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Which of the alternatives below has the correct
explanation for the use of the word "would"?
Read the following excerpt from Mark Twain's The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876):
"His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh. 'Hang the boy, can't I never learn anything? Ain't he played me tricks enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time ? But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my goodness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know what's coming?'"
The quote "Can't learn an old dog new tricks" is an idiom in English language and it means:
"His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh. 'Hang the boy, can't I never learn anything? Ain't he played me tricks enough like that for me to be looking out for him by this time ? But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is. But my goodness, he never plays them alike, two days, and how is a body to know what's coming?'"
The quote "Can't learn an old dog new tricks" is an idiom in English language and it means:
Read the following excerpts, from well known books in
English language:
1."We had a hot supper on the occasion, graced by the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with. We were all very low, and none the higher for pretending to be in spirits." (Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens).
2."The surgeon deposited it in her arms. She imprinted her cold white lips passionately on its forehead; passed her hands over her face; gazed wildly round; shuddered; fell back-- and died. They chafed her breast, hands, and temples; but the blood had stopped forever". (Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens)
3."Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and the baronet played écarté afterwards. The butler brought me my coffee into the library, and I took the chance to ask him a few questions". (The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Doyle).
In every quote, a false cognate can be found. Which ones are they?
1."We had a hot supper on the occasion, graced by the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with. We were all very low, and none the higher for pretending to be in spirits." (Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens).
2."The surgeon deposited it in her arms. She imprinted her cold white lips passionately on its forehead; passed her hands over her face; gazed wildly round; shuddered; fell back-- and died. They chafed her breast, hands, and temples; but the blood had stopped forever". (Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens)
3."Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and the baronet played écarté afterwards. The butler brought me my coffee into the library, and I took the chance to ask him a few questions". (The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Doyle).
In every quote, a false cognate can be found. Which ones are they?
Read the groups of words bellow:
I.Basically ? medicine ? calculator.
II.Accurate ? democracy ? translation.
III.Comfortable ? wardrobe ? technique.
Which group or groups of words have the stressed syllable at the beginning?
Consider the following paragraph, by the author Holger
Pötzsch (2019):
"Fresh funds for new devices, in the long run, implies less funding for traditional activities (...). What is often lacking is a critical debate about the actual need for and overall long-term costs of new technologies, about possible alternatives, and about the global human and ecological implications of these large-scale investments in high-tech equipment and the significant resources they require. (...) The demand for new skill sets for teachers or the inclusion of new subjects to be taught such as informatics or programming imply a cutting of teaching hours and content in different areas".
Which of the following aspects of foreign language teaching methodologies are exemplified in the sentence?
"Fresh funds for new devices, in the long run, implies less funding for traditional activities (...). What is often lacking is a critical debate about the actual need for and overall long-term costs of new technologies, about possible alternatives, and about the global human and ecological implications of these large-scale investments in high-tech equipment and the significant resources they require. (...) The demand for new skill sets for teachers or the inclusion of new subjects to be taught such as informatics or programming imply a cutting of teaching hours and content in different areas".
Which of the following aspects of foreign language teaching methodologies are exemplified in the sentence?
