The Fabelmans Group 2 Trailer
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 14 March 2023 > Shine Bright Lycée
Watch the trailer and fill in the Group 2 Part of your worksheet.
The Fabelmans Group 1 Trailer
Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 14 March 2023 > Shine Bright Lycée
Watch the trailer and fill in the Group 1 Part of your worksheet.
Your Students Have Talent! Frankenstein Revisited Booktrailers
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 10 March 2023 > Pedagogy Shine Bright Lycée
In our series “Your Students Have Talent”, check out these amazing book trailers created by 1ère AMC students for their revisited versions of Frankenstein! The students from Lycée Louis Bescan in Rambouillet (78) worked on Frankenstein as part of a sequence on transhumanism. They were challenged in groups to come up with updated versions of … Continue reading “Your Students Have Talent! Frankenstein Revisited Booktrailers”
Matilda the Musical
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 19 January 2023 > Ready to Use
This A1+ worksheet is based on the trailer of the new Matilda musical, directed by Matthew Warchus and released on Netflix on 25 December 2022. It was adapted from Roald Dahl’s famous story and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda the Musical. The story is faithful to Dahl’s orginal: Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinarly … Continue reading “Matilda the Musical”
Times are Changing at Downton Abbey
Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 14 April 2022 > Shine Bright Lycée What's On
Downton Abbey fans will be delighted to hear that there is a second film spin-off of the series about to release. Subtitled “A New Era”, it’s set in the Roaring Twenties and sees Lady Mary take over the day-to-day running of the estate from her father, and a film crew arrive to use the house … Continue reading “Times are Changing at Downton Abbey”
Teaching with Films: Belfast
Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 14 March 2022 > Shine Bright Lycée Webpicks
The trailer and the featurette for Belfast are both used in our Ready-to-use resource on the film. Trailer Featurette
Death on the Nile
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 04 February 2022 > Ready to Use Shine Bright Collège Shine Bright Lycée
Kenneth Branagh fait suite à son succès comme réalisateur et vedette d’une première adaptation d’un roman d’Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express, avec Death on the Nile, où on retrouve Branagh incarnant le détective belge Hercule Poirot. Cette fois un meurtre a été commis non pas dans un train mais sur un bateau naviguant … Continue reading “Death on the Nile”
A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting
Posted by Speakeasy News > Monday 18 October 2021 > Ready to Use
This Netflix adaptation of a book for teenagers uses all the Halloween paraphernalia: pumpkins, witches and monsters, among which the vile Grand Guignol is planning to steal children’s nightmares to unleash them upon the world. But the members of the Order of Babysitters are determined to stop him. When young Jacob is kidnapped by the … Continue reading “A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting”
Vampires from “Dracula” to “Twilight”
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 25 October 2019 > Celebrate
The cinema industry has long had a love affair with vampires, most often Dracula, based on Eastern European legends and Bram Stoker’s eponymous book. An exhibition at the Cinémathèque in Paris is a great opportunity to revisit the fascination with the undead across the arts: literature, painting, TV and film. It’s also an opportunity to … Continue reading “Vampires from “Dracula” to “Twilight””
Downton Abbey: Masters and Servants
Posted by Speakeasy News > Friday 20 September 2019 > Ready to Use Shine Bright Lycée
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 … Continue reading “Downton Abbey: Masters and Servants”