St Augustine's Grammar School
The Language Laboratory

French

Mr Neil Creighton
Mrs N Deane MA Glasgow
Mrs M Fairhurst LesL Nice †
Mr A W Hewitt BA Liverpool †
Mr McKenna
Mr J M Rice BA Liverpool
Mr David Score BA Sheffield †
Mrs C Wood MA Oxon

German

Mrs N Deane MA Glasgow

OK, Language Laboratories had yet to be invented. We were the guinea pigs for the disastrous early experiments in audio-visual learning, also known as the "Audio-Lingual Method"!
This consisted of a portable cassette player and a slide projector.
The cassette player played the French phrase - we repeated it, en masse while the written phrase was projected on the wall, perhaps with some very simple graphics.
Bonjour, Monsieur Thibault!
Needless to say, this was not an effective means of learning and we resorted to "Traditional" first year textbooks in year 2!
Au revoir, Monsieur Thibault!!!


Monsieur Thibault (Lesson 1)

This learning method is now discredited.

Thankfully, Nellie's unorthodox but effective methods of teaching managed to pull the 'O' level pass rate up for some of the '69 entry.

Sample French Exam