Oral Presentations

18 Dezembro 2020, 12:30 • Gaile Parkin

EVALUATION: Final session of individual Oral Presentations

The Alternative Exam has two parts:

            Written Exam at the Faculty (60%)

            Oral Exam via Zoom (40%)

Written Exam

Date:               Friday 15 January 2021

Time:               12.30 – 14.00

Room:            10.2

Content:          There are 2 parts: 1) a section from the Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE) Reading & Use of English test paper, and 2) an essay about something that we covered during the course.

Oral Exam via Zoom

Date:               Wednesday 13 January 2021

Time:               by individual half-hour appointment

The oral exam is half an hour for each individual student, via Zoom, and will include 

questions about a variety of subjects that we covered during the course. (You don’t need to prepare an oral presentation.)

If you are planning to do the Alternative Exam, you need to do 3 things:

1)    register for the exam with Academic Services; 

2)    inform me via email that you have registered for the exam;

3)    schedule an appointment with me for the oral component of the exam.

One-to-one discussion with students and final remarks on the semester's work

17 Dezembro 2020, 12:30 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

One-to-one discussion with students and feedback on the semester's work.

Oral Presentation Q&A

17 Dezembro 2020, 12:30 • Gaile Parkin

Group Q&As on oral presentation videos in Session D.

The 12 Days of Christmas

17 Dezembro 2020, 11:00 • David Michael Greer

Final doubts plus work on stress and pronunciation for filmed monologue.The 12 Days of Christmas

Information on the B2.2 Final Exam

The TP 3 (9.30am class) exam will be on Monday 11th January between 9.30 and 11 am in Room 10.2.

The TP 4 (11.00am class) exam will be on Wednesday 13th January between 11.00 and 12.30pm in Room 5.1.

You will have to do two pieces of writing based on texts in our anthology, “Limitations?” If you don't have a copy, ask me as soon as possible. I can send you a pdf. In the exam, you can use “Limitations?” and a good English-English dictionary.

The first piece will be an essay, in which you will have to discuss Sarah Kay’s Commencement Address and Shane Koyczan’s “Visiting Hours” in terms of a particular theme. I will give you the theme on the exam paper.

There will be no minimum or maximum number of words. It is worth 50%.

The second piece will be creative writing based on Dean Furness’ TED Talk. In the talk, he tells his own story, of course. In the exam, you will have to tell the reader about these same events, again in a 1^st person narrative, but from the perspective of one of the people Dean Furness mentions in his talk. I will tell you which person you must ‘be’ on the exam paper. You will, therefore, have to use your imagination and be creative based on what Furness tells us about ‘your’ character. So, for example, you might start your text, “When Dean had his accident, I felt so sorry for him.”

Again, there will be no minimum or maximum number of words. It is worth 50%.

As you see, each piece of writing is worth 50%. So it’s essential that you organise yourself in the exam and give them an equal amount of time (45 minutes each). In my experience, students doing the final exam usually write a good text and a mediocre/bad one, because they haven’t managed their time properly. Don’t let that happen to you.

If you have any doubts, get in touch with me.

Research Project Presentations

16 Dezembro 2020, 14:00 • Paula Alexandra Carvalho Alves Rodrigues Horta

Peer critique and teacher's feedback.