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”
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”
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”
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”
We promised them and here they are. Our first four Reading Guides are available for books on the 1ère LLCER curriculum by Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell, Harper Lee and Mark Haddon. Designed for class or home use, they will help pupils successfully meet the challenge of reading their first full fictional works in English. … Continue reading “Reading Guides for Your Students”
We always love to read students’ work. Here are some poems pupils wrote as their final task in a sequence from Shine Bright 2e: File 1 United Colours of Harlem. In this sequence, in Axe 3 Le village, le quartier, la ville, students discovered Harlem and considered what makes it such an inspiring neighbourhood. As … Continue reading “Your Students Have Talent: United Colours of Harlem”
It’s always lovely to see students’ work. Here are some collages created at the end of a sequence from Shine Bright 1e: SnapFile 10 Punk is not dead. In this sequence, in Axe 3 Art et pouvoir, students considered whether the spirit of punk can still shake society. They were asked to create and comment … Continue reading “Your Students Have Talent: Punk is not Dead”
Not enough time in class to work on pupils’ language skills: grammar, vocabulary and phonology? Our Pump it up work books allow pupils to work at their own pace and are perfect for blended learning. There are two levels: A2>B1 and B1>B2. Each contains 25 grammar lessons, 10 vocabulary lessons plus phonology activities to work … Continue reading “Pump up Pupils’ Language skills”
We always love to read students’ work. Here are some poems pupils wrote as their final task in a sequence from Shine Bright LLCER: File 5 War Will Not Tear Us Apart. In this sequence for Première LLCER, in the theme Rencontres Axe 1 L’amour et l’amitié, students considered how World War I intensified human … Continue reading “Your Students Have Talent: War Will Not Tear Us Apart”
One of the biggest successes in British theatre in recent years will be on stage in Paris for the first time in November and December. The National Theatre’s production of War Horse by Michael Morpurgo is an emotional rollercoaster of a story about a teenage boy and his horse during the First World War. The … Continue reading “War Horse Play in Paris”