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Grammar: Present Perfect

7 Novembro 2016, 12:00 David Alan Prescott

Lesson on the Present Perfect, including comparison with Portuguese and extracts taken from "meaning and the English Verb" by Geoffrey Leech.


Students' presentations about the film Crash

7 Novembro 2016, 10:00 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.


Lesson 13

3 Novembro 2016, 12:00 Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "Voicing complaints" - reading, spekaing, vocabulary (pp. 108-109)


- Paragraph correction exercise 

Homework:
- paragraph: "How to become the best in sports"
- ex. B & C p. 96

Vocabulary from the lesson:
  • I've had it up to here with..

  • I'm sick to death of...

  • It's so infuriating!

  • It annoys me to think that...

  • to give sb a piece of your mind

  • to kick up a fuss

  • It drives me mad that/when...

  • It gets on my nerves that...

  • Not nice at all.

  • To have a good old moan

  • Don't you just hate...

  • to vent your anger

  • What I object to is/are...

  • … really gets up my nose

  • … is driving me to distraction

  • I'm fed up with...


  • to shriek

  • to bellow

  • to whisper

  • to snap

  • to stutter

  • to sigh

  • to grunt

  • to grunt

  • to whine



Lesson 13

3 Novembro 2016, 10:00 Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "Voicing complaints" - reading, spekaing, vocabulary (pp. 108-109)


- Paragraph correction exercise 

Homework:
- paragraph: "How to become the best in sports"
- ex. B & C p. 96

Vocabulary from the lesson:
  • I've had it up to here with..

  • I'm sick to death of...

  • It's so infuriating!

  • It annoys me to think that...

  • to give sb a piece of your mind

  • to kick up a fuss

  • It drives me mad that/when...

  • It gets on my nerves that...

  • Not nice at all.

  • To have a good old moan

  • Don't you just hate...

  • to vent your anger

  • What I object to is/are...

  • … really gets up my nose

  • … is driving me to distraction

  • I'm fed up with...


  • to shriek

  • to bellow

  • to whisper

  • to snap

  • to stutter

  • to sigh

  • to grunt

  • to grunt

  • to whine


Grammar - Part 3

2 Novembro 2016, 16:00 Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Verb conjugations continued and Gerunds vs. Infinitives.

Students learned about the many uses of:

  • the past continuous;
  • the present perfect
  • the past perfect
  • the present perfect continuous
  • the past perfect continuous
  • the future simple
  • the future continuous
  • the future perfect
  • the future perfect continuous
  • gerunds
  • infinitives

Students will receive the PPTs on these in their emails.  Students should practice for the upcoming mid-term by purchasing and completing the exercises (with answers) that can be purchased in the green photocopy room (file 12) and by doing the online practices on englishpage.com.

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.HTML

http://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/index.htm