Midterm Listening Test

28 Outubro 2019, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

TP2 carrried out their midterm listening test.

TheJudge's Will

28 Outubro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Reading and discussion of the short story "The Judge's Will". 

Writing: Creating Stories and Emails

25 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Recycling Vocabulary, Writing, Grammar: Group work activity: Each group had 8 words and created a story. All words were put on the whiteboard and explained by the Sts. One group had to use the past tense, other group used the present tense. The stories were swapped and proofread by the other group. Finally, they were read out in class.

2) Writing emails of introduction. Pair work: B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, all exercises on pages 25-26.

In-class tutorials

23 Outubro 2019, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we spent our time doing in-class tutorials.  We looked at previous homework assignments and in-class writing assignments.  In short, today was all about writing!

Writing: Writing Semi-Formal Emails 2

23 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Recycling Vocabulary: Pair work activity: Sts had to choose the 3 most difficult new words (they have learnt hitherto). They were all written on the whiteboard, and explained.

2) Recycling vocabulary: flash cards. The class invented a story incorporating the selected words.

3) Listening, pair work activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnSfEklfo34

A short British Council video was shown on emailing: “Cc and Bcc explained”. Sts took notes, and summarised the video, more precisely, what was said about 1) Cc (carbon copy) and 2) Bcc (blind carbon copy). One of the pair read his/her summary of Cc to his/ her partner, while the other student checked, and added additional or missing information, then the other way round: the other student read his/her summary of Bcc, and his/her partner corrected it or his/her own work, if it was necessary. Definitions of Cc and Bcc were also checked together in class.

3) Listening: How to write well-organised emails.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPc9LI2Yq9A

Sts had to summarise the video, and the main points were discussed together in class.

4) PowerPoint show: The structure of a semi-formal email was explained again:

Salutations, Signing off, Introductory first paragraph: Reason for writing, Body paragraphs, Final paragraph, and Useful expressions.

5) Writing: Pair work activity: Sts rewrote their emails sent to the travel agency, then swapped their texts with another pair, and proof-read each other’s emails.