Sumários

Grammar Quiz

3 Março 2020, 10:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP9 carried out their grammar quiz.

Students should note that they MUST be in class on the 10th in order to get their test back.

Metaphor and simile

2 Março 2020, 16:00 • Gaile Parkin

Metaphor vs simile in expressions regarding animal behaviour. Extended metaphors in stories. Film: Cell Wars, and analysis of extended metaphor of war and battle in the film.

Reading and analysis of "Blak Powems" by Mbongeni Khumalo.

2 Março 2020, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Feedback on letters to the editor.

Unit 2 - The Rainbow Nation: Reading and analysis of the poem  "Blak Powems" by Mbongeni Khumalo; explaining words and expressions with the word "black".

HOMEWORK: Read the text "Soweto - Journey to freedom" (pp. 51-54).

Descriptive Writing Continued...

27 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

TP11 carried on learning about Descriptive Writing and improving their vocabulary by analyzing extracts from the following texts:  

  • Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace
They then got into groups and went on to analyze their choice of extract from the journals of Sylvia Plath, the diaries of Virginia Woolf or the poems of Anne Michaels.  

Next class (March 3rd): TP9 will carry out its grammar quiz.

The following class (March 5th): TP9 will present their analyses of their descriptive texts to the class.

Short story.

27 Fevereiro 2020, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1. Role play (conclusion): presentation by a group that, due to justifiable reasons, could not present it earlier.

2. Grammar revision: further feedback.

3. Listening to a story: Sally Rooney, “Colour and Light”, Being Various: New Irish Short Stories, ed. Lucy Caldwell, London: Faber and Faber, 2019.