Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2013

The text starts by citing data revealing that

• A. the planet has not been getting warmer in the past 15 years.
• B. average temperatures are lower now than they were 20 years ago.
• C. the rate of temperature rises has eased off in recent years.
• D. 20 years ago temperatures were signifi cantly higher.
• E. in the past 15 years temperatures have leveled off.

• A.

  Teachers should consider organization while also working on grammar and syntax.

• B.

  Students should be given time to try out ideas and feedback on the content of what they write in their drafts.

• C.

  Students should be first given sentence exercises, then paragraphs to copy or manipulate grammatically by changing questions to statements.

• D.

  Only after reaching a high intermediate or advanced level of proficiency are students allowed to try some free compositions.

• E.

  Teachers should stress quantity of writing rather than quality.

Considering that responding to students’ writing is very much a part of the process of teaching writing, choose the correct option about the theory concerning the way teachers should respond to students’ writing in the process writing approach.

• A.

  In responding to students’ writings, teachers should mark all errors, even those which do not interfere with communication.

• B.

  Responding to students’ writing is a task which should be tacked onto the end of a teaching sequence only.

• C.

  Rewriting, editing and proofreading are common patterns of sequence in writing classes.

• D.

  In responding to a student’s piece of writing, the teacher’s main job is to pass judgment on its quality.

• E.

  Errors in writing constitute one of the biggest problems of composition teaching.

Based on the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais issued by the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture in 1998 (Secretaria de Educação Fundamental, 1998), choose the correct option.

• A.

  The policies presented in the publication do not comprise the development of critical thinking.

• B.

  The document proposes a curriculum which provides students with opportunities for acting in the world through discourses mainly offered by their mother tongue.

• C.

  According to the new curricular parameters, language use is essentially determined by its sociointeractional nature, and meaning is dialogic.

• D.

  The document focuses on traditional pedagogies by investing in the development of multicultural principles that can inform pedagogic work.

• E.

  The document emphasizes skills development and focuses on standardized content.

The Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais issued by the Brazilian Ministry of Education and Culture states that

• A.

  the teaching of foreign languages, as it happens in relation to other subjects, is the school’s responsibility, and it is there that it should take place.

• B.

  the language curriculum should focus on the development of as many skills related to the target language as possible, thus preparing students for college admission exams.

• C.

  teachers should emphasize the teaching of writing in detriment to other abilities, due to the few opportunities the population has to use foreign languages as an instrument for oral communication, inside or outside the country.

• D.

  teachers should enable students to develop oral abilities as well as reading and writing.

• E.

  the focus on teaching students how to develop their writing abilities in the foreign language could serve purposes, such as helping them overcome difficulties they may be facing in their own language when it comes to reading tasks.

The expression indie workers, found in lines 10 and 90, refers to

• A.

  retired civil servants

• B.

  lazy businessmen aiming for profit

• C.

  self-employed independent professionals

• D.

  expert employees at international organizations

• E.

  workaholic employers in large companies

In the fragments “and to seek out collaboration within and across fields” (lines 36-37) and “the grouplet came up with a campaign based on posting episodes” (lines 65- 66), the expressions seek out and came up with mean, respectively,

• A.

  get rid of / banned

• B.

  search for / produced

• C.

  come upon / discarded

• D.

  turn down / devised

• E.

  track down / excluded

In the text, the word in italics describes the idea expressed by the boldfaced word in

• A.

  argued (line 8) - asked

• B.

  actually (line 10) - really

• C.

  talented (line 13) - unskilled

• D.

  income (line 16) - input

• E.

  path (line 17) - origin

The failures of Latin American education systems have been pointed out by

• A.

  students

• B.

  the job market

• C.

  the private sector business

• D.

  a team of education researchers

• E.

  business leaders such as Marina Bassi and Jaime Vargas

Based on the meanings in the text, the boldfaced verbal expression describes the same as the verb in:

• A.

  giving up (line 55) - resisting

• B.

  puts it (line 57) - says

• C.

  to catch up with (lines 58-59) - to leave

• D.

  rely on (lines 60-61) - divide

• E.

  put up with (line 68) - test