Learning with Big Little Lies

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Sobre o curso

Big Little Lies

follows the dark, complicated lives of three mothers—Madeline, Celeste, and Jane—living in an affluent coastal California town whose seemingly perfect lives unravel into murder.

Instructions:

  1. Watch the clip of the show as many times as possible, first with the subtitles in English only, then, if needed, with the Portuguese subtitles as well. 
  2. While you’re watching, try to undersdand:
    • The context:
      • what are they talking about?
      • what is the problem with the woman?
      • what  is the problem with the man?
      • what are they to each other?
    • The structures they use to express their thoughts and ideas.
    • New words and expressions for you to implement in your vocabulary.

     3. Check the slides to fully understand the dialog.

     4. Do the warm-up activities before watching the videos when studying the modules.

    5. In each module, we’ll analyze the structures of their speech from different perspectives, learning how to communicate in English and stop depending on our Portuguese to know what to say.

   6. Do the quiz after you finish the module to check your understanding and review topics that are still not clear.

   7. As an extra challenge, every time you finish a module, leave a comment using the structures you learned or with examples of the same structures in songs, series, movies, books, etc. Apply the notice technique in your daily life.

   8. Leave in the comments your questions about the topics that you studied.

Modules for this course:

  • Expressions & Vocabulary

  • Prepositions

  • Relative Clauses

  • Suffixes

  • Phrasal Verbs

  • Simple Past

  • Modal Verbs

  • Using “it”

  • Structure

  • Demonstrative Pronouns

  • Curse Words

  • Object Pronouns

  • Imperative

  • There is

  • Comparatives

  • Present Perfect

  • Prefixes

  • Simple Present

  • Gerund

  • Using “one”

  • Pronunciation tips

The challenge is always the same: notice the structures and try to understand what they are talking about.

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O que você aprenderá?

  • Como aplicar a técnica de noticing para aprender estruturas e utilizá-las na sua conversação.

Conteúdo do curso

Watch
Watch the clip with English subtitles only as many times as it takes. Check the slides after watching to fully understand the dialog.

Watch
Watch the clip with English and Portuguese subtitles as many times as it takes. Check the slides after watching to fully understand the dialog.

Expressions & Vocabulary
Let's analyze the new words and expressions. The idea here is that you use them in your daily life!

Prepostions
Let's analyze the use of/lack of prepostions in the structures in their speech.

Phrasal Verbs
Let's learn some new phrasal verbs (two or three words that, when combined, become a new word)!

Simple Past
Observe and Learn the simple past structure.

Using “it”
"It" can be a mystery for many Brazilian speakers, let's analyze together when to use it and learn it once in for all!

Curse Words
Let's learn how to curse in English!

Object Pronouns
Do you know when to use "his" or "him"? or "she" or "her"? Come understand it!

Simple Present
Observe and Learn the simple present structure.

Relative Clauses
Which words to use when you need to connect ideas.

Suffixes
Examples of letters that we can add at the end of a word to change its meaning.

Prefixes
Examples of letters that we can add in the beginning of a word to change its meaning.

Modal Verbs
Do you know what modal verbs are and how to use them? Let's learn some of them based on the examples we see in the clip!

Structure
Most structures are different in English and in Portuguese, that's why when we translate them we often don't get the best results. Come learn a structure that you'll be able to use always the same way and stop depending on the translations!

Imperative
Come learn how to boss people around.

There is / There are
Do you know the difference between "have" and "there is/are"? In this class we'll solve it once and for all!

Comparatives
Come learn how to compare things, when to use "more" e when to use "-er".

Present Perfect
I know, I know, Present Perfect makes we all nervous. Let's see the situations it is used in the context to learn how to use it ourselves!

Gerund (ing)
Let's analyze the scenarios where we can use -ing not referring to Present Continuous.

The One
Did you know the word "one" doesn't mean only "um/uma"?

Demonstrative Pronouns
Do you also get confused when you need to choose between: "this", "that", "these", "those"? Your problems are over!

Pronunciation Tips
Let's pay attention to some pronunciation characteristics of their speech.

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