Read the excerpt and choose the CORRECT alternative.

“Then she looked at the homework posted on a special site she created for the students, but she didn’t feel like correcting it.”

The phrasal verb underlined in the excerpt can be translated into Portuguese as 

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Language Assessment and the new Literacy Studies

Some Final Remarks

    Planning language assessment from a structuralist view of language has been a fairly easy task, since it aims at testing the correct use of grammar and lexical structures. This has been a very comfortable way to evaluate students’ performance in many regular schools or language institutes due to the stability of standardized answers. From the perspective of the new literacy studies, the comfort of teaching and assessing objective and homogeneous linguistic contents is replaced by a wider spectrum of language teaching and assessing possibilities, whos... Ver mais

Choose the best option that completes the context:
“Lost-and-founds citywide are practically overflowing with discarded umbrellas - once the rain stops, many Vancouverites ______ leave them behind than lug them home.” 

Instruction: answer question  based on the following text.

Increasing Sustainability in Vacation Rentals Through Home Automation

Consider the following statements about the highlighted words cut down (l. 16):

I. It’s a phrasal verb.

II. It could be substituted by “lower” with no significativ... Ver mais

The phrasal verb put up with can be replaced with similar meaning by:

Complete the sentence using the correct phrasal verb.

Brian started doing a French course, but he __________ after a few weeks. 

Read the following sentences and complete, respectively, with the appropriate phrasal verb.
I. “Our sofa is really old. We need to ___ it.”
II. “After showing James the pie charts and diagrams,
I was finally able to ___ him.” III. “I feel sorry for Andrew. His brother's always ___ him even when he’s done nothing wrong.
IV. If Mel thinks she's going to ___ being late again, she's terribly mistaken!” 

Analyze the sentences according to structure and grammar use.
1. The (‘s) in “The Amazon is often called the lungs of the earth and produces 20% of the world’s oxygen.”, is the contraction for the verb to be (is).
2. In “In order to work in the park, conservationists need a reliable map. However, no map existed, and they didn’t have enough knowledge to make one on their own.”, the underlined pronouns refer to ‘conservationists’
3. The phrasal verb ‘cut down’, in the second paragraph, means to reduce the amount.
4. The negative form of “They came up with the idea of involving local tribes to help them, combining modern and ancient methods to produce a map.” is They didn’t come up with the idea of involving local tribes to help them, combining modern and ancient methods ... Ver mais