Sumários

Verb tenses in English - their construction and usage

9 Novembro 2020, 12:30 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Introduced students to the logic begin the construction of verb tenses in English and discussed the usage of present simple and present continuous (pp43-50 in manual).


Students did half of the exercises on pp 51 and 52 in class (breakout rooms). Students were to complete these exercises at home and we will correct them in the next class.


Comparing and contrasting

6 Novembro 2020, 08:00 Gaile Parkin

Warm-up: Functional English: phrases for trying and buying clothes.

Listening practice: general listening and listening for specific information.
Elicitation of rules for comparative and superlative adjectives.


Preposition worksheet and working with adjectives using the short film "The Present"

5 Novembro 2020, 12:30 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Students did a Preposition Worksheet as indicated by the course calendar. This is worth 5% of the final grade


We started working with adjectives using Jacob Frey's short film "The Present". We did the exercises as listed in the manual (p27). 


Listening practice

5 Novembro 2020, 08:00 Gaile Parkin

Warm-up: Functional English: How to make suggestions.

General listening.
Listening for specific information.


Prepositions by and with as well as some basic indiomatic expressions with prepositions

4 Novembro 2020, 12:30 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Introduced students to the use of by - explanation and exercises.


Students then completed the table on p39 in the manual where they wrote definitions for the usage of the prepositions: across. at, between, by, for, in, into, of, on and with as they appear in Roald Dahl's short story "The Way Up to Heaven", as well as adding additional information from their own dictionaries. Together we complied 3 sample sentences for each preposition.