Sumários
Charity
20 Março 2017, 12:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo
Reading and discussion: “Charity” by Charles Baxter
Grammar 2Do the Arts Matter?
16 Março 2017, 16:00 • David Michael Greer
Vocabulary and Writing on Do the Arts Matter?
describing people 6
16 Março 2017, 12:00 • John Richard Walker
The grammar commonly used for describing people:
simple tenses for permanent featuresprogressive tenses for temporary featuresmodality for speculating about personality
Stative and dynamic verbs and the limitations in their use.
describing people 6
16 Março 2017, 10:00 • John Richard Walker
The grammar commonly used for describing people:
Lesson 9
15 Março 2017, 16:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska
- Checking homework + exercises: Agreement between subject and verb (p. 253)
- A class election: feedback
- "Breaking news" - vocabulary, listening, speaking (pp. 23-24)
- Run-on sentences and other common writing errors - exercises (pp. 180-181 + extra worksheet)
Homework:
- "Hot off the press" - reading + exercises 1-4 (pp. 25-26)
- An essay outline (see p. 156 for an example of an essay outline); topic: choose one of the topics of Oxford Union style debates (e.g. "God does not exist" or "The European Union is a failed project")
- find an interesting news story (in English), write down the headline and be able to talk about the story
Vocabulary from the lesson - the media:
- an anchor
- (without) bias, biased/unbiased
- a scoop
- to miss a deadline
- to deal in facts
- to break a story
- to speak off the record
- broadcast media
- to be fair game
- to bear about the bush
- circulation figures/viewing figures
- a sound bite
- broadsheets
- tabloids
- glossies
- libel laws
- chequebook journalism
- media coverage