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“After showing a short scene, students might ________________ to imagine they are one of the characters.”
Complete the sentence with the right verb tense.
Complete with the best verb meaning and form:
“The project ____________ at the home of Abdel Hernandez last year, when a group of artists had met to discuss recent episodes of censorship of art exhibitions and they had also thought of possible ways to respond.”
“The cognitive approach was a reaction to the behaviorist features of the audio-lingual approach, influenced by cognitive psychology and Chomskyan linguistics. Cognitive psychology (Neisser, 1967) holds that people do not learn complex systems like language or mathematics through habit formation but through the acquisition of patterns and rules that they can then extend and apply to new circumstances or problems.” On this approach, it is correct the following statement:
Complete with the best adverb: “Never tell her how _____________ butter and cream you use.”
Thinking about teaching methodology, we can reflect that:
I. Language learning is a process of habit formation.
II. It is important for teachers to prevent student error since errors can lead to the formation of bad habits.
III. Students should back out the sentence patterns of the target language.
IV. Positive reinforcement helps students to develop correct habits.
It is correct what it was said in:
Complete with the better modal verb: “Using a phone's speaker option _____________ allow the caregiver to do other tasks while waiting for a response.”
“The experimental tutors may have _____________ like experts in the targeted text since they had been told that they _____________ received instruction while their tutees had not.”
Complete the following sentence with the better phrasal verb according to the meaning in parenthesis: “I don't know why the teacher never (ask someone for an answer in class) you. You always know the answer.”
Todo o vocabulário de uma língua é formado através de alguns processos específicos. Há palavras primitivas, das quais se derivam outras palavras. Há palavras que evoluíram de línguas mais antigas que originaram aquela língua em particular, há misturas entre essas palavras herdadas e outras próprias da língua e há os processos de formação de palavras internos às línguas, que se dão através de derivação e de composição. O estudo da formação das palavras denomina-se morfologia (do grego morphe: morfo = forma + logos = estudo) e demonstra não só a flexibilidade da língua em receber e em criar novos vocábulos, mas as possibilidades do usuário nativo da língua transferir uma palavra de uma categoria a outra através do uso dos mecanismos que permitem essa variação.
Sobre a morfologia a Língua Inglesa, não é verdadeira a afirmação:
As palavras pertencem a categorias chamadas classes de palavras (ou partes do discurso - parts of speech) de acordo com a função que elas desempenham em uma frase.
Sobre as classes de palavras da Língua Inglesa é falso afirmar que:
TEXT II
Like Castles In An Aquarium, Offshore Drilling Platforms Are Sprawling With Residents
Just beneath the ocean’s surface, there’s an unseen world that most people will never have the opportunity to witness firsthand. A place where nature and mankind have struck a balance – a mutual respect, a friendship of sorts.
Offshore drilling platforms have become home to vast communities of sea life. Florid carpets of coral encrust their massive pylons, along with sponge, sea urchins, crabs, and snails. Swimming in the sanctuary of their enormous risers are schools of rockfish, bright orange garibaldi and angel fish. And splashing about on the surface is the occasional sea lion.
Now scientists have confirmed what some had suspected all along. Most of the sea life was actually created at the rig rather than having come from other parts of the ocean and settled there, according to the National Academy of Sciences. And fish that would otherwise perish in vast expanses of open ocean, settle within the safety of the structures.
Like castles in an aquarium, offshore platforms are sprawling with underwater residents. Scientists say these are the richest marine ecosystems on the entire planet. They are even more productive than coral reefs and estuaries, according to marine biologists.
The first thing anyone – trained scientist or casual recreational diver – notices around a rig is the big fish -- lots of them, say marine researchers and divers, alike.
For a decade and a half, researchers used submersibles to survey fish at 16 different platforms. When the researchers tabulated the data, they were surprised to discover that, by one standard, California’s oil rigs are among the most productive marine habitats ever recorded.
At the end of their production, however, the offshore rigs must be decommissioned. Scientific insight is adding momentum to efforts to convert some of these rigs into artificial reefs […].
(From http://thesurge.com/stories/like-castles-aquarium-offshore-drilling-platformssprawling-residents. Accessed July 18th, 2017)
The pronoun “them” in “The first thing anyone – trained scientist or casual recreational diver – notices around a rig is the big fish -- lots of them, say marine researchers and divers, alike” refers to:
TEXT I
Breaking the habit: From oiloholics to e-totallers
What changes in driving habits and improved batteries might do to oil demand
It has been a bad couple of years for those hoping for the death of driving. In America, where cars are an important part of the national psyche, a decade ago people had suddenly started to drive less, which had not happened since the oil shocks of the 1970s. Academics started to talk excitedly about “peak driving”, offering explanations such as urbanisation, ageing baby-boomers, car-shy millennials, ride-sharing apps such as Uber and even the distraction of Facebook.
