Sumários

5-minute Debates (I)

11 Outubro 2024, 12:30 • Ana Rita Martins

Five-minute debates

  • This House would ban greenwashing.
  • This House believes we are on a downroad spiral.
Class Discussion.

Narrative Writing - the basics

10 Outubro 2024, 14:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP4 looked at the basics of Narrative Writing.


Students who missed today's class should go through the PowerPoint of the same name which has been uploaded onto the shared Google drive.

Next class: we will begin reading Margaret Atwood's True Trash.

News analysis

10 Outubro 2024, 08:00 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

Students read a newspaper article taken from the Guardian newspaper (uploaded onto Moodle) and prepared an analysis in preparation for the oral presentations of recent news articles

Lesson 7

9 Outubro 2024, 17:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "There is nothing quite as wonderful as... money!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qorQThE0BSY) 


- "My year of no spending" - an article 

- "Less stuff, more happiness" - a TED talk by Graham Hill 

- Grammar: The perfect aspect 

DYLAN’S PROTEST SONGS 2

8 Outubro 2024, 15:30 • Gaile Parkin

Presentation on the life and assassination of Medgar Evers.

Viewing of the trailer of the film Ghosts of Mississippi, the film about the killing of Medgar Evers.

Listening to Dylan’s song about Evers, ONLY A PAWN IN THEIR GAME, sung on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the march on Washington.

Listening to two more Dylan protest songs – THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ and BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND – each followed by small-group discussion and whole-group feedback.