Read & Debate

28 Fevereiro 2019, 12:00 • Ana Rita Martins

Video: Success. In-class debate.

Reading: “Is This The Best A Man Can Get?" Gillette's #MeToo Rebrand Sparks Debate”

Watch and Debate: Engaging social problems through commercials

Irregular verbs / Present Perfect simple

27 Fevereiro 2019, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

1) Correcting written assignment: Writing a summary of the short story “Eye Witness” by Ed McBain

2) Miming game contest: 15 cards with irregular verbs: creep, read, flee, throw, swim, sit, etc. The class had to guess the verb. The first student who got the answer wrote the three forms of the verb on the white board.

3) Grammar: Pair work activity: Exercise 20.2. Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell: Vocabulary in Use. Elementary. , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 45.

4) Present Perfect Simple: Handout: Sts had to form the rules based on bunches of example sentences: 1) He has given her a kiss. Now she is pregnant/

I’ve lost my key. I can’t open the door/She has broken her arm. So she can’t help you. 2) Difference between present and past: She has just left.

But: She left just now. 3) Have you been to England?/Have you ever tried eating bread and butter with sugar?/Have you ever read Ulysses by James Joyce? 5) already, yet, still 6) adverbs and conjuncts: recently, lately, for, since, just, today, this month

5) Grammar: pair work activity: Exercises on Present Perfect Simple (Unit 7, 8) in Raymond Murphy: Grammar in Use, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Homework:

Exercises: 20.3, 20.4, 2.5. Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell: Vocabulary in Use. Elementary. Unit 20, page 45.

Summary writing of "Eye witness" continued.

27 Fevereiro 2019, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Summary writing of the short story "Eye witness" by Ed McBain continued: (a) feedback on first draft of summaries; (b) rewriting the summary; (c) writing a joint version of the summary on the board.

Writing Techniques: Concluding sentences. Video: Success.

26 Fevereiro 2019, 12:00 • Ana Rita Martins

Grammar: Verb Tenses (review)

Simple past vs past perfect. Summary writing of the short story "Eye witness" by Ed McBain.

25 Fevereiro 2019, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Grammar practice: Simple past vs past perfect. Summary writing of the short story "Eye witness" by Ed McBain: (a) preliminary steps in writing a summary; (b) writing the summary of "Eye witness" in pairs or groups of three (to be continued next lesson).