Questões de Inglês - Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension para Concurso
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English for Specific Purposes, or ESP, refers to learning English because students have a specific need. To develop a specific need such as Reading Comprehension, readers will need to use some strategies.
Study the sentences bellow about the topic.
1. A rapid look over a text in order to extract some general ideas from it is called the Skimming Strategy.
2. When the students look for some information in an encyclopedia or an ad in a newspaper, or use a Portuguese monolingual dictionary, they are scanning.
3. An ESP approach a great part of students is aware that English and Portuguese have few words in common.
4. Looking for repeated words is the reading strategy that is not very used by Brazilian students because it may be difficult to locate and understand these words at the beginning of the process.
Choose the alternative which contains the correct sentences.
[…] The development of communicative competence involves the acquisition and use of so-called language skills, which are promoted from the communicative approach in an integrated manner and with real communication purposes. To contribute to the development of these communicative language skills, the English teacher has a continuum of options ranging from so-called pre-communicative activities to proper communication activities. According to Littlewood (1998), the first are based on accuracy and present structures, functions, and vocabulary; the latter focus on fluency and involve information sharing and exchange.
Analyze the sentences below about the concept of Communicative Competence.
1. The ability to select skills to solve verbal and non-verbal activities is called Communicative Competence.
2. To achieve communicative goals in a socially appropriate manner is the ability of Communicative Competence.
3. Communicative competence can be acquired, to develop, step by step, through repeated, reflected practice and experience skills.
4. Grammatical competence, sociolinguistic competence, discourse competence and strategic competence are the components of Communicative Competence.
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Text 1
Youth and Adult Literacy in Brazil:
learning from practice
The Concept of functional ILLITERACY
[…] A person is considered functionally literate....................he or she is capable..........using reading and writing skills..........meet the demands of his or her social context, using them to continue learning and developing over their lifetimes. With the expansion of the access to schooling beyond literacy, the focus was shifted to the quality of the educational process offered to all. The issue here is not simply whether people know how to read or write, but what they are capable of doing with those skills. This means that, besides the issue of illiteracy, a social problem that still persists in Brazil, there is also the issue of functional illiteracy; in other words, the inability to effectively use reading and writing skills in the various areas of social life after a certain number of years of schooling. According to census criteria, individuals with less than 4 years of schooling are considered functionally illiterate. […]
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Read the text and answer the question.
What is a consumer society?
A consumer is a person who buys things, and a
consumer society is a society that encourages people to
buy and use goods. Some people think that a consumer
society provides people with better lives. People in
consumer societies tend to live more comfortably.
They eat a wider variety of food. They go to restaurants
more often. They also buy a lot of products, maybe
more than they need. Products such as TVs, cell phones,
and computers used to be luxuries. Today people can
buy these things more easily than ever before. The
market for these goods is growing faster all the time.
Consumer societies encourage people to buy bigger
and better products. For example, “smarter” phones
come out every year. In a consumer society, people are
often buying newer and more advanced products. This
creates a lot of waste. Nowadays, many people are
thinking more seriously about the effects of consumer
societies on the environment, and they are trying to
become more responsible consumers.
(https://www.eltngl.com/assets/downloads/grex_pro
0000000538/grex2_su8.pdf).
Read each statement. Classify them in true or false.
- The market for these goods is growing quickly.
- In this society, people buy new goods all the time.
- The consumer society is financially responsible.
- There is no negative consumer society effect.
Read the text and answer the question.
What is a consumer society?
A consumer is a person who buys things, and a
consumer society is a society that encourages people to
buy and use goods. Some people think that a consumer
society provides people with better lives. People in
consumer societies tend to live more comfortably.
They eat a wider variety of food. They go to restaurants
more often. They also buy a lot of products, maybe
more than they need. Products such as TVs, cell phones,
and computers used to be luxuries. Today people can
buy these things more easily than ever before. The
market for these goods is growing faster all the time.
Consumer societies encourage people to buy bigger
and better products. For example, “smarter” phones
come out every year. In a consumer society, people are
often buying newer and more advanced products. This
creates a lot of waste. Nowadays, many people are
thinking more seriously about the effects of consumer
societies on the environment, and they are trying to
become more responsible consumers.
(https://www.eltngl.com/assets/downloads/grex_pro
0000000538/grex2_su8.pdf).
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