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This person sleeps 3-4 hours a night.
Who is Sara?
This crashed in October 1929.
What is the stock market?
Most scientists agree that the cause of climate change is ...
What is human activity?
Define work.
Something similar to - What is an activity somebody does to add value to a society community, or oneself in exchange for compensation (money, values, self-esteem)?
Basil is (a/an) herb. It has a wonderful flavor.
What is "an"?
Students receive a Certificate of Attendance if they have this.
What are 2 or fewer absences over the cycle? / Excellent attendance
This is a dry period (without rain or other precipitation).
What is a drought?
Greenhouse gases cover the planet like a big... This traps more greenhouse gases because they can't escape into space.
What is a blanket?
During this time period, mass production created new factories and new workers.
Make a compound sentence:
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) generated electricity in rural areas. People could have better living conditions.
What is - The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) generated electricity, so people could have better living conditions?
Which goal is more RELEVANT? "I need English at work so that I can speak at meetings" OR "I want to become more fluent and articulate in English."
What is "I need English at work so that I can speak at meetings"?
These towns sprang up in many large cities, the largest one was located in the middle of Central Park.
What are Hoovervilles?
This is the amount of carbon dioxide each of us produces with every action we take.
What is carbon footprint?
This work-related idiom means to resume one's daily work, often unhappily.
What is, "go back to the salt mines"?
Next week we need to (make/do) an offer on the apartment.
What is "make"?
One of these is NOT a characteristic of a good language learner: 1) has motivation, 2) makes guesses, 3) makes mistakes, 4) sets goals without a deadline, 5) takes advantage of all practice opportunities
What is "sets goals without a deadline"?
Complete the sentence: The Civilian Conservation Corps ended because of...
What is World War II?
Find the preposition in this sentence: Whales make the longest migrations known among mammals.
What is "among"?
Compare American culture to Japanese culture using the adjective, "direct."
Japanese culture is less direct than American culture. / American culture is more direct than Japanese culture.
Reverse the order of clauses and change the words in parenthesis.
We can save the planet (only if) people are willing to change. (provided that)
Provided that people are willing to change, we can save the planet.
Related to scientific strategies that help increase your learning, research tells us that THIS will increase attention, stimulate new neurons, and help in memorization of new information.
What is exercise?
This New Deal program produced new infrastructure in the U.S. in the form of roads, public buildings, parks, bridges, and airports and provided work to construction workers, artists, writers, and educators.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
The U.N. calls this one of the "lungs of the Earth."
What is the ocean? / What are the oceans?
Give an example of an important issue workers face today.
various answers could include: unemployment, discrimination, corruption, salary, work conditions
Make the verbs present perfect continuous and present perfect respectively- Laura (shop) all morning. She (spend) $500 so far.
What is, "has been shopping" and "has spent"?