Sumários

CLASS CANCELLED - SURGERY

10 Março 2026, 09:30 Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today's class was cancelled due to the teacher going in to surgery.


PG WODEHOUSE 1

9 Março 2026, 17:00 Gaile Parkin

Presentation about Wodehouse and the Edwardian era in which his stories are set.

Open cloze exercise – first individually, then in pairs – using a text about the life and work of PG Wodehouse.

First 10 minutes of episode 1 of the BBC TV adaptation “Jeeves and Wooster”.

Tutorial/4th hour work: Grammar practice.

Homework: Read the first two PG Wodehouse stories about Jeeves and Wooster.


Syntax 1

9 Março 2026, 11:00 John Richard Walker

Simple sentence construction in English and the SVOCA sequence


Adapting classics for the screen

5 Março 2026, 14:00 Irene Bulla

Today we read and analyzed a review of the Wuthering Heights movie from The Guardian (file available in the Week 3 Google Drive folder), watched Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the prologue from Romeo + Juliet (1996), and began reflecting on what makes an adaptation good or successful.


Organisation and calendarisation

5 Março 2026, 11:00 John Richard Walker

Organising groups and dates for presentations.

Summary of the main themes in each of the six short stories.