and Terminale, around a letter to Judy Garland, an extract from Love Letters to … Continue reading “Classes on TV for your lycée students”
Traditionally, on April Fools Day, the media in the English-speaking world love to run hoax stories. But in these days of fake news, how easy will it be to tell the April Fools from the usual run of internet rumours on 1 April? Luckily, April Fools Day is followed by International Fact-checking Day. Which of … Continue reading “April Fools”
You can always count on the Canadians to find the positive in anything. In this case, the coronavirus, social distancing, quarantine and everything else involved in the current situation. Canadians decided to combat the scaremongering about the virus by forming groups to help each other under the title “caremongering”. The trend started in Toronto, where … Continue reading “Word of the Moment: Caremongering”
Du jour au lendemain, on a demandé à tous les enseignants de France de se transformer en professeur « virtuel ». Défi difficile mais relevé grâce à la créativité individuelle et collective des enseignants qui trouvent des solutions astucieuses adaptées à leur environnement et à leurs élèves. Pour vous aider, voici quelques suggestions d’ordre pratique. … Continue reading “Assurer la continuité pédagogique”
A famous poet is celebrating an important anniversary. Find out who by watching the quiz below.
As many of us get used to spending much more time than usual at home during the Covid-19 outbreak, it seems a perfect time to catch up on some of that sleep we all keep saying we don’t get enough of. And it turns out we could help the planet at the same time. World … Continue reading “Sleep for the Planet”
We always love to see students’ work. Here are some new twists on fairy tales pupils wrote and illustrated as their final task in a sequence from Shine Bright 2e: File 20 Once Upon a Time. In this sequence, in Axe 6 La création et le rapport aux arts, students discovered some updated versions of … Continue reading “Your Students Have Talent: Once Upon a Time”