Questões de Concurso Sobre inglês

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Q503733 Inglês
Consider the following sentence from a student’s essay.

“The theme of this short story make us see the beauty in another vision.” (source: a real student’s essay)

The sentence should be rewritten as the following alternative:
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Q503732 Inglês
Consider the following noun phrase: ‘the only navigable river’. Suppose a student asks you if there is a difference in meaning if ‘navigable’ is placed after ‘river’. The alternative with the correct answer and comment is:
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Q503731 Inglês
Suppose you are correcting some literary essays. In one essay, you find the following extract.

“It begins with the Giant coming back to his garden after a seven-year trip. When arriving they see that children play in his garden." (source: a real student's essay)

The mistake that directly affects the cohesion of the extract is the/a:
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Q503730 Inglês
Suppose a student asks you if 'whose' in the following academic passage is wrong.

“There is a way of proceeding in conceptual matters whose method is to define away any inconvenient difficulty." (Biber et al, 1999, p. 617)

The alternative with the correct answer and comment is:
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Q503729 Inglês
Modal verbs can be classified into two major categories of me- aning: epistemic and deontic. Epistemic modals refer to the logical status of events or states. The following alternatives are examples of epistemic modals. The only exception is:
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Q503728 Inglês
One mechanism of grammatical cohesion is the use of substituting pro-forms. The only example of a pro-form is:
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Q503727 Inglês
According to the Longman Grammar (Biber et al., 1999, p. 988), “collocations are associations between lexical words, so that the words co-occur more frequently than expected by chance”. This text presents several examples of collocations. The only exception is:
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Q503726 Inglês
Adverbs present a range of semantic categories. In this text, we can ?nd some of them: time, manner, degree etc. The only pair that includes adverbs of different semantic categories is:
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Q503725 Inglês
This text shows several examples of multiple parallel clausal structures. One example particularly shows the repetition of subordinate clauses to describe the preceding noun phrase, producing a certain dramatic effect. The example is:
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Q503724 Inglês
According to the Longman Grammar (Biber et al., 1999), it is dificult to identify the intended time reference for the past perfect, because the reference depends on the context. In “All of them were loved, but most had missed many of the experiences we expect children to have in their first five years." (l. 12), the time reference for the past perfect verb phrase is:
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Q503723 Inglês
Lexical choices vary according to the different types of language: written or spoken. An example of a word in the text that is typical of American conversational English is:
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Q503722 Inglês
In the sentence “It would be nice if teachers who work in the most challenging schools could be paid more." (l. 43), the personal pronoun 'it' functions as an:
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Q503721 Inglês
This editorial is a critical response to the article “Poor schools, rookie teachers” (l. 3). The critique is built against the logical relation established between the two noun phrases of this title. This logical relation is one of:
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Q503720 Inglês
According to the text, the only reason that fails to justify teachers leaving the toughest schools is that they:
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Q503719 Inglês
Questions 21 through 35 address existing theories of English teaching. Read them and mark the correct alternative.
In “Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language”, Nuttall (1996, p. 39) presents some reading strategies. According to the author, some of them are obvious and some are more complex. The correct correspondence between the strategy and the type is:
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Q503718 Inglês
Questions 21 through 35 address existing theories of English teaching. Read them and mark the correct alternative.
“Scaffolding” (Nuttall, 1996, p.36) is a process that “focus on enabling students to develop”. In “Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language”, Nuttall suggests some steps to promote this process. The alternative that presents one of these steps is:
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Q503717 Inglês
Questions 21 through 35 address existing theories of English teaching. Read them and mark the correct alternative.
Assuming that current language teaching tends to be eclectic in terms of approaches and that this might result in inconsistent and unfounded practice, Harmer (2007) recommends three essential elements for any teaching sequence: engage, study and activate. The alternative with a correct example of one of these elements is:
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Q503716 Inglês
Questions 21 through 35 address existing theories of English teaching. Read them and mark the correct alternative.
When teaching vocabulary, teachers should be aware of the purpose of the activities they propose. Harmer (2007) presents some examples of vocabulary activities associated with a specific purpose. One example of correct association between the activity and its purpose is:
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Q503715 Inglês
Questions 21 through 35 address existing theories of English teaching. Read them and mark the correct alternative.
According to Harmer (2007) in “How to teach English”, the discovery approach is a possible way of teaching grammar. In this approach, teachers lead learners to build the target knowledge. One example of a discovery activity is:
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Q503714 Inglês
Questions 21 through 35 address existing theories of English teaching. Read them and mark the correct alternative.
According to the “Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais”, communicative competence is composed of the following three types of knowledge:
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Respostas
13901: C
13902: A
13903: C
13904: D
13905: B
13906: E
13907: D
13908: B
13909: E
13910: C
13911: D
13912: A
13913: D
13914: D
13915: C
13916: A
13917: D
13918: A
13919: A
13920: D