Sumários

"The Culture of Fear" by Lars Svendsen

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

Reading and discussion of the central concerns of the chapter "The Culture of Fear".

Video screening: Lars Svendsen: The Philosophy of Fear

Lesson 4

28 Setembro 2017, 16:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "The Time-Sweepers" - a short story by Ursula Wills-Jones

- Nine things you need to know about English verbs - exercises

- "Time" - a song by Pink Floyd

Vocabulary from the lesson:

- overalls

- bank holiday

- backlog

- shabby

- a mosque

- to fritter away time/money

Preparation and presentation of role play.

28 Setembro 2017, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1. TEXT 2 - “Six Shorts”, Freeman’s: Best New Writing on Home, ed. Jonathan Freeman, 2017, pp. 9-13: class discussion followed by group work:

1.1. Peers' feedback on draft of HW assignment;

1.2. Preparation of a role play involving the cousin who left and the cousin who stayed back home;

1.3. Presentation of role play.

Things to Remember

27 Setembro 2017, 16:00 • David Michael Greer

Final intros.

Obvious reasons for FLUL success and failure.

Cowboys and Angels- Film 1

27 Setembro 2017, 14:00 • Tânia Joesephine Gregg Lopes da Silva

Open discussion on the main themes of the film in class. Students were given random paragraphs of a text describing the political and social situation in Ireland at the turn of the century. After putting the excerpts into the correct order, the text was read and discussed in class. Students were then given a set of reviews of the film from a variety of sources for analysis and discussion of the techniques employed in the writing of film reviews.