Sumários

Persuasion

4 Outubro 2018, 14:00 • Thomas Joe Grigg

Would I Lie to You, BBC tv programme simulation.

Class on Previous Tests

4 Outubro 2018, 10:00 • David Alan Prescott

Demonstration to students of some previous tests so that they have an idea of what to expect.

Presentations #1

3 Outubro 2018, 16:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Students gave short presentations on the topic: Rant or Rave?

Reviewed some language mistakes along with the structure I want them to follow. 

Descriptive Writing - Part 1

3 Outubro 2018, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Students were introduced to the basics of Descriptive Writing (those of you who missed the class, please read the appropriate sections in the course book).


We then went on to analyze descriptive texts:
  • extract from Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Knopf, 1976);
  • extract from Joyce Carol Oates's Inside District School #7, Niagara County, New York.

Next class: we will begin the class by going to the Campo Grande for an outdoor descriptive writing exercise, so please come to class on time as we will be leaving the classroom no later than 12:20. 

When we return to the class, we will carry on with analyzing descriptive texts.

Interview with Sherman Alexie continued. "Tony's story" by Leslie Marmon Silko.

3 Outubro 2018, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Interview with Sherman Alexie continued: discussing Alexie's views on being a Native American and growing up on the reservation.Reading aloud in class: dramatised reading of the short story "Tony's story" by Leslie Marmon Silko. Discussion of the short story will be carried out on Monday 8th October. HOMEWORK: Reread the short story at home and answer the questions on page 31 (Literary analysis)