Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 14 January 2022 > Webpicks
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his leadership of the African American civil-rights movement. The Nobel committee has published a series of videos and a lesson plan for using them in class. Perfect for Martin Luther King Day, 17 January this year. You can download the lesson … Continue reading “Videos for Martin Luther King Day”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 20 December 2021 > Ready to Use
The British Pavillion at the Venice Architecture Biennale this year explored the theme of public spaces that are privately owned, like garden squares in London, our high streets or even pubs. It would make a perfect extension to Shine Bright 1e File 2 London is my backyard, or any sequence on espace privé et espace … Continue reading “The Garden of Privatised Delights”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 26 November 2021 > Ready to Use
Our bioboxes are short “Who Am I?” quizzes to help introduce pupils to famous figures in the English-speaking world. This one is on Josephine Baker as she enters the French Panthéon. For more information on Baker, see our article. You can download the biobox below to use it offline with your pupils.
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 26 November 2021 > Webpicks
If you’re studying Animal Farm with your LLCER 1e students, check out the complete and unabridged audio book of Orwell’s allegory on the BBC Sounds site. You can easily find extracts to play for pupils or for them to listen to in preparation. Free to stream.
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 25 November 2021 > Webpicks
St Andrew’s Day, 30 November, is the Scottish national day. Here are a couple of resources to talk about the celebration with collège classes, and a suggestion to get everyone moving! This BBC Newsround article written for children has “Everything you need to know about St Andrew’s Day”. It’s usable from A2. You may want … Continue reading “St Andrews Day Online Resources”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 24 November 2021 > Ready to Use
Sixty years after Robert Wise’s award-winning movie, Steven Spielberg’s much awaited remake of West Side Story aims at a much more authentic portrayal of the Puerto Rican protagonists in this Romeo and Juliet-inspired tale of star-crossed lovers in NYC. We here offer one worksheet but two articles of different levels (B1, B2) so you can … Continue reading “West Side Story 2021”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 23 November 2021 > Webpicks
For many years, the Native Americans at the first Thanksgiving dinner were reduced to generic “Indians” in the national story. Today, the Plimoth Patuxet living-history museums at the site of the original Thanksgiving have created an online game to help school children learn about both the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag. The former Plimoth Plantation had … Continue reading “Thanksgiving with Wampanoag and Pilgrims”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 19 November 2021 > Webpicks
A Thanksgiving intergenerational project in the U.S.A. would make an excellent language activity anywhere. StoryCorps is an innovative oral history project that has been recording ordinary Americans having conversations with people they love since 2003. The concept is simple: the mobile StoryCorps recording booth sets up in a town. Anyone who wants to can come … Continue reading “Thanksgiving Stories”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 12 November 2021 > Webpicks
It’s Anti-Bullying Week in U.K. schools from 15 to 19 November. The theme is kindness, how saying one kind word can potentially break the cycle of bullying. It lends itself well to a language activity on expressing kindness. There are lots of teaching tools on the Anti-Bullying Alliance site. The secondary school lesson plan is … Continue reading “Anti-Bullying Week”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 05 November 2021 > Webpicks
The This is England short film festival in Rouen has a specific programme of short films for lycée classes covering topics from ballet to hip hop, flat earth theory to fox hunting. If you sign up for a lycée showing, your students will see ten films ranging in length from 1m30 to 16 minutes. There … Continue reading “Short Films with your Lycée Students”
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