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 textLesson 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.