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Q2399776 Inglês

Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 48, 49 e 50.


Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day Reporter Who Re-Invented Journalism


The father of modern literary journalism is Cornelius Ryan, whose massive “I was there” coverage of D-Day and its aftermath led to two incredible books and movies, The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far. He was an unlikely war correspondent.

Ryan was on a boat that ditched on Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944. He followed the Allied invasion attached to General Patton’s army. Years later he put together perhaps the best book about war ever written. It was exquisite writing and research, and as Michael Shapiro wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review in 2010, “it broke completely new ground”.

Shapiro wrote, “The book (The Longest Day) was a triumph, earning rave reviews and sales that, within a few years, would stretch into the tens of millions in eighteen different languages. I opened the book on the eve of a long weekend. I was hooked after a single page. Something was taking place in the telling of this story that transcended journalism.”

The book was written when Ryan placed an ad in several newspapers in 1957 which went, “June 6th, 1944: Were You There?” One thousand, one hundred, and fifty people wrote back. And of that group, he interviewed 172 alone or with his assistants. Out of that came a book that puts you at the heart of the greatest invasion of all time. You are there as the invasion forces first gain the beaches and the Germans, taken by surprise, fight back furiously.

Ryan died at just 54 from prostate cancer. On his gravestone in Connecticut is his name and one word: “Reporter.” No one has earned that title more. He deserves to be remembered.


Adapted from https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/cornelius-ryan-irish-dday-reporter.

How many people wrote back when Ryan placed an ad in the newspapers in 1957 (paragraph 4)?

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Q2399774 Inglês

Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 48, 49 e 50.


Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day Reporter Who Re-Invented Journalism


The father of modern literary journalism is Cornelius Ryan, whose massive “I was there” coverage of D-Day and its aftermath led to two incredible books and movies, The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far. He was an unlikely war correspondent.

Ryan was on a boat that ditched on Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944. He followed the Allied invasion attached to General Patton’s army. Years later he put together perhaps the best book about war ever written. It was exquisite writing and research, and as Michael Shapiro wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review in 2010, “it broke completely new ground”.

Shapiro wrote, “The book (The Longest Day) was a triumph, earning rave reviews and sales that, within a few years, would stretch into the tens of millions in eighteen different languages. I opened the book on the eve of a long weekend. I was hooked after a single page. Something was taking place in the telling of this story that transcended journalism.”

The book was written when Ryan placed an ad in several newspapers in 1957 which went, “June 6th, 1944: Were You There?” One thousand, one hundred, and fifty people wrote back. And of that group, he interviewed 172 alone or with his assistants. Out of that came a book that puts you at the heart of the greatest invasion of all time. You are there as the invasion forces first gain the beaches and the Germans, taken by surprise, fight back furiously.

Ryan died at just 54 from prostate cancer. On his gravestone in Connecticut is his name and one word: “Reporter.” No one has earned that title more. He deserves to be remembered.


Adapted from https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/cornelius-ryan-irish-dday-reporter.

In the sentence “...whose massive ‘I was there’ coverage of D-Day…” (paragraph 1), the word whose refers to

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Q2399771 Inglês

Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões 45, 46 e 47.


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Often when mentoring, in a one-to-one session, it will be clear that the mentee’s worst critic is the one they see very regularly – daily, in fact. Often when they are tired and stressed. Often when they are at a low point. It’s the one they look (1)________ the mirror.

I mean most of the time, the worst critic lives inside people’s head. It might be the criticism that you heard at school or college. It might be the voice of so-called friends. It might be a parent or guardian, sibling or perfect cousin. You can’t always shut those voices up. No matter how much you want to. You can, however, recognise that they are internal voices and cultivate a strategy to counteract them.

If you can have an internal critic, you can also have an internal cheerleader. One technique is to give yourself advice that you would give your best friend in that situation. If you’re worrying about not being good (2)________ something, what would you say to your best friend in that state? You’d probably tell them that it would be alright, they’ll sail through it, that you believe (3)________ them. If you can do it for your best friend, you can do it for yourself.


Adapted from https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article.

Choose the most appropriate title for the text.

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Q2385594 Inglês
        “Deste modo, considerar o desenvolvimento de habilidades orais como central no ensino de Língua Estrangeira no Brasil não leva em conta o critério de relevância social para a sua aprendizagem. Com exceção da situação específica de algumas regiões turísticas ou de algumas comunidades plurilíngues, o uso de uma língua estrangeira parece estar, em geral, mais vinculado à leitura de literatura técnica ou de lazer. Note-se também que os únicos exames formais em Língua Estrangeira (vestibular e admissão a cursos de pós-graduação) requerem o domínio da habilidade de leitura. Portanto, a leitura atende, por um lado, às necessidades da educação formal, e, por outro, é a habilidade que o aluno pode usar em seu contexto social imediato. Além disso, a aprendizagem de leitura em Língua Estrangeira pode ajudar o desenvolvimento integral do letramento do aluno. A leitura tem função primordial na escola e aprender a ler em outra língua pode colaborar no desempenho do aluno como leitor em sua língua materna”.



