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ORAL PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

8 Abril 2025, 11:00 • Gaile Parkin

Small group discussion on good and bad presentations experienced, and what makes them so. Feedback.

Presentation on the expectations and specifications for the oral presentation videos on stand-up comedians as part of the course evaluation.

Video suggesting 4 killer steps to starting a presentation.

Example of a very good presentation video by a previous student on the course. Discussion about what makes it good.

BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY and WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

4 Abril 2025, 15:30 • Gaile Parkin

Oral feedback on the experience of watching the two romcoms.

Small group work directed discussion of various aspects of the romcoms.

Feedback.

Tutorial/4^th hour work: Grammar practice.

Homework: Watch the romcoms The 40-year-old Virgin and Along Came Polly.

Looking at essays

4 Abril 2025, 12:30 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP9 began reading one of the research papers available on the shared Google drive. Please feel free to access these research papers to use for your optional homework assignments, or read them in preparation for your upcoming written test.

Next class: we will be going through Daniela Marques's paper entitled: Compromised Vision: The symbolic objects of misinterpretation in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”

BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY and WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

4 Abril 2025, 11:00 • Gaile Parkin

Oral feedback on the experience of watching the two romcoms.

Small group work directed discussion of various aspects of the romcoms.

Feedback.

Tutorial/4^th hour work: Grammar practice.

Homework: Watch the romcoms The 40-year-old Virgin and Along Came Polly.

ROMCOMS AS A GENRE

1 Abril 2025, 15:30 • Gaile Parkin

Feedback on the Writing 1 evaluation, with a focus on common errors.

Introduction to the English love of portmanteau words (such as “romcom”).

Pairwork exercise: putting pairs of words together to create some common portmanteaus. Feedback.