Questões de Concurso Sobre discurso direto e indireto | reported speech em inglês

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Q3180330 Inglês
Discourse markers play a fundamental role in achieving textual coherence by linking ideas and signaling relationships between them. However, their function often depends on the context in which they are used. Analyze the sentences below and select the option where the discourse marker's function is misinterpreted:
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Q3180326 Inglês

O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão. 


Duct-taped banana artwork sells for $6.2m in NYC


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Maurizio Cattelan's provocative artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall has fetched $6.2m (£4.9m) at Sotheby's in New York - four times higher than pre-sale estimates.


The auction house says Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun outbid six other rivals to get the "Comedian" installation of the Italian visual artist on Wednesday.


"In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience," Mr Sun was quoted as saying.


The taped banana - now perhaps one of the most expensive fruits ever sold - was actually bought earlier in the day for a mere $0.35, according to the New York Times.


"Comedian" was first unveiled to the public in 2019, instantly becoming a viral sensation and also provoking heated debates about what art is.


The installation - which has travelled around the world - comes with instructions on how to replace the banana whenever it rots.


 In fact, the fruit has been eaten not once, but twice.


In 2023, a South Korean art student helped himself when the installation went on display at Seoul's Leeum Museum of Art.


The museum later placed a new banana in the same spot, local media reported.


Four years earlier, a performance artist pulled the banana from the wall after the artwork was sold for $120,000 at Art Basel in Miami.


The banana was swiftly replaced, and no further action was taken.


Justin Sun runs the Tron blockchain network, which facilitates some cryptocurrency transactions. Last year the US Securities and Exchange Commission accused him of fraud, saying he had falsely inflated trading volumes of TRX, Tron's crypto token. Mr Sun denies the charges.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy87202v43no

How would the sentence "In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience," be correctly converted into indirect speech? 
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Q3180325 Inglês

O texto seguinte servirá de base para responder à questão. 


Duct-taped banana artwork sells for $6.2m in NYC


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Maurizio Cattelan's provocative artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall has fetched $6.2m (£4.9m) at Sotheby's in New York - four times higher than pre-sale estimates.


The auction house says Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun outbid six other rivals to get the "Comedian" installation of the Italian visual artist on Wednesday.


"In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience," Mr Sun was quoted as saying.


The taped banana - now perhaps one of the most expensive fruits ever sold - was actually bought earlier in the day for a mere $0.35, according to the New York Times.


"Comedian" was first unveiled to the public in 2019, instantly becoming a viral sensation and also provoking heated debates about what art is.


The installation - which has travelled around the world - comes with instructions on how to replace the banana whenever it rots.


 In fact, the fruit has been eaten not once, but twice.


In 2023, a South Korean art student helped himself when the installation went on display at Seoul's Leeum Museum of Art.


The museum later placed a new banana in the same spot, local media reported.


Four years earlier, a performance artist pulled the banana from the wall after the artwork was sold for $120,000 at Art Basel in Miami.


The banana was swiftly replaced, and no further action was taken.


Justin Sun runs the Tron blockchain network, which facilitates some cryptocurrency transactions. Last year the US Securities and Exchange Commission accused him of fraud, saying he had falsely inflated trading volumes of TRX, Tron's crypto token. Mr Sun denies the charges.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy87202v43no

In the sentence, "The installation - which has travelled around the world - comes with instructions on how to replace the banana whenever it rots," what is the function of the discourse marker "whenever"?
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Q3173649 Inglês
What is the primary advantage of using discourse analysis in foreign language writing instruction?
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Q3163580 Inglês
Transform the sentence into indirect speech:
"I will call you tomorrow," she said. 
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Q3131218 Inglês


Tom Gauld. The narrator. Internet: <theguardian.com>.



According to the previous comic strip, judge the items that follow. 


The two sentences in the first panel compose, together, an example of reported speech. 

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Q3128398 Inglês
Which of the following sentences CORRECTLY converts the direct speech into reported speech with all necessary changes in tense, pronouns, and time expressions? Direct Speech:
"I have been working on this project for two weeks, but I can't finish it before next Monday because my colleagues aren't helping me," John explained yesterday.
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Q3119910 Inglês

Escolha a opção correta que transforma a frase direta em discurso indireto, levando em consideração a mudança de tempo verbal, pronomes e outros elementos. 


He said, "I have been working on this project for weeks, and I will finish it tomorrow." He __________ on the project for weeks and __________ it the next day.

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Q3101539 Inglês

Reading skill will help you to improve your understanding of the language and build your vocabulary.

