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Narrative Writing - Text Analysis

12 Outubro 2023, 12:30 Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio


Today, TP4 read and analyzed the first few pages of J.D. Salinger's A Perfect Day for Bananfish.  Students who missed today's class can find this text on the shared Google drive.


Homework: finish reading the text to discuss next class.


Grammar practice: affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences. Summary writing.

12 Outubro 2023, 09:30 Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha


Grammar practice: affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences - checking the answers to the exercise about regular and irregular verbs.

Guidelines on how to write a summary. Writing the summary of the short story "Neighbours" by Paul Theroux.
HOMEWORK: Do the exercise about phrasal verbs from "Neighbours" uploaded onto Moodle. 

Grammar practice: affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences. Summary writing.

11 Outubro 2023, 08:00 Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha


Grammar practice: affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences - checking the answers to the exercise about regular and irregular verbs.

Guidelines on how to write a summary. Writing the summary of the short story "Neighbours" by Paul Theroux.
HOMEWORK: Do the exercise about phrasal verbs from "Neighbours" uploaded onto Moodle. 

Short-story ending- presenting it in class

10 Outubro 2023, 15:30 Daniel Gregg Lopes da Silva


Students presented their story endings.

Feedback session

Discussion of "Neighbours" continued.

10 Outubro 2023, 09:30 Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha


Discussion of "Neighbours" by Paul Theroux continued: (a) oral analysis of the short story; (b) pair/group written answer to one of the questions from page 11 of the Workbook copied & pasted below:

1.   Describe the narrator’s attitude towards the British. Does it seem an appropriate one for a diplomat? How might it affect his judgement?

2.     What role do the Scadutos play in the story? What do they tell us about the narrator, and about Wigley?

3.    The night before Wigley leaves there is an ‘awful racket – boots, bangs, several screams’. What do you think is the reason for this? Revenge? Enjoyment? An attempt to provoke the narrator into a confrontation?