Questões de Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension para Concurso

Read the decription and find out the method it refers to.

         It started being developed by James Asher in the 60s. It’s a method built around the coordination of speech and action where teachers give commands in the target language and students respond with movement. Defenders of the method believed that students learn a second language in the same way that infants learn their native tongue. They claimed that a lot of the linguistic input young children hear is in the form of a command, which activates the right side of the brain, thus allowing them to be able to internalize language immediately.
       On the first day of a Beginner Level English language class, for example, the teacher might initially ask students to stand up, sit down, jump, walk, turn and stop. Then later, commands might include more information, such as touch your head, write the number 3, point to the window and walk to the door.
       As students become more advanced, the teacher will introduce new linguistic elements such as prepositions (walk between John and Mary), adjectives (pick up the red pen) and adverbs (stand behind your chair), and will develop sets of commands with more and more detailed and complicated information.

(Available in: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk. Adapted.)

Read the text carefully, go through the assertions related to it and choose the correct option.

        Task-based Teaching (TBT) – and Task-based Learning (TBL) – is the approach that TESOL Advantage advocates as best practice when it comes to English language teaching. While TBT’s basic principles are derived from CLT (Communicative Language Teaching), there are some important differences. Critics of CLT have raised the following concerns:

           1.Teachers can struggle with the non-specific requirements of CLT.
       2.Teachers are often worried about giving up too much control during a CLT exercise.
       3.Many learners have low intrinsic motivation to communicate in a foreign language and so struggle with CLT student-centric exercises.
     4.Because CLT is a meaning-focused approach, learners may struggle with grammar issues.
      TBT addresses all of these concerns. It gives teachers a specific requirement to focus on – getting the students to complete a task. Teachers worried about their classes becoming chaotic because of a lack of structure in the lesson now have clear steps that create guidelines and boundaries – a pre-task, task and post-task. Students become more empowered and motivated when they complete tasks because they ‘own’ the language and control the task response. While TBT definitely has a greater focus on meaning than form, teachers can add an optional language focus at the end of a task to cover any grammatical issues that the task highlighted. 


(Available in: https://tesoladvantage.com/methods-and-approaches-of-english-language-teaching.)

I. CLT critics aim at the CLT being a method that is meaning-focused. II. TBT enables introduction of grammar as well as linguistic itens through assignments. III. TBT is a method which refines the CLT method.

There is accuracy in what is stated in 

Having as reference the examination of the sentences, state the item which highlights the inconsistencies. 

a. I look forward to seeing the new cabin. b. Could you give me an information? c. The police are investigating the crimes as serial killer action. d. The amount of unemployed is growing up. e. She does have a very good command of spoken German. f. On no account should you be sarcastic to the elders. g. At the end of the vacation, everyone were wishing to get back home. h. All along the centuries, there have been wars. i. There were over 100,000 people at the concert. j. His village is just across the border, by a very lovely stream. k. It seldom rained in the summer, did it? l. Open the window, would you?

Read the text to choose the item containing data that does NOT suit poem analysis.

          Dulzura

by Sandra Cisneros.

Make love to me in Spanish.

Not with that other tongue.

I want you juntito a mi,

tender like the language

crooned to babies.

I want to be that

lullabied, mi bien

querido, that loved.

I want you inside

the mouth of my heart,

inside the harp of my wrists,

the sweet meat of the mango,

in the gold that dangles

from my ears and neck.

Say my name. Say it.

The way it’s supposed to be said.

I want to know that I knew you

even before I knew you.

(Available in: https://www.best-poems.net/sandra-cisneros/dulzura.html.)

Read the text below and point out the nature of the educacional perspective it supports as to the abilities and expertise proposed by the “Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais”.

           The modern world’s characteristics have, for sure, important implications for the educational process as a whole, and, particularly, to the teaching/learning of languages. Answers to these macro-trends are vital in preparing youngsters to cater to the demands of a new world. With regards to teaching/learning languages, in order to be an active participant, it is essential that one communicate not only in the mother tongue but also in foreign language. The development of communicative abilities, in more than one language, is fundamental to access the society of information, moreover, it’s crucial for equitable academic access, and in the business and technological fields. It is, therefore, imperative that the teaching of foreign language be understood, and implemented, as the one offering tools vital for laboring.