Conditionals. Crime vocabulary. Discussing short stories: useful words/ expressions.

1 Outubro 2018, 16:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

If clauses aka Conditional sentences type I, Ii and III: checking the exercises done at home and clearing doubts. Vocabulary expansion: crime-related words and expressions. Discussing short stories: basic terminology used when talking about short stories. HOMEWORK: Read the short story "Eye witness" by Ed McBain (pages 16-18) and answer the questions on page14, exercise 2.

Conditionals. Crime vocabulary. Discussing short stories: useful words/ expressions.

1 Outubro 2018, 14:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

If clauses aka Conditional sentences type I, Ii and III: checking the exercises done at home and clearing doubts. Vocabulary expansion: crime-related words and expressions. Discussing short stories: basic terminology used when talking about short stories. HOMEWORK: Read the short story "Eye witness" by Ed McBain (pages 16-18) and answer the questions on page14, exercise 2.

Writing informal styles

1 Outubro 2018, 12:00 • Zuzanna Zarebska

Writing informal styles: group work and discussion, social media and networks.

Writing a summary of the short story "Eye Witness" by Ed McBain.

28 Setembro 2018, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

1) Correcting last week’s written assignments:

recurrent mistakes on the white board:

a) what is the difference between

hole—whole

their—there

which—witch

live—leave

b) dictation to correct frequent spelling mistakes:

attention, equality, inequality, technique, wonderful, thankful, and hopeful

c) irregular verbs: flee, fled, fled/ teach, taught, taught/ seek, sought, sought

d) irregular plurals: life, calf, shelf, half, loaf, thief, knife, wife, leaf, wolf

tooth, foot, louse, goose, mouse, man, woman

child, ox, brother

f) synonyms for “I think”, I assume, I feel, I believe, In my opinion, From my point of view, As I see it, In my view, Honestly, Frankly, Personally, I personally think…

2) Discussing fluency fillers. Source: Leo Jones: Functions of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981

3) Exercise 2 B1.2 Workbook, page 14.

4) Summary Writing, page 23

5) Students wrote a summary of the short story “Eye Witness” by Ed McBain, and handed them in.

In-class assignment: writing a letter of advice. Multi-word verbs.

26 Setembro 2018, 16:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

In-class assignment: writing a letter of advice in reply to one of Graham Norton's readers' letters sent to the Daily Telegraph. Multi-word verbs: prepositional verbs vs phrasal verbs (exercise on page 76). HOMEWORK: Do the exercises about If clauses (Conditionals) on pages 70-73).