Sumários

Unit 4 discourse markers | Unit 5 planning

28 Fevereiro 2024, 18:30 • John Richard Walker

active practice: insert a suitable discourse marker into the text

Unit 5: planning an entire essay: Plan A

applying plan A to an essay about the play "Educating Rita", by Willy Russell

Listening to a lecture

27 Fevereiro 2024, 11:00 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

Listening to a lecture and note-taking

Unit 4 discourse markers

26 Fevereiro 2024, 18:30 • John Richard Walker

different types of discourse markers for different reasons

using discourse markers to help the reader to navigate though a longer paragraph

persuasion expressions: hedges and boosters

the fact that English uses this tool more frequently in academic writing than certain other languages

Listening to a lecture

22 Fevereiro 2024, 11:00 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

This was the first of a series of lectures on a variety of academic themes. The aim of this exercise is for students to take notes, based on the most important information, in order to write a summary.

Unit 3 paragraphs and sentences

21 Fevereiro 2024, 18:30 • John Richard Walker

analysis and discussion of reconstructed paragraphs

identification of the topic sentence in an excerpt from Debrett

Intro to unit 4: discourse markers