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"One Christmas" by Truman Capote

19 Outubro 2020, 15:30 • EDUARDA MELO CABRITA

Comparing and contrasting the two narrators of "A Christmas Memory" and "One Christmas" by Truman Capote.

An excerpt from To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee - first paragraph.

Tense and Aspect 2

19 Outubro 2020, 12:30 • John Richard Walker

Active practice with narrative past forms: creating a story around the whole class using the simple form to move the story ahead chronologically, the progressive aspect to contextualise the action (what was happening at the time) and the perfect aspect to show what had already happened at a particular time in the narrative.

Jeeves and Wooster

16 Outubro 2020, 11:00 • Gaile Parkin

Character descriptions of PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster, with reference to the Enneagram.

Exploration of the additions to the English Dictionary achieved by vocabulary creations of Wodehouse.

Tense and Aspect

15 Outubro 2020, 12:30 • John Richard Walker

See handout in the "Structure" folder of the subject Google Drive

The concepts of tense and aspect in English verb forms.

Progressive aspect and perfect aspect.

Introduction to PG Wodehouse

15 Outubro 2020, 11:00 • Gaile Parkin

An introduction to the writings of PG Wodehouse.

Students completed a word-formation task (CAE part 3) based on a biographical text about PG Wodehouse.