Learning Booster + Everyday Issues + Challenge Yourself

Learning Booster + Everyday Issues + Challenge Yourself

Apostila - p. 14 a 16

Question 1 ​

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​Read the following excerpt and complete the table with the right pieces of information.

Apostila - p. 14​

Everyday Issues​

Apostila - p. 14​

​Question 1

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​Go through the following steps and check the ones you believe that people who would like to become a full-time inventor should follow.

Multiple Select

Letter A

• (   ) Quit your job immediately.

• (  ) Don't quit your job just yet.

Multiple Select

Letter B

• Find a mentor

• Learn everything on your own.

Multiple Choice

Letter C

• Develop a thick skin

• Take rejection personally

Question 3

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​Read the excerpt again and, among the phrasal verbs in bold, identify the one that means to...

Multiple Choice

a) keep something carefully/doesn't lose it.

• run something by someone

• dream up

• hold on to something

• work out

Multiple Choice

b) tell somebody something and get their opinion about it.

• set out to do something

• hone in on something

• run something by someone

• dream up

Multiple Choice

c) attempt to do something

• dream up

• work out

• set out to do something

Multiple Choice

d) focus all your attention on something.

• dream up

• hone in on something

• work out

Multiple Choice

e) think of/come up with

• work out

• dream up

​Question 3 - Answers

​a) hold on to something

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b) run something by someone

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c) set out to do something

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d) hone in on something

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e) dream up

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​f) work out

​Challenge Yourself

​Apostila - p. 16

Question 1 

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According to the context of the lines of the characters:

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I. The expression "real estate market" is a reference to the buying and selling houses.

II. The expression "it better" suggests certainty.

III. The phrasal verb "sprouting up" means selling a lot.

IV. The expression "it better" indicates an economic growth.

V. The work "weeds" suggests an undesirable plant growing wild.​

Multiple Choice

Question 1 

I. The expression "real estate market" is a reference to the buying and selling houses.

II. The expression "it better" suggests certainty.

III. The phrasal verb "sprouting up" means selling a lot.

IV. The expression "it better" indicates an economic growth.

V. The work "weeds" suggests an undesirable plant growing wild.

Mark the CORRECT answer:

• a) III and IV are correct.

• b) I and V are correct.

• c) Only IV is correct.

• d) Only III is correct.

• e) II and IV are correct.

Multiple Choice

2. What is true about the phrasal verb in the following statement?

"Thomas Edison was a great inventor. I really look up to him."

• a) It means know

• b) It is intransitive

• c) It is a two-part phrasal verb.

• d) it is separable.

• e) It means admire

Multiple Choice

3. What message is the following cartoon trying to convey?

• a) Tsunamis are caused by humans.

• b) Tsunamis pose to threat to humans.

• c) Tsunamis can be controlled by urbanization.

• d) Humans should learn to block tsunami waves.

• e) Massive urbanization is just as destructive to nature as tsunami are to cities.

Challenge Youself - Answers

​1 - b

2 - e

3 - e