Questões de Concurso Público Prefeitura de Bom Conselho - PE 2022 para Professor de Inglês

“According to the teachers who use the __________________________, a fundamental purpose of learning a foreign language is to be able to read literature written in the target language. To do this, students need to learn about the grammar rules and vocabulary of the target language. They are taught to translate from one language to another. Often what they translate are readings in the target language about some aspect of the culture – mainly literature and fine arts. Reading and writing are the primary skills that the students work on. Very little attention is given to speaking and listening and the roles of the teacher are very traditional.”

(Source: LARSEN-FREEMAN, D. Techniques and Principles in language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Adapted).

The English language is a dynamic phenomenon. Like your mobile phone or the grass in the garden, it is continually ___________, constantly acquiring new characteristics. Many of these changes occur because of the way we live. As the world __________ we need to find different ways of describing it, to fill the gaps in our vocabulary for new ideas.

Some of these words will stay in our vocabulary, others won‟t. Only time will tell. But the ways we ____________ new words will continue, and will create many more new expressions in years to ______________.

(Kerry Maxwell. Brave New Words: a language lover‟s guide to the 21st century. In: Global Pre-intermediate coursebook. Clandfield, L. Oxford: Macmillan, 2010.)

   When we think of people who have taught us, we can, perhaps, remember times when they stood at the front of the class and told us things; there may have been times when we were working in groups and they came to help us; or perhaps sometimes we were working on our own and the teacher didn‟t seem to be doing very much at all. (...)

   Teachers are at all times FACILITATORS of learning. This means that we must always do everything we can to make learning happen smoothly and appropriately or the learners.

   We need to be CONTROLLERS when we are explaining things, taking the class register for telling the students what to do. This often involves standing at the front of the class and being very clear.

 We often act as PROMPTERS, pushing students to make new sentences and encouraging them to speak when they are reluctant. We can offer words and phrases to help them say what they want to say.

  We often act as FEEDBACK PROVIDERS when we correct students‟ mistakes, make a comment on what they have said or praise their efforts.

 We should remember, too, that one of the teacher‟s most important jobs is COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT PROVIDER to the students, speaking to them in ways that will help their language acquisition.

(Source: Harmer, J. Essential Teacher Knowledge: core concepts in English language teaching, p. 146. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2012. (Adapted.)