Questões de Concurso Sobre inglês

Examine the following statements about the text 'Whose home language matters':?

I. The bilingual education mentioned in the text purposes one should learn two languages perfectly in order to succeed in different linguistic and cultural contexts, which supports the need for studying English from early school years, as it is in Brazil.

II. The Curriculum of Pernambuco agrees with the view of the South African-Israeli man when he says immigrants should "melt", since becoming used to other cultures and languages involves overcoming aspects of both.

Choose the CORRECT answer:

Examine the following stratements about the text ‘Whose home language matters?':

I. In the sentence: 'A South African-Israeli, whom we had only Jjustmet socialy, engaged her in conversation about language issues in the US', the word in bold acts as the subject in the clause it introduces.

II. In the sentence: 'She is a qualified bilingual educator, who is known internationally for her work in bilingual and multicultural education’, the word in bold should be changed to 'whom'.

IlI. In the sentence: 'his taken-for-granted view of language as well as his stereotype of Latinas’, the idiom in bold can be changed to ‘imaginable’ since both have the same meaning.

Choose the CORRECT answer:

Examina the following statements abput the text "Whose home language matters?":

l. The South African-Israeli man expressed his view of the need for migrants to learn English as a requisite to stay in the US because he thought Dr. Nieto was a white woman, not a Latina.

Il Dr. Nieto is likely to agree with the opinion of the South African-Israeli man, considering her studies on bilingual education.

lll. The South African-Israeli man believes Spanish migrants in the US can be more successful if they speak English as a second language.

Choose the CORRECT answer:

Sobre uma abordagem comunicativa no ensino de línguas, assinale a alternativa correta.

Choose the alternative where there is an odd word in the sequence.

Qual das alternativas a seguir apresenta sintaxe correta da língua inglesa padrão?

Leia o texto:

"The second planet from the sun has an atmosphere stifled by carbon dioxide gas, and surface temperatures that average more than 800 degrees Fahrenheit. The dense atmosphere of Venus exerts a pressure of more than 1,300 pounds per square inch on anything at the surface. That is more than 90 times the 14.7 pounds per square inch at sea level on Earth, or the equivalent to being 3,000 feet underwater in the ocean. It is hardly a place that makes visiting or research easy."

Os números sublinhados se referem, respectivamente, a:

Leia o texto a seguir:

"Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2021, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. Now, billions of dollars were invested in preventing the overflow. However, a strong similarity between Ida and Katrina still emerged: Low-income communities and communities of color remain at high risk from hurricanes."

Escolha a alternativa cuja pergunta não pode ser respondida após a leitura do excerto acima.

Read the following excerpt:

“Just as friends and loved ones were gathering to celebrate Thanksgiving and kick off the holiday season, a very unwelcome visitor showed up on the scene: omicron, a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19. Scientists in South Africa reported the coronavirus variant early last week, and the World Health Organization named it a “variant of concern” days later.”

The underlined IT refers to:

Sobre o ensino de Língua Inglesa no contexto brasileiro, escolha a alternativa correta.

Murders of environment and land defenders hit record high

Figures from Global Witness for 2020 show violent resource grab continued unabated despite pandemic

Deforestation in Colombia, the country that had the largest number of people killed while trying to protect forests, rivers and ecosystems in 2020. Photograph: Raúl Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images

Murders of environment and land defenders hit a record high last year as the violent resource grab in the global south continued unabated despite the pandemic.

New figures released by Global Witness show that 227 people were killed in 2020 while trying to protect forests, rivers and other ecosystems that their livelihoods depended on.

All but one of the deadly attacks took place outside North America, Europe and Oceania. The authors say environment-related conflict is, like the climate crisis, disproportionately affecting lower-income nations. Indigenous communities suffered more than a third of the killings, despite accounting for only 5% of the world population.

Fonte:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/13/murders-environment-land-defenders-record-high

De acordo com o texto, é possível afirmar que:

Prefixes and suffixes are elements of word formation. Choose the alternative that identifies and defines the prefix of the word transgender.

STUDENT OPINION

How Does Social Media Affect Your Mental Health?

Facebook has delayed the development of an Instagram app for children amid questions about its harmful effects on young people’s mental health. Does social media have an impact on your well-being?

By Nicole Daniels Oct. 1, 2021

What is your relationship with social media like? Which platforms do you spend the most time on? Which do you stay away from? How often do you log on?

What do you notice about your mental health and wellbeing when spending time on social networks?

