Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 11 March 2022 > Pedagogy
Cultural projects based around a trip or an exchange with an English-speaking country have been curtailed by the pandemic. But necessity is the mother of invention, so two teachers in Toulouse decided to open their students’ horizons through studying musical films (Singin’ in the Rain, West Side Story and La La Land) thanks to their local cinemathèque.
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 04 March 2022 > Shine Bright Lycée What's On
Belfast is actor-director Kenneth Branagh‘s most personal film yet. It’s the story of nine-year-old Buddy growing up in Belfast in a friendly, working-class community until the Troubles brutally disrupt his life in 1969. Belfast is set in 1969, when what were called “the Troubles” went from protests to violent riots in the space of a … Continue reading “In the Streets of Belfast”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 20 October 2021 > In the News Shine Bright Lycée
The British Royal Foundation is awarding five prizes a year till 2030 for innovative ideas to help the planet. The Earthshot prizes have been named in reference to President Kennedy’s Moonshot project which concentrated innovators’ energies on putting a human on the Moon in the 1960s. Prince William explained that the aim of the Earthshots is to repair this planet, not explore another one.
Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 26 April 2021 > What's On
It was a night of lots of superlatives. The first socially distanced Oscars ceremony, held in the vast halls of LA’s Union Station two months after the original date. The first woman of colour to win best director, and only the second woman at all. The oldest best actor, and a Korean-speaking best supporting actress, and the oldest woman to win an Oscar: 89-year-old Ann Roth, the costume designer for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 22 March 2021 > What's On
"The Personal History of David Copperfield" is far from the first adaptation of Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel. But Armando Iannucci has given the story a very new feel, while keeping Dickens' humour and playing with that idea of autobiography and the art of inventing oneself through the act of writing.
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 03 March 2021 > Celebrate
World Book Day is on 4 March this year. In the UK, schoolchildren receive a £1 book token they can spend on a selection of books chosen for the day. The authors have recorded ten-minute readings great for classroom use. Here’s a selection. The readings are part of a project to share stories by recording … Continue reading “Ten-Minute Stories for World Book Day”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 20 September 2019 > Ready to Use
This document aims to allow you to work on the trailer of the upcoming movie "Downton Abbey" at a B1 level. "Downton Abbey" was originally a British historical period drama television series that aired from 2010 to 2015. It was set as a fiction based in a historical landscape between 1912 and 1926, in the post-Edwardian era where historical events had a real influence on the British social hierarchy. The movie takes place after the end of the last season. Fans will definitely recognise the famous characters.
Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 12 June 2019 > What's On
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë were wonderful storytellers, but their lives have fascinated generations of audiences almost as much as their books. The play "Brontë" by Polly Teale combines their biographies and their fiction. We talked to Barry Purves, who directed a recent production.
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 07 May 2019 > What's On
Adapting a scene from a book as a film scene, or a film scene as prose, is an excellent English-learning exercise. To see how the experts do it, a talk at the American Library in Paris analyses the adaptation of one of America’s classic books into one of its classic films. Judith Merians, Hollywood executive … Continue reading “To Kill a Mockingbird: Adapting to Film”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 28 November 2017 > In the News
Britain will have something to distract it from Brexit negotiations in 2018 — a royal wedding always improves national morale. Prince Harry has announced his engagement to American actress Meghan Markle, with a wedding planned on 19 May.
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