Sumários

TYPES OF METAPHOR

23 Setembro 2025, 15:30 • Gaile Parkin

Guided small-group discussion about the film Il Postino and what is says about metaphor.

Presentation on standard, implied, visual and extended metaphors, as well as mixed and dead metaphors.

Small group work exercise on how we label the people we observe, as a lead-in to watching Coke’s “Labels are for cans not people” ad and discussing the metaphors in it.

Lesson 3

23 Setembro 2025, 09:30 • Sheila Brannigan

We will 

  • recap on images of places in narratives

  • learn more about the course

  • describe cities in narratives

-Hunger Games descriptions

-Choose a place in a narrative and describe it (writing-speaking)


Essay writing- Introductions

22 Setembro 2025, 18:30 • Daniel Gregg Lopes da Silva

Students presented their introductions and received feedback.

Reading Editorials: Text 1 - Diane Abbott

22 Setembro 2025, 15:30 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP2 read and analyzed the first half of Diane Abbott's Guardian editorial (i.e. Text 1).

For those of you who missed today's class, please read the first half of this text.

Next class: we will finish Text 1 and start Text 2.

Essay writing- Introductions

22 Setembro 2025, 14:00 • Daniel Gregg Lopes da Silva

Introductions: writing an introduction and correcting peers’ texts