Questões de Concurso Sobre inglês

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Can a focus on playful learning be integrated in the

enabling environment?

     “Enabling environment” refers to the broad set of interrelated national political, social and financial conditions that can either promote or hinder the successful functioning of the preprimary sub-sector. A supportive enabling environment is conducive to recognizing the importance of learning through play, and it can further strengthen this emphasis by fostering coordination with other sectors such as health, nutrition and social protection, which together can create a unified voice for play in children’s lives. The elements of the enabling environment, and how they can foster play-based learning, are:

     1. Policies and legislation: Policies specific to the preprimary sub-sector are important because they can clearly affirm children’s right to play and can state that playbased learning is a distinctive and essential feature of effective early learning. Policies and directives can reflect a childcentred approach to learning and teaching; such policies create an expectation that playful learning will be taken seriously and implemented across levels of the sub-sector.

      2. Public Demand: Support for pre-primary services among parents and caregivers is key and it should be informed by strong awareness of what quality means in pre-primary education. Awareness-raising should focus on young children’s unique learning needs, e.g., the need to make meaning through playful investigations supported by knowledgeable teachers. A key aspect of fostering public support and demand for learning through play is to ensure that parents recognize their role in providing meaningful play experiences in the home environment, and to empower them to do so. Garnering public support and demand for learning through play will enhance the pre-primary system’s commitment to and recognition of the benefits of play.

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Covid-19 symtoms or simply a cold? It is recommended that he _______ home.


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Fill in the blank above the image with the appropriate verb form:

Types of pasta and when you should be using them


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Concerning the title above the image, the modal verb used can be replaced by: 

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Linguisitc prejudice is endemic in public life, widely tolerated, and institutionalized in social enterprises that affect almost everyone, such as education and the media. There is limited knowledge about and little regard forlinguistic study showing that all varieties of a language display systematicity and that the elevated social position of standard varieties has no scientific linguistic basis.

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The coloniality framework, which is present in several levels of personal and social life, is still reproduced even in the absence of colonial management, echoing in classrooms, in a very steady way in English classes. It is NOT a biased manifestation that might contaminate English teaching/learning to favor: 

Group 1

• Think – Bath – Thigh – Thorn – Length – Aesthetic – Cloth – Thousand – Thumb

Group 2

• Those – Then – With – Although – This – Within – Therefore – They – Mother

The sound represented by the TH in Group 1 and the sound represented by the TH in Group 2 differ due to:

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The instructions above the market cashier say, “10 items or less, exact change, no small talk, just bag your groceries and get the hell out”. Mark the item that matches text and image analysis. 

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Text 1

High-income countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom have higher food spending in absolute terms, but the share of household consumption expenditures devoted to athome food is low– less than 10 percent. In Kenya and other low- -income countries, at-home food’s share of consumption expenditures can exceed 50 percent. Per capita calorie availability follows the reverse path. According to the most recent available data, U.S. per capita calorie availability was among the highest at 3,682 calories per day, while Kenya’s was estimated at only 2,206 calories.

Text 2

For a typical dollar spent in 2020 by U.S. consumers on domestically produced food, including both grocery store and eating-out purchases, 27.9 cents went to foodservice establishments such as restaurants and other eating-out places. The foodservice share of the food dollar decreased after 9 years of gains as households shifted to food-at-home consumption during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. For the remainder of the food dollar, transportation (4.1 cents) and wholesale trade (11.9 cents) rose to their highest shares reported in the series, which provides statistics back to 1993.

(Economic Research Service U.S. – Department of Agriculture.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products.)

In both of the texts the common theme is:

Observe the following set of minimal pairs to answer .
• Hit / Heat • Bit / Beat • Knit / Neat • Chip / Cheap • Live / Leave
The set of minimal pairs was used for oral practice being its specific target to distinguish vowel pronounciation. Mark the criteria that accounts for the vowel distintion existing in all of the chosen minimal pairs. 

