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.