Oxford Union Debate + Work for reading week

8 Outubro 2015, 16:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Presented the structure of the CAE and CPE exercises that students will do during the study week - these are on pages 7-12 of the student manual and these will be corrected on 20th Sept.

Also selected students to discuss the Prelude and the first 5 chapters of The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers.on 22nd Sept. This is the novel set for the course.

Watched 4 of the speakers (Matthew Handley. Medhi Hassan - for the motion; Anne-Marie Waters and Daniel Johnson - opposing the motion) from the Oxford Union Debate on "Islam is a Peaceful Religion" - critiqued the preparation and presentation of the speeches to help student understand how to construct their own debates and speeches.

Homework assignment - prepare arguments to counter Medhi Hassan's presentation

Anyone out there?

8 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • David Michael Greer

Anyone out there? 3 characters, jumbled answers to questions.

oral presentations on Englishness

8 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • John Richard Walker

student oral presentations about what Kate Fox calls "social dis-ease"

describing people 1

8 Outubro 2015, 08:00 • John Richard Walker

Using a description of Laurie Lee's mother to observe:

a) paragraph organisation

b) descriptive techniques

TV series, demographic art and narrative identity

7 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • Zuzanna Zarebska

Students presents the opening scene of their imaginary TV series. Discussion and trailer watching: Red Band Society and The Fault in our Stars. Representations of illness on the TV screen. Rita Charon: Medical humanities, TedeX talk.