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

26 Setembro 2018, 14:00 • 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).

"Make the Most of your College Days"

26 Setembro 2018, 12:00 • Zuzanna Zarebska

Introduction to some aspects of jouralistic writing based on the text "Make the Most of your College Days." Writing a column: characteristics: ist person singular, informal, style, contractions, 1 idea, many arguments, inspired by a public event, the reader feels they know the identity of the writer, engageing.

"Eye-Witness" by Ed McBain

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

1) Warm-up: recycling vocabulary, flash cards: "setting, withholding evidence, stab, line-up, one-way mirror, accessory after the fact, erosion, infringement", etc.

2) Checking homework

3) Dramatised reading of Ed McBain’s Short Story “Eye Witness” Characters: Officer Magruder, Detective Cappeli, Mr Sthruthers, Lieutenant Anderson, and the narrator: selected students read the short story aloud.

4) Reading comprehension exercises page 25-27.

5) Vocabulary building (crime), Exercises, page 21-22.

6) Witness game

pair work activity: half of the class witnessed a crime, the other half questioned the witnesses as police investigators.

Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” (End Scene)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy4YH9--Vw

Source: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/crime-scene

Letters of advice.

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

How to write a letter of advice: (a) analysing the structure of a letter of advice: (b) pair/group work - reading through one of Graham Norton's letters of advice (from the Telegraph) (pp. 11-12) and discussing what advice you would give for each case; (c) reading the letters aloud and reporting on the advice each group of students would give. 

Letters of advice.

24 Setembro 2018, 14:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

How to write a letter of advice: (a) analysing the structure of a letter of advice: (b) pair/group work - reading through one of Graham Norton's letters of advice (from the Telegraph) (pp. 11-12) and discussing what advice you would give for each case; (c) reading the letters aloud and reporting on the advice each group of students would give.