Sumários

Class cancelled - extra Zoom session

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

This class was cancelled. A zoom lesson will take place on Saturday 19 October at 10 am:

What is Descriptive Writing?

30 Setembro 2024, 14:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today, TP4 began to look at the basics of descriptive writing.  Students who missed today's class should consut the PowerPoint entitled Descriptive Writing which they can find in the shared Google drive.  (They should read up to and including slide 9).

Next class: we will continue to look at descriptive writing.

Persuasive and Argumentative Language (I)

30 Setembro 2024, 12:30 • Ana Rita Martins

Persuasive and Argumentative Language

  • Discussion: what is debating?
  • Persuasive language techniques
  • In-class exercises

Lesson 4

27 Setembro 2024, 17:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "How to give a killer presentation" - reading 

- "Taking imagination seriously" - a TED talk by Janet Echelman

- Grammar: The continuous aspect 

ANALYSING SONG MEANINGS

27 Setembro 2024, 15:30 • Gaile Parkin

Introduction to basic discourse analysis as applied to song lyrics.

Small group work: discourse analysis of IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE.

Homework: Read “Where are you going, where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates.

Tutorial/4th hour work: Listen to Dylan’s songs DON’T THINK TWICE, IT’S ALRIGHT (cover by Ed Sheeran) and LIKE A ROLLING STONE (cover by The Rolling Stones).