Sumários

Debate: Should we modernize classics?

10 Março 2026, 14:00 • Irene Bulla

Today we debated the following proposition: “One should never adapt old artworks to modern sensibilities.”

Before Thursday’s class: Please review the vocabulary and expressions we have covered over the past two weeks that may be useful for writing a book or movie review.

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/4^th 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

6th of March

6 Março 2026, 08:00 • Kathryn Gray Craven

Activation of vocabulary studied as homework: Geography