New Reading Guides

Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 04 May 2021 > Pedagogy Shine Bright Lycée

Two more Reading Guides for LLCER Terminale are available: Paul Auster’s novel Moon Palace and Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman. Our Reading Guide collection helps you and your students get the most out of their set books with background information, extensive extracts and guided activities to help them understand and analyse the works. … Continue reading “New Reading Guides”

A New Webinar on the Grand Oral for Your Students

Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 03 May 2021 > Pedagogy

To continue accompanying you and your students as they prepare for the Grand oral, there will be another free webinar on the subject on 11 May, this time focusing on giving the prepared presentation and exchanging with the jury. Mission Grand oral author Olivier Jaoui will also answer pupils’ questions. Webinar: “Réussir son exposé, la … Continue reading “A New Webinar on the Grand Oral for Your Students”

Time to Escape

Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 26 April 2021 > Pedagogy

Immerse your students in an adventure that will get them working in teams, and in English, without even noticing! Three escape games set in a haunted Scottish castle, on the Titanic and in London during evacuation from the Blitz are easy to put in place and full of cultural content for cycle 4. The Escape … Continue reading “Time to Escape”

Coming Very Soon: Shine Bright AMC

Posted by Speakeasy News > Saturday 24 April 2021 > Pedagogy Shine Bright Lycée

If you’re teaching LLCER AMC, or will be next year, let us introduce the latest addition to the Shine Bright collection: Anglais, monde contemporain Cycle Terminal. It includes 28 chapters of varying lengths covering all the themes of the curriculum in 1e and Terminale, ranging across the English-speaking world. A group of authors teaching in … Continue reading “Coming Very Soon: Shine Bright AMC”

Vos manuels numériques pour assurer la continuité pédagogique

Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 19 April 2021 > Pedagogy

Pendant cette nouvelle période de classes en distanciel, tous les manuels Nathan, Le Robert et Bordas sont de nouveau en accès libre d’un simple clic sur le site adistance.manuelnumerique.com Sur le site adistance.manuel.numerique.com, vous trouverez tous les manuels existant sous forme numérique, de la 6e à la Terminale, dans toutes les matières. Pour accéder aux … Continue reading “Vos manuels numériques pour assurer la continuité pédagogique”

Study Abroad and Internships in the Current Climate

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 10 March 2021 > Pedagogy

Normally if we were writing about Fulbright Scholarships, it would be about opportunities to study in the U.S. Of course that’s complicated at the moment. But one positive point about the current restrictions is that they’ve led to lots more opportunities to access online education from foreign institutions. This recording of a webinar from Fulbright … Continue reading “Study Abroad and Internships in the Current Climate”

West Side Story Free for Classes

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 24 February 2021 > Pedagogy

The educational TV channel Lumni is offering the Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise film of West Side Story free to stream for collège and lycée classes.  The film of the musical comedy by Bernstein, Sondheim and Robbins is a reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with the Capulets and Montagues being replaced by rival gangs  … Continue reading “West Side Story Free for Classes”

Your Students Have Talent: Masters and Servants

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 17 February 2021 > Pedagogy Shine Bright Lycée

It’s always lovely to see students’ work. Here are some diary entries pupils wrote as their final task in a sequence from Shine Bright Terminale:  File 4 Masters and Servants. In this sequence,  in Axe 2 Private Space and Public Space, students considered to what extent private and public spaces are codified by British society. … Continue reading “Your Students Have Talent: Masters and Servants”