Sumários

Describing people and things

4 Novembro 2020, 08:00 • Gaile Parkin

Grammar of adjectives: order, position, ending -ing and -ed, nouns as adjectives.

Rules, patterns and conventions.
Practice exercises and descriptions.

More advanced work with prepositions and dialogue writing

2 Novembro 2020, 12:30 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

We read the summary of Roald Dahl's short story "The Way up to Heaven", paying particular attention to the use of the prepositions: (by, with, of, for, to, across and into) as they occur in the text. 


Working together students then produced different sentences where they used these prepositions appropriately. There was a lively discussion of regular use and possible uses in exceptional cases, but emphasis was placed on regular usage.

Then, while in the breakout rooms, students wrote a dialogue between 2 of the characters in the story. They then read their texts in class.

Students must complete Task 4 on page 40 for the next class. 

Common errors

30 Outubro 2020, 08:00 • Gaile Parkin

Warm-up: Spot the error.

Common errors made at this level (oral and written), why they're wrong and how to correct them.

Pronunciation and English Phonetics

29 Outubro 2020, 12:30 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Introduced students to the phonethics and 

What's just happened?

29 Outubro 2020, 08:00 • Gaile Parkin

Warm-up:  Quiz on irregular verbs.

Grammar: present perfect tense for something that's just happened.
Using picture cues to say what's just happened.
Pairwork practice: Imagining the boy in "The Girl in the Denim Jacket" phoning a friend and saying what's just happened on the train.