Sumários

test 1

17 Abril 2018, 08:00 • John Richard Walker

Written evaluation 1, concerning the themes of the first 4 oral presentations.

Exploring the US through sound

16 Abril 2018, 16:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Student presentations on "Exploring the US (American culture/identity) through Sound (including specific musical genres or song).

How to write an essay - in-text quotations/citations and bibliography

16 Abril 2018, 14:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

The teacher TOTALLY recommended that the students book a session with the WILL Lab - an amazing English-language writing centre here at FLUL that will assist students at each stage of the essay writing process, from the initial planning stages to the final polishing stages.  Any student to NOT take advantage of this free service would be, the teacher's sincere opinion, mad.The teacher then went on to demonstrate how to insert citations into an academic essay in order to strengthen one's arguments with evidence.

Here is a website that will tell students all they need to know about citations and bibliographies:

Next class: there will be an class discussion of the novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.  

Lesson 14

16 Abril 2018, 12:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

 - "I would happily have stayed longer" - reading, listening, vocabulary (142-144)

- Grammar: Comparison (p. 145)

Homework: ex. 1a p. 147, exs. 1-2 p. 146

Vocabulary from the lesson:

Sounds and noise:
- whining
- eerie
- to hammer
- gurgling
- a (dull) roar
- a (soft) whisper
- a (dull) thump
- scraping noise
- background noise
- to block out noise

Multi-word verbs: Social interaction:
- to fit in
- to come across
- to cut yourself off (from)
- to slip out
- to relate to sb
- to bombard sb with questions
- to go on about sth
- to run down (= criticise)
- to bring the best in people
- to hold yourself back

Teste

16 Abril 2018, 10:00 • David Alan Prescott

Comprehension test in class.