About your play

1 Março 2016, 16:00 • David Michael Greer

Intro mistakes

About your play + Ideas

“I love you” stress?

About your play

1 Março 2016, 12:00 • David Michael Greer

Intro mistakes.

About your play + Ideas 

“I love you” stress?.

About your play

1 Março 2016, 10:00 • David Michael Greer

Intro mistakes.

About your play + Ideas

“I love you” stress?).

Lesson 5

29 Fevereiro 2016, 14:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- Warm-up: A film quote quiz

- "The Model" - a short story by Bernard Malamud (pp. 141-146)

- Writing an opinion-led essay - exercises (pp. 99-110)

- Homework: write a ca. 350-word long essay on one of the following topics: - "Old age is a curse", or - "A good education is a key to a successful life" (deadline: 7 March 2016)

Vocabulary from the lesson:

Euphemisms/Idioms (see pp. 143-144):
- to grease sb's palm
- homely
- liquidity crisis
- to let sb go
- to meet one's maker
- hearing impaired
- well-padded
- under the weather
- a panhandler
- expecting

Expressions with "about" (p. 145):
- to be out and about
- to look about
- an about-face
- to bring about
- (not) to beat about the bush
- about time

Fish Tank

29 Fevereiro 2016, 12:00 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

Students were given a hand-out with a review based on Mia's character in the film in order to see the type of information that should be included in a character profile.

Students then wrote a review of the performance of Michael Fassbender who plays Connor in the film.