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1. “…It´s a deeply human and humanizing…” (Paragraph 11)
2. “…About those flickering flames brought…” (Paragraph 12)
The words, in bold, above reflect the concept of:
The phoneme /m/ occurs both in English and in Portuguese however, when in different positions, it can be mispronounced by Brazilian students in words like:
(Source: Godoy, Gontow & Marcelino. English pronunciation for Brazilians: the sounds of American English. São Paulo: Disal, 2006. P.61)
The phonetic transcription (BrEng) [ˈlʌv ˈɪz ðə ˈməʊst ˈsʌtᵊl ˈpaʊə ˈɪn ðə ˈwɜːld] means:
In English, “Voiced Dental Fricative” is the description for the phoneme:
Instruction: Answer to questions 38 to 47 based on the text below. The Highlights throughout the text are cited in the questions.
Caribou
01 ____Large hoofed animals belonging to the deer family, caribou and reindeer are actually the
02 same species — Rangifer tarandus. There are differences between caribou and reindeer though.
03 Caribou are native to North America, whereas reindeer are native to northern Europe and Asia.
04 Alaska does have some reindeer, however, imported from Siberia in the late 19th and early 20th
05 centuries.
06 ____Some people use the term "reindeer" to refer to domesticated work animals, such as those
07 pulling Santa's sleigh, but there are both wild and domestic herds of reindeer. Caribou, on the
08 other hand, are wild-living and long-migrating. Indigenous groups herd reindeer and use them for
09 their meat. That's also likely why reindeer evolved to be stockier than caribou.
10 ____Caribou make one of the world's great large-animal migrations. As summer approaches,
11 they head north along well-trod annual routes. Some herds may travel more than 600 miles to
12 get to their summer grazing grounds. They'll spend the summer months feeding on the abundant
13 grasses and plants of the tundra. This is also when they give birth. When the first snows fall each
14 year, the caribou turn back south. Herds of female caribou, called cows, leave several weeks
15 before the males, which follow with yearling calves from the previous birthing season.
16 ____They are taller and lankier than reindeer, likely because they evolved to make these long
17 migrations. They are the only deer in which males and females both have antlers—though only
18 some females have them. Cows have one calf each year, which can stand after only a few minutes
19 and move on with its mother by the next day.
20 ____Caribou are classified as vulnerable to extinction, one step above endangered. Because
21 they're migratory, changes in the landscape, such as the appearance of new fences or other
22 human development on their migration routes, can be especially disruptive. Climate change is
23 also a threat. As the Arctic warms, they become more susceptible to diseases and parasites,
24 which could quickly spread through a herd.
(Available in: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/caribou – text adapted especially
for this test).
Why is there a hyphen in “large-animal migrations” (l. 10)?
Read the following paragraph:
The communicative .......................... in language teaching starts from a .......................... of language as communication. The goal of language teaching is to communicative competence.
Choose the alternative that contains the correct missing words:
Analyze the sentences below according to structure and grammar use.
1. The words earlier and older, in the first paragraph are examples of the comparative of superiority form.
2. The word everyone, in the first line, can be replaced by everybody without changing its meaning.
3. The negative form of the sentence This learning needs to work for everyone is These learnings needs to work for everyone.
4. The word its, in paragraph 6, refers to the player.
Choose the alternative which presents the correct sentences.
Instruction: answer questions 51 to 58 based on the following text.
Eve Rodsky’s deck of cards could help you find domestic bliss
- Eve Rodsky was fed up. For years she, like many other women, had shouldered the burden
- of invisible labor at home. Rodsky, a Harvard-educated lawyer and organizational management
- specialist who advises families and charitable foundations, was tired of being the “she-fault”
- parent. So, she started a spreadsheet titled “Shit I do.” “After months and months of
- crowdsourcing this beautiful, giant spreadsheet, I sent this to my husband and said, ‘Can’t wait
- to discuss.'”
- Rodsky shared the spreadsheet on Facebook. Soon, she was receiving messages from
- strangers who had seen it, detailing the domestic indignities they faced. She wanted to channel
- that frustration into something productive, and then Rodsky realized she could apply
- organizational management principles to the home. When Sarah Harden, the CEO of the media
- and production company Hello Sunshine, met Rodsky, she realized Rodsky was onto something
- novel. “After 40 to 50 years of talking about the problems, she was working on a solution. [At
- Hello Sunshine], (...) We like to be on the problem-solving end of the conversation rather than
- wallowing” said Harden.
- The result is Rodsky’s book, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too
- Much to Do (and More Life to Live), which came out in October. (Hello Sunshine inked a unique
- deal with Rodsky as a venture partner, which means the company helped sell the book to a
- publisher and will take a cut of its profits.) A key piece of Rodsky’s solution is gamifying the
- notion of fair play with a set of cards. “So this is based on a 100 card game. You’re holding cards
- that represent all that you do for your home and family.”
- The author believes the cards can help couples navigate their domestic balance by helping
- them to talk about home life (which most people don’t do) and take full ownership of the tasks
- (concept, planning, and execution). The ultimate goal of redistributing domestic work, according
- to Rodsky, is to free up time for what she calls “unicorn space” — the stuff that might feel like a
- luxury or pipe dream to most parents. “This is about making time for the things we actually care
- about — who we were before we had kids,” she said. “What are our passions and purpose,
- beyond being a parent and a partner and a worker? The more we spend time arguing about who
- does what, the less time we have for the things that truly matter.”
Adapted from: https://www.fastcompany.com/90425669/eve-rodskys-deck-of-cards-could-help-you-find-domestic-bliss
Find the INCORRECT statement about the sentence “The more we spend time arguing about who does what, the less time we have for the things that truly matter” (l. 27 to 28).
Regarding the voiced and unvoiced ‘th’ sounds /ð,θ/, identify the sequence that is incoherent.
With regards to the vowel sound /әυ/, identify the sequence that is incoherent.
Which one of the following verbs is pronounced with a “t” sound at the end, in opposition to “d” and “id” sounds?
Which one of the following verbs is pronounced with an “id” sound at the end, in opposition to “d” and “t” sounds?
Based on the previous text, judge the following item.
In British English, the words “behavior” and “realize” are
more commonly spelled “behaviour” and “realise”,
respectively.
Based on the text above, judge the following item.
The sentence “Children are not being taught enough about
plants” (in the first paragraph) can be correctly rewritten as
Children are not receiving enough training on plants
without change in its meaning.
Read the text to answer.
In American literature, regionalism refers to works that describe distinctive local geography and culture, and to movements that value smaller-scaled representations of place over representations of broad territorial range. Regionalism emerges from the perception of modern geographic plurality; writers and readers understand a larger unit of space (commonly the national territory) to be diversified at its periphery according to topographical features, economy, history, dialect, and manners. A region is always one among many within a common container, characterized by uneven development between center and periphery. Regionalism indicates that a writer has chosen to focus on one of the areas outside the centers of power, and to organize the work around that region. In American literature, regionalism has been associated with the sketch or short story, although the category can accommodate poetry and the novel. Regionalism’s detractors have treated it as a minor form portraying outdated folkways, more parochial than literature that features a larger spatial scale and cosmopolitan characters. Its defenders reject that evaluation, often arguing that regionalism provided access to female, nonwhite, and rural writers, who used the form in innovative and empowering ways.
(Available in: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com.)
In the segment “Its defenders reject that evaluation, often arguing
that regionalism provided access to female, nonwhite, and rural
writers” ITS refers back to:
FIND OUT THE MEANING OF THE ABBREVIATIONS
(Available in: https://www.liveworksheets.com/hv2889859db.)
Choose the learning purpose and ability the work with the handout is meant to comprise.
Read the text to answer.
A: So, I’ve decided I’m going to go to the bank and ask for a car loan.
B: That sounds like a good idea.
C: Well, you need a car.
B: Right.
A: Anyway, I was wondering if either of you would teach me how to drive.
B: Look, I’m very busy during the week, I'm trying to catch up with my deadline.
C: I’m in the same boat, but there must be a way...
A: What about the weekend? Say, Saturday morning? You both could take turns.
B: Fine with me!
C: Count me in!
The words reproducing pause, hesitation, redundancy, etc
which might or might not be present in abbreviated form
in the dialogue are:
Teacher: Where did you go on the weekend? Student: I went to the park. Teacher: You went to the park? How nice! What did you do? Student: I played soccer. Teacher: You played soccer. Who played soccer with you? Student: My friends from school, my team. Teacher: Your friends from school, your team? Did you like it? Student: I loved it. Teacher: You loved it. Great!
Among the resources of classroom management, teacher’s speech is considered a key element. The repetition produced by the teacher in the above dialogue signals:
In order to produce meaning out of the advertisements, one should activate relations of:
Read the text to answer.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 1
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-selfgoverning or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 8
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
(Available in: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declarationof-human-rights. Adapted.)
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