In “Facebook Delays Instagram App for Users 13 and Younger,” Adam Satariano and Ryan Mac write about the findings of an internal study conducted by Facebook and what they mean for the Instagram Kids app that the company was developing:

Facebook said on Monday that it had paused development of an Instagram Kids service that would be tailored for children 13 years old or younger, as the social network increasingly faces questions about the app’s effect on young people’s mental health.

The pullback preceded a congressional hearing this week about internal research conducted by Facebook, and reported in The Wall Street Journal, that showed the company knew of the harmful mental health effects that Instagram was having on teenage girls. The revelations have set off a public relations crisis for the Silicon Valley company and led to a fresh round of calls for new regulation.

Facebook said it still wanted to build an Instagram product intended for children that would have a more “age appropriate experience,” but was postponing the plans in the face of criticism.

Fonte: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/learning/how-does-social-media-affect-your-mental-health.html

The word “increasingly”, as used in the text, is an example of:

Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love.

BY _ GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI

Do not care if you bring only your light body.

Would just be so happy to sit at the table

and talk about the menu. Miss you.

Wish we could bet which chilis they’ll put

on the cubes of tofu. Our favorite.

Sometimes green. Sometimes red. Roasted

we always thought. But so cold and fresh.

How did they do it? Wish you could be here

to talk about it like it was so important.

Wish you could. Watched you on the screens

as I was walking, as I was cooking. Wished you

could get out of the hospital. Can’t

bring myself to order our dish and eat it

in the car. Miss you laughing. Miss

you coming in from the cold or one

too many meetings. Laughing. I’ll order

already. I’ll order seven helpings, some

dumplings, those cold yam noodles that you

like. You can come in your light

body or skeleton or be invisible I don’t even

care. Know you have a long way to travel.

Know I don’t even know if it’s long

at all. Wish you could tell me. What

you’re reading. If you’re reading.

Miss you. I’m at the table in the back.

Fonte:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/156434/miss-you-would-like-to-grab-that-chilled-tofu-we-love

The preposition “about” highlighted in the poem means:

What climate scientists can teach us about dealing with climate change doom

By Joe Whitwell (BBC News)

"It's a kind of hopelessness I guess. Helplessness," says Ross Simpson, 22, from Glasgow. He's telling me how he and his friends feel about stopping the worst effects of climate change.

The warnings keep coming of more heatwaves, droughts, floods, and global temperatures going up and up and up. Seeing so many negative stories in the news only makes Ross feel worse. Like many, he worries it's already too late.

"What difference does changing your lifestyle actually make in the grand scheme of things? Why do anything, if we're all doomed anyway?"

Noor Elmasry, 22, has been having similar conversations with her friends across the Atlantic, in Chicago. "I think a lot of the frustration manifests from seeing people in power just constantly disappoint you," she says.

Their feelings are shared by young people around the world. In a recent survey, 10,000 young people were asked about climate change. Three quarters said the future of the world was frightening, while more than half said they thought humanity was doomed.

Feelings of fear, shame, guilt, anger and frustration have been given a name: climate anxiety. And it's on the rise.

Fonte: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58756143

A palavra “while”, destacada no artigo jornalístico acima, pode ser traduzida sem alteração de sentido no texto, da seguinte forma:

Imagine que você é a mãe do garoto da charge, e está reportando a uma amiga o que seu filho acaba de dizer. A alternativa que faz uso do Reported Speech corretamente para comunicar a fala da mãe é:

fonte: https://www.englishact.com.br/2016/05/atividade-com-charge-em-ingles.html

Leia o trecho da canção “You Gotta Be” da cantora Des’ree e escolha a alternativa correta.

Listen as your day unfolds

Challenge what the future holds

Try and keep your head up to the sky

Lovers, they may cause you tears

Go ahead, release your fears

Stand up and be counted

Don't be ashamed to cry

You gotta be

You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold, you gotta be wiser

You gotta be hard, you gotta be tough, you gotta be

stronger

You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm, you gotta stay

together

All I know, all I know, love will save the day

Fonte: https://english.elpais.com/spain/2021-10-05/how-lava-from-the-la-palma-volcano-turned-a-beloved-beach-into-the-newest-territory-on-earth.html

É possível afirmar que o trecho “The platform that has been formed by the molten rock off the coast of the Spanish Canary Island”:

Escolha a alternativa que corretamente completa a sentença abaixo.

Every night ______________ eating before 10 p.m.

Leia o trecho do discurso “Ain’t I a Woman?” de autoria de Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883) e assinale a alternativa correta.

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?"