Shine Bright 6e: New Curriculum

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 30 April 2025 > Pedagogy Shine Bright Collège

There’s a new curriculum for English in 6e from September. Our authors have been busy coming up with themes and documents to correspond to the curriculum and appeal to teachers and pupils alike. Have a look at the introductory video: In the new curriculum, there are 5 cultural axes in 6e, with several “objets d’étude” … Continue reading “Shine Bright 6e: New Curriculum”

Threats to the U.S. Department of Education

Posted by Speakeasy News > Wednesday 26 March 2025 > In the News

On March 20, headlines around the world announced that President Donald Trump had dismantled the U.S. Department of Education. What does the Department of Education do, and has it really been closed? The U.S. Department of Education is not the equivalent of the education ministries in many other countries, which usually set curricula and exams, … Continue reading “Threats to the U.S. Department of Education”

Bob Dylan Biopic

Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 13 February 2025 > Ready to Use Shine Bright Lycée

A Complete Unknown is a biopic about the early years of Bob Dylan’s musical career. Timothée Chalamet plays the singer-songwriter when he arrives in New York City in 1961 from Minnesota with a guitar, some songs and not much else. This B2 resource will familiarise students with Dylan’s music, the folk and protest scene he … Continue reading “Bob Dylan Biopic”

Presidential Inaugurations: A Video

Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 14 January 2025 > Webpicks

Once every four years, a U.S. President is inaugurated. This video gives a succinct summary of the significance of this ritualised event. The first 1m30 gives an overview of the day from the oath to the speech and the inaugural balls, with some short extracts from Abraham Lincoln’s and John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speeches. Then … Continue reading “Presidential Inaugurations: A Video”

New Congress, New Challenges

Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 14 January 2025 > In the News

The 119th U.S. Congress convened for the first time on 3 January. Although the Republican Party achieved the “trifecta” of the Presidency and majorities in both houses of Congress in the November elections,  divisions within the party mean it won’t be simple to pass legislation. The Republicans have a five seat majority in the Senate … Continue reading “New Congress, New Challenges”

Everything You Need to Know About: U.S. Presidential Inaugurations

Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 14 January 2025 > Celebrate

On Monday, 20 January, Donald Trump will become the 47th President of the United States at his second Inauguration in Washington D.C. What does the Inauguration involve, who participates, and what does it cost? The first Inauguration was George Washington’s in New York in 1789. The newly independent United States hadn’t built its new federal … Continue reading “Everything You Need to Know About: U.S. Presidential Inaugurations”

Wicked

Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 12 December 2024 > Ready to Use

The famous Wicked musical is now a film. How about embarking your 6e students on a trip to Oz and the Emerald City in order to make them discover the world of Wicked while revising the present simple and learning words about school and wizardry? The trailer focuses mainly on the Shiz University section and … Continue reading “Wicked”

America, America Photography Exhibition in Lyon

Posted by Speakeasy News > Tuesday 22 October 2024 > What's On

America, America is an exhibition of photos by esteemed American photojournalists and street photographers such as Lewis Hine, Gordon Parks and Helen Levitt. They are all part of the Marin Karmitz collection and are on show at the Lumière Institute till 5 January. The forty works on display span the 20th century, starting chronologically with … Continue reading “America, America Photography Exhibition in Lyon”

James Baldwin Centenary

Posted by Speakeasy News > Thursday 26 September 2024 > Celebrate

2024 marks the centennial of the birth of James Baldwin, novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, civil-rights campaigner and social critic, as well as self-proclaimed American “Native Son”. Born in 1924 in Harlem, New York, Baldwin grew up in poverty, the eldest of nine children. Harlem was home to many black families who had moved from the … Continue reading “James Baldwin Centenary”