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"Despite the excellent salary and benefits, the candidate ________ the job offer because it would require relocating to another country."
(__)The Present Perfect tense is used to describe actions that happened at a specific time in the past, always requiring the use of precise dates like 'last Friday at 2 PM'.
(__)Prefixes and suffixes are used in English to change the meaning or the word class of a base word, such as adding '-ness' to an adjective to form a noun.
(__)The use of modal verbs like 'can', 'must' and 'should' allows the speaker to express different degrees of possibility, obligation and advice in a conversation.
(__)Passive voice is formed by using the verb 'to be' and the past participle of the main verb, focusing more on the action itself than on the person who performed it.
After the analysis, choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence:
Reported Speech, also known as Indirect Speech, involves reporting what someone else said, often requiring changes in tenses, pronouns, and time expressions. Analyze the following statements about backshifting:
I.When reporting a statement made in the Present Simple, the verb usually shifts to the Past Simple if the reporting verb is in the past.
II.The Modal Verb 'must' always remains 'must' in Reported Speech, as it is impossible to express obligation in a reported past context.
III.Time expressions like 'yesterday' are typically changed to 'the day before' or 'the previous day' to maintain the correct chronological reference.
Regarding these statements, select the correct alternative:
The boss said that he had been travelling a lot the previous month.
They said to her that she should take a few days off.
She asked him: "Did you have many problems yesterday?
He said to her: “I saw your sister on the street last night.”
1 – What would you ____________ if you _____________ the accident on the street?
2 – She _________ just left, but he_________ yesterday.
To compensate for a mistake, loss, or bad situation by doing something positive to balance it out, showing you're sorry or fixing a shortcoming, like buying a gift after missing a birthday or working harder to cover missed hours.
Select the alternative that correctly identifies the communicative function expressed by the underlined modal verb in the given context.
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Folklore and fairytales have been examined as effective means for teaching culture in a foreign language because they are an integral part of people’s everyday life. Morain (1997) proposed the idea that folklore is superior to literary writing because it depicts the attitudes of large groups of people. Gholson and Stumpf (2005) believe that folklore might help promote cultural dialogue in which L2 learners gain respect for differences between their native culture and L2 culture, as well as acknowledge the similarities in both cultures. Akpinar and Ozturk (2009) suggest that folklore can be taught in an L2 classroom through an inquiry approach: folklore engages the students in exploring the theme and structure of a folktale, relating these to their L1 background knowledge, and then drawing conclusions about the target culture, its beliefs, values, lifestyles, history, etc.
(DEMA, O., MUELLER, A. J. Teaching culture in the 21st century language classroom. IN: SILDUS, T. (ed.). Published in Touch the World: Selected Papers from the 2012 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Eau Claire: Crown Prints, pp. 75-91. Adaptado)
Read the two excerpts from the text:
“Gholson and Stumpf (2005) believe that folklore might help promote cultural dialogue”.
“Akpinar and Ozturk (2009) suggest that folklore can be taught in an L2 classroom through an inquiry approach.”
In the two excerpts, the bolded modal verbs carry the idea of
Concerning the previous text, judge the following item.
In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the words “themselves at” could be removed from the fragment without altering its overall meaning or affecting its coherence: telecommunications companies are finding the center of this shift.
Because she was correcting homework and planning lessons, Britany went to bed late – and then she overslept!
She had a quick shower but she didn’t have ________ 1 time to put on her makeup. Luckily, she doesn’t wear much anyway, but she had wanted to put on some lipstick at least. Too bad! She made herself a coffee and checked the mail. But ________ 2 , it seemed, had remembered her birthday – except for John and Clare whom she had invited for dinner later in the day.
At school, ________ 3 of her colleagues seemed to have remembered that it was her birthday either and that made her miserable, but at least the children in her second grade class were in a happy mood. It cheered her up, and so every time one of them did ________ 4 good or gave her a correct answer, she gave them a gold star. They loved that. Luckily, she had enough stars so ________ 5 went home with at least one!
When she got home, Britany was still tired, so she lay down to have a bit of rest but she didn’t get much sleep because her parents rang from the UK to wish her a happy birthday. At least _________ 6 had remembered! When she finished the call there was ________ 7 time left for sleeping. She had to get dinner ready.
A few minutes later the doorbell rang. She opened the door. There were a lot of people outside. All of them were wearing party hats! A few of them were carrying plates of food. Most of them were colleagues from her school, but there were many others, too. And then they started to sing ‘Happy Birthday …’.
In: HARMER, Jeremy. Teacher Knowledge: core concepts in English language teaching. Pearson Education limited. Essex, UK: 2012
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