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Essay writing- conclusions

17 Outubro 2023, 09:30 Daniel Gregg Lopes da Silva

Essay writing- conclusions


METAPHOR IN HEALTHCARE MESSAGING

17 Outubro 2023, 08:00 Gaile Parkin

After eliciting the most common metaphors used in talking about disease and healthcare, brainstorming in pairs to collate vocabulary of the domains of “war” and “battle”.

Viewing of “Cell Wars”, an animated film explaining how the immune system reacts when flu enters the body, followed by an examination of the war vocabulary used in the film.

Presentation on patient reactions to war metaphor in talking about cancer, and on war metaphor used in an Observer editorial on covid.


Written Assignment

16 Outubro 2023, 14:00 Ana Rita Martins

In-class descriptive writing assignment.


Oxford Union Debate - Islam is a Religion of Peace

16 Outubro 2023, 08:00 Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we watched (and learned from) one of the Oxford Union Debates that was recorded and uploaded onto YouTube.

It is imperative that all students who missed the class watch the first two sections of the debate that we watched in class today, as this serves as a model for the debates that students will be carrying out for their oral exams.


Here are the links for the first two parts of the debate:Next class: we will finish watching the Oxford Union Debate on YouTube.


Descriptive writing: Revise & Practice

13 Outubro 2023, 14:00 Ana Rita Martins

Descriptive writing: 

  • Revising key concepts:
  • Practice writing short texts