Yet the causes may have been more prosaic: a combination of higher petrol prices and lower incomes in the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis. Since the drop in oil prices in 2014, and a recovery in employment, the number of vehicle-miles travelled has rebounded, and sales of trucks and SUVs, which are less fuel-efficient than cars, have hit record highs.
This sensitivity to prices and incomes is important for global oil demand. More than half the world’s oil is used for transport, and of that, 46% goes into passenger cars. But the response to lower prices has been partially offset by dramatic improvements in fuel efficiency in America and elsewhere, thanks to standards like America’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), the EU’s rules on CO2 emissions and those in place in China since 2012.
The IEA says that such measures cut oil consumption in 2015 by a whopping 2.3m b/d. This is particularly impressive because interest in fuel efficiency usually wanes when prices are low. If best practice were applied to all the world’s vehicles, the savings would be 4.3m b/d, roughly equivalent to the crude output of Canada. This helps explain why some forecasters think demand for petrol may peak within the next 10-15 years even if the world’s vehicle fleet keeps growing.
Occo Roelofsen of McKinsey, a consultancy, goes further. He reckons that thanks to the decline in the use of oil in light vehicles, total consumption of liquid fuels will begin to fall within a decade, and that in the next few decades driving will be shaken up by electric vehicles (EVs), self-driving cars and car-sharing. […]
(Dated Nov 24th, 2016. From https://www.economist.com/news/specialreport/21710635-what-changes-driving-habits-and-improved-batteries-might-dooil-demand-coming. Accessed July 18th, 2017)
Read the sentences and mark them as TRUE (T) or FALSE (F):
( ) The verb phrase in “driving will be shaken up” is in the passive voice.
( ) There is a false cognate in the phrase “all the world’s vehicles”.
( ) “like” in “standards like America’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy” is a verb.
TEXT I
Breaking the habit: From oiloholics to e-totallers
What changes in driving habits and improved batteries might do to oil demand
It has been a bad couple of years for those hoping for the death of driving. In America, where cars are an important part of the national psyche, a decade ago people had suddenly started to drive less, which had not happened since the oil shocks of the 1970s. Academics started to talk excitedly about “peak driving”, offering explanations such as urbanisation, ageing baby-boomers, car-shy millennials, ride-sharing apps such as Uber and even the distraction of Facebook.
Yet the causes may have been more prosaic: a combination of higher petrol prices and lower incomes in the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis. Since the drop in oil prices in 2014, and a recovery in employment, the number of vehicle-miles travelled has rebounded, and sales of trucks and SUVs, which are less fuel-efficient than cars, have hit record highs.
This sensitivity to prices and incomes is important for global oil demand. More than half the world’s oil is used for transport, and of that, 46% goes into passenger cars. But the response to lower prices has been partially offset by dramatic improvements in fuel efficiency in America and elsewhere, thanks to standards like America’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), the EU’s rules on CO2 emissions and those in place in China since 2012.
The IEA says that such measures cut oil consumption in 2015 by a whopping 2.3m b/d. This is particularly impressive because interest in fuel efficiency usually wanes when prices are low. If best practice were applied to all the world’s vehicles, the savings would be 4.3m b/d, roughly equivalent to the crude output of Canada. This helps explain why some forecasters think demand for petrol may peak within the next 10-15 years even if the world’s vehicle fleet keeps growing.
Occo Roelofsen of McKinsey, a consultancy, goes further. He reckons that thanks to the decline in the use of oil in light vehicles, total consumption of liquid fuels will begin to fall within a decade, and that in the next few decades driving will be shaken up by electric vehicles (EVs), self-driving cars and car-sharing. […]
(Dated Nov 24th, 2016. From https://www.economist.com/news/specialreport/21710635-what-changes-driving-habits-and-improved-batteries-might-dooil-demand-coming. Accessed July 18th, 2017)
The verb phrase in “such measures cut oil consumption” is in the:
Complete in the gap according to the noun.
“__________________________ a pupil at the school will be pleased that Latin is no longer compulsory.” (Martin Hewings)
A lot of people learned the rule that you put “a” before words that start with consonants and “an” before words that start with vowels, but it's actually a bit more complicated than that. Observe the following sentences.
I. A university.
II. Half an hour.
III. An one-parent family.
IV. An historical novel.
Considering grammar, we can say that:
Complete in the gap with a modal or semi-modal used to express permission.
“Anyone was ____________________ to hunt in the woods when the council owned it.”
Choose an expression that it cannot be related to the future from the past.
Complete in the gap with the modal verb or auxiliary verb.
“This is a tricky skill for administrators because they ____________________ successfully predict not what they deem valuable but what stakeholders perceive as valuable.”
Complete in the gap with the best verb, observing on the preposition “after”.
“He's just teasing me for all my questions about his soft side. I couldn't help but _________________ after watching him on The Voice.”
Complete in the gap with the best preposition.
“The aim _____________________ providing cool cleaning water has been conquered.”
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