Sumários
Identity Club
4 Dezembro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo
Reading and discussion of “Identity Club” by Richard Burgin
Oral Presentations
2 Dezembro 2019, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio
Today, TP2 carried out the first part of their Speaking Workshop.
Exercise 1: Speak Dating
You’re looking for the love of your life, right? Here’s what you’re going to do:
- Each person will be given a letter ‘A’ or ‘B’;
- All of the ‘A’s will remain seated;
- All of the ‘B’s will rotate clockwise;
- Each conversation will last five minutes;
- Each of you will have, therefore, about 2.5 minutes to provide the listener with the following information:
- Your name
- Where you’re from;
- What you do for a living or what you’re doing at the moment;
- What your goals are for your future in terms of family, career, location.
- What your qualities are and what you feel you have to offer someone;
- What you look for in the perfect partner;
- What you’re willing to compromise on;
- Your ‘dealbreakers’ (i.e. what you simply will not accept in someone).
Exercise 2: The Tate Museum comes to FLUL
- You’re going to go around the art gallery in pairs.
- Each time you approach a painting, you will discuss the following with your partner:
- What you think the painting is about or what you think is happening in it;
- Anything you may know about the artist;
- What the painting makes you feel and why;
- What it reminds you of or makes you think of;
- Anything else the painting/photo inspires you to talk about.
- You have 15 minutes to see the whole gallery.
- You do not have to see all of the images or spend the same amount of time with each image.
- You are free to do exactly as you would in a real gallery.
Exercise 3: Tell a story or personal anecdote
- Tell me about a holiday you had.
- Tell me about a difficult journey you had.
- Tell me about a perfect day you’ve had.
- Tell me about a special event in your life.
- Tell me about a birthday you remember.
- Tell me about a time when you lost something important.
- Tell me about a time when you gave someone a surprise.
Next class: Part 2 of the Speaking Workshop
Charity
2 Dezembro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo
Listening: Climate Crisis/ Oral Presentation Skills
29 Novembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár
1) Listening: Pair work activity. Climate Change: Kiribati. B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, Exercise 4, pp 43-44.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIG7vt1ZPKE
2) Speaking: Pair work activity. Exercise 5. B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, Exercise 5, p 44. Sts spent 5 minutes writing notes about their thoughts and opinions, then discussed their notes with a partner.
a) In what way has climate change affected where you live?
b) How will it affect where you live in 10, 20 or 50 years from now?
c) What do you do to help the environment? What could you do more of/less of?
d) How do you feel when you hear people say that climate change is not real?
3) Speaking: Free discussion on the Student Climate Strike in Lisbon of today/ EU Parliament officially declared climate emergency yesterday.
4) Presentation Skills: Listening: Sts watched the videos on how to write and prepare a presentation, then summarised the videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-8xnvucNUQ&list=PLQZQbj6k11bjdeQxBg2tUg_0DiGQLutRD&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD2t1YeLOOw&list=PLQZQbj6k11bjdeQxBg2tUg_0DiGQLutRD&index=2
5) Presentation Skills: Listening: Good presentation versus bad presentation. Sts watched two presentations: a good and a bad one, and analyzed them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8eLdbKXGzk
6) Presentation Skills: PowerPoint Presentation on how to prepare and give a presentation. Guidelines were already emailed to Sts on 15/11/2019.
Sts have to send the summaries of their presentations 2 days before their actual presentation date (!). All Sts will have to pose at least one question to the presenter.
End-of-term Writing Test
27 Novembro 2019, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio
Today, TP2 carried out their end-of-term writing test.
Next class: students will carry out Part 1 of the Speaking Workshop!