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COVID-19 Lesson cancelled
12 Março 2020, 14:00 • Daniel Gregg Lopes da Silva
COVID-19 Lesson cancelled
Writing, Traveling and the Creative Act
12 Março 2020, 12:00 • Zuzanna Zarebska
Students should read the essay by Suzanne Joinson "Writing, Traveling and the Creative Act" and answer the following questions:
COVID-19 Lesson cancelled
12 Março 2020, 10:00 • Daniel Gregg Lopes da Silva
COVID-19 Lesson cancelled
Presentation of how we will proceed with classes and descriptive texts in narrative writing
11 Março 2020, 16:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Because both writing skills and orality are important elements of English C1.2 we will work with 1) a class group email where students can post their work and I can send out instructions as to materials that need to be prepared for the following class and 2) a Skype group. I will be available on one of these platforms a class times. Instructions will be given before each class as to which media will be used.
If you have not received this group email send the email address you normally use to cbeecher@campus.ul.pt
Instructions on evaluations:
Written Test: I propose that we move the test to Monday, 6th March, as this will not only give us an extra class; it will also solve Sara's timetable clash (she has 2 tests on the same day at the same time).
1) CAE Use of English exercises like those on pages 28 & 29 of your manual. You can find more practice exercises with answers at https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-tests/advanced/preparation/
2) Descriptive and narrative texts in literary writing - looking at examples from your novels
3) An essay on themes presented in your novels.
Ongoing work: You were supposed to bring your corrected essays to class tomorrow and I was going to discuss the corrections with you. You can send these to my email (cbeecher@campus.ul.pt) and I will get back to you. Bruna, Daniel, Sara and Vasco I have scanned your essays and will sent them to you - return a corrected version to me by next Monday.
You also had to select a descriptive section from your novel and we were going to discuss how this affected the narrative flow of the work. We can still do that. I am going to create a collective email group and you can send your text (scanned or rewritten) and write a short explanation of how you consider this influences the narrative flow. Remember how I explained Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's simple descriptive phrase "their silences were filled with stones" prepares for reader for the fact that the relationship between two of the main characters would never again be the same (p 38 manual).
We will start with a reflection like this. Then I would like you to look at the text for the literary devices used to achieve the result obtained. i.e. Adichie uses a metaphor - which always requires the reader's involvement in interpretation; a stone is a hard thing; when thrown at someone it normally hurts and it is intentional, never accidental, throwing a stone also implies aggression; the fact that the phases uses "stones" plural implies repeated hurt etc
Thank you for sending your reflections on the descriptive texts you selected from your novels.
Ch6-7
11 Março 2020, 12:00 • Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim