Sumários
Guidelines for writing an argumentative essay
12 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta
The thesis statement.
Descriptive Writing Presentations and Persuasive Writing Part 1
12 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio
The remaining groups did their presentations on the descriptive texts by Plath, Woolf and Michaels.
Persuasive Writing - Part 1
Students were introduced to the basics of persuasive writing (i.e. appealing to reason, emotion or beliefs) and then listened to and analyzed audio and audio visual recordings of two persuasive political speeches...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4FdMTdR40w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQV9bEcV28
...identifying persuasive techniques from the following list:
- Personal Pronouns
- Cause and effect
- Verb tenses
- Repetition
- Alliteration
- The Power of Three
- Emotive language
- Facts and statistics
- Hyperbole
- Exaggeration
- Technical Language
- Rhetorical Questions
- Dare the reader to disagree
- Powerful verbs and strong adjectives
- Listing.
- Address objections.
- Go tribal.
- Story telling/anecdotes
- Humour.
- Reasons why.
Punctuation
12 Outubro 2016, 12:00 • David Alan Prescott
Class on punctuation. Giving of list of books about punctuation and style and showing of the www.abebooks.com website for buying cheap books.
Guidelines for writing an argumentative essay
12 Outubro 2016, 10:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta
The thesis statement.
Lesson 7
11 Outubro 2016, 12:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska
- "Stephen Fry's guide to the UK" - a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7cFXSDN_5k)
- "National trait" - reading, speaking, vocabulary (pp. 62-63)
- "Reddit users list their favourite British words and phrases" - reading (p. 64)
- "I was well gutted about the dodgy grub" - British slang (pp. 65-66)
- "Roger that: British confirmed as word's sexiest accent. But which one?" - reading (pp. 67-68)
- "One woman, 17 British accents" - a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyyT2jmVPAk)
Homework: read "The Cranes" - a short story by Peter Meinke (pp. 71, 73-74)
Vocabulary from the lesson:
- aloof
- devious
- self-effacing
- meticulous
- endearing
- staggering
- curtain twitching
- road rage
- against all odds
- nippy
(Slang:)
- gutted
- dodgy
- the bee's knees
- nosh/grub
- knackered
- jammy
- fit
- ta
- two sandwiches short of a picnic