Sumários

Selection of Oxford Union debate

18 Abril 2016, 12:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Oxford Union debates on the following themes:

"This House defends that Democracy no longer works - it is time to find new forms of governance"

and

"This House defends the right of all couples to form a family"

Black Mirror 1

18 Abril 2016, 08:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

Viewing of 1st selected episode from "Black Mirror" TV series - "The Entire History of You"

Discussion

Organisation of groups

Directed brainstorming (list with directions will be sent by email)



Writing Narrative Texts

13 Abril 2016, 16:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Work with exercises to help students understand how writers use different past tenses (namely past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses) when developing narrative texts.
Practise exercises with the above in 1st and 3rd person narrative texts.
Student presentation of chapters from the novel Americanah.

Writing Narrative Texts

13 Abril 2016, 12:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Work with exercises to help students understand how writers use different past tenses (namely past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses) when developing narrative texts.

Practise exercises with the above in 1st and 3rd person narrative texts.

Student presentation of chapters from the novel Americanah.

Debate 4

13 Abril 2016, 08:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

Correction Academic Writing HW

Debate 3:
"This house believes that human cloning and stem-cell research will improve our living conditions"

Feedback session on speeches

Grammar point: -ed pronunciation

Questions/class discussion on debate topic

"3 parts of a paragraph"

HW
Students must read and do the exercises on the emailed pages.