Assessment criteria and guidelines

30 Setembro 2020, 14:00 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

In accordance with Regulamento Geral de Avaliação da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, students will be assessed on oral and written work throughout the semester. Weighting will be as follows:

·        first test 20%;

·        second test  30%;

·        oral and written task-based assignments 50%, consisting of

o   oral presentation 20%;

o   in-class assignments and active participation 25%

o   attendance 5%

The oral presentation is an individual assignment that will consist in a 5-minute speech, spoken from notes, NOT read. Each student will choose the date of the oral presentation from a set of proposed dates. Topic: presenting a book, film, painting or speaking on a given topic.

 

First test                         28th October 2020 

 

Second test                  25th November 2020 

 

Since assessment will be conducted on a regular basis, any task that is not submitted when due and/or any form of plagiarism will be given a zero. Any student who fails to do one of the above-mentioned tests/tasks will be given a zero. Worker students may opt for continuous assessment (in which case they will have to comply with all the assessment criteria set for regular students) OR sit the Época Especial de Avaliação examination. The examination will focus on the contents of the syllabus adopted for this level.

 

5.  Bibliography

·        B1.2 Workbook 2020-2021 (First Semester) available from Reprografia Verde. Compulsory: please make sure you have your workbook in every class.

·        Swan, Michael. 2005. Practical English Usage. 3rd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (optional)

·        The Longman Dictionary Of Contemporary English. For Advanced Learners. 2009. 5th edition. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education Limited. (optional)

·        Extra materials may be sent by email.

 

ATTENDANCE

In accordance with FLUL's Regulations, attendance is compulsory for both Zoom and in-house classes (please remember that your camera must be turned on during  Zoom sessions). For exceptions, please check the Regulamento geral de avaliação da faculdade de letras da universidade de Lisboa (RGA, FLUL) at http://www.letras.ulisboa.pt/pt/sobre-a-flul/legislacao/normas-e-regulamentos/faculdade-de-letras-da-universidade-de-lisboa/181--133/file.

                

Absence from class does not excuse you from submitting work or actively participating in the following class. If absence is due to illness or other emergency, please submit a doctor’s note or any other appropriate documentation within the following ten working days (see section 4, paragraph 2, RGA, FLUL).

 

Please be punctual and do not use cell phones in class. Texting, emailing, 'surfing' the web in class, posting on social media is extremely disrupting to other students, and a waste of your time in class. Students who are found disruptive of other students' learning will be asked to leave the room or removed from the Zoom class.

 

TEACHER/STUDENT COMMUNICATION

Teacher and students will communicate via institutional email addresses only. You should make sure that you (a) give a correct institutional individual email address; (b) check your institutional email on a regular basis. Please do not send your emails after 6 p.m. on the day before each class. 

 

TUTORIALS

A weekly tutorial is available on Monday between

·        ·        12:00h-13:00h for TP4.

 

The Zoom link for the one-hour tutorials will be provided to all students by email. Please note that tutorials are made by appointment. This means that you must email your teacher beforehand saying on which Monday  you would like to have a tutorial.