It won’t have escaped your notice that this is an Olympic year. To get into the swing of things, we’d like to take sport as the theme of our annual creative-writing competition. We’d like pupils to use their imagination to write a story about sport in any way they want. They can write about loving … Continue reading “Creative Writing Competition: Sport”
If you are studying the 1961 film of West Side Story with your LLCER 1ère students, our Reading Guide will help them analyse key scenes, explore the background and inspiration to the work, and different iterations of this story of star-crossed lovers. West Side Story is a 20th century retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set … Continue reading “Our West Side Story Reading Guide Has Arrived”
The West Side Story production that has just finished in Paris will be touring to Bordeaux, Lyons, Rouen and Nantes in February and March. A full stage production, it is in English with French surtitles. The musical comedy by Bernstein, Sondheim and Robbins is a reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with the Capulets and … Continue reading “West Side Story on Tour Around France”
New rules about identity papers come into force on 28 December that will make taking school groups to the post-Brexit UK a bit easier. Many teachers had given up trying to take classes on trips to the U.K. since post-Brexit rules came in that required every pupil (like every French person travelling to the U.K.) … Continue reading “New Rules Make School Trips to the UK Easier”
7 December will see the first ever International Day of Language Assistants. We’d love to hear your shout outs to your language assistants. What is the most helpful thing they do for you? What is the most important thing you can do for them? The day has been created by France Éducation International to celebrate … Continue reading “Celebrate your Language Assistants!”
If you are studying Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 with your LLCER 1ère students, you may want to take them to see this theatre adaptation in French which will be touring the country from January. Bradbury’s dystopian novel about a future world in which firemen don’t put out fires but instead burn books is a new … Continue reading “Fahrenheit 451 In Theatres around France”
“This is England” is a great festival of British short films based in Rouen and the surrounding region with a special programme of screenings and teaching materials for primary, collège and lycée classes. The 2023 edition will take place from 11 to 19 November. The selection for this year is now on their website and … Continue reading “Save the Date This is England Short Films Festival in Normandy”
Radio France has an amazing website that provides resources for teachers wanting to have their pupils sing. Logically most of the songs are in French, but there are four in English and several in German. If you check out the songs available on the Ma chorale voix interactive site, click on “plus de filtres” and … Continue reading “Free Resources for Class Singing”
The 34th edition of the Dinard British Film Festival will take place in Brittany from 27 September to 1 October. We’ll be writing about the films in competition shortly, but you can get ready to sign up your classes to see some great British films at special schools showings. You need to register between 1 … Continue reading “Films for Schools in Dinard!”
If you teach in collège, you might like to sign your pupils up for an original multilingual story competition. It asks classes to write a story using elements of languages other than French. You need to sign up by 30 September 2023 but then you have till 24 March to send in your project. The … Continue reading “Multilingual Story Competition for Collège”