Sumários

Tea with Teachers to Speed Dating

8 Março 2016, 10:00 David Michael Greer

Present Perfect English teachers + Some advice about the texts. Setting up speed dating.

Guardian text


Lesson 7

7 Março 2016, 14:00 Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- Self-awareness - speaking (pp. 80-81)

- "Group psychology" -  listening, reading, vocabulary (pp. 96-97)

-"What's on your mind?" - listening + role play + key langauge: giving and reacting to advice (pp. 36-37)

-  Homework: Self-awareness questionnaire - p.82 + review the plot of "Hamlet"

Vocabulary from the lesson:

  • to thrive on (e.g. pressure)

  • painstaking

  • conscientious

  • (to worrry) unduly

  • to dwell on (e.g. technicalities)

  • to get on with sb

  • to fall out with sb

  • to put up with sb/sth

  • to get down to sth/doing sth

  • an agony aunt

  • a radio phone-in programme



Debating techniques

7 Março 2016, 12:00 Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

Debating techniques (4/15)



Students were given the techniques for formal debating and divided into teams to discuss the following theme:



This House believes that the idea of a United Europe is utopic.


These techniques are also to be applied to discursive texts.


Reading "Fear and Trust" and "Beyond Fear" by Lars Svendsen

7 Março 2016, 10:00 Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Group and class discussion about the central ideas in each chapter.


NB: In-class essay to be written on Wednesday.


Our Favourite Verb Tense

3 Março 2016, 16:00 David Michael Greer

Present Perfect