Questões de Concurso Comentadas sobre pronúncia e som | pronunciation and sound em inglês

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Q2066024 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa com palavras que apresentam o símbolo /ε/.
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Q2066023 Inglês
Assinale a alternativa cujas palavras tem a mesma silent letter.
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Q2037147 Inglês
Read the text 1 to answer question.

Text 1

Worldwide changes in food and eating habits

American fast food has certainly affected Korea. You can find American fast food restaurants everywhere and many young people don’t appreciate traditional Korean food anymore. Koreans are now using western ingredients such as ketchup, mayonnaise and butter to cook regular meals. Salad dressing, something we never used before, is also popular now.

The problem is that American companies sell their food along with American culture. Manners in restaurants are not the same before. I can give you two examples of this. Traditionally Koreans don’t use individual plates for eating main dishes. We have always eaten from one bowl, but now some people think that this habit is unsanitary.

Tipping is also new for us. Before, we had never rewarded good service with money, but now we are supposed to give a tip to waiter in some restaurants. I fear our traditional way of doing things will soon be forgotten.

By Jeong Kim, from Korea.

(PLATERO, Luciana & DONNINI, Lívia. All Set, vol. 2, student book. Boston, USA: Thompson Heinle, 2008. Adaptado.)


According to the IPA – International Phonetic Alphabet – the CORRECT phonetic transcriptions for the words tipping, butter and plate are 
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Q2016709 Inglês
Activities for raising awareness of diversity

    Our first goal as language teachers is always to encourage our learners to make use of their developing language. Giving them a genuine communicative purpose and making it personal to them are two good ways of achieving this. For students beginning their journey to greater self-awareness, teachers could devise an inventory of learning skills for them to rate themselves on. This could include items such as ‘I keep my notes in order’, ‘I always make a note of homework and the date it should be done’ or whatever is appropriate to their level. Students could rate themselves privately, but then discuss with other students which ones they find most challenging, exchanging tips about how they could improve these aspects of learning. From these discussions, it will probably become clear that some students have already got good study strategies in place, even if some of them seem a little unusual. Revisiting the checklist later in the course helps learners to reflect on how they have improved and what they still need to work on. […]

    Making use of materials that include a diverse range of characters is another great way of initiating discussion and raising awareness of the issues. There may be no explicit mention made in the text of this diversity, thereby sending the implicit message that this is just how the world is. Students may see characters that they can relate to more easily, and feel more included generally. Other materials, such as the ‘Adventures on Inkling Island’ comic strips, explicitly showcase the daily challenges and talents of neurodiverse people, demonstrating that being different can be a strength in some situations.

    A powerful way of enabling people to understand how it might feel to be in the minority on a daily basis, whether in terms of physical abilities or cognitive function, is to set up experiential activities which challenge the participants to perform unusual tasks in conditions that make their usual way of working impossible. As well as being a fun way of introducing the topic for further discussion, these activities are usually very memorable and drive home the message that – in the vast majority of cases – lack of success in academic tasks is not due to laziness or stupidity.


Adapted from: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/raising-awarenessdiversity-language-classroom 
The syllable stress pattern of the word “characters” is the same as in 
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Q2002592 Inglês
Levando em consideração a fonologia da língua inglesa, escolha a asserção correta quanto aos fonemas encontrados nas palavras retiradas do texto.
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Q1975097 Inglês
Text for the item from.


Sean Coughlan. Narcissists ‘horrible people but happy’.
Internet: <https://www.bbc.com> (adapted).
Based on the text, judge the item from. 

The beginning of the word “psychologists” (line 3) is pronounced with the /p/ sound (voiceless bilabial plosive). 
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Q1946569 Inglês
Considering the groups of words below, point out the option in which the group of words are not homophones.
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Q1929809 Inglês

Local accents aside, standard American English has a rule that guides the pronunciation of simple past regular verbs. According to this rule, the “ed” may be pronounced as listed in Column 1. About that, match the correct pronunciation of “ed” in Column 1 to the verbs in Column 2.


Column 1

1. /t/.

2. /d/.

3. /ɪd/.


Column 2

( ) started (l. 11).

( ) happened (l. 15).

( ) finished (l. 29).


The correct order of filling the parentheses, from top to bottom, is: 

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Q1876131 Inglês
Mark the alternative that does have words that presents the same sound in the pronunciation.
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Q1845390 Inglês
Choose the alternative that does NOT have words with the same sound in the pronunciation.
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Q1798474 Inglês
Using authentic material from the real world to teach English
STEFFANIE ZAZULAK

   There are lots of resources available to English language teachers today: from textbooks to online teaching tools, they can all aid and enrich English lessons. Many teachers also introduce authentic English material into their lessons to expose learners to the language as it is spoken in the real world.
   Authentic material is any material written in English that was not created for intentional use in the English language classroom. Using this content to teach the English language can make the learning process even more engaging, imaginative and motivating for students. It can also be useful to elicit genuine responses from learners.
   The great thing about using authentic material is that it is everywhere, which makes it easy to find, and simple for learners to practice English in their own time. Remember that it isn‟t limited to articles from newspapers and magazines. Songs, TV programs and films, radio and podcasts, leaflets, menus – anything written in English constitutes authentic material. (…)
Source: https://www.english.com/blog/authenticmaterial/ Accessed on: 18/06/2018.
(Concurso Milagres/2018) The word limited (3rd paragraph) is constituted by three syllables with the first one being stressed, as represented by the phonetic transcription: /ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/. Check the alternative in which the words follow the same number of syllables and the same stress pattern of the word limited
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Q1798467 Inglês
TEACHING GRAMMAR IN THE POST COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH ERA
D I A N A B A U D U C C O

