31 Q479864
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2014
Banca: Centro de Produção da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CEPERJ)
An idiom has been defined as a lexical item (usually a phrase or a clause) whose meaning cannot be derived from the sum of its parts. The idiom in “summer is just around the corner” (line 1-2) means that “summer is:
32 Q479768
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2014
Banca: Centro de Produção da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (CEPERJ)
Questions 21 to 28 address both the teaching of English as a foreign language and the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais – PCN. Read them and mark the right alternative: The PCN have adopted a view of learning which sees it as the product of the often asymmetrical relationship between a learner and a more competent peer. This view is also called:
33 Q479788
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2013
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

34 Q479786
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2013
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

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.

35 Q479785
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2013
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

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.

36 Q479783
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2013
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

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

37 Q479794
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2012
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

Based on the text, judge the items from 66 through 72.

Different learners have different communicative requirements which should be reflected in the content of the curriculum.

38 Q479793
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2012
Banca: Instituto Nacional de Educação (CETRO)

It is possible to affirm that text A

39 Q479790
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2012
Banca: Instituto Nacional de Educação (CETRO)

Read the sentence below and choose the correct alternative to fill in the blank.

______, play by the Irish poet and writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), was first staged in London in 1895.

40 Q618137
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada
¨DThe teacher stands outside a circle of students and helps them say what they want to say by translating, suggesting or amending the students¡® utterances. These utterances are recorded so that they can be analyzed later.¡¬ This paragraph describes a lesson given according to the principles of:
41 Q618136
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada
Role plays and simulations are popular activities in:
42 Q618135
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada

Put the stages of a listening lesson plan in order by numbering them 1 - 8. Then, choose the alternative that presents the correct order.

( ) The teacher tells students the title of the story – ‗A long journey‘.

( ) Students listen for gist to see if their predictions were right, and the class discuss their answers with the teacher.

( ) The teacher gives students comprehension questions to read.

( ) Students brainstorm words connected with journeys.

( ) Students listen for specific information.

( ) In pairs, students check their answers.

( ) Students use their answers to re-tell the story in pairs.

( ) The teacher gives students a list of words from a story about a journey. Students check which of their words are i...

43 Q618134
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada

The following plan describes a lesson which integrates skills and language work. Number the stages in the correct order and then choose the alternative that presents the correct order.

( ) Students read a text about a Chinese couple who lives in London.

( ) Students look for any language in the text that describes physical appearance.

( ) Students listen to a dialogue about a police line-up before role playing police officers questioning witnesses.

( ) Students answer comprehension questions about the text.

( ) Students write physical descriptions of classmates. Class has to guess who they are writing about.

( ) Students rewrite the text as if the character approved of his wife‘s appearance.

( ) Students complete a questionna...

44 Q618133
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada
What is it that makes a text difficult to read?
45 Q618132
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada
In a writing lesson, teacher needs to deploy some or all of the usual roles. However, three of them are especially important. These roles are:
46 Q618131
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada

Using audio material in class has a number of advantages and disadvantages. Write "for advantage and " for disadvantage. Then choose the alternative that displays the correct sequence.

( ) Audio material is portable.

( ) Everyone has to listen at the same speed.

( ) Learners are prevented from interacting with the speakers.

( ) Audio material provides a variety of different voices and situations.

( ) Listening to a CD player is not a natural occupation.

47 Q618130
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada

Which intelligences will be tackled in the activity described below?

"Teacher tells students a riddle and asks them to solve it in pairs".

48 Q618129
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada
Tests which are designed to measure learners‘ language and skill progress in relation to the syllabus they have been following are called:
49 Q618128
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada
¨DThere is a biologically determined period of life when language can be acquired more easily and beyond which time language is increasingly difficult to acquire.¡¬ This statement describes a hypothesis to language acquisition called:
50 Q618127
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada
One of the arguments against "the younger the better" statement in SLA (Second Language Acquisition) is that:
51 Q618126
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada

The statements below describe different issues in second language acquisition. Write " if the statement is TRUE and ¨"if the statement is FALSE. Then choose the alternative that displays the correct sequence.

( ) It is as difficult to ¨Dget at¡¬ linguistic competence in a second language as it is in a first.

( ) The inability to produce an item also means an inability to comprehend the item.

( ) Adults and children alike appear to have the capacity to acquire a second language at any age. ( ) The variability of second language acquisition is affected by the same variables that are applicable to first language acquisition.

( ) Input is more important to second language learners than it is to first language learners.

52 Q618125
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada
When learners foreignize words (pronounce them as if was an L2 word), which competence are they resorting to?
53 Q618124
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada
Which of the factors below has contributed most to the spread of English around the world?
54 Q618123
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2011
Banca: Banca não informada
According to Kachru (1985), the world of English can be described in terms of three circles. The outer circle contains countries where english is:
55 Q705310
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)
As far as the practice of language teaching is concerned, judge the items below. Successful teachers should aim at, among other things, lowering their students’ inhibitions, encouraging them to take risks in learning, building their self-confidence, and helping them strengthen their intrinsic motivation.
56 Q705309
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)
As far as the practice of language teaching is concerned, judge the items below. In the process of teaching a foreign language, communicative competence is best achieved when accuracy takes priority over fluency.
57 Q705308
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)
As far as the practice of language teaching is concerned, judge the items below. Discovery techniques encourage students to “discover” facts about grammar and grammatical usage on their own: teachers give students examples of language and ask them to find out how they work. This approach is more studentcentered.
58 Q705307
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)
As far as the practice of language teaching is concerned, judge the items below. It is important to teach a student how to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words based on the context in which they appear. It is crucial to effective reading.
59 Q705306
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)
As far as the practice of language teaching is concerned, judge the items below. Teachers of English as a Foreign Language should try hard to persuade their students to get rid of any traces of native language accent from their English.
60 Q705305
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)
As far as the practice of language teaching is concerned, judge the items below. As far as oral production is concerned, a teacher should focus his/her attention especially on mistakes that lead to misunderstanding.
61 Q705304
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)
As far as the practice of language teaching is concerned, judge the items below. Adults are more likely to be affected by the interference of their first language on the second. As a matter of fact, mother tongue interference in adults can sometimes be a facilitating factor.
62 Q705303
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)
As far as the practice of language teaching is concerned, judge the items below. All languages reflect and are closely related to a psychological, social, and cultural reality for their speakers. For this reason, when teaching a foreign language, teachers should not impose a foreign value system on their students — they must break down barriers of communication but preserve diversity among people.
63 Q479851
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

According to the text, judge the following items.

Reading is another specialization language teachers find together.

64 Q479849
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

According to the text, judge the following items.

Modern language teachers hardly ever have to serve as reading skill teachers.

65 Q479847
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

According to the text, judge the following items.

Reading has been considered an important subject.

66 Q479846
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

According to the text, judge the following items.

Reading has become an important concern in second language programs, but not in foreign language programs.

67 Q479844
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

According to the text, judge the following items.

Reading is the main objective in countries where English is taught as a second language.

68 Q479842
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

According to the text, judge the following items.

Reading and writing skills are relevant to be taught at the secondary and postsecondary levels.

69 Q479841
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

According to the text, judge the following items.

In Brazil, the main goal of students who take ESL classes is to speak English fluently, without any foreign accent.

70 Q479839
Língua Inglesa
Ano: 2007
Banca: Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos UnB (CESPE)

According to the text, judge the following items.

Teaching English for reading in its own right has remained unchangeable all along the years.