Test on short stories.

15 Dezembro 2022, 15:30 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

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Students did test on short stories.

Grammar and Vocabulary Test

12 Dezembro 2022, 15:30 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

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Students took the grammar and vocabulary test.

Reviewed for the tests

5 Dezembro 2022, 15:30 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

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Reviewed for the grammar and vocabulary test with some practical exercises.

Grammar and vocabulary review

28 Novembro 2022, 15:30 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

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We looked at special uses of tenses, including present and past tenses. These included: present simple for events in a novel, historic present, the use of the present for anecdotes and jokes, the present subjunctive, the past simple with a future meaning, expressing desire or making a polite request, past forms used with present meaning for politeness. We also looked at the reported speech. We also reviewed prepositions and sentence patterns which included prepositions after adjectives and verbs, prepositional phrases and sentence patterns with nouns. Regarding vocabulary, we looked at numbers and measurements as well as idioms with measurements. We then looked at verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms related to food and drink.

Charity

24 Novembro 2022, 15:30 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

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Discussion of the short story "Charity". Focused on the change of perspective in the story, the main themes of substance abuse, homelessness, volunteer work, etc.