Grammar - Verbs continued.

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

Students learned about WHEN to use:

• the simple present 
• the present continuous
• the simple past.
• the past continuous.
  

• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs3.htm

Homework:

• Please go to englishpage.com and do the following Verb Exercises:
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs2.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs4.htm

Last Cottage

23 Setembro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Looked at the short story "Last Cottage" along with several discussion questions and vocabulary review. 

First Memories

20 Setembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Warm-up: Recycling vocabulary: beauty spot, brainstorm, chest, stare.

2) Speaking/pre-reading activity: pair work: Answering questions: When and where were you born? (Give date, day or week, exact time, place.)/ What is your earliest memory?/ What have you been told about your early days?

3) Reading: A short extract from Coming Up for Air (1934) by George Orwell.

4) Post-Reading activities: pair-work: reading comprehension questions.

B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020 (Zsófia Gombár TP3), 6-7.

5) Dictionary skills: Introducing and using monolingual dictionaries: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/help

https://www.merriam-webster.com/

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/

5) Vocabulary: group work: Contest on family members. Who will be the first to find out the correct terms? Sts were given slips of paper with the definitions of various family members such as “the father, mother of the person you marry”, “your aunt’s/uncle’s children”, etc.

6) Vocabulary: pair work: written exercises on family and friends. B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020 (Zsófia Gombár TP3), 8-9.

8) Homework: Write a short essay detailing one of your earliest childhood memories.

Class cancelled

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

All classes at FLUL were cancelled today due to the School Year Opening Ceremony.

Presenting the programme and assessment rules

18 Setembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Presenting the programme and assessment rules

2) Icebreakers: getting to know each other:

a) pair work activity: Sts had to write their names and four words about themselves, the others had to guess the connection and vice versa.

b) pair work activity: each student had to answer a “crazy question” chosen at random by his/her partner (questions were written on separate slips of paper.) Sts then had to present each other in front of the class.

c) group work activity: picture charades: blank stare

brainstorm, hairy chest, background, French window, beauty spot (source: Kathy Gude and Michael Duckworth: Proficiency Masterclass. Student’s Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. p. 111.)