Meet the Author: Personnaliser les apprentissages

Comment organiser ses pratiques pédagogiques pour faire en sorte que le collège profite à tous les profils d’élèves et que chacun puisse progresser et développer ses compétences en anglais ? Notre nouveau guide pratique Mission Prof' : Personnaliser les apprentissages propose des explications et des activités clé-en-main. Son autrice partagera ses expériences lors d'un webinaire le 25 juin à 16h.

20 Juin 2025

compréhension orale

compréhension écrite

expression écrite

The Grandmother of Juneteenth

If Juneteenth (19 June) became a federal holiday in the U.S.A., it was partly in thanks to a remarkable retired schoolteacher and activist, Opal Lee, who is now 98. She petitioned Congress and the White House for five years to achieve her goal.

19 Juin 2025

civil rights

U.S. history

African American

Meet the Authors: Shine Brighter Seconde Replay

Comment appliquer les nouveaux programmes en seconde en septembre ? Shine Brighter 2e vous convie à un webinaire le 11 juin pour échanger avec deux des autrices du manuel sur le thème "Comment construire les repères culturels en développant les compétences langagières des élèves ?"

19 Juin 2025

civil rights

London

New Zealand

Rendez-vous

Frederick Forsyth, Cold-Blooded Novelist

The master of political thrillers has passed away at age 86. His books have sold over 75 million copies in more than 30 languages.

13 Juin 2025

books

thriller

British culture

The Sound of Summer Fades Away

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' songwriter, died on 12 June. The band symbolised a California dream of sun, surf and sand and rivalled the Beatles for the coolest band of the 1960s.

13 Juin 2025

music

California

Summer

In the American West

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.

12 Juin 2025

exhibition

U.S. culture

photojournalism

Sélection culturelle

"Huckleberry Finn" from Another Point of View

Percival Everett received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction for his reworking of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. James, as the title implies, looks at the events of the book through the eyes of Jim, the enslaved man who accompanies Huck on his raft ride when he runs away.

12 Juin 2025

U.S.A.

history

literature

How to Train Your Dragon: Teaser Trailer

Watch the teaser and fill in your worksheet. [video width="640" height="480" mp4="http://www.speakeasy-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/SN_Dragon_Teaser.mp4"][/video]

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How to Train Your Dragon

The latest film adaptation of the world-famous How to Train Your Dragon novel and this set of A1 activities offer you a chance to train your students in various listening, writing and speaking activities. This resource can either be used as a complement to the opening chapter in Shine Bright 6e, "Wings of fire", or on its own to revise description and train your students to oral presentations. Whichever option you choose, dragons are always popular with 6e pupils and these activities will help them develop their writing and speaking skills.

06 Juin 2025

video

children's books

fantasy

Meet the Authors in Toulouse: Bubble Up 2

Après le succès de notre première BD d'apprentissage, Panic in London, le deuxième tome de la collection Bubble Up! sera bientôt dans les bacs: Panic in U.S. History. Le 14 juin, l'auteur William Lafleur (Monsieur l'ex Prof) et l'illustrateur Xuan Le feront une séance de dédicaces à la librairie BéDéCiné de Toulouse. Panic in U.S. History! est le deuxième titre de la collection Bubble up: des BDs pour l’apprentissage de la langue anglaise. Les élèves du premier tome commencent une nouvelle année scolaire, que leur enseignant compte consacrer à la culture et la civilisation américaine. Pour se faire, ils vont partir vers les États-Unis à bord d'un yellow school bus pas du tout ordinaire! Venez rencontrer et échanger avec William Lafleur et Xuan Le le samedi 14 juin à partir de 14h à la librairie Bédéciné de Toulouse. Panic in U.S. History (A2>B1) Pour apprendre ou réviser l’anglais à la maison, en classe, au CDI. Une bande dessinée originale. Des leçons illustrées sur les principaux points à maîtriser. Des exercices ludiques à faire directement dans le cahier. Des audios en accès libre. Un lexique illustré assorti de défis. Découvrez toutes les informations pratiques et feuilletez un extrait de l’ouvrage. Dédicace Panic in U.S. History BéDéCiné Toulouse le 14 juin à partir de 14h Inscription gratuite mais conseillée

05 Juin 2025

comic book

reading

fiction

Ocean with David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough has spent almost seven decades making remarkable documentaries about the natural world which have been watched around our planet. At age 99, his latest film aims to show how our oceans have been impacted by human activity, and how innovative projects can successfully revive them.

