Letters of advice.

10 Fevereiro 2021, 09:30 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Graham Norton's Problem Page: 

(a) pair/group work - reading a letter of advice, underlining phrasal and prepositional verbs; looking up unknown vocabulary; and discussing what kind of advice might be given. 

(b) Letter 1 was read aloud by students in group 1; cultural references and unknown vocabulary were discussed; group 1 reported on the advice they would give.

HOMEWORK: The answers to the exercises about conditional clauses will be checked tomorrow.

Email writing. Structure of a letter of advice.

9 Fevereiro 2021, 09:30 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Email writing: a) revising the rules to write emails to teachers; b) effective subject lines for emails to teachers; c) email to ask a teacher for an extension; d) email to ask a teacher for clarification on an assignment.

Reading: “Is it acceptable to call someone 'babe'?”

8 Fevereiro 2021, 11:00 • Ana Rita Martins

Reading & Discussion: “Is it acceptable to call someone 'babe'?”

Grammar: Revising Concepts (III)

5 Fevereiro 2021, 11:00 • Ana Rita Martins

Grammar: Revising Concepts (III)

Basic punctuation rules. Analysing students' emails.

4 Fevereiro 2021, 09:30 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Basic punctuation rules: comma, colon, semi-colon, hyphen, dash, quotation marks, parenthesis.

Analysing students' emails: subject line; greeting; main message; closing. 

Grammar practice: Sentence transformation.