After the father asks, “Couldn’t Calvin be left for a couple hours unsupervised?”, the parents immediately burst into laughter. This reaction suggests that:

In English pronunciation, the definite article “the” has two possible pronunciations: 

• • It is pronounced /ðə/ (“thuh”) before consonant sounds. 
• • It is pronounced /ðiː/ (“thee”) before vowel sounds. 

Choose the alternative in which “the” must be pronounced /ðiː/ in all the expressions below.

A teacher in the final years of lower secondary education organizes lessons around real-life situations. Students work in small groups to investigate a problem, collect information, discuss possible solutions, and present their findings to the class. The teacher acts mainly as a facilitator, guiding the process rather than delivering long explanations. 

This description best represents which teaching approach?

The base verbs below are all regular verbs: 

• I. to play 
• II. to study 
• III. to stop 
• IV. to travel 

Choose the alternative in which all the verbs are correctly written in the Simple Past tense, respectively.

In the Simple Past tense, the ending -ed can be pronounced as /t/, /d/, or /ɪd/. 

Choose the alternative in which all the verbs have their -ed ending pronounced as /t/.

Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentences below with the appropriate prepositions, respectively. 

• I. She is waiting ___ the bus stop. 
• II. There is a clock ___ the wall. 
• III. My sister works ___ a hospital.

Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentence. The correct answer must be a possessive pronoun that replaces the noun and avoids repetition. 

That house is not ours; it is ______.

Choose the alternative that correctly completes the sentence. The correct answer must express the idea of formal prohibition. 

Employees ______ enter the restricted area without proper authorization.

Select the alternative that correctly completes the sentence. The office closes ______ midnight.

Select the alternative that correctly completes the sentence. She ______ to Paris three times since 2020.