Sumários

Bucket List / Grammar

7 Março 2016, 16:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Students gave presentations on their "Bucket list".
Grammar review on perfect verb forms including present perfect simple and continuous, past perfect simple and continuous, and other perfect forms such as the future perfect, the perfect -ing clause and the perfect infinitive.
Practical exercises were also reviewed.

Bucket List / Grammar

7 Março 2016, 14:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Students gave presentations on their "Bucket list".
Grammar review on perfect verb forms including present perfect simple and continuous, past perfect simple and continuous, and other perfect forms such as the future perfect, the perfect -ing clause and the perfect infinitive.
Practical exercises were also reviewed.

Lesson 7

7 Março 2016, 12:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "Breaking news" - speaking (p. 45)

- Key language: Headline English (p. 46)

- "Hot off the press" - reading (p. 47)

- Grammar: Verb patterns (p. 48, 53)

- Homework: Headline English - exercises (extra worksheets) + read "Phone hacking: 10 years of resignations, cover-ups..." (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/11/phone-hacking-10-years-resignations-cover-ups-convictions)

Vocabulary from the lesson:

  • a bias/without bias

  • a scoop

  • an anchor

  • a sound bite

  • broadsheets/tabloids

  • chequebook journalism

  • circulation figures/viewing figures

  • libel laws

  • ratings war

  • to curb

  • to crack down on sth

  • to axe

  • vote rigging

  • nature or nurture

  • succinct (e.g. sentences)

  • deplorable (e.g. conditions)

  • the last redoubt of sth

  • superfluous (e.g. words)

  • sloppy (e.g. words)

  • uninhibited


describing people 2 + describing people 3

7 Março 2016, 10:00 • John Richard Walker

completion of the work on the short story by D.H. Lawrence


further technique as presented by David Lodge in his book "The Art of Fiction" / Chapter 14 "Introrducing a Character" 

describing people 2 + describing people 3

7 Março 2016, 08:00 • John Richard Walker


adding to the list of descriptive writing techniques by analysing the first page of D.H. Lawrence's short story "The Lovely Lady"


further technique as presented by David Lodge in his book "The Art of Fiction" / Chapter 14 "Introrducing a Character"