Sumários

Student presentations 4

23 Abril 2026, 11:00 • John Richard Walker

Student presentation on You Should Have Seen the Mess, by Muriel Spark

Feedback on good points and areas for improvement.
Summary of main themes in the story.

Revision for Upcoming Writing Test

23 Abril 2026, 09:30 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP6 went through the rules and success criteria for the upcoming Writing Test.  Students who missed today's class are urged to go through the PowerPoint entitled 'Instructions and Success Criteria for Written Exam'. This PowerPoint should inform you of everything you need to know regarding the writing test.


Also, there are only two dates left for those who have not yet booked their oral exam with me: May 19th and May 28th. The other dates are now closed. If you have not yet booked a date for your oral presentation, please email me your date of choice as soon as possible. Otherwise, I will have to allocate you your date.

Next class: I will be modelling the oral presentation for TP6. This is an important class, so don't miss it!

FAWLTY TOWERS 1

22 Abril 2026, 17:00 • Gaile Parkin

Introduction to the sitcom genre, and discussion about favourite sitcoms.

Presentation on John Cleese, Fawlty Towers as a classic sitcom, its inspiration, and its use of farce, satire and black comedy.

Small group task: drawing up character descriptions of Basil, Sybil, Polly and Manuel.

Exploration of Scott Sedita’s concept of the 8 sitcom characters.

Homework: Watch the pilot episode of Friends and any other episodes.

On regrets

21 Abril 2026, 14:00 • Irene Bulla

Today we started discussing regrets using the worksheet in the Week 10 subfolder on Google Drive (pp. 1–2) and watched Daniel Pink’s video “The 4 Regrets Every Human Has”.

Reading Students' Awesome Essays

21 Abril 2026, 09:30 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP6 got their grammar/English in Use tests back.


We then went on to read Tatiana Teixeira's awesome essay entitled: Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘A Temporary Matter’: How grief can change marriages.

Next class: we will review the rules for both parts of the writing test.