Speaking: City Life

15 Novembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Checking homework

2) Grammar: PowerPoint Presentation: Difference between Present Perfect Continuous and Simple, based on Unit 10. Raymond Murphy: Grammar in Use.

3) Speaking/ Vocabulary: City Life. pair work activity. B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, pp 27-28.

Homework: Learn all irregular verbs. Unit 10, Raymond Murphy: Grammar in Use.

Close Reading: First Confession by Frank O'Connor

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

Today, TP2 were given tips on how to prepare for their upcoming oral exams.

Following this, four groups carried on with their close-reading analyses of their sections of Frank O'Connor's First Confession.

Next class: Students will feed back their findings to the class.

Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous

13 Novembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Warm-up: Recycling irregular verbs. Miming game contest.

2) Grammar: pair work activity. Sts formed the rules, based on example sentences, then checked in class (with the help of PowerPoint slides.) 1) The action in the past has a result now. He has given her a kiss. Now she is pregnant/ I’ve lost my key. I can’t open the door/She has broken her arm. So she can’t help you. 2) “Have you ever” questions: experience, accomplishments Have you been to England?/Have you ever tried eating bread and butter with sugar?/Have you ever read Ulysses by James Joyce? 3) already, yet, still 4) adverbs and conjuncts: recently, lately, for, since, just, today, this month, this year, etc.

1) Duration from the past until the present I have been playing the violin for seven years./Martha has been learning English for nine years./ Peter has been working on his project since 2009/ for 10 years.

2. Emphasis is on the activity. It does not matter whether the action has been finished or not. I have been living here for eleven years. « I’ve lived here for eleven years./ I have been washing your shirts. « I have washed your shirts.

3) Grammar: pair work activity: Exercises on Present Perfect (Unit 7, 8, 9) in Raymond Murphy: Grammar in Use, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ceiling

13 Novembro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Reading and discussion: “Ceiling” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

Vocabulary: Synonyms and confusable words 2 (11)

Close Reading: First Confession by Frank O'Connor

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

Today, TP2 got their listening tests back - they did really well!

They then read the second half of Frank O'Connor's First Confession identifying any challening vocabulary as they went along.

Students were then placed into groups and asked to carry out a close-reading exercise, the analyses of which will be fed back to the class next lesson.

Following this, students were told about their upcoming oral exams and what is expected of them.

Next class: students will be given advice on how to prepare for their upcoming orals.  Following this, they will continue to prepare their First Confession analysis.