Sumários

SS1 and SS2

19 Setembro 2023, 12:30 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Reading and discussion of two short stories that were analyzed in class. "Girl" and "Happy Endings" were covered in terms of themes and gender stereotypes presented in both. In addition to our discussion, students were asked to provide a writing sample by continuing "Happy Endings" with their own version, titled "G".


Essay titles and introductions

19 Setembro 2023, 09:30 • Daniel Gregg Lopes da Silva

Essay titles and introductions

ANALYSING METAPHORS

19 Setembro 2023, 08:00 • Gaile Parkin

Group discussion about “Il Postino” and what it says about metaphors.

Presentation on analysing metaphors and source & target domains.

Small group work: completing a cloze text through identifying the target and source, as a lead-in to watching the TED talk “Sex needs a new metaphor. Here’s one.”

Editorial - Reading and Analysis: 'A message to the NHS: disabled people like having sex, too' by Cathy Reay

18 Setembro 2023, 08:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, students listed all of the different persuasive writing techniques they identified in the Depp vs. Heard closing arguments (Vasquez and Rottenborn only).  

We then went on to discuss the basics of editorial writing and began reading/analyzing (and identified the writing techniques in) Text 2 from the course book, Cathy Reay's A message to the NHS: disabled people like having sex, too.

Next class: we will continue to read Text 2 and hopefully move on to another text.

No homework this time.

First warm-up activities

15 Setembro 2023, 14:00 • Ana Rita Martins

First warm-up writing activity: Writing Prompts

Speaking Activities: Just a minute!