Sumários

Lesson 12

27 Outubro 2016, 10:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- Vocabulary: idioms based on sport

- "Getting to the top" - reading, speaking (p, 93)

- Grammar: definite and zero articles (p. 94)

- Functional language: using emphasis and comparison (p. 99)

Homework: General knowledge quiz (p. 95)

Vocabulary from the lesson:

- to be on the ball

- to move the goalposts

- to take your eye off the ball

- a level playing field

- a whole new ball game

- to score an own goal

- to start the ball rolling

- to push the limits

- to set apart

- to make sacrifices

- to boil down to

- inordinate (amount of...)

- an ice rink

Grammar - Part 1

26 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Studentes learned all about prepopsitions:

location;
time;
position;
direction.

Students are to receive the PowerPoint in their emails. Students should practice their prepositions for the upcoming midterm buy purchasing the materials in the green photocopy room (file 12) and by doing the online practice exercises on englishpage.com.

http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/prepositions.html

The DNA Journey

26 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Discussion about identity and race relations.

Video screening of The DNA Journey

Introduction to Chimamanda Adichie

Homework:

Watch the TED talk The Danger of a Single Story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg) and answer the questions on p. 34

Read the short story "You in America" (pp. 36-42)

Education System in England and Wales

26 Outubro 2016, 12:00 • David Alan Prescott

Lesson on the education system in England and Wales, focusing particularly on the differences with the European systems (school uniforms, segregation by sex and religion, qualification by examination marked anonymously, individualisation of subjects rather than the system of passing grade/years, localised control over curricula and syllabuses and possibility of leaving school at the age of 15.