Marianne Raynaud - Career and Sports

Author of "QualityTime-ESL: The Digital Resource Book 2.0"

Retired university professor at INP-Grenoble, France
Webmaster of QualityTime-ESL.com
Consultant, speaker, and mentor through her website
Specialist in the creation of dynamic ESL teaching materials

Producer of four podcast series:

• Your English (vocabulary)
• QualityTime-ESL Podcasts (grammar)
• Essential English (beginners)
• 5-minute TOPs (song lyrics)

Marianne’s podcasts have been ranked among the "top 200 language courses" on iTunes in many countries. They provide "ACTIVE" ORAL TRAINING for A2-C1 learners.

Recently, the series "Your English Podcasts" was selected among the 60 best language learning podcasts around the web at SPRACHHELD.DE.

Languages: English, French, Swedish, Spanish

Swimming as Marianne Raynaud 2019-2023

• 24 French Masters national titles
• 15 French Masters national records
• 1 bronze medal - 2022 LEN Masters European Championships in Rome
• 3 medals - 2019 FINA Masters World Championships in South Korea
• 12 Swedish Masters national titles in 2019 & 2020

Swimming: As Marianne Lindquist when she lived in the U.S.

• Set a U.S. record in a medley relay for ten and unders
• Connecticut state champion (backstroke and butterfly for twelve & unders)

Tennis: As Marianne Raynaud

• Twice quarterfinalist at the U.S. National Grass Court Championships for 35s and over in 1979 and 1980
• Runner-up at the Criterion tournament in the Alps
• Ranked 2nd series (-4/6) in France for several years
• Won the French Esperance Cup for the Alps, today called CHAMPIONNAT de FRANCE 3e Serie

Tennis: As Marianne Lindquist

• Participated at age 17 in the French Championships (Roland Garros) representing Sweden in the main draw and in the junior tournament, played in Wimbledon (also for Sweden in the qualifying rounds), and in other tournaments of the European circuit such as Monte Carlo and Nice
• Ranked as a junior in the Eastern Tennis Association U.S.A. (singles and doubles with Nadine Netter)
• Won the Orange Bowl doubles fifteen and unders and the Orange Bowl Sportsmanship Award

Video and audio recording/editing, traveling, networking, supporting women’s issues, for example, with W.I.N. Women’s International Network headed by Kirstin Engvig, and study trips with IWSIi (International Women’s Study Institute) led by Ellen Boneparth

Professor at Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France - a group of nine engineering schools (1980-2004)

Visit INP-Grenoble

• Creator of the CPPG Intensive English Language Program (1994-2004)
• Part of the team that set up the original English program at EFPG (1994-1995)
• Head of the language department at ENSERG (1980-1994)

Coordinator of the English department of CRDP (1975-1980)

• CRDP: Centre National de Documentation Pedagogique
• CPRG: Centre Pedagogique Regional of Grenoble, Saint Martin d’Heres, France (today called IUFM Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maitres) Mission:
• Training of candidates having passed the written part of the CAPES, a national competitive examination, in view of the final oral inspection to become certified teachers within the French Education System
• Creation, distribution, and explanation of the use of dynamic teaching materials for teachers within the Academy of Grenoble, France

Teacher at IUT and at French High Schools 1971-1973

• IUT: Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Grenoble, Saint Martin d’Heres France (1971-1973)
• Lycee Technique Jean Bart, Grenoble, Saint Martin d’Heres, France (1975-80)
• Lycee Stendhal, Grenoble (1974-1975)

Professor of English and Head of the Language Department 1969-1971

UDO (Universidad de Oriente), Cumana Venezuela (1969-1971)

A Few of Marianne Raynaud’s Publications

• QualityTime-ESL: The Digital Resource Book - Downloadable versions (Book or Complete Package) are available on this site in the store.
• "MyCPP, un site intranet pour un enseignement de l’anglais plus efficace" ("MyCPP, an Intranet Site to Make the Teaching of English More Effective and Efficient") presented at the UPLEGESS CONGRESS in Paris at TELECOM Paris (June 2004), published in the Acts of the XXXIIe Congress
• "QualityTime-ESL.com" presented at the UPLEGESS CONGRESS in Dijon (June 2003), published in the Actes du XXXIe Congress
• "Vive le Teamwork" ("Long Live Teamwork!") presented at the UPLEGESS CONGRESS in Strasbourg (June 1993), published in the "Actes du XXIe Congres"
• "Quelques reflexions d’un professeur du second cycle" published in the Bulletin Regional de Liaison et d’Information des Professeur d’anglais de l’Academie de Grenoble No. 6 (1977/78) CRDP de Grenoble

• University of Grenoble, France (Masters in English Literature and CAPES in English)
• Sorbonne, Paris (Licence in English and Scandinavian Language Studies)
• Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., USA as Marianne Lindquist-Lettstrom Class of ’66
• Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT as Marianne Lindquist Class of ’62

• Creation of Linguistic Programs for Schools & Universities
• Elaborating a Core Curriculum
• Teamwork in Teaching & Mentoring (within a department)
• Student-Teacher Mutual Motivation Techniques
• Teaching Oral Language Proficiency - Tutorials during Class Sessions
• Workshops on Making Student Films
• Innovative "TIPS" or "Techniques for Interactive Pairwork Simulation"
• Intranet Sites for Schools/Universities
• Effective Testing Techniques: "TEOST-ESL" (Techniques for Effective Oral Skills Testing)