Mary Walsh

Eurostar staff furloughed to help during the Lockdown , London-schools with online French Lessons .

train employees who do not currently work, including train drivers, have volunteered to help students learn At Home online.

Only a limited number of Eurostar services to France and Belgium, and about 30 employees have been helping with French Lessons .

you will be helping the classes run online by the teachers in the three secondary schools.

The schools in the vicinity of the Eurostar terminus at St Pancras, and its depot in East London , have organized about 100 students in small online groups, the train-staff provides conversation classes for pupils and their accompanying teachers.

The French-speaking staff, including train crew, customer services, Control Room , finance staff, have not been able to do their regular day jobs during the Lockdown and volunteer work with online language courses.

David Dogue, a French teacher at Sir George Monoux sixth form college in Walthamstow, said, it is a very useful way for its A-level students to speak native French-speaker.

"The opportunity to be with someone from outside The School , their trust, while they study the problems of home," said Mr Dogue.

Mary Walsh of Eurostar , says the program has been Running since April, is to help the use of the language skills in the workforce, schools, the language may not have access to French native speakers.

Source of news: bbc.com