Text 1 – How children learn languages

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How long does it take to learn a language?

Many different factors affect the time it takes. These include your child’s age, first language, their reason for BLANK I English and their teachers. You can help your child learn quickly by BLANK II them lots of opportunities to use English. It helps to have real reasons for BLANK III a language, rather than just BLANK IV grammar.
Is it true that boys and girls learn languages differently?
Yes. At early ages, girls tend to develop language more quickly. Remember that it’s OK for children to deve... Ver mais

Which of the alternatives below is NOT an example of a correctly written indirect question? 

Which of the sentences below contains a CORRECT version of reported speech? 

Marque a alternativa que estabeleça a correspondência correta entre discurso direto e indireto entre as orações: 

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, reported speech or indirect speech is the act of reporting something that was said, without using exactly the same words. In light of this information, the sentence “We’re going to win that case”, said by Biden, should be, in reported speech,

The Amazon Forest

The Amazon is often called the lungs of the earth and produces 20% of the world’s oxygen. For this reason, many people are trying to stop deforestation in the rainforest. Brazil, for example, is working hard to help the rainforest survive.

A few years ago, the Brazilian government put forward a plan called ARPA (Amazon Region Protected Areas). It had the support of many international agencies, including the World Bank, and the German Development Bank, KfW. The main aim was to build new areas of protected rainforest, maintain areas of the rainforest that hadn’t yet been destroyed, and s... Ver mais