The written test will have three sections:
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.

For the next class, via Skype I want you to do a close reading of the texts I sent you, using the close reading tools in the document I sent, so that you can look for the literary devices metaphor, symbolism, sentence length etc) that are in these texts to gain insight as to how these produce the effects you felt when reading the text narratively.