What are you planning for la Semaine des langues? This year’s edition is from 18 to 23 March and is on the theme of « L’important, c’est de communiquer ! », which we would happily adopt as our motto here at Speakeasy News. The event makes special reference to the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer … Continue reading “Ready for the Semaine des Langues?”
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”
This year’s UK National Poetry Day is on 5 October. A great opportunity to get some poetry into your class, and to explore this year’s theme: Refuge. The National Poetry Day site has lots of poems and teaching resources. We picked out some which are especially well adapted to ESL learners. There are short films … Continue reading “Poetry in the Classroom”
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”
We challenged your pupils to write stories inspired by Edward Hopper’s paintings and we were incredibly impressed by the imagination they showed. We got thousands and thousands of entries and it’s taken a while to read them all, but we can now announce the authors of the winning texts. We’ve split them into pages by … Continue reading “Winning Texts: Edward Hopper Competition”
We received thousands and thousands of fabulous entries to our Edward Hopper creative-writing contest. Here are our favourite texts entered as A2 and those who chose the 100-word limit. And the winners are, in no particular order: Amandine and Amélie from Mme Parigot’s class, Collège Jean Racine, Viroflay Maya, Manon and Lilou from Mme Hérault’s … Continue reading “Edward Hopper Winners A2”
We received thousands and thousands of fabulous entries to our Edward Hopper creative-writing contest. Here are our favourite texts from collège pupils entered as B1. And the winners are, in no particular order: Mathéo, Miss Rocher-Ferchaud’s class, Collège La Hève, Sainte-Adresse Adam and Jérôme from Mrs Orbann’s class, Institution Saint-Jean, Colmar Mme Guérin’s class, Collège-Lycée … Continue reading “Edward Hopper Winners Collège B1”
We received thousands and thousands of fabulous entries to our Edward Hopper creative-writing contest. Here are our favourite B1-level texts from lycée students. And the winners are, in no particular order: Romane, Tristan, Inès and Clara from Mme Crabos’s class, Institut Saint Dominique, Pau Luka and Noé from Mme Traista’s class, Lycée de Cornouaille, Quimper … Continue reading “Edward Hopper Winners Lycée B1”
We received thousands and thousands of fabulous entries to our Edward Hopper creative-writing contest. Here are our favourite B1-plus texts. And the winners are, in no particular order: Téa from Mrs Malecki’s class, Lycée Jean-Baptiste Corot, Douai Danaia from Mrs Maurin’s class, CSI Europole, Grenoble Pia and Fanny from Mme Chabal’s class, Lycée Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, … Continue reading “Edward Hopper Winners B1 plus”
We received thousands and thousands of fabulous entries to our Edward Hopper creative-writing contest. Here are our favourite B2-level texts. And the winners are, in no particular order: Adel from Mrs. Lesueur’s class, Europole, Grenoble Tanguy from Mme Ledroit’s class, Institut Emmanuel d’Alzon, Nîmes Damien from M. Thuillier’s class, Lycée Anguier, Eu Claire from Mme … Continue reading “Edward Hopper Winners B2”