Professeurs documentalistes Lycée

L’e-sport, un nouvel outil d’influence des États

L’e-sport pourrait devenir une nouvelle discipline olympique et la compétition entre les États est lancée.

Happy Leap Day!

If you are born on 29 February, you can consider yourself very special… or very unlucky!

Vers une fragmentation géopolitique des mers

Les mers sont devenues des nouveaux espaces de conflictualités où se projettent les ambitions géopolitiques. 

Des prix planchers dans l'agriculture française ?

Suite à la mobilisation des agriculteurs, E. Macron souhaite instaurer des « prix planchers », qui ne font pas l'unanimité.

Les Choses humaines, une affaire intime à travers le prisme de la justice

Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées de Balzac - séquence

Ready for the Semaine des Langues?

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 in France: a multi-lingual, cross-cultural event like no other! Lots of schools have events planned. Here’s a selection of initiatives and ideas.

Happy Feet

When humans have trouble walking, they can get help with orthopaedic shoes or prosthetics. What happens when an animal has a problem? San Diego Zoo in California fitted one of its penguins with customised shoes to help with a degenerative foot condition.

Creative Writing Competition: Sport

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.

Doing the Right Thing

Most people would feel proud of saving hundreds of mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia just before the outbreak of World War II. But Sir Nicholas Winton was haunted by all the children he couldn't save. Until a surprise 50 years later on a TV programme showed him all the good he had done. A new film, One Life, starring Johnny Flynn and Anthony Hopkins as the younger and older Winton tells this true story.

Your Students Have Talent! Gangsta Granny

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.

New Names for London Train Lines

You're no doubt familiar with London's iconic Underground map, and the names for Underground lines like Victoria, Circle, Bakerloo and Jubilee. But now the Overground trains in the network are being given new  names reflecting the history and culture of the city.

Our West Side Story Reading Guide Has Arrived

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.

Bob Marley: One Love Trailer

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Remembering Presidents

On the third Monday in February, Americans celebrate Presidents’ Day, in honour of all 46 Presidents but especially George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. A good time to brush up on what qualifications you need to be President.

Bob Marley Biopic

Not only his songs but also his face and his name are famous around the world. The new biopic Bob Marley: One Love is the perfect occasion for you and your students to learn more about the most famous Jamaican singer of all time and the difficult times he lived through.

Bob Marley: One Love One Life

Bob Marley put his home island of Jamaica, and reggae music, on the international map. Despite his death in 1981 of cancer at just 36, he is as famous now as at the height of his short career. A new biopic tells the story of those heady years.

La Martinique, une région en déclin démographique

Face au vieillissement de sa population, la Martinique met en œuvre des mesures pour freiner son déclin démographique. 

Conseil ciné : « Green Border »

Inspiré de faits réels survenus en 2021, le film suit une famille de Syriens qui décide de quitter son pays.

Angoulême Festival 2024: British and American Winners!

For its 51st edition, the Angoulême International Comics Festival awarded the Grand Prix of the city to the British artist Posy Simmonds for her entire body of work and American Daniel Clowes  received the prestigious Fauve d'Or for his latest book "Monica".

Les réformes de l'assurance chômage

Le gouvernement a annoncé la suppression de l’allocation de solidarité spécifique.

"Triathlon Time" Short Story

This A2-level short story will allow you to introduce or revise sports vocabulary and have pupils think about the meaning of sport and fair play. Sisters Eden and Stella are competing in a triathlon and Eden really wants to win. But then Stella has a bike accident...

Conseil ciné : « La ferme des Bertrand »

Une enquête sociale au coeur du monde paysan.

L'Afrique australe, un pôle migratoire majeur

L'Afrique australe et particulièrement l'Afrique du Sud sont parmi les principales destinations des flux migratoires africains.

L'appauvrissement après une séparation

Une étude récente montre que les enfants s'appauvrissent après la séparation des parents.

West Side Story Legend Dies

Chita Rivera, a Broadway icon, has died age 91.  Her first major role was originating the character of Anita in the original stage production of West Side Story in 1957.

Pourquoi scolariser ses enfants dans le privé ?

Tous les ans, des parents inscrivent leurs enfants dans des établissements privés pour des raisons plus ou moins assumées.

Spooky Britain

Our resource for Shine Bright 2de accompanies File 4: "Mysteries in the Countryside". You can find the illustrated map "Spooky Britain" in the textbook. This A2+-B1-level resource will guide your pupils to find out more about the locations on the map from a promotional text. A group activity aimed at enriching pupils' vocabulary to help them with the final task of writing part of a mystery story.

The Fall of the House of Usher TV Series

Netflix has released its own version of Poe’s famous Fall of the House of Usher in which gothic becomes horror in a modern-world setting with a whirlwind of characters and action. This is a perfect occasion for LLCER students to not only work on the short story itself but also compare it to the mini-series and thus work on link words.

Ireland Has a New Holiday

Ireland has a new bank holiday: St Brigid’s Day, the first to be in honour of  a woman. From 2023, it is marked on the first Monday in February.