During a reading lesson, the teacher asks students to read a text quickly to identify the main idea of each paragraph. This task focuses mainly on:

In a listening activity, the teacher wants to activate students’ background knowledge before playing the audio. Choose the procedure that best matches this pre-listening aim:

In an 8th-grade speaking lesson, the teacher wants learners to ask for clarification during pair work. Choose the most appropriate classroom expression to model this function:

In English, changing the stressed word can alter the implied meaning of a sentence. Choose the option that expresses the idea that ‘she’ told another person, not the speaker.

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With regard to the expression “half an hour,” how many minutes does this duration represent?

Read the questions and answers below. Choose the alternative that shows the correct associations.

Questions

1 - How was your weekend?

2 - Can you lend me your pen?

3 - When are you leaving for the airport?

4 - Have you finished your homework?

Answers

a. Yes, here you are.

b. Not yet, I’ll do it later.

c. It was great, thanks!

d. In about an hour.

Read the sentences below and choose the alternative that correctly completes them, respectively.
1 - Would you mind ______ the window?
2 - Would you mind ______ a little quieter?
3 - Would you mind ______ me with this exercise?

Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentences, respectively.

1 - Can you meet me for lunch tomorrow?
Sorry, I work ________ Fridays.
2 - Which shoes do you like?
I prefer the red ones. They’re ________ the white ones.
3 - How ________ do you go to the gym?
Twice a week.

Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentence using the Simple Past tense.
They ________ to the beach last weekend.

Choose the word in which the stress falls on the second syllable.