Analyze the statements below:

I. In “new machinery that can convert more than 20 kilos of nylon fishing nets an hour” (l. 12-13), “can” suggests ability.
II. In “It can be used for just about anything” (l. 19-20), “can” suggests permission.
III. In “Falconer could make a nice living” (l. 24), “make” is in its base form because it follows a modal verb.

Which ones are correct?

Analyze the statements below about the text and mark T, if true, or F, if false.

( ) Falconer had the idea for his business because he needed filament for his 3D printer.
( ) Falconer’s first challenge was having access to the fishnets in order to test his idea.
( ) The beads sold by Falconer have a 3% lower carbon footprint than new nylon.

The correct order of filling in the parentheses, from top to bottom, is:

What is Ian Falconer’s next step in expanding his business?

Read the groups of words bellow:
I.executive − summary − export.
II.design − begin − discuss.
III.bug − wonderful − wizard.
Which group or groups of words have the stressed syllable at the end?

Read the following paragraph:
Joseph is a little boy who lives with his parents and his three siblings. His grades at school are not great, because he doesn't spend a lot of time doing his homework or reading at home. Today is Sunday and he hasn't done any school work from the week before. His mother is very upset about it. Still, Joseph wants to go out and play with his friends, so he asks his mother: "Mom, can I please go play football?"
Which of the following options is the most likely answer from his mother?

A company is offering a job vacancy and requests that candidates send their resumés by e-mail. Which of the following is an appropriate way of signing off at the end of the e-mail?

Read the excerpt below from the 1982 short story The body , by Stephen King:
"We had a tree house in a big tree which hung over some empty ground in Castle Rock. It was a kind of club, although it had no name. [...] The sides of the tree house were made out of wood, and the roof was metal we had taken from the dump, looking over our shoulders all the time because the manager of the dump had a dog which ate children for breakfast, or so people said."
According to the text, "because the manager of the dump had a dog which ate children for breakfast" is the answer to which question?

The Cambridge Dictionary defines "idiom" as "a group of words in a fixed order that has a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own". What does the idiom "to bite off more than you can chew" mean?

Which group of words consists only of uncountable nouns?

A second grade teacher decides to work with the book Charlie and The Chocolate Factory , by Roald Dahl, with her students. She asks them to open the book on the first page and tell her the names of the characters from the Bucket family.
In this scenario, what kind of reading strategy is the teacher suggesting that students use?