Sumários

25 Novembro 2025, 14:00 • Gaile Parkin

Groupwork discussion on sitcom characteristics, personal likes and dislikes, and experiences of watching Friends.

Feedback.

Presentation – with videoclip examples, on gender stereotyping in sitcoms in general and Friends in particular.

Discussion about problematic aspects of Friends for current-day audiences as well as its progressive and groundbreaking aspects.

Tutorial/4^th hour work: grammar practice

Homework: Review comparative essay structure.

24 Novembro 2025, 17:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

Extensive reading and writing assignment - discussing the novels

24 Novembro 2025, 14:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

Extensive reading and writing assignment - discussing the novels

24 Novembro 2025, 12:30 • John Richard Walker

discrete-point grammar issues collected from recent presentations and paragraphs analysed and corrected

21 Novembro 2025, 14:00 • Gaile Parkin

Discussion of how character drives plot.

Note-taking during a short video about the “hidden formula” of sitcom episodes. Feedback to check notes.

Pairwork: matching the Fawlty Towers episode “Basil the Rat” to the stages of the formula. Feedback.

Tutorial/4^th hour work: grammar practice

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