Social Media Across Generations

Today’s grandparents are joining their grandchildren on social media, but the different generations’ online habits couldn’t be more different. In the UK the over-55s are joining Facebook in increasing numbers, meaning that they will soon be the site’s second biggest user group, with 3.5 million users aged 55-64 and 2.9 million over-65s.

Sheila, aged 59, says, I joined to see what my grandchildren are doing, as my daughter posts videos and photos of them. It’s a much better way to see what they’re doing than waiting for letters and photos in the post. That’s how we did it when I was a child, but I think I’m lucky I get to see so much more of their lives than my grandparents did.

Ironically, Sheila’s grandchildren are less likely to use Facebook themselves. Children under 17 in the UK are leaving the site – only 2.2 million users are under 17 – but they’re not going far from their smartphones. Chloe, aged 15, even sleeps with her phone. It’s my alarm clock so I have to she says. I look at it before I go to sleep and as soon as I wake up.

Unlike her grandmother’s generation, Chloe’s age group is spending so much time.......... their phones.......... home that they are missing out on spending time with their friends in real life. Sheila, on the other hand, has made contact with old friends from school she hasn’t heard...................40 years. We use Facebook to arrange to meet all over the country, she says. It’s changed my social life completely.

Teenagers might have their parents to thank for their smartphone and social media addiction as their parents were the early adopters of the smartphone. Peter, 38 and father of two teenagers, reports that he used to be on his phone or laptop constantly. I was always connected and I felt like I was always working, he says. How could I tell my kids to get off their phones if I was always in front of a screen myself? So, in the evenings and at weekends, he takes his SIM card out of his smartphone and puts it into an old-style mobile phone that can only make calls and send text messages. I’m not completely cut off from the world in case of emergencies, but the important thing is I’m setting a better example to my kids and spending more quality time with them.

The indirect speech of the sentence “It’s my alarm clock so I have to she says” (3rd paragraph from the text), can be found in which alternative?
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Q3076884 Inglês
All sentences below refer to indirect speech, EXCEPT: 
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Q3071294 Inglês
What the Paris Olympics opening ceremony really meant

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games traditionally offers the host city the opportunity to celebrate sporting excellence and international unity while also presenting to the world a flattering portrait of its own nation, informed by its own culture. [...]

[...] Entitled ‘Ça ira’ (‘It’ll be all right’), the show garnered mixed reviews in the French press. It was described variously as magical or catastrophic, as an astonishing apotheosis or a distressing accumulation of kitsch. Lady Gaga performed up and down a flight of stairs, dressed in feathers. The French singer Philippe Katerine, covered in blue body paint and dressed up as Bacchus, reclined in a platter of fruit. A threesome blossomed in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Decapitated figures of Marie-Antoinette holding their singing heads appeared at the windows of the Conciergerie. A floating piano was set on fire. The ceremony was conceived over two years by a committee made up of historian Patrick Boucheron (a member of the prestigious research institute, the Collège de France), the scriptwriter Fanny Herrero (creator of the Netflix series 10 Pour Cent/Call My Agent), the novelist Leïla Slimani (winner of the Goncourt literary prize for her novel Chanson douce/Lullaby), and the dramatist Damien Gabriac, who were all assembled in 2022 by the event’s master of ceremonies, theatre director Thomas Jolly. to co-write the script of their celebration of France. 

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The man behind Le Puy du Fou is entrepreneur and politician Philippe de Villiers. Although de Villiers briefly served as Secretary of State for Culture under Socialist President François Mitterand, he is currently a member of French nationalist party Reconquête!, whose leader is the far-right firebrand Eric Zemmour. De Villiers is a Christian traditionalist who has expressed hostility towards Islam and has maintained that during the French Revolution a political ‘genocide’ was perpetrated against the Royalist people of Vendée.

It was therefore important for Jolly and his team firmly to distance their own project from Le Puy du Fou and to offer instead, as Jolly said: ‘the opposite of a virile, heroic and providential history’, of ‘an ode to grandeur’ or to the ‘manifestation of force’. Besides de Villiers’ theme park, another anti-model may have been the opening ceremony of the 2023 Rugby World Cup. Hosted by the popular actor Jean Dujardin and featuring a playful celebration of traditional French life, it was criticised for portraying a nostalgic and ‘rancid’ version of France. To be sure, at a time when France is politically and culturally riven, it would have seemed important to tell a national story that would unite rather than divide. In contrast, Jolly aimed for a celebration of ‘planetary multi-ethnicity’. But was it not in hindsight a mistake, a missed opportunity, to throw out, for fear that it might be politically toxic, anything that might be perceived as a celebration of French history, or the shared heritage that binds all French people together? 

