Everything is Far ... and Punctuation

30 Setembro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Reading and discussion: “Everything is Far from Here” by Cristina Henríquez. 

Listening: Sundays at Roco’s, Always a Family, Speaking: Changing Ideas of Beauty

27 Setembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Warm-up, pair work activity, recycling vocabulary: A tale. Sts had to choose a word on a separate piece of paper from an envelope. The class invented a story about a little girl. Sts added a sentence to the story which incorporated the word they had chosen: adolescence, (to) clutch, middle-aged, classmate, twins, inherit, single-parent family, retirement

2) Listening: pair work activity, Sunday’s at Roco’s, Always a Family, B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020 (Zsófia Gombár TP3) 15-16.

3) Reading: group work activity: B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020 (Zsófia Gombár TP3), 17-18.

Homework: Exercise 5, Exercise 6, B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, page 18.

Vocabulary: (to) confide, maternal grandfather, paternal grandmother, apartment building, superintendent, (to) relocate, shovel, coal

More Grammar. More Verbs.

25 Setembro 2019, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we learned about WHEN to use the present perfect, the past perfect, the present perfect continuous and the past perfect continuous.

In class, we did the following exercises:

• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs5.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs7.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs11.htm

For homework, students should do the following exercises:

• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs6.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs8.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs9.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs10.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs12.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs13.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs14.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs15.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs16.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs17.htm

Reading: Who Do You Think You Are?

25 Setembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Warm-up, recycling vocabulary, pair work activity, flash cards: beauty spot, brainstorm, chest, blank stare, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, (to) clutch, (to) crash, (to) take after, classmate, colleague, flatmate, widower, stepmother, (to) get separated from

2) Reading: pair work activity: Text: Who Do You Think You Are? B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020 (Zsófia Gombár TP3), 12-14.

3) Vocabulary: group work activity: Contest on "Ages and Stages", then Exercises in B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020 (Zsófia Gombár TP3), 10-11.

Student presentations on People's Fears

25 Setembro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Students gave short oral presentations (10 mins) on the theme "People's Fears". Feedback on structure and content given after each presentation.