05 Juin 2025

united nations

video

sustainable development

Help Save the Oceans

It's World Ocean Day on 8 June and this free poster is a great way to talk with classes about what they can do to help preserve the marine environment. The suggestions are fairly simple and some could be done in class, like the path to the sea, class party or art project. And language-wise, it's all in the present and imperative. You can download this and other resources from the World Ocean Day website . World Ocean Day connects nicely with Shine Bright 3e Snapfile 7 Dive into Barbados, about the ways Barbadians are preserving the marine environment.

05 Juin 2025

video

ecology

environment

Rendez-vous

Indian Space Programme Gets a Boost

India has an ambitious space programme, hoping to put astronauts into orbit by 2027. A new step will be taken when an Indian pilot sets off on a short mission to the International Space Station.

04 Juin 2025

NASA

space

science

Mission prof': Personnaliser les apprentissages

Notre nouvelle collection de guides pratiques Mission Prof' s'élargit avec Personnaliser les apprentissages pour découvrir et mettre en pratique plans de travail et ceintures de compétences en cours d’anglais. Un guide clé-en-mains pour différencier par un enseignement inclusif et aider tous vos élèves à progresser, à leur rythme et de manière autonome.

04 Juin 2025

compréhension orale

compréhension écrite

expression écrite

Les nouveaux programmes langues vivantes sont parus

Après une période de consultation, les nouveaux programmes de langues vivantes pour le collège et le lycée sont parus au B.O. du 29 mai. Ils s'appliqueront en sixième et en seconde dès la rentrée.

02 Juin 2025

lycée

collège

Programme

Panic in U.S. History!: A Comic Strip for English Teaching

Le deuxième tome de la collection Bubble Up!, des BDs pour l’apprentissage de la langue anglaise, met en scène des moments clés de l’histoire des États-Unis pour des élèves à partir d’un niveau A2.

02 Juin 2025

comic book

U.S. history

ségrégation

Sélection culturelle

Featured at Cannes

Over the next few months, look out for these films in English that were chosen for the official competition at the Cannes film festival.

23 Mai 2025

Cinéma

documentary

folk music

Meet the Authors: Shine Bright 6e Webinar Replay

Si vous enseignez en 6e, vous avez reçu, ou allez bientôt recevoir, un spécimen Shine Bright 6e. Vous avez été nombreux à assister à notre webinaire le 21 mai pour en savoir plus sur l'ouvrage, webinaire présenté par deux des auteurs de l'équipe, qui ont notamment exploré le thématique, "Comment une approche culturelle authentique adaptée au niveau des élèves de 6e permet-elle de les faire progresser."

23 Mai 2025

London

U.S. culture

British culture

Rendez-vous

Canadian and Australian Elections

Canada and Australia have decided to stick with the status quo after elections where the governments had been expected to lose their mandates.

08 Mai 2025

politics

elections

Trump

India's Tiger Population Doubles

It’s nice to hear some positive news about endangered species for a change: scientists have announced that India’s tiger population more than doubled between 2010 and 2022. India is now home to 75% of the world population of the endangered feline.

02 Mai 2025

India

conservation

climate change

Turner: 250th Anniversary

One of Britain’s favourite painters, JMW Turner, was born 250 years ago, but his art continues to inspire, just as it inspired the Impressionists in the 19th century. It has a modernity that stands in contrast to his contemporary rival John Constable. It’s hard not to believe Turner would have been proud of the iconoclastic annual art prize that bears his name.

02 Mai 2025

film

art

exhibition

More Ball Games Please

Kobe Bryant was a hero to basketball fans in the U.S.A. and around the world. They were devastated to learn about the former NBA star’s death in a helicopter crash on 26 January, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.

02 Mai 2025

sport

UK

London

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80th Anniversary of VE Day

The world is about to celebrate the 80th anniversary of a cornerstone day: VE Day, on May 8th. What about celebrating this day with your students by reading letters and testimonies from the period?

30 Avril 2025

war

soldier

WWII

Shine Bright 6e: New Curriculum

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!

30 Avril 2025

London

U.S. culture

British culture

New for Lycée: Shine Brighter Seconde

Shine Bright 2e is back in an all-new edition, Shine Brighter, to accompany you putting in place the new curriculum for seconde from September. It’s packed full of themes designed with students’ interests in mind. Watch the introductory video to find out more:

30 Avril 2025

civil rights

London

New Zealand

Sélection culturelle

David Hockney: A Life in Pop Art

David Hockney's new exhibition in Paris is entitled David Hockney, 25. Not a reference to the artist's age – he will be 88 this year – but the focus he has put on the most recent 25 years of his work. Because he is still creating and still innovating, from iPad paintings to monumental landscapes of Yorkshire and Normandy as well as an immersive plunge into the world of opera.

