Sumários
American and British Neighbo(u)rs
16 Novembro 2018, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Pair work activity: Vocabulary exercises. B1.2 Workbook p. 43a-45.
Listening exercise: Guess the speaker’s nationality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcnxLOWnrBg
Group activity: Which words are British? Which words are American? Each group received 24 words in an envelope along with two different coloured sheets of paper: one for the words from the UK and one for the ones from the USA. Sts had to decide which were American or British expressions: pants, trousers, torch, flashlight, underground, subway, neighbour, neighbor, travelled, traveled, French fries, chips, etc. At the end of the exercise, 2 students were asked to write the words on the whiteboard.
Grammar practice: sentence transformation; uncountable nouns. A video podcast: Communities.
14 Novembro 2018, 16:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Grammar practice: (a) rewriting 20 sentences with a new beginning but keeping their original meaning; (b) uncountable nouns.
Grammar practice: sentence transformation; uncountable nouns. A video podcast: Communities.
14 Novembro 2018, 14:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Grammar practice: (a) rewriting 20 sentences with a new beginning but keeping their original meaning; (b) uncountable nouns.
Correcting the tests
14 Novembro 2018, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
Test correction: Common mistakes were discussed and analysed. Special attention was given to the confusable irregular verbs: (to) lie and (to) lay.
Test on Irregular verbs (3 exercises), Irregular Plurals (1 exercise), Present Perfect Tense (3 exercises), Vocabulary: crime, environmental issues, etc. (3 exercises), Summary Writing (1 exercise).
Reading exercise: B1.2 Workbook p. 39-43.a
Pair work activity: Pre-reading exercise: 5 words had to be located in the text and defined without consulting any dictionary.
Group work activity: Reading Comprehension Exercises
How to give an oral presentation. Further practice in writing a discursive essay.
12 Novembro 2018, 16:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
How to give an oral presentation: planning a presentation about a book/film; top tips for an oral presentation; a model presentation.