Questões de Língua Inglesa

About teacher’s role in the following language teaching methods or approaches, choose the correct alternative.

• A.

  Audiolingual – He is the primary source of comprehensible input. He must create positive low-anxiety climate. He must choose and orchestrate a rich mixture of classroom activities.

• B.

  Total Physical Response – He is a facilitator of the communication process, participants’ tasks, and texts; process manager.

• C.

  Community Language Learning – Counseling / parental analogy. He provides a safe environment in which students can learn and grow.

• D.

  The Natural Approach – He provides model, control directions and pace.

• E.

  Suggestopedia – Active and direct role; “the director of a stage play” with students as actors.

The author creates in the reader's mind the distinct impression that her father was

• A.

  an overprotective and controlling individual who wanted to be an integral part in all aspects of his daughter's life.

• B.

  prudish parent who persistently demanded that his daughter be or appear to be very prim, proper, modest and righteous at all times.

• C.

  a paranoid father who refused to let go, and clamped her down with hard and fast rules and strict discipline.

• D.

  a doting father whose motto could very well be "Spare the rod, spoil the child".

• E.

  a caring parent who was well-aware of the peculiar atmosphere that pervaded college campuses in the late '70s: permissive, in a state of constant political unrest, and overindulgent in terms of drinking.

Text VI, for questions from 34 through 38.

In the fragment “Teaching ESL to school-age children, therefore, is not merely a matter of setting them loose on a plethora of authentic language tasks in the classroom.”,

• A.

  “Teaching” is a gerund which was used as the object of a sentence.

• B.

  the comma before “therefore” can be correctly replaced by a period.

• C.

  “merely” is the same as recently.

• D.

  “plethora” is a noun which has as antonym surplus.

• E.

  there is an acronym.

The overall view the author outlines of late '70s South Africa is

• A.

  unduly optimistic, coloured by the typically unattainable idealism of young people.

• B.

  predictably hopelessly distorted by the author's white middle-class background and petit bourgeois values.

• C.

  inherently flawed and, therefore, pointless for it fails to place the country in a broader regional, African, or world context.

• D.

  basically descriptive and provides information about a politically, socially, and racially unequal and unfair society poised on the verge of momentous changes.

• E.

  oddly detached and unemotional due, perhaps, to the fact that she can only sympathize with the oppressed black population's plight up to a point.

Based on the text, judge — right (C) or wrong (E) — the items below.

The highly professional sense of Fallaci as a journalist in search of truth made her avoid any sort of tricks in approaching her interviewees, both powerful figures and common people.

• C.

• E.

Based on the text, judge — right (C) or wrong (E) — the items below.

Fallaci had either been a heavy smoker or had smoked for a long time.

• C.

• E.

Based on the text, judge — right (C) or wrong (E) — the items below.

Fallaci exploited Kissinger's somewhat big ego to trick him into making some public statements he would later regret.

• C.

• E.

According to the authors,

• A.

  businesses only prosper if they strictly adopt their Plan A.

• B.

  most famous companies fail because their leaders never stick to their original plan.

• C.

  it is necessary to be faithful to the first business plan and wait for customers to respond.

• D.

  some currently successful companies had to give up their initial plans for alternative business models.

• E.

  companies always fail when they decide to adopt their Plan B as a shortcut to their original business strategy.

Based on the text, judge — right (C) or wrong (E) — the items below.

Kissinger seems to suggest that Fallaci was not entirely professionally ethical or honest when dealing with the interview he had granted her.

• C.

• E.

Google, Starbucks and PayPal are mentioned in paragraph 1 (lines 1-8) since they

• A.

  are the only well-known companies in America nowadays.

• B.

  represent companies which have never delivered high returns to the investors.

• C.

  are examples of companies which made significant alterations to their original business plans.

• D.

  illustrate the kind of businesses that remained loyal to their original plans and fought for results.

• E.

  have founders who have been on the cover of Fortune magazine and are the world’s richest men.