It is true about the ad’s content that:

While producing an advertisement, authors choose persuasive strategies aiming at determining readers’/viewers’ behavior. Among the argumentative strategies selected for the above campaign, we spotlight the: 

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In American literature, regionalism refers to works that describe distinctive local geography and culture, and to movements that value smaller-scaled representations of place over representations of broad territorial range. Regionalism emerges from the perception of modern geographic plurality; writers and readers understand a larger unit of space (commonly the national territory) to be diversified at its periphery according to topographical features, economy, history, dialect, and manners. A region is always one among many within a common container, characterized by uneven development between center and periphery. Regionalism indicates that a writer has chosen to focus on one of the areas outside the centers of power, and to organize the work around that region. In American literature, regionalism has been associated with the sketch or short story, although the category can accommodate poetry and the novel. Regionalism’s detractors have treated it as a minor form portraying outdated folkways, more parochial than literature that features a larger spatial scale and cosmopolitan characters. Its defenders reject that evaluation, often arguing that regionalism provided access to female, nonwhite, and rural writers, who used the form in innovative and empowering ways.

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In the segment “Its defenders reject that evaluation, often arguing that regionalism provided access to female, nonwhite, and rural writers” ITS refers back to: 

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Indicate the language practice which might be proposed as of the dialogue study.

The following handout was tabled for 9º graders of Ensino Fundamental as a research tool. Students should discover the meanings of the abbreviations. They received adequate support on how to perform the research activity, that is, indication of sites, pages, blogs, etc where to look for suitable information.
FIND OUT THE MEANING OF THE ABBREVIATIONS


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Choose the learning purpose and ability the work with the handout is meant to comprise. 

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A: So, I’ve decided I’m going to go to the bank and ask for a car loan.

B: That sounds like a good idea.

C: Well, you need a car.

B: Right.

A: Anyway, I was wondering if either of you would teach me how to drive.

B: Look, I’m very busy during the week, I'm trying to catch up with my deadline.

C: I’m in the same boat, but there must be a way...

A: What about the weekend? Say, Saturday morning? You both could take turns.

B: Fine with me!

C: Count me in! 

The words reproducing pause, hesitation, redundancy, etc which might or might not be present in abbreviated form in the dialogue are:

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There was a woman by the door. The woman was carrying a huge duffel bag. I had never seen her around, although she looked somehow familiar. The poor lady was obviously weary. I was not sure whether or not I’d address the stranger as she stared at me.

While highlighting the underlined words and conducting its due analysis, it is consistent to assert that, in the text, they illustrate the use of different.

The text below reproduces a classroom dialogue which was carried out targeting oral practice.

Teacher: Where did you go on the weekend? Student: I went to the park. Teacher: You went to the park? How nice! What did you do? Student: I played soccer. Teacher: You played soccer. Who played soccer with you? Student: My friends from school, my team. Teacher: Your friends from school, your team? Did you like it? Student: I loved it. Teacher: You loved it. Great!
Among the resources of classroom management, teacher’s speech is considered a key element. The repetition produced by the teacher in the above dialogue signals:

The existing relation between verbal and visual-verbal languages contributes to build discourse genre comprehension, and improve perception about many relevant communicative aspects. Observe the advertisements to answer.

In order to produce meaning out of the advertisements, one should activate relations of:

Following the assessment guidelines for the teaching and learning of the English language, according to the Paranaense Syllabus, its initial stage should characterize the teaching/learning context by establishing student profile, his/her limitations and expectations so that planning happens in harmony with the educational reality. Mark the kind of assessment procedure which would enable the approach described. 

Figurative language serves as an excellent communication tool and is something we encounter daily that helps us convey complex descriptions or emotions quickly and effectively. Also referred to as “figures of speech”, figurative language can be utilized to persuade, engage and connect with an audience.


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Which figurative language device or “figure of speech” is found in the segment “Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel.”?

Analyse the image to answer.

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The public service announcement above deals with the necessary precautions in traffic. The communicative situation emphasizes the appealing function of the language for it is possible to verify that the campaign’s social attribution is to: