This Blessed House

11 Novembro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Reading and discussion: “This Blessed House” by Jhumpa Lahiri.

Vocabulary: Synonyms and confusable words 1 (10)

Irregular verbs 2

8 Novembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

Sts had to revise irregular verbs for today’s class at home.

1) Warm-up: Grammar. Memory game (4 groups) Who can memorise more irregular verbs (3 forms: present, past, past participle)? Sts had 3 minute to consult the irregular verb list, and then had to jot down as many as they could. Before the winning team read the verbs out loud, the adversary team corrected the list.

2) Grammar/ Writing: Irregular Verbs: pair work activity, exercises on irregular verbs.

3) Speaking/ Grammar: pair work activity: Must say “Yes, I have”

In this game the St being asked the Yes/No question such as “Have you ever been higher than 5000 metres” must answer “Yes”, even if that is not true. The other Sts ask them three follow up questions (e.g. “How did it feel?” and “How did you get there?”) and then try to guess whether the original answer was true or not.

source: https://www.tefl.net/elt/ideas/games/10-present-perfect-for-experiences-activities/

(shut) your eyes on a bus and (wake) up and (have) no idea where you are?

/(ring) anyone up in anger?/(see) your favourite band in concert? (write) poems?/(choose) a friend, or (join) a circle of friends, for reasons that didn't feel right?/ (lie =not telling the truth) to your mom? etc.

Homework: Exercises on irregular verbs, sent by e-mail.

Unit 20, Vocabulary in Use, Elementary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 44-45.

Optional exercises:

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/irregular-verbs-exercise-1.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/irregular-verbs-exercise-2.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/irregular-verbs-exercise-3.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/irregular-verbs-exercise-4.html

Close Reading: First Confession by Frank O'Connor

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

Today we began reading Frank O'Connor's First Confession.  As the text is long, we only looked at the challenging vocabulary in the first half of the text.

Next class, we will read the second half of the text and hopefully get TP2 into groups to carry out the close-reading analysis of their section of the piece.

Test Correction/ Irregular Verbs

6 Novembro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Warm-up: pair work activity, spelling, dictation: Most frequently misspelled words in the test. At the end of the dictation, the texts were swapped, and corrected by another pair. Finally, the correctly spelled words were shown on a PowerPoint slide.

2) PowerPoint presentation: Grammar and vocabulary exercises were discussed together. Corrected tests were then handed out in order that Sts should check their answers and reflect on their possible mistakes.

3) Grammar: Irregular Verbs, group work activity. Who remember more irregular verbs? (3 forms: present, past, past participle)? Sts had 7 minutes to write down as many irregular verbs as they could. The lists were switched, and the adversary teams corrected each other’s lists by consulting the irregular verb list, B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, pp 77-83.

4) Writing/ Grammar: group work activity, Sts had to create a story (in the past tense) using 5 “difficult” irregular verbs, chosen by the other team.

Homework: Learn all irregular verbs. B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, pp 77-83.

Presentation #4

6 Novembro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Student presentations on the topic: "Exploring US culture/identity through music."