Sumários
Debate
20 Novembro 2017, 14:00 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva
This House believes that a strong dictatorship is better than a weak democracy.
Revision.
20 Novembro 2017, 12:00 • David Michael Greer
Revision: finding connections. Final doubts.
Students' oral presentations
20 Novembro 2017, 10:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta
Peer critique and teacher's feedback.
Lesson 16
16 Novembro 2017, 16:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska
- "Towards a Global Economy" - reading, vocabulary, speaking (p. 54)
- "NPWA" - a song by Billy Bragg (p. 56 + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8P7iFY3d7c)
- "My year of no spending" - reading, vocabulary, speaking (pp. 57-60)
Homework: vocabulary exercises ("Money", extra worksheet) + read "Freedom and Opportunity", p. 55
Vocabulary from the lesson:
- trade unions
- to lay off (workers)
- to cut back social services
- to maximise profits
- to create new jobs
- shares, shareholders
- accountability
- canvassing, to canvass (for votes)
- frugality, frugal
- essentials
- to squander (money, potential)
- utilities
- dire
- a gig
- to hit the shops
- to (not) practice what you preach
- retail therapy
- awkward
- to keep one's resolve
- to splurge
Representations of Home symposium: attendance of Panel 3.
16 Novembro 2017, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal
Panel 3 – Home, Migration and Exile
Chair: Vanessa Castejon
Renes, Martin
Universitat de Barcelona
A Traumatic Sense of Australianness, Home and Belonging: Race, Class and Gender in
Sally Morgan’s Autobiography My Place
Molloy, Caroline
Coventry University
Visualising home: families across borders
Horta, Paula
ULisboa/ULICES
“‘Home’ is certainly and exclusively Africa”