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Should schools just say no to pupils using phones?

14th July 2024

Natalie Grice – BBC News

“I wouldn’t say it’s a good thing for a child never to have a smartphone. I think it’s part of a balanced life. You’ve got to live in your own time.”

These are not the words you might expect to hear from a teacher at a school that has never in its history allowed pupils under sixth form age to use a mobile phone on the premises.

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Analise a sentença: “We will have finished our new book by the end of the year”. Ela expressa o “tempo futuro”. Assinale a alternativa correta em relação à estrutura.

Analyze the sentence and choose the correct verb tenses respectively:
“Separatist fighters in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have captured a pilot from New Zealand and are holding him hostage after setting fire to his plane, the group said in a statement.” 

A. Read the following excerpt from the book The Great Gatsby and complete with the missing verbs.
“By seven o’clock the orchestra _______________, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums. The last swimmers ______________ in from the beach now and _______________ up-stairs; the cars from New York _______________ five deep in the drive […]” (FITZGERALD, 2011, p. 32-33).
Source: https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Domain/7935/Gatsby_PDF_FullText.pdf Access on March, 20th 2023

Complete the sentence below with the correct verb. Choose the CORRECT answer.
‘Talking to a coworker: “I don’t know if we are going to reach our goal this month.
Last month it was amazing as I ________ 10 cars in total.’’ 

Observe a estrutura verbal a seguir:

• Sujeito + simple future do verbo to have (will have) + o particípio do verbo principal.

A estrutura verbal apresentada acima é a representação de qual tempo verbal? 

The highlighted sentence “You’ll never see me cry” is an example of one of the uses of the simple future: to make promises. Choose the INCORRECT statement about the uses of future tenses. 

Complete the sentence below.
"I X the exam if I Y hard."
Mark the CORRECT alternative that corresponds to X and Y respectively.