Read the text below and decide which option best fits each gap:

Planetary Artistry

By Johanna Kieniewicz

For me, the highlight of this past week's science news was the images __________ back from the Curiosity rover, providing __________ geologic evidence that water flowed on Mars. Of course, this wasn't exactly a surprise; for decades, planetary scientists have suggested the channel networks visible in spacecraft imagery couldn't have been made by anything else. The evidence has been __________ as well, as various clay minerals and iron oxides have been identified through hyperspectral imagery.
Nonetheless, I suspect that the image of definitely water-lain __________ made the heart of more than one geologist __________ a beat. Ground ... Ver mais

What’s the best answer for: “oral fluency is…”:

Match the sequence of coursebook activities listed below with the uses of coursebook materials:
SEQUENCE OF COURSEBOOK ACTIVITIES:
Uses of coursebook materials:
( ) Involves speaking practice ( ) practices note-taking skills ( ) pre-teaches vocabulary ( ) develops listening for detail ( ) personalizes the topic ( ) brainstorms ideas about the topic ( ) introduces the theme of the lesson ( ) provides language needed to do the activities
The correct sequence is:

Match the examples of teacher’s classroom language with their functions:

Function

A- checking understanding

B- emphasising word stress

C- drilling

D- nominating

E- monitoring

F- eliciting

G- organizing pairwork

Teacher’s classroom language

( ) Listen, I like playing football, repeat everyone, I like playing football.

( ) Maria – collect the books, please.

( ) Tell me three adjectives beginning with the letter “C”.

( ) Just listen to how I say it – poTAtoes.

( ) Okay, discuss it with your partner now, please.

( ) I’m really full, I’ve just eaten a big lunch. Am I hungry now?

( ) Let’s have a look. Yes, that’s great. Now try the next one.

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Match the teacher’s purposes for using students’ first language:

I- Asking students to show they know what to do for homework = used for checking understanding

II- Giving individual written feedback to a weak student = used for explaining procedures

III- Telling a large group of teenagers the rules of a game = used for motivating

IV- Encouraging elementary students to try new ways of learning = used for motivating

Check the correct answer:

It is a good idea to group less able students together so that:

The sound of letter ‘a’ is underlined in the words below. What is the correct sequence that brings the phonemic symbols that would be used in a dictionary entry?
late – player – party – alphabet – island – hard – pizza – grandson – invitation
1. /æ/ 2. /ei/ 3. /?:/ 4. /?/

Observe the following statements regarding to Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL):
I- Learning is improved through increased motivation and the study of natural language seen in context. When learners are interested in a topic they are motivated to acquire language to communicate. II- Language is seen in real-life situations in which students can acquire the language. This is natural language development which builds on other forms of learning. III- Fluency is more important than accuracy and errors are a natural part of language learning. Learners develop fluency in English by using English to communicate for a variety of purposes. IV- CLIL is based on language acquisition focusing severely on learning grammar and sentence structure.
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Read and analyze the following statements, then choose the correct alternative:

Read the statements about Textual Genres and classify them as true (T) or false (F):
( ) According to Mikhail Bakhtin, textual genres are defined mainly by their social function. ( ) Textual genres are texts that are used for a particular reason in a communicative situation to promote a specific interaction. ( ) As they serve the need to communicate, textual genres are transmuted by presenting new forms from existing ones. The email address, for example, is a variation of the letter's communicative function. ( ) Textual genres define what kind of literature will be read by men and what type will be read by women. ( ) A textual genre is any one of the several linear sequences of elements of some specific kind whose combination constitutes a phonological representation.
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