One of the most _______ stories of the Russian Revolution concerns the identity of Anastasia
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Choose the correct answer to complete the phrases
1- I'm too tired to go on at the moment. I am going to put my feet __ for a few minutes.
2- I have too much work these days, I would like to put this matter __ your hands.
3- Your shirt and your trousers are on the chair, you should put them __ in the cupboard.
4- It's raining cats and dogs, you should take your umbrella and put __ your raincoat.
Which method of teaching is it?
[…] is a method of language teaching developed by Stephen Krashen and Tracy Terrell in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It aims to foster naturalistic language acquisition in a classroom setting, and to this end it emphasizes communication, and places decreased importance on conscious grammar study and explicit correction of student errors.
Choose the correct word to complete each sentence.
1. Cars are expensive, but houses are (a) cheaper than cars/ (b) more expensive than cars.
2. Dave is 27 years old. His sister is older (a) than he is/ (b) than he does.
3. The white coat is warmer (a) then/ (b) than the gray one.
4. The food at Joe's cafe is (a) as good as/ (b) better that the food at Chez Claude,
Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, adverbs themselves or a noun. To understand and to have a more complete understanding of what the speaker meant we need to complete with one of the adverbs. Which one would be the only one to fit better? Take into account the word order as well. The sun ________ shines ________.
Britain's Roman Villas
Numerous monuments recall the 400 or so years when Britain was part of the Roman Empire. Ancient city walls, old roads, front defenses. But it is at the villas that one feels closest to the everyday life of Roman Britain.
The villas were homes. In their kitchens bread was baked. Along their corridors echoed family conversations. They were well built and handsomely decorated. The first villa was built around A.D. 80-90. It was a small farm. Later on the house was extended, kitchens and baths were added.
It is known that many villas were destroyed by fire. Their ruins remain hidden for years and it is often by accident that the site is discovered.
So in Hampshire a number of oyster-shells were found by a farmer, and the shells, remnants of a long-ago feast, led to the discovery of the villa at Rockbourne.
Available at: http://englishstandarts.blogspot.com/2012/06/passive-voice-texts-proverbs-and.html. Access in: 22/06/2018.
The text was written mainly in the past, therefore we can also see many times the passive voice in it. How many times can you count the passive voice in the passage above?
No livro Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, o autor cita teorias de aprendizado, tipos de aprendizado e outros processos. Das opções abaixo, assinale a que corresponde a um problema relacionado, e às vezes controverso, nas pesquisas de aquisição de um segundo idioma:
The word “True” in “True, many tools and management practices associated with the NPM” has the same function as
Based on the meanings of the words in the text, it can be said that
The fragment “Banks simplify people’s lives, but the business of banking is anything but simple” (lines 2-3) means that banking is a(n)
The word them in “people often use them to mean the same thing" (paragraph 2) refers to
“Recycling saves energy __________ less energy is used to recycle than to turn new raw materials into new products."
What is the best word to complete this sentence? (paragraph 5)
