Sumários
BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY
27 Outubro 2023, 12:30 • Gaile Parkin
Presentation on the book and film adaptation of Bridget
Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding.
Small group task: drawing up a character description of
Bridget Jones.
On-screen visit to websites that have mapped Bridget Jones’s
personality to the MBTI and the Enneagram.
Tutorial/4th hour work: grammar practice
Homework: Watch either “The 40-year-old Virgin” or “Along
came Polly”.
Lesson 13
25 Outubro 2023, 18:30 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska
"Fly Already" - a short story by Etgar Keret (pp. 136-142)
ROMCOM AS A GENRE
24 Outubro 2023, 12:30 • Gaile Parkin
Introduction to the English love of portmanteau words (such
as “romcom”).
Pairwork exercise: putting pairs of words together to create
some common portmanteaus. Feedback.
Group construction of a list of characteristics and
expectations of the romcom genre.
Presentation of academics’ agreed sets of essential and
additional characteristics, with discussion.