Sumários
Writing opinion essay
24 Outubro 2016, 08:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Returned students' corrected film reviews and/or blog articles - discussed corrections individually with students and arranged for students to returned their corrected versions together with the original assignment in 2 weeks (7th Nov).
Corrects students' paragraphs on "Why the Arts are Important"
Joined students' paragraphs to form an appropriate opinion essay.- joint effort left in red copy shop so students have an example of an appropriate opinion essay.
Lesson 10
20 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska
- Test 1
- "Stephen Fry's guide to the UK" - a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7cFXSDN_5k)
- "National traits" - reading, vocabulary, speaking (pp. 76-77)
- "Reddit users list their favourite British words and phrases" - reading (p. 78)
- British slang (pp. 79-80)
- Little Britain? - a video (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x28xy5_little-britain-vicky-pollard-on-sch_fun)
Vocabulary from the lesson:
- aloof
- devious
- self-effacing
- meticulous
- endearing
- staggering
- curtain twitching
- road rage
- against all odds
- nippy
- borstel
- a tearaway
(Slang:)
- to nick
- gutted
- dodgy
- the bee's knees
- nosh/grub
- knackered
- jammy
- fit
- ta
- two sandwiches short of a picnic
- gutted
- dodgy
- the bee's knees
- nosh/grub
- knackered
- jammy
- fit
- ta
- two sandwiches short of a picnic
Grammar revision and consolidation: past tenses.
19 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal
1. Grammar revision and consolidation: simple past; present perfect; past participle. Contrastive usages.
2. Sally Morgan, My Place, 1987 (excerpt): story and register.