Sumários

Written Test

9 Novembro 2016, 10:00 Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

NB: The oral presentation proposals are due on 14 November (see guidelines in the Course Book)


Lesson 14

8 Novembro 2016, 12:00 Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- American presidential election + Politics - quizzes (extra worksheets)


- Obama's victory speech - a video + vocabulary (pp. 114-117)

- "A 'presidential' president: Obama legacy looking good" - reading + vocabulary (pp. 112-113)

- John Oliver's view of the American presidential election - a video 

Homework: Watch the new American president's victory speech 

Vocabulary from the lesson - Politics and elections:


  • 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   

  • a running mate 




Lesson 14

8 Novembro 2016, 10:00 Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- American presidential election + Politics - quizzes (extra worksheets)


- Obama's victory speech - a video + vocabulary (pp. 114-117)

- "A 'presidential' president: Obama legacy looking good" - reading + vocabulary (pp. 112-113)

- John Oliver's view of the American presidential election - a video 

Homework: Watch the new American president's victory speech 

Vocabulary from the lesson - Politics and elections:


  • 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   

  • a running mate 




Mid-term Listening Test

7 Novembro 2016, 16:00 Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

The students sat their mid-term listening test.


Students' presentations about the film Crash

7 Novembro 2016, 16:00 Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Class discussion about the central themes in the film.

NB: The Oral Presentation Proposals are due on 14 November.