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    For years attention has been paid to so-called communicative tests – usually implying tests dealing with speaking. More recently, efforts have been made to design truly communicative tests of other language skills as well, such as reading comprehension.

    Canale (1984) points out that a good test is not just one which is valid, reliable, and practical in terms of test administration and scoring, but rather one that is accepted as fair, important and interesting by test takers (the teachers) and test users (the students). Also, a good test has feedback potential, rewarding both teachers and students with clear, rich, relevant, and generalizable information. Canale suggests that acceptability and feedback potential have often been accorded low priority, thus explaining the curious phenomenon of multiple-choice tests claiming to assess oral interaction skills.

    One example of a communicative test has been referred to as a “storyline” test. In such a test, a common theme runs throughout in order to assess the effects of context. The basis for such an approach is that the respondents learn as they read on, that they check previous content, and that the ability to use language in conversation or writing depends in large measure on the skill of picking up information from past discussion and using it in formulating new strategies.

    Swain (1984), for example, developed a storyline test of French as a foreign language for high school French immersion students. The test consisted of six tasks around a common theme, “finding summer employment”. There were four writing tasks (a letter, a note, a composition, a technical exercise) and two speaking tasks (a group discussion and a job interview). The test was designed so that the topic would be motivating to the students and so that there would be enough information provided in order to give the tasks credibility. There was access to dictionaries and reference material, and opportunity for students to review and revise their work. Swain’s main concern was to “bias for best” in the construction of the test – to make every effort to support the respondent in doing their best on the test.


(Andrew D.Cohen. Second Language Assessment. IN: Marianne Celce-Murcia(ed). Teaching English as a second or foreign language. Boston, Massachusstes: Heinle&Heinle. 2nd edition. 2001. Adaptado)

“Phenomenon”, in the second paragraph, and “basis” in the third, are pluralized as “phenomena” and “bases”, respectively. A number of other English words also have irregular plurals.
Mark the alternative in which a singular noun is correctly followed by its plural form.
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A questão cobra conhecimento gramatical e de vocabulário, especificamente sobre plurais irregulares.


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Mark the alternative in which a singular noun is correctly followed by its plural form. = Marque a alternativa em que um substantivo no singular é seguido corretamente por sua forma plural.

Em Inglês há várias palavras cujo plural é irregular, ou seja, não é formado apenas com o acréscimo de "s" ou "es". Por exemplo:

O plural de person é people. - pessoa-pessoas
O plural de mouse é mice. - rato-ratos
O plural de child é children. - criança - crianças
O plural de man é men. - homem - homens
O plural de foot é feet. - pé - pés


Analisando as alternativas teremos:


A) ERRADO - specie – species. (espécie)
As formas singular e plural são iguais: species


B) ERRADO - sheep – sheepies. (ovelha)
As formas singular e plural são iguais: sheep


C) ERRADO - people – peoples. (pessoa)
A forma singular é person.


D) CORRETO - datum – data. (dado, informação)
Palavras latinas utilizadas na Língua Inglesa.


E) ERRADO - crises – crisis. (crise)
A forma singular é crisis e a forma plural é crises


Pensando em seu crescimento enquanto candidato e também em seus conhecimentos gerais, eu não poderia deixar de acrescentar um comentário: Embora o uso esmagador da palavra PEOPLE seja como "pessoas", plural de PERSON, existe a palavra PEOPLE significando "um povo" e neste caso o substantivo é contável e admite o plural PEOPLES (povos). Portanto, se fôssemos ser extremamente criteriosos, essa questão deveria ser anulada por conter 2 respostas corretas. Porém, são poucas as pessoas que têm conhecimento deste segundo uso da palavra PEOPLE.


Gabarito do professor: Letra D, com ressalvas.



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Alguém sabe dizer se ambas as alternativas "a" e "d" estão corretas?

colocando cambrigde dictionary vc entende as diferenças, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pt/dicionario/ingles/species

In both the original Latin and in English “species” is the spelling of both the singular and plural forms. Amphiprion ocellaris is one species of clownfish. Many species of fish are endangered by overfishing.

Specie is a technical term referring to the physical form of money, particularly coins.

fonte - Common Errors in English Usage - 3rd ed.

Já na letra C, eu acredito que caberia recurso... Existe sim o plural de PEOPLE, que significaria POVOS...

When you refer to the people of a single ethnic group or nationality, always use the word people.

The people of China no longer need to abide by the one-child policy.Emmanuel Macron was elected by the people of France on May 7, 2017.

“We here highly resolve that government of the people, for the people, and by the people will not perish from the earth.” (Abraham Lincoln)

Peoples is only used in cases when it is necessary to distinguish between ethnic groups within the same geographical or cultural context.

The Israeli and Palestinian peoples have long been at war.The peoples of the world practice a wide variety of religions.

Gabarito D - datum – data.

species é singular e plural

já povo...povos... "peoples" existe sim, e é plural de people!

people é o plural de person, mas você só vai usar peoples quando tiver MAIS de um people rs

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