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Grammar - Goodbye verbs...Hello Prepositions

11 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Students learned about WHEN to use:   

  • the future perfect

For homework, please complete the following exercises: 

We then went on to learn about Location Prepositions, i.e. WHEN to use 'in', 'on' and 'at'.

For homework, students should carry out the following exercises:


VIDEO SCREENING: Performed poem: Shane Koyczan, “To This Day... for the bullied and beautiful”, Ted Talk.

11 Fevereiro 2020, 14:00 Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1. Grammar revision based on feedback to drafts of argumentative essays (respective pdf sent by e-mail).

 
2. VIDEO SCREENING: Performed poem: Shane Koyczan, “To This Day... for the bullied and beautiful”, Ted Talk. Listening; summarising; discussing. 

Note: Deadline for submission of final version of argumentative essay on "Growing up": one week after receiving feedback on draft.


Grammar - Prepositions

11 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we learned about Location and Time Prepositions, i.e. WHEN to use 'in', 'on' and 'at'.

For homework, students should carry out the following exercises:

Next class, we will continue to learn about time prepositions and then move on to positional and directional prepositions and then, God willing, we will FINALLY move on to Descriptive Writing.


Goodbye Verbs...Hello Prepositions

11 Fevereiro 2020, 10:00 Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we finished off the verbs section of our grammar by learning about WHEN to use the Future Perfect Continuous.

For homework, students should complete the following exercises:

We then went on to learn about Location Prepositions, i.e. WHEN to use 'in', 'on' and 'at'.

For homework, students should carry out the following exercises:


Fractured fairy tales

10 Fevereiro 2020, 16:00 Gaile Parkin

Feedback on groupwork fairy-tales. Children’s stories as resources for ELT students. Vocabulary development from The Wonky Donkey. Video of a Sottish grandmother reading The Wonky Donkey. Small group brainstorm of possible ways of fracturing a fairy tale (e.g. LGBTQ+, zombie, vampire, feminist, etc,) and attempt to make Cinderella feminist.