Sumários

Long Tom Lookout

2 Março 2016, 16:00 Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Discussion of the short story "Long Tom Lookout" by Nicole Cullen from the Idaho Review.
Questions focused on readers' expectations, plot, narration, characters, setting and style, tone, mood.


Long Tom Lookout

2 Março 2016, 14:00 Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Discussion of the short story "Long Tom Lookout" by Nicole Cullen from the Idaho Review.
Questions focused on readers' expectations, plot, narration, characters, setting and style, tone, mood.


Lesson 6

2 Março 2016, 12:00 Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "I'm going to die on Monday at 6.15pm" - discussing the article

- Writing an argumentative essay - exercises (pp. 225-243)

- Oxford Union style debate - introduction (pp. 6-7)

- Homework: write a ca. 350-word long essay arguing in favour or against the following statement: "Assisted suicide should be legal"; deadline: 9 March 2016

Vocabulary from the lesson ("Im going to die on...")

- to have a run-in with sb
- to trash around
- to badge sb to do sth
- a diddly squat (coll.)
- to give sb grief for sth
- to potter around


describing people 1 + intro to describing people 2

2 Março 2016, 10:00 John Richard Walker

basic organisation proposal and 10 essential writing techniques for describing people

analysis of a text by Laurie Lee in which the writer's mother is described


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


describing people 1

2 Março 2016, 08:00 John Richard Walker

basic organisation proposal and 10 essential writing techniques for describing people

analysis of a text by Laurie Lee in which the writer's mother is described