30 Avril 2025

art

exhibition

paris

Easter Traditions

Easter traditions are fairly similar from one English-speaking country to another, but it's nice for pupils to discover them and compare them with their own traditions. Although originally a religious festival, many of the popular traditions such as chocolate eggs and the Easter bunny have more to do with secular celebrations.

16 Avril 2025

video

UK

New York

The Great Gatsby Turns 100

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered the quintessential depiction of the Roaring Twenties and a definite contender for the title of great American novel. On the 100th anniversary of its publication, readers return to the classic, and writers imagine new stories for its characters.

11 Avril 2025

mythes et héros

U.S. history

gangster

Keep Calm and Carry On!

This slogan from 1939 symbolises British identity in 2025 . You can find it on T-shirts, mugs, postcards and posters.

08 Avril 2025

war

history

soldier

Orangutan Eco-Warrior

Ozi: Voice of the Forest is an animated film with an ecological message. Its protagonist, Ozi, is a young orangutan who is separated from her parents during a forest fire. She finds refuge in a sanctuary where she learns sign language. But when she hears her parents are alive, she sets off to find them. Orangutans are humans' closest relatives in the animal world. They are a critically endangered species and live only in the Pacific, principally on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. There are fewer than 120,000 orangutans left in the wild and their habitat is threatened by human activity: the rainforests they live in are being cut down to create palm oil plantations to feed our desire for shampoo, chocolate spreads and cosmetics. That is the situation in the film, which is co-produced by actor Leo DiCaprio, well-known for his commitment to the environment. The film trailer will allow pupils to piece together the story. We see wildfires, Ozi explaining her life in the sanctuary she calls an orphanage, and her realisation she can and must try to save her parents and habitat. It introduces her friends, a monkey called Chance and a rhinoceros called Honkys. Pupils can make hypotheses about the place her parents are being kept and what the company GreenZar is doing taht is "destroying our island". https://youtu.be/URWqCWhyJRc This very short introductory scene narrated by Hugh Bonneville would be great for anticipation: how could this tiny ape "change the world"? https://youtu.be/Td1kDxvKJfI This short clip entitled "Home Sweet Home" shows the paradisical life Ozi had as baby with her parents in the rainforest. It's good for revising family vocabulary. https://youtu.be/rgdCEYSmBXs This clip shows Ozi rediscovering the forest with Chance after living in the human world. (She has a tablet to take photos because she has become an influencer, helping the charity that helped her teach the world about he species.) [embed]https://youtu.be/8HihAJjnJyc[/embed] Going Further For more about orangutans, check out this article on the Greenpeace site, "10 Amazing Facts About Orangutans". And this article from the WWF site explains what products contain palm oil and how to find responsibly-produced palm-oil products. This film would make a great complement to Shine Bright 5e SnapFile 8 Save Rang-Tan, a beautiful animated poem about saving orangutan habitat created by Greenpeace and narrated by Emma Thompson. Ozi: Voice of the Forest On general release 2 April 2025

02 Avril 2025

animals

ecology

conservation

Anglais Lycée

Meet the Author: Personnaliser les apprentissages

The Grandmother of Juneteenth

Meet the Authors: Shine Brighter Seconde Replay

Frederick Forsyth, Cold-Blooded Novelist

The Sound of Summer Fades Away

In the American West

"Huckleberry Finn" from Another Point of View

How to Train Your Dragon: Teaser Trailer

How to Train Your Dragon

Meet the Authors in Toulouse: Bubble Up 2

Ocean with David Attenborough

Help Save the Oceans

Indian Space Programme Gets a Boost

Mission prof': Personnaliser les apprentissages

Les nouveaux programmes langues vivantes sont parus

Panic in U.S. History!: A Comic Strip for English Teaching

Featured at Cannes

Meet the Authors: Shine Bright 6e Webinar Replay

Canadian and Australian Elections

India's Tiger Population Doubles

Turner: 250th Anniversary

More Ball Games Please

80th Anniversary of VE Day

Shine Bright 6e: New Curriculum

New for Lycée: Shine Brighter Seconde

David Hockney: A Life in Pop Art

Easter Traditions

The Great Gatsby Turns 100

Keep Calm and Carry On!

Orangutan Eco-Warrior