Questões de Concurso

Based on the Approaches and Methods in English Language Teaching, mark the statements below as true (T) or false (F).

( ) Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is an approach with a theoretical underpinning that a language is for communication.

( ) The Audiolingual Approach is based on a structuralist view of language and draws on the psychology of behaviourism as the basis of its learning theory, employing stimulus and response.

( ) The Lexical Approach is an approach based on the notion that language comprises lexical units (chunks, collocations, and fixed phrases). Grammar is secondary and is acquired through learning these chunks.

( ) The Grammar Translation sees the process of learning a second language as a cognitive task, with learners as intelligent autonomous individuals, who can infer language use from well-structured input.

The statements are, respectively:

Concerning the Future Perfect Continuous, analyze the following items.

I. We use will/shall + have + been + the -ing form of the verb.

II. We use shall only for future time reference with I and we.

III. Shall is more informal and less common than will.

IV. We use the future perfect continuous form when we are looking back to the past from a point in the future and we want to emphasise the length or duration of na activity or event.

Choose the correct answer: 

Analyze the underlined sentences:

I. “Scientists have delivered a final warning on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.”

II. “The comprehensive review of human knowledge of the climate crisis took hundreds of scientists eight years to compile and runs to thousands of pages, but boiled down to one message: act now, or it will be too late.”