Warning for Next Week

Hey, everybody!

Don't know if you'll check the blog, but it's better to leave the warning anyway...

David asked us to bring Short Stories to class next Tuesday, meaning... November 27th, I think. In case you don't remember, Short Stories were a group of copies available at the University copy shop (or whatever it is called) containing a few short stories of various writers.

So... Don't forget to bring it and to read it. ;)

Maria

Class Summary: November 13

Hi there!
I’m the one chosen to do the summary of Tuesday’s class, so...

We started off with a worksheet, in which we had to correct some mistakes of our self-presentations. David showed us our texts, already online. This was followed by the distribution of a printed, corrected and marked version of those same texts.

If you think you have problems with grammar or writing, go talk to David, because he told us about a nice grammar book that will help us surpass our difficulties.

For those who love theatre, David invited us to go watch a play called “The Virtuoso” (I searched about it and found this: http://lazer.publico.clix.pt/artigo.asp?id=186533) and told us to let him know if we’re interested or not.

Before the end of the class, we did exercises 1, pages 32 and 33. Finally, we discussed what women and men look for in a person: physical or psychological characteristics? Or both?

The last subject, to end up this summary, was about giving our opinion in what concerns our sociability: are we sociable nowadays? Do we (like to) go out with our friends? Or do we rather stay at home, chatting with them on the Internet?

That’s it, I think. :X
See you next Thursday!

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Sara Santos *

Class Summary: 30/10/07

Hello!

I don't know if I'm supposed to do this for this lesson, but whatever.

We started the class with exercises 1 and 2 on page 53 of the coursebook. Then we did the Speaking exercise on page 52 and talked about writing as well as reading.

We went on talking about the differences between men and women when it comes to reading and writing and David distributed two articles about that subject.

We pretty much spent the class talking about interesting issues. In English, of course. =P

Maria

Class Summary: 25/10/07

I'm not very good at summaries, because I have the memory of a fish, but I'll do my best.

The class was about movies and we started with a few exercises about Girl With a Pearl Earring on pages 130 and 131. While we were doing them, we were focused on movie-related vocabulary.

Then we worked together in pairs and chose a movie of our preferences to introduce to the class. And, well, we pretty much spent the rest of the time talking about movies.

Near the end, David showed us the content of the coursebook CD and a few more websites.

For more "official" information, check out http://englishateight.blogspot.com .

Maria

A Few Links to Explore

The Internet is a nice and democratic place (so far, anyway) and there are always refreshing links to surprise us.

David knows a few ones and he would like us to explore them and well, why not?

Here they are:

- http://www.freerice.com - the one we talked about in class, where we donate rice by training our vocabulary (who would ever think of that? xD)

- http://www.macmillanenglish.com/straightforward/ - a website with activities related to our coursebook

Go and try them out, always good for our english. =)

Maria