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In a public-school English class, pairs of students receive different versions of a weekly activity schedule. Each student has information missing from the other student's sheet. Without seeing each other's papers, they must ask and answer questions in English to complete the schedules. The activity is consistent with a communicative approach because it: 
Students analyze a poster produced for a school water-saving campaign. It includes the sentence: "As the city campaign reminds us, 'Every drop counts.' At our school, every action counts too."
Analyze the assertions below.
I.The poster shows intertextuality and the presence of more than one discursive voice because it incorporates a statement from another campaign and recontextualizes it for a new communicative situation.
BECAUSE
II.Intertextuality and polyphony occur only when a text reproduces another source through an explicit and formally identified quotation.
Choose the correct alternative.
In a language-awareness activity, students compare the words help, helpful, helpless and unhelpful. They observe how different elements can be added to a base word and how these additions affect meaning and, in some cases, word class. The linguistic process explored in the activity is mainly related to __________.
Choose the alternative that correctly fills in the blank. 
A teacher plans an intercultural unit in which students compare greetings, school routines and forms of politeness in different English-speaking and non-English-speaking contexts. They also discuss how they would describe Brazilian practices to international visitors. Mark T for true and F for false.
(__)Intercultural work can help learners understand that communicative practices are influenced by social and cultural contexts.
(__)Students' own cultural experiences can become resources for interaction in English rather than being excluded in favor of cultures traditionally associated with the language.
(__)Exposure to different accents and varieties should be postponed until students have acquired a stable reference variety, since early variation may interfere with communicative competence.
(__)Comparisons between cultural practices should avoid treating entire national or social groups as if they shared identical behaviors and values.
After analyzing the statements, choose the alternative that presents the correct sequence from top to bottom.
Instead of teaching the verb make as an isolated vocabulary item, a teacher works with expressions found in authentic texts, such as make a decision, make a mistake, make progress and make an effort. Students later classify the combinations and use them in short dialogues. From a lexical approach perspective, this practice is appropriate because: