Questões de Concurso Público SEED-PR 2024 para Professor - Língua Estrangeira Moderna - Inglês - Edital nº 138

A handout containing the pairs of sentences that follow was given 9th graders for translation, observation and comparison. Being the use of a specialized online dictionary, indicated by the teacher, allowed and encouraged, by means of the teacher’s orientations and guidance while it happens the sharing of students’ perceptions it should be possible to:

1.a) Bill had a golden opportunity this semester.
1.b) Bill had a golden chance this semester.

2.a) She is stubborn, and won’t change her mind.
2.b) She is stubborn, and won’t change her thought.

3.a) Unfortunately mom is a heavy smoker.
3.b) Unfortunately mom is a big smoker.

4.a) Are you fully aware of this medicine’s side effects?
4.b) Are you entirely aware of this medicine’s side effects?

5.a) The teacher gave us advice.
5.b) The teacher offered us advice.

Every language has, due to several factors, variations in its structure, speech, grammar and pronunciation. That is, in the same language we may find different ways of speaking, that enrich even more the linguistic content and the dynamism in communication. Some of these possibilities are related to the linguistic variations that occur in specific regions, namely, there is a difference in words and phonemes, according to the place where certain language is spoken. For example, does a person who was born in Rio Grande do Sul speak in the same way as someone who was born in Bahia? Certainly not. Each region has its own variations of a same language. The same applies to international examples, such as The United States, England, New Zealand, The Virgin Islands, and South Africa, to quote just a few of the locations where English is mainly spoken, in different places and regions, different forms develop. This linguistic phenomenon happens in locations with different cultures, habits, customs and traditions, thus creating other language structures, diverse lexicon, as well as sounds and accents. The dimmension of linguistic variation described is:

The word list, extracted from previously studied texts, was tabled as vocabulary review, as well as to prompt word structure awareness and deeper study, being the criterion that applies to all of the words on the list, and grounds lexical choice:

The text coming next was submitted to study through activities such as reading and interpretation, aiming at featuring language’s referential function in a practical way, since its author focuses on:
     A survey released on Thursday (18) by MapBiomas shows that, in 2022, 77% of the illegal mining areas in the Brazilian Amazon were less than 500 meters away from water streams, such as rivers and lakes. According to satellite images recently revealed, the Amazon had 186,000 hectares of illegal mining areas near water streams, out of a total of 241,000 hectares occupied by illegal miners (known in Brazil as “garimpeiros”) in the region. At the time, the Amazon accounted for 92% of all the area mined in the country.      “The proximity of gold mines to watercourses is the DNA of mining activities in the Amazon, especially gold, which is almost always linked to rivers and their alluvial deposits. While deforestation is confined to the area mined, the siltation caused by mining near the edges of rivers and other water streams coupled with the contamination of water by mercury, and more recently by cyanide, reach much larger areas,” said Cesar Diniz, a technical coordinator of mining mapping at MapBiomas. The survey also showed that around 10% of the area mined in the Amazon (25,100 hectares) is located within Indigenous Lands, especially in the Kayapó, Munduruku and Yanomami lands. MapBiomas points out that Indigenous lands are the best-preserved areas in the Amazon: from 1985 to 2022, they lost less than 1% of their native vegetation, compared to 26% recorded in private areas.
(Available in: https://www.brasildefato.com.br/. Accessed in: April/2014.)

The review of the Simple Present topic proposed to 8th graders by means of the sentences’ analysis will enable to remind them of an instance when the Simple Present must be employed which is to describe: 

The featured figure of speech in the image is:

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Cohesion helps readers to focus well on the text topic by building clearer emphasis and understanding. Concerning the highlighted cohesive devices, it is compatible information they function as:
   The official journal of the IFIP Technical Committee on Education covers the complex relationships that are established between information and communication technologies and education. Especially those providing perspectives at all levels which range from the micro of specific applications or instances of use in classrooms to macro concerns of national policies and major projects; from classes of five year olds to adults in tertiary institutions; from teachers and administrators, to researchers and designers; from institutions to open, distance and lifelong learning. This breadth of coverage allows Education and Information Technologies to examine fundamental issues at all levels that discuss specific instances and cases, drawing inference and probing theory. This journal is embedded in the research and practice of professionals who look for boosting their performances by bringing in innovation. We are also very proud to acknowledge that over 50% of the articles published in this journal in 2023 were related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
(Available in: https://link.springer.com/journal/10639. Adapted.)

Having examined verbal and visual data, students should be able to recognize that the main source of humor is specifically found in acknowledging that:

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    Although higher education institutions offer self-paced massive open online courses (MOOCs) on platforms like edX, little systematic effort has been made to examine their instructional design features. Therefore, to review self-paced MOOCs on edX and examine their instructional design features for those interested in designing and offering them is essential. Aiming at offering reliable data, a significative amount of MOOCs that represent engineering, computer science, communications, business and management should be randomly selected for analysis if a realistic view is sought. Moreover the instructional design features of the MOOCs ought to be organized in terms of course structure and elements of course information, as well as types of instructional videos, assessments, and online discussion boards, for by catering to those aspects, issues of current instructional design features will be also involved.
(Available in: https://www.tandfonline.com, Adapted.)

According to what is inferred from usage, the ING forms are:

The cartoon analysis and observation enables one to state that:

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The dialogue describing an everyday purchase situation was presented for role playing, and oral practice, being the underlined segments examples of:

Salesman: Madam, how may I help you?
Customer: I’m looking for a leather purse.
Salesman: What size do you prefer?
Customer: Medium.
Salesman: What about the brand?
Customer: Maybe an Italian one in red.
Salesman: It won’t be a problem. The section on the left has new famous Italian arrivals but I’m not sure we have all of them in red.
Customer: The variety there seems far less. Anyway I will see the second, fourth and sixth red Italian ones on the first row to start with.

Concerning the word pairs on the list, the item displaying consistent knowledge is:

A wh-question usually refers to the main clause which starts with the question word, however, questions can also refer to subordinate That-clauses. THAT must be dropped in: