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Writing Workshop

20 Novembro 2019, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Students finished presenting their analyses of Frank O'Connor's First Confession.

Following this, TP2 carried out their Writing Workshop.  

Exercise 1 of the Writing Workshop: Free Writing 

  • For the next five minutes, you will have to write non-stop. 
  • You must not take your pen off the paper and you must not stop writing until the bell goes off. 
  • When you don’t know what to write, just keep writing the last word you wrote over and over again until new words or sentences come to mind. 
    • It doesn’t matter how often you write the word over and over again. 
  • If you make a mistake, don’t scratch it out – keep writing. 
  • You can write about anything. 
  • What you write about doesn’t have to make sense – it can be abstract. 
  • No one will see this writing – it is just for you. 
  • There is no right or wrong in this exercise – it is just for you. 
Exercise 2 of the Writing Workshop: Free Writing with Focus
  • For the next seven minutes, you will have to write non-stop. 
  • You must not take your pen off the paper and you must not stop writing until the bell goes off. 
  • When you don’t know what to write, just keep writing the last word you wrote over and over again until new words or sentences come to mind. 
    • It doesn’t matter how often you write the word over and over again. 
  • If you make a mistake, don’t scratch it out – keep writing. 
  • You will take a sentence or section of the previous text and write another text inspired by that extract. You can write about anything. 
  • What you write about doesn’t have to make sense – it can be abstract. 
  • No one will see this writing – it is just for you. 
  • There is no right or wrong in this exercise – it is just for you. 

Exercise 3 of the Writing Workshop:  Focused Writing

  • You have 20 minutes to write a: 
    • short story OR 
    • diary entry OR 
    • memoir OR 
    • letter OR 
    • abstract piece

…based on one or more of the following images: (images cannot be included in summary).

(P.S. No one needs to see this – it’s just for you.  But you can share it with the class if you want to!)


Exercise 4 of the Writing Workshop:  Free Writing to Music
  • Write a piece to this piece of music:
  • You have the duration of the piece to write it. 
  • It can be anything:
    • A (love or hate) letter; 
    • A short story; 
    • A poem; 
    • A piece of abstract writing;
    • etc.
  • No one is going to see it – but you can always share it! 
Exercise 5: Composition 
  • Write a 250-300 word composition based on ONE of the following topics: 
  • Write about an experience that made you very happy. 
  • What do you really want to change about your life? How could you do it? 
  • If I were invisible, I would… 
  • Write about a time when you found it difficult to forgive someone. 
  • What is your biggest fear? –What does getting old mean to you?
Next class: listening test followed by in-class writing tutorials.

Please remember the optional homework assignment on page 5 of your course book.  (So far, only one of you has handed it in.)

Listening: New York and London

20 Novembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Quiz on irregular verbs. Pair correction. Answer key was given on a PowerPoint slide.

2) Recycling vocabulary: pair work activity, flashcards on city life, each pair gave a definition of the word selected, while the others guessed the word.

3) Listening exercise: pair work activity: Sts were divided into two groups. One group had to wait outside, while the other group listened to an audio recording of an interview with a couple who had lived in New York. Then they swapped places, and the other group listened to an interview with a person who had been living in London. Sts had to change their impressions about people, shops, holidays, working, and using public transport in New York and London. Sources: Liz and John Soars: New Headway Intermediate Oxford: Oxford University Press. Tapescripts 46a and 46b.

4) Vocabulary: Notices and Warnings. Pair work activity. B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, pp 39-40.

Homework: B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, pp 39-42.

Presentation #5

20 Novembro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Students gave presentations on topic #5 - Just plain weird.

First Confession by Frank O'Connor

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

TP2 delivered some very impressive analyses of Frank O'Connor's First Confession.  We didn't quite finish, however, so one remaining group will still have to present next class.  However, our Writing Workshop will begin next class.  Please bring plenty of paper for this class, especially those of you who are on laptops.

Kavitha and Mustafa - Passive Voice

18 Novembro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Reading and discussion: “Kavitha and Mustafa” by Shobha Rao;

Grammar practice: The Passive Voice (Chap. 9)

Vocabulary: Everday verbs 1 (7)