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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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Choose the alternative that best explains the sentence below.
The audience said: "Bravo! Well done, guys!"
“Your friend is traveling abroad for the first time and she is very excited about it.
What do you say to her?”
The _________ is on the corner of Maple and River Street.”
Read this extract about accuracy when teaching English as a foreign language.
(I) To achieve accuracy some attention to form, i.e. to ‘getting it right’, is needed.
(II) Practice activities aimed at form are important to enhance automatisation of the system as well as to build precision at applying the linguistic system.
(III) So accuracy requires attention to form and time to process it in order to attend different students’ needs.
(IV) After all, being familiar with the language that they are learning and being able to use it can help develop fluency.
Choose the alternative that refers to the only sentence that can be omitted in the text.
Examine the conditional sentence presented in the comic strip "Hägar the Horrible" and choose its proper function:
A figure of speech is a word or phrase that means something more or something other than it seems to say - the opposite of a literal expression. (By Richard Nordquist/ updated on May 30, 2019).
" The flames creep, flap, leap, swing, and flare." (Goldind, "Lord of the Flies", chapter 2). In the emphasized extract of Lord of the Flies, there is:
In India, people have caught monkeys by setting out a small box with a tasty nut in it. There is an opening in the box large enough for the monkey to thrust in his hand, but too small for him to withdraw it once his clutched the nut. When the monkey has grabbed the prize, he must either let go and regain his freedom or keep hold and stay trapped.Most monkeys hold onto the nut, making it easy for hunters to pick them up. People have been known to get caught in the same kind of trap. The person who puts the goodie in the box controls the person who grabs it, but if we are willing to let go of the goodies, we are free of control.
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The text says that in India people have caught monkeys, since monkeys can not get a nut from a small box and are easily grabbed. Considering our background knowledge that in India people eat monkeys, the general idea of the text after a quick view on it, without worrying about the details of it, is related to the following reading strategy:
Come to Center Parcs
Center Parcs is the perfect family holiday. There are four of them in England and you can do almost anything you want there.
If it’s exercise you want, you can go walking or cycling through the forest. There are also adventure sports like windsurfing. If you are a team player, you can play basketball, tennis, or football. But if you prefer a quieter life, you can do Tai Chi or yoga in the gym, or go swimming in the numerous swimming pools. And if you do not like doing exercise at all, you can learn to paint in the art class or just sit in the coffee shop and relax.
Centers Parcs is not only for adults; children enjoy it as much as their parents. Mothers and fathers can relax in the sauna or play golf, while babies and small children play with their friends in the Time Out clubs. There is something for everyone at Center Parcs.
Come to Center Parcs
Center Parcs is the perfect family holiday. There are four of them in England and you can do almost anything you want there.
If it’s exercise you want, you can go walking or cycling through the forest. There are also adventure sports like windsurfing. If you are a team player, you can play basketball, tennis, or football. But if you prefer a quieter life, you can do Tai Chi or yoga in the gym, or go swimming in the numerous swimming pools. And if you do not like doing exercise at all, you can learn to paint in the art class or just sit in the coffee shop and relax.
Centers Parcs is not only for adults; children enjoy it as much as their parents. Mothers and fathers can relax in the sauna or play golf, while babies and small children play with their friends in the Time Out clubs. There is something for everyone at Center Parcs.
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