In our series “Your Students Have Talent”, check out these sketchnote pages created as a cross-curricular task by pupils using our Reading Guide Matilda. The 4e students were studying Roald Dahl’s touching and humorous novel and were asked to create a sketchnote summary of the story of a highly intelligent young girl who is neglected … Continue reading “Your Students Have Talent! Matilda”
Bridget Jones has accompanied a generation of readers and filmgoers in a series of romantic comedies about trying to find happiness in the modern world of love. Now, she’s back in a new film, widowed, a single mother, and ready to try to find love again. Helen Fielding originally wrote Bridget Jones’ Diary as a … Continue reading “Bridget Jones is Back”
The National Theatre’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring the current Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa, recently wowed audiences in London’s West End. If your students are studying the play for LLCER, the trailer for the production would be a great addition to their portfolios. The trailer has no dialogue apart from Lady Bracknell’s … Continue reading “Teaching with Trailers: The Importance of Being Earnest”
As promised, our latest Reading Guide for Terminale LLCER, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, is at the printers and will be available in the middle of November. The six novels Jane Austen published between 1811 and 1817 (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma and the posthumously published Persuasion and Northanger Abbey) have never … Continue reading “New Reading Guide: Pride and Prejudice”
If you are working on Pride or Prejudice with your LLCER pupils, or if you’re just a Jane Austen fan, look out for a new BBC series about the middle Bennet sister, Mary, coming next year. And coming much sooner, our Reading Guide to accompany your students will be available on 21 November. Of the … Continue reading “The Other Bennet Sister”
Our new collection, Reading Guides anglais, lets you introduce collège and seconde learners to reading fiction in English. Each one contains extensive extracts of a popular work of fiction and lots of teaching tools to help pupils understand. On 12 June, two guide authors discussed how to use fiction in the classroom in a short, … Continue reading “Meet the Authors: Introducing Fiction to Younger Learners Replay”
Although he was one of the most cosmopolitan American authors, Paul Auster will forever remain indelibly linked with New York and specifically Brooklyn. The author of Moon Palace, The New York Trilogy and films such as Smoke, died there on 30 April at the age of 77 from lung cancer which had been diagnosed in … Continue reading “Brooklyn Mourns Paul Auster”
Last year, we started a new collection of Reading Guides to help you introduce your pupils to reading fiction in English in collège and seconde. Our latest title is about to arrive in bookshops: Matilda by Roald Dahl! Matilda was born from the vivid imagination of one of the world’s best-loved and most-read children’s authors: … Continue reading “Matilda Reading Guide”
In our series “Your Students Have Talent”, check out these amazing comic strips created as an intermediate task by pupils using our Reading Guide Gangsta Granny. The 4e Euro students were studying David Walliams’ humorous novel and were tasked with creating an illustrated version of the scene where the protagonist Ben discovers a biscuit tin … Continue reading “Your Students Have Talent! Gangsta Granny”
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”
