Sumários

Dear Mariela

24 Outubro 2016, 10:00 David Michael Greer

Group work on various texts - discussion


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 


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.


The Icingbus

19 Outubro 2016, 14:00 David Michael Greer

The Icingbus

intro Reading and discussion