Sumários

About your Play. Advice on the texts.

8 Março 2018, 10:00 • David Michael Greer

About your Play. Setting up idea of 4 texts and 1st text intro.

describing people 1

8 Março 2018, 08:00 • John Richard Walker

Introduction to essential writing techniques for describing people:

basic paragraph organisation

use of descriptive vocabular

10 techniques used by authors to describe character


based on a description of Laurie Lee's mother (p24)

Grammar and Vocabulary

7 Março 2018, 16:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Did several grammar and vocabulary exercises including:
dependent prepositions
phrasal verbs and word order
vocabulary with the prefixes under and over
word formation with affixes
collocations.

Lesson 5

7 Março 2018, 14:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Sofia Paulo and Marta Silva carried out their presentations.

Following this, the class carried on reading “What does it mean to be British and does it still matter?"

Next class:
  • 3-4 more students will do their presentations.
  • We will watch and discuss style and format of Oxford Union Debate on “Is Islam a Violent Religion?”

Lesson 6

7 Março 2018, 12:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "Universal basic income is becoming an urgent necessity" - reading, speaking, vocabulary (pp. 32-35)


- "To cut a long story short" (Everyday English) (pp. 29-30) 

Homework: 
- exs. 1 & 3 p. 31

Vocabulary from the lesson: 

- I´ll put the kettle on. 

Universal/unconditional basic income:

- conducive to 
- idle, idleness
- feassible
- onerous
- a pilot (a pilot project) 
- to roll out (a scheme, a policy) 

Exaggerating: 
- a complete and utter/an outright embarassment/disaster
- I came across as a blithering idiot.
- My career´s totally ruined. 
- I´ll never be able to show my face again. 

Paraphrasing: 
- Or, to put it another way...
- that is to say,...
- in other words,..
- What I meant by that,...

Summarising: 
- in a nutshell
- all things considered
- to cut a long story short