Can you guess why I’m so proud of my students? Well, I got the idea to show them an article from a newspaper, the Guardian Weekly, in January 2018 and they just loved it. Great!
Since then, we’ve read two more articles about climate change issues and endangered animals. I first thought it would be hard work, but they were so keen on further reading that they took up the challenge. They should really be proud of their level of English, as a third foreign language. Please meet them now:
“We are 26 French speakers in our class, all aged 17 or 18, studying in the ARU 1 in Brussels, capital of Europe. We have been learning English for four years and in January 2018 Mrs Diane Robert, our English teacher, brought the Guardian Weekly newspaper into the classroom. We read an article about the wolves’ re-emergence and later two articles about the coral reef and the white rhino. That was interesting and pleasant reading.
“The Guardian Weekly deals with an array of various topics, so we can learn a lot through reading. Let’s hope that we’re all going to read the Weekly in the future.
“In the picture you won’t see Jules, as he was rehearsing his part in Agatha Christie’s play And Then There Were None, recently performed in our school. Cheers to all the Weekly team and the Weekly readers.”
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