Patrick Boucheron, the historian in Jolly’s team, has declared his ‘resistance’ to the idea of a ‘roman national’, the strengthening story a nation collectively weaves about itself – the word roman meaning in this instance at once a narrative and a romance. Boucheron favours instead a decentring of national consciousness and a deconstruction of national history. There was always a danger in rejecting historical greatness for ideological reasons. Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte – both absent from the celebration – really do belong to all French; including them in the narrative would not have made it reactionary. Meanwhile Jolly’s desire systematically to foreground pop culture in order not to appear elitist often felt parochial. What is the long-term cultural significance of Nicky Doll, Paloma and Piche, stars of the reality show Drag Race France? Was the performance of John Lennon’s song Imagine really, as a sports historian declared in the newspaper Libération, ‘heavy with meaning’ because of its nature as a ‘political and cultural allegory’?

Wasn’t it also a pity not to celebrate France’s contemporary achievements, especially the rebuilding of Notre-Dame after its devastation by fire, and the Grand Paris Express transport network being developed for better integration of central Paris and its banlieues?

But above all, what was missing from the show, with rare exceptions – such as the sight of the Olympic cauldron rising into the sky tethered to a gigantic hot air balloon – was beauty. This signalled a lack of cultural confidence on the part of the ceremony’s storytellers. It was telling, for example, that Marcel Proust, one of France’s most exceptional writers, was featured as a caricatured carnival head, alongside Little Red Riding Hood and Marcel Marceau. Nor was placing the ceremony under the auspices of ‘Ça ira’, a 1790 anthem of the French Revolution as familiar to the French as the Marseillaise, an expression of intellectual confidence. Like the Marseillaise, ‘Ça ira’ is a call to violence – an ode to the systematic hanging of aristocrats from lamp-posts – and insisting, as Jolly did, that it can be reframed as a message of hope and of ‘union and unity within diversity’ is meaningless.

Ultimately, whether any of this landed with its audience remains doubtful. In spite of the driving rain, the French enjoyed the show’s wackiness, the party atmosphere, the excitement and anticipation of the Games. And the Games themselves were a wonderful success. But a message was sent nevertheless. And now that the Olympic truce is over, Emmanuel Macron must once again face up to a divided nation


In: https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/what-the-paris-olympics-openingceremony-reallymeant/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwuMC2BhA7EiwAmJKRrLbi3d14OiB6WRug_hjU2I-75FCfTsQ0RitnqNM3GJxOqz9UCUlUBoCZ4IQAvD_BwE
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta um exemplo de discurso direto:
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Q3064103 Inglês
Choose the correct sentence in reported speech:
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Q3056728 Inglês

Read the comic strip below and answer the question.


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What did Nancy say in reported speech in the first panel of the comic strip?

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Q3035589 Inglês
Transform the following direct speech sentence into indirect speech: “John said, 'If I had known about the meeting, I would have attended it.'” Identify among the following alternatives the one which correctly represents the reported speech version.
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Q3010804 Inglês
Reported speech is how we represent the speech of other people or what we ourselves say. There are some principles of reported speech, which are: (I) Reported speech is a way to convey what someone said; (II) Reported speech often changes verbs and pronouns; (III) Reported speech often uses a tense further back in the past; and, (IV) Reported speech changes questions into statements. Also, it is worth mentioning that there are two main types of reported speech: direct speech and indirect speech. The main difference between direct and indirect speech is that direct speech uses the exact words spoken by someone, while indirect speech reports what someone said without using their exact words. With that in mind, check the alternative which sentence represents the correct form of the reported speech (indirect speech) from the example provided below (direct speech):
Paulo Freire once said, “There is no such thing as neutral education”.
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Q2815892 Inglês

Analyze the following sentence.


"What is your name?" He asked me.


Put this sentence in the reported speech.

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Q2815888 Inglês

Analyze the following sentence.


Ana says: “I’m going to work until 6 p.m”.


Put this sentence in the reported speech.

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Q2713171 Inglês

The sentence below uses a specific grammar structure, which one? Choose the CORRECT answer.


“The office was cleaned yesterday.”

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Q2713169 Inglês

The sentence below uses a specific grammar structure, which one? Choose the CORRECT answer.


“Steve said that he was living in London.”

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Q2691305 Inglês

Change the following sentence from direct speech to indirect speech:

The teenagers were ordered: “Don´t come home late”

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Respostas
1: C
2: A
3: B
4: B
5: B
6: E
7: D
8: C
9: E
10: B
11: C
12: A
13: B
14: C
15: A
16: A
17: B
18: C
19: C
20: E