Sumários

Revision finding connections

24 Abril 2018, 16:00 • David Michael Greer

Revision / Summing up connections: comparisons and contrasts.

Revision finding connections

24 Abril 2018, 12:00 • David Michael Greer

Revision / Summing up connections: comparisons and contrasts.

Lesson 16

23 Abril 2018, 14:00 • Katarzyna Dominika Karpowicz Osowska

- "The Model" - a short story by Bernard Malamud (pp. 84-93)

- Oral presentations

Vocabulary from the lesson

Euphemisms:

- no youngster

- to grease sb's palm

- homely

- liquidity crisis

- to let sb go

- to meet one's maker/to kick the bucket/to bite the dust

- hearing impaired

- well-padded

- under the weather

- panhandler

- expecting

- to be getting on

- the happy event

- to sleep together

- to go home in a box

- to powder one's nose

- to have a glass too many

- a sugar daddy

- a late developer

- to put to sleep

Expressions with "about":

- an about-face

- out and about

- to look about

- to bring about

- to beat about the bush

- about time

Revision

23 Abril 2018, 12:00 • Cláudia Rute Canelas Pereira Duarte

Revision: Punctuation, spelling and general proofreading

Digital technology and human relationships

23 Abril 2018, 10:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Discussion about the questions raised concerning the impact of digital technology on human relationships in the chapter "Growing up tethered" and the Ted Talk "Connected but Alone" by Sherry Turkle.