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ORAL PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

8 Abril 2025, 08:00 • Gaile Parkin

Warm-up: correcting some common errors.

Presentation on oral presentations for evaluation expectations.

Video of a previous student’s good presentation, followed by discussions in pairs about its good points.

Class feedback.

Error-correction exercise based on a text about the oral presentations – individually, then in pairs.

7 April

7 Abril 2025, 08:00 • Sheila Brannigan

We recalled the two community issue we have discussed (anti-social behaviour and vandalism)

Discussed the housing crisis

practised writing the start of a letter to a councillor

ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE 4

3 Abril 2025, 08:00 • Gaile Parkin

Warm-up: correcting some common errors.

Presentation on Paddington Bear and the marmalade/Marmite endorsement scandal.

Tasting of marmalade sandwiches and Marmite sandwiches.

Word formation exercise based on a text about Paddington – individually, then in pairs.

Class feedback.

4^th hour work: grammar practice.

Homework: Chapters of animal idioms in English Idioms in Use (units 37, 38 and 62) for a quiz next week.

2 April

2 Abril 2025, 08:00 • Sheila Brannigan

We discussed the community problem of vandalism and learned vocabulary to describe it

We practised writing formally Learn English- British Council - B2 writing: An email to your university professor

ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE 3

1 Abril 2025, 08:00 • Gaile Parkin

Warm-up: correcting some common errors.

Presentation on children’s literature characters in the public sphere.

Class discussion about Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood (which was read for homework). Online quiz – “Which Winnie-the-Pooh pathology are you?” – followed by same-group discussion of the results.