   Grammar. To teach or not to teach? This has been the question that language teachers have asked themselves for ages. It has been a matter of debate for teachers, linguists and second language acquisition experts.
   Historically, language teaching approaches and methods have moved from one extreme of the spectrum to another as regards the explicit teaching of grammar. Long before our times, grammar was at the centre of language teaching, as it was believed that the study of the grammar of X‟s language was the best way to its mastery. So, from medieval times till around the 1970s, the fixation of language teaching on the study and description of structures manifested in approaches such as the Grammar Translation and the Audio Lingual method, with short interludes of the other approaches such as the Direct Method, Total Physical Response and the Silent way which although claiming to differ still based their syllabus on grammar points.
   From the Grammar-dominated end of the spectrum, we moved to the Absolutely-noGrammar end. Grammar based approaches proved inadequate in that students were unable to communicate outside the classroom. Based mainly on Hymes‟ “communicative competence” and Krashen‟s models of language acquisition, the Communicative Approach emerged as the meaning-focused alternative to the formfocused approaches of the past. Strong versions of the approach emphasized the teaching of functions and absolutely discouraged the teaching of grammar structures arguing that communication – and not language description- was the aim of language teaching.
   However, the studies of the last 30 years have proved that the lack of grammar instruction has not encouraged language acquisition. On the contrary, more recent studies show that grammar instruction and explicit knowledge of the target language do have positive effects on language acquisition. So, how should we approach the teaching of Grammar in the Post- CommunicativeApproach Era?

Source: https://www.eflmagazine.com/teachinggrammar-post-communicative-approach-era/ Accessed on 17/06/2018
(Concurso Milagres/2018) Check the alternative which contains the sound of the – ed in the verbs: moved, emphasized and proved:
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Q1758001 Inglês

Some words in English sound the same when they are spoken, but have different spellings and different meanings.

Which alternative contains the correct sequence to complete the sentences?

1 st - Do you think it is going to (rein, rain, reign) tomorrow?

2 nd - We saw a restaurant just off the (rode, road) about a mile back.

3 rd - They don’t want to talk about the (passed, past) anymore.

4 th - My mother (sent, scent, cent) a letter to my aunt who lives in London.

5 th - (He’ll, Heel, Heal) be here in a few minutes.

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Q1742009 Inglês
The sound of letter ‘a’ is underlined in the words below. What is the correct sequence that brings the phonemic symbols that would be used in a dictionary entry?
late – player – party – alphabet – island – hard – pizza – grandson – invitation
1. /æ/ 2. /ei/ 3. /ɑ:/ 4. /ə/
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Q1739958 Inglês
Which alternative presents the sequence in which all words have a silent letter:
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Q1739947 Inglês
What is the correct sequence for the stress patterns below:
I- Imagem associada para resolução da questão international – vegetarian II- Imagem associada para resolução da questão extravagante – presentation III- Imagem associada para resolução da questão apartamento block – public transportation IV- Imagem associada para resolução da questão calculator – supermarket
Check the correct alternative:
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Q1739944 Inglês
The group of words rare and hair, meat and street, money and sunny are examples of:
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Q1739941 Inglês
The group of words “See and Sea”, “Tale and Tail”, “Where and Wear” are examples of:
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Q1719855 Inglês
        Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity. Good. His dad had the pickup going. He could get up now. Jess slid out of bed and into his overalls. He didn't worry about a shirt because once he began running he would be hot as popping grease even if the morning air was chill, or shoes because the bottoms of his feet were by now as tough as his worn-out sneakers.
        "Where you going, Jess?" May Belle lifted herself up sleepily from the double bed where she and Joyce Ann slept.
        "Sh." He warned. The walls were thin. Momma would he mad as flies in a fruit jar if they woke her up this time of day.
        He patted May Belle's hair and yanked the twisted sheet up to her small chin. "Just over the cow field," he whispered. May Belle smiled and snuggled down under the sheet.
        "Gonna run?"
        "Maybe."
        Of course he was going to run. He had gotten up early every day all summer to run. He figured if he worked at it – and Lord, had he worked – he could be the fastest runner in the fifth grade when school opened up. He had to be the fastest – not one of the fastest or next to the fastest, but the fastest. The very best.


(Excerpt from Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson. Available on https://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/135126/Patterson_- _Bridge_to_Terabithia.pdf)
“Not one of the fastest, but the fastest.” The word THE is pronounced differently depending on the context. Choose the option that shows the right pronunciation of each underlined word.
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Q1719189 Inglês
Future Cars at CES

The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) ran in Las Vegas from the 5th to the 8th January 2017, and the big part of the show was about cars that can detect emotion, or are self-driving or are voice controlled. Honda’s latest concept, equipped with a digital assistant named HANA, can detect the driver’s emotions and play appropriate music. It can also function autonomously as a ride-sharing vehicle making money for its owner while the owner is at work or asleep. If you fancy speaking to your car, the Oasis concept car might interest you as it is voice-controlled. Its rear is designed for cargo like parcels or pizzas, and there is a small garden in the dashboard to make the space more personal. If you do not want to interact much with your car, the self-driving ones will do just fine. Nissan’s Seamless Autonomous Mobility system will help autonomous vehicles make decisions in unpredictable situations.
Choose the alternative with the CORRECT phonetic transcription of the highlighted words in the text.
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Respostas
81: B
82: E
83: A
84: E
85: D
86: E
87: E
88: C
89: C
90: D
91: D
92: B
93: B
94: B
95: A
96: B
97: C
98: D
99: A
100: C