Questões de Concurso Público Prefeitura de Sapucaia do Sul - RS 2019 para Professor – Área II – Língua Inglesa

Consider the following changes proposed:

I. Replacement of ‘new’ (l.04) by ‘pristine’.

II. Omission of ‘massive’ (l.05).

III. Omission of ‘less’ (l.14).

Which ones alter the meaning of the sentence?

Observe the sentence below and analyse the following statements:

“you could study German, for example, with Breaking Bad”.

I. ‘could’ could be replaced by ‘can’ without affecting the meaning.

II. The question form of the sentence is “Could you study German, for example, with Breaking Bad?”.

III. To form a negation, we should only insert the ‘don’t’ before ‘could’.

Which ones are INCORRECT?

Consider the following sentence: “Hovering over a word produces a pop-up dictionary” (l.15-16):

I. ‘Hovering over’ means “to put the cursor on computer screen in a particular place without clicking on it”.

II. ‘pop-up dictionary’ is a dictionary that predicts when you don’t know a word.

III. ‘produces’ could be changed for ‘shows’ without altering the meaning of the sentence.

Which ones are INCORRECT?

Connect the first column to the second, associating the uses of apostrophe in context to its function.

Column 1

1. To show possession.

2. To indicate an omission.

Column 2

( ) Line 01.

( ) Line 05.

( ) Line 10.

( ) Line 19.

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

Consider the statements about the word ‘yet’ (l.30):

I. It could be replaced by ‘so far’.

II. It is classified as an adverb.

III. It could be removed without affecting the meaning.

Which ones are correct?

Analyse if the pronouns and its reference are correctly indicated.

I. ‘which’ (l.06) refers to ‘catalogue’ (l.05).

II. ‘who’ (l.08) refers to ‘David Wilkinson and Ognjen Apic’ (l.08).

III. ‘that’ (l.18) refers to ‘shows’ (l.18).

IV. ‘it’ (l.25) refers to ‘Google Chrome’ (l.25)

Which ones are INCORRECT?

Consider the following sentences from the text:

I. “Its a clever service that makes use of Netflix’s massive catalogue” (l.05).

II. “there’s only a limited amount of learning materials available” (l.10-11).

III. “Hopefully, the service can make it’s way beyond browsers soon” (l.26-27).

Which ones DON’T have grammar mistakes?

Observe the following statements about the text:

I. The best way to learn a new language is to watch Netflix with subtitles.

II. The new tool produces new subtitles based on Netflix audio tracks, helping students watch their favourite shows in the language they are learning.

III. The project is in its initial development state, and developers are working closely with Netflix to expand the tool to different platforms.

Which ones are INCORRECT?