TP6 - Lesson 5

5 Outubro 2015, 14:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- Talking politics - politics quiz + discussing the general elections

- Paragraph writing exercises (coursebook pp. 139-149, 154-160)

- Homework: write a pragraph (100-150 words) entitled "Reasons why people should (not) vote in general elections" (deadline for submitting the printed copy: 12 October)


Vocabulary from the class - Politics:

• to run in an election

• to cast a ballot
• to go to the polls
• a polling station
  
• a landslide victory
  
• voter turnout
• a term (in office)
• to hang in the balance
• to gain momentum
  
• to hold an election
  
• approval rating
  

Reading "Multiculturalism in Piazza Vittorio, Rome"

5 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Reading and discussion of the central concerns of the article "Multiculturalism in Piazza Vittorio".

TP3 - Lesson 5

5 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- Talking politics - politics quiz + discussing the general elections

- Paragraph writing exercises (coursebook pp. 139-149, 154-160)

- Student oral presentation

- Homework: write a pragraph (100-150 words) entitled "Reasons why people should (not) vote in general elections" (deadline for submitting the printed copy: 12 October)


Vocabulary from the class - Politics:

• to run in an election

• to cast a ballot
• to go to the polls
• a polling station
  
• a landslide victory
  
• voter turnout
• a term (in office)
• to hang in the balance
• to gain momentum
  
• to hold an election
  
• approval rating
  

Descriptive Writing Part 3

5 Outubro 2015, 08:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Descriptive Writing

Students to work in groups to analyze more advanced texts and present summary of descriptive techniques used in each text to class.

Students were put into three groups.

Group 1 analyzed a diary entry from 'The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume 5' (pg. 17 of course book).

Group 2 analyzed two diary entries from 'The Journals of Sylvia Plath' (pgs. 18-19 of course book).

Group 3 analyzed the Anne Michaels poem 'There Is No City That Does Not Dream' (pgs. 20-24 of course book).

All groups shared their findings with the class.

Reading: "20 of your songs that changed the world"

30 Setembro 2015, 16:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Students' presentations of songs that have played an important role in raising social awareness or bringing about social transformation at different moments in history.