Summary (and) Writing
15 Fevereiro 2019, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato
1) Recycling vocabulary: Writing and Speaking: Pair work activity: Sts chose 8 word cards from an envelope, invented and wrote a story which incorporated the words they had chosen. The words were then written on the whiteboard, and the stories were read out one by one in front of the class.
Vocabulary used: (to) convict, (to) acquit, forgery, detention, (to) charge somebody with (murder, theft, bribery, etc.), (to) borrow, (to) lend, (to) raise an eyebrow, (to) shrug one's shoulders, (to) moan; (to) mutter, (to) stab, (to) blink, on the force, lineup, one-way mirror, (to) withhold evidence, witness; (to) confess, arson.
2) Correcting mistakes in Sts’ written assignments:
a) Dictation to correct frequent spelling mistakes:
live—leave:
I would like to live next to the sea. /lɪv/
I do not want to leave him alone. /liːv/
which:
I refused his offer, which made him angry.
b) ask – ask for
ask = ‘put a question or seek an answer from someone’:
Can I ask you a question?
He asked me what age I was.
ask for = you want someone to give you something
I always ask for extra cheese on my pizza.
They asked their boss for more money.
3) PowerPoint Slideshow helping students to learn how to summarise texts:
· Summaries should cover main points and key ideas, should be in your own words, no details, no value judgment
· Text to be summarised (Sts also highlighted relevant passages of the text on a separate piece of paper.)
· 4 example summaries that needed improvement: Sts corrected them.
· 1 good example summary
4) Summary and Main Idea Worksheet:
Worksheet contains four nonfiction paragraphs about trains. Sts highlighted important information in each passage, wrote a title for the passage related to its main idea, and created a summary.
Homework: Write a short summary of the short story “Eye Witness”. by Ed McBain. B1.2 Workbook 2018-2019(Isabel Ferro Mealha, TP2-TP3 and Zsófia Gombár TP4). page 16-18.