Sumários

What is Love?

10 Outubro 2016, 10:00 • David Michael Greer

Marking pronunciation.

Working on What is Love? texts

Discussion of set novel and oral presentations

10 Outubro 2016, 08:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins

Discussion of students impressions of the set novel The Hopeless Life of Charlie Summers and of the oral presentations they will make on the novel.

Also discussion of longer oral presentation - format and content. Student selected the dates and groups for their presentations.

Asked students to read the newspaper review of Paul Theroux's book Deep South,  "Why is Trump so popular? Visiting the south gave one writer some clues?" on pages 51-54 of course manual.

Lesson 6

6 Outubro 2016, 16:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "Soon I'll be 60 years old..." - a song + writing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jErJimwom94)

- "The Model" - a short story by Bernard Malamud (pp. 46-55)

Homework: "Ways to improve the lives of old people in Portugal" - an essay (ca. 400 words, due: 13 October)

Vocabulary from the lesson:

- an about-face
- to bring about
- to beat about the bush

- to grease sb's palm
- homely
- liquidity crisis
- to let sb go
- to meet one's maker
- to pass away
- under the weather
- to powder your nose
- to spend a penny
- well-padded
- a shotgun wedding

Feriado nacional.

5 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Feriado nacional.

No Lesson Public Holiday

5 Outubro 2016, 14:00 • David Michael Greer

No Lesson Public Holiday