Sumários

Film screening: Room

25 Outubro 2017, 10:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Homework:

Answer the questions related to the film Room on pp. 59-60.

Lesson 9

24 Outubro 2017, 16:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- Vocabulary review before the test

- Punctuation exercises: the comma

- "Alive and well" - listening, speaking, vocabulary

- Grammar: review of future forms

Vocabulary from the lesson:

Time expressions in the future:
- light years away
- in my lifetime
- a long way off
- just wishful thinking
- just around the corner
- any day now
- in the near future
- before long

- young offenders
- in dire straits

Homework:
studying for the test

1. Feedback on creative writing exercise. 2. Grammar revision.

24 Outubro 2017, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1. Feedback on creative writing exercise. 

2. Grammar revision as part of such feedback:
  • Vocabulary issues;
  • Double negative;
  • Use of the definite article in English;
  • Possessive case;
  • Punctuation: comma;
  • However; (al)though; despite; in spite of.
3. Further practice: short written exercise.

Clumsy Liberal.

23 Outubro 2017, 16:00 • David Michael Greer

Clumsy Liberal. Setting up 3 person discussion.

Grammar focus

23 Outubro 2017, 14:00 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva


Students were given another text from Visão magazine for translation. This second task was more demanding in terms of tense choice, and students were forced to reconsider their approach to the present perfect.