Questões de Concurso Sobre inglês

“After the acquisition of their vernacular variety has started, people often also go on to acquire various non-vernacular specialist varieties of language used for special purposes and activities. For example, they may acquire a way of talking (and writing) about fundamentalist Christian theology, video games, or bird-watching. Specialist varieties of language are different—sometimes in small ways, sometimes in large ways—from people’s vernacular varieties of language. One category of specialist varieties of language is what we can call academic varieties of language: that is, the varieties of language connected to learning and using information from academic or school-based content areas (Gee 2002; Schleppegrell 2004; Schleppegrell and Cecilia Colombi 2002). The varieties of language used in (different branches) of biology, physics, law, or literary criticism fall into this category.” (GEE, James Paul. Situated Language and Learning: a critique of traditional schooling. London, Routdlege, 2004.)
Segundo o texto, é correto afirmar que:

“Do poor children have less ‘language ability’ than rich ones? The way the term is being used above certainly makes it sound as if they do. But no, they don’t. Linguists have known for years that all children—including poor children—have impressive language ability. The vast majority of children enter school with vocabularies fully fit for everyday life, with complex grammar and with deep understandings of experiences and stories. It has been decades since anyone believed that poor and minority children entered school with ‘no language’ (Labov, 1972; Gee, 1996). Every human being, barring those with very serious disorders, acquires a complex native language early in life, a language fully fit for the task of leading daily life in a human culture.” (GEE, James Paul. Situated Language and Learning: a critique of traditional schooling. London, Routdlege, 2004.)
Assinale a afirmativa coerente com o texto.

“The ‘fourth-grade slump’ (Chall et al. 1990) is the phenomenon where some children seem to acquire reading (i.e. pass reading tests) fine in the early grades, but fail to be able to use reading to learn school content in the later grades, when the language demands of that content (e.g. science) get more and more complex. The fourth-grade slump is made up of kids who can ‘read,’ in the sense of decode and assign superficial literal meanings to texts, but can’t ‘read’ in the sense of understanding, in any deep way, informational texts written in fairly complex language. From remarks like the one quoted above, it would certainly seem that the problems poor and minority children have with learning to read must lie, for the most part, some place else than a lack of early phonemic awareness training or other early ‘basic skills’ training. The fourth-grade slump tells us this much (because here we see kids who have mastered early reading skills of the sorts traditionalists stress, but still can’t read to learn in the later grades).” (GEE, James Paul. Situated Language and Learning: a critique of traditional schooling. London, Routdlege, 2004.)
Quando o aprendiz apenas decodifica um texto, podemos afirmar que:

As práticas de leitura de textos em Língua Inglesa (verbais, verbo-visuais, multimodais) envolvem articulação com os conhecimentos prévios dos alunos em língua materna e em outras línguas. Assinale, a seguir, um objeto de conhecimento específico do eixo Leitura.

Study the following sentence:
“Perhaps they were detected as flaws in a product’s quality caused inadvertently by one or more workers trying to keep pace with production demands that should not have been placed on them.”
1. the word ‘trying’ is being used in the sentence as a continuous verb. 2. the tense used in: ‘were detected, is the passive voice. 3. the word ‘flaws’ means ‘imperfections’. 4. in ‘product’s quality’, the (‘s) indicates possession.
Choose the alternative which presents the correct ones.

Analyze the sentences according to structure and grammar use.
1. ‘…a machine has broken…’ is written in the present perfect tense. 2. The negative form of: ‘a machine has broken...’, is: ‘…a machine doesn’t have broken …’ 3. The words in bold in ”… clearly, little is getting through.” and “…more workers trying to keep pace with production…” are in the present progressive tense. 4. The negative form of “…and the remedy follows easily.” is “and the remedy doesn’t follow easily.”
Choose the alternative which presents the correct ones.

The plural form of the word ‘analysis’, is:

The underlined word in “Perhaps they were detected as flaws in a product’s quality caused inadvertently by one…”, has its correct synonym in which alternative?

The underlined word in “Or, they may be caused by missing parts.”, is being used to express:

The phrasal verb creep up in paragraph 3, is closest in meaning to:

In the sentence “Such bottlenecks creep up on management and demand more thorough investigation.“, the underlined words refer to the ones:

We can conclude from the last paragraph of the text that subtle bottlenecks are the ones that:

In the sentence “Such bottlenecks creep up on management and demand more thorough investigation.”, the word in bold, means:

Study the following sentence:
“… with production demands that should not have been placed on them.”
The underlined words are being used to express:

The underlined word in the following sentence:
“Perhaps they were detected as flaws in a product’s quality…”
Can be replaced by which word without changing its meaning?

One of the causes for bottlenecks be stationary is:

Which of the sentences below best describes the word Bottleneck according to the text:

The word management in paragraph 3, is closest in meaning to:

The infinitive form for thrown, is:

The word they in paragraph 1, refers to: