Sumários

Assessment criteria

16 Fevereiro 2017, 08:00 EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


Students introduce themselves to the class and then write a letter to the teacher.

Students will be assessed on oral and written work. Weighting will be as follows:

one writing test -                             50%
individual participation
in debates                                       20%
oral,written task-based
assignments and 
active participation in class             25%
attendance                                         5%

Since assessment will be conducted on a regular basis, any t5ask taht is not submitted when due and/or any form of plagiarism will be given a zero.
Worker students may opt for continuous assessment (in which case they will have to comply with all the assessment criteria set for regular students) 
OR sit an examination to be held after the end of the second semester.

The writing test will be held on May 23. dates for debates willbe set in class.

Tutorials are made by appointment with the teacher by email (mcabrita1@campus.ul.pt)




Discussion of Oxford Union Debate themes and advanced grammar work

15 Fevereiro 2017, 16:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Discussion of Oxford Union Debate themes with the addition of students' suggestions to list of possible topics for discussion


 Advanced grammar work - grammatical structures that force subject verb inversion in English. Explanation using model in course manual. Extra exercises from Advanced Grammar in Use (Unit 120).

Students to do exercises on pages 14 & 15 of manual for the next class.


Discussion of Oxford Union Debate themes. Advanced grammar work

15 Fevereiro 2017, 14:00 Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Discussion of Oxford Union Debate themes with the addition of students' suggestions to list of possible topics for discussion


 Advanced grammar work - grammatical structures that force subject verb inversion in English. Explanation using model in course manual. Extra exercises from Advanced Grammar in Use (Unit 120).

Students to do exercises on pages 14 & 15 of manual for the next class.


Atwood article

15 Fevereiro 2017, 08:00 Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

1) Margaret Atwood's article on BNW
2) Designing a utopia (group work)

HW:
Read Foreword to Brave New World (i.e. the text written by Huxley in 1946, revisiting his writing - not the Introduction)



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14 Fevereiro 2017, 10:00 EDUARDA MELO CABRITA


Classes will start onThursday 16th February.

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