(BRASIL. Secretaria de Educação Fundamental.
Parâmetros curriculares nacionais: terceiro e quarto
ciclos do ensino fundamental: língua estrangeira.
Secretaria de Educação Fundamental. Brasília:
MEC/SEF, 1998, p. 20).
O ensino das quatro habilidades em língua estrangeira, conforme aponta o documento, propicia um desenvolvimento integral das potencialidades dos estudantes. Todavia, há fatores que dificultam o trabalho do professor de língua estrangeira na escola pública. Sendo assim, assinale a alternativa que NÃO apresenta tais fatores.
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Q2385591 Inglês
       “Language teachers may ask themselves why should they bother writing plans for every lesson. Some teachers write down elaborate daily plans; others do the planning inside their heads. Preservice teachers say they write daily lesson plans only because a supervisor, cooperating teacher, or school administrator requires them to do so. After they graduate, many teachers give up writing lesson plans. However, not many teachers enter a classroom without some kind of plan. Lesson plans are systematic records of a teacher’s thoughts about what will be covered during a lesson”.


(RICHARDS, J. C. & RENANDYA, W.A. (Editors). Methodology in Language
Teaching – An Anthology of Current Practice. 14th Ed. Cambridge: CUP,
1986, p. 30).
Lessons plans may be challenging to work on, but they are such a tool to make English teachers more ________________ and they can __________________ problems and solutions before / when they happen.

Choose the alternative that completes the blanks.
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Q2385590 Inglês
       “Language teachers may ask themselves why should they bother writing plans for every lesson. Some teachers write down elaborate daily plans; others do the planning inside their heads. Preservice teachers say they write daily lesson plans only because a supervisor, cooperating teacher, or school administrator requires them to do so. After they graduate, many teachers give up writing lesson plans. However, not many teachers enter a classroom without some kind of plan. Lesson plans are systematic records of a teacher’s thoughts about what will be covered during a lesson”.


(RICHARDS, J. C. & RENANDYA, W.A. (Editors). Methodology in Language
Teaching – An Anthology of Current Practice. 14th Ed. Cambridge: CUP,
1986, p. 30).
The author states that many teachers do not plan their lessons before entering the classrooms. When it comes to such a matter, it is INCORRECT to affirm that designing a lesson plan 
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Q2385589 Inglês
       “While a focus on grammar as a linguistic resource puts a more positive face on the role of grammar in writing instruction, any discussion of this role should include attention to learners’ writing errors, a significant concern for most L2 writing teachers and their students. For decades, studies and debates on the effectiveness of differing types of error correction and, indeed, of error correction at all, have been a major topic in the L2 writing literature. Central in recent debates include the exchanges between Truscott (1996, 2007), who believes that ESL research does not provide evidence showing that error correction improves writers’ accuracy over time, and Ferris (1999, 2011), who, while acknowledging that research base lacks controlled studies on this topic, nevertheless asserts that studies have indicated short-term improvement. Ferris (2011) has further pointed out that without attention to errors and explicit instruction, adult learners may fail to make progress in correcting patterns of errors in their L2 writing. Indeed, writing teachers in higher education contexts have found out that many of their multilingual students enter colleges and universities unaware of frequent error patterns in their writing”.



(CELCE-MURCIA, M; BRINTON, D.M. & SNOW, M. A. (Editors). Teaching English
as a Second or Foreign Language. 4th Ed. Boston, U.S.: National Geographic
Learning / Heinle Cengage Learning, 2014, p. 240).

Researchers argue that learners who are conscious of their errors in writing are better able to ____________ their writing skills.

Choose the alternative that completes the blank. 
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Q2385588 Inglês
       “While a focus on grammar as a linguistic resource puts a more positive face on the role of grammar in writing instruction, any discussion of this role should include attention to learners’ writing errors, a significant concern for most L2 writing teachers and their students. For decades, studies and debates on the effectiveness of differing types of error correction and, indeed, of error correction at all, have been a major topic in the L2 writing literature. Central in recent debates include the exchanges between Truscott (1996, 2007), who believes that ESL research does not provide evidence showing that error correction improves writers’ accuracy over time, and Ferris (1999, 2011), who, while acknowledging that research base lacks controlled studies on this topic, nevertheless asserts that studies have indicated short-term improvement. Ferris (2011) has further pointed out that without attention to errors and explicit instruction, adult learners may fail to make progress in correcting patterns of errors in their L2 writing. Indeed, writing teachers in higher education contexts have found out that many of their multilingual students enter colleges and universities unaware of frequent error patterns in their writing”.



(CELCE-MURCIA, M; BRINTON, D.M. & SNOW, M. A. (Editors). Teaching English
as a Second or Foreign Language. 4th Ed. Boston, U.S.: National Geographic
Learning / Heinle Cengage Learning, 2014, p. 240).

According to the text, error correction in writing tasks has been considered by specialists as a __________________ technique.

Choose the alternative that completes the blank.
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Q2385587 Inglês
      “The procedure for teaching receptive skills generally starts with a lead-in. This is where we engage students with the topic of the reading and we try to activate their schema (plural schemata) (…). This is the knowledge that allows many British, American, West Indian, Pakistani and Indian people (for example) to make sense of headlines like England in six-wicket collapse (a reference to the game of cricket), whereas many Canadians would instantly understand what it means to be sent to the penalty box and why being sent there might give another team a power play (both terms come ice hockey, Canada’s national sport)”.



(HARMER, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching.
4 th Ed. Essex, England: Pearson, 2007, p. 271).


Specialists argue that comprehensive input for listening tasks is vital for language acquisition. Choose the alternative that shows an effective strategy to address language difficulty. 
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Q2385586 Inglês
      “The procedure for teaching receptive skills generally starts with a lead-in. This is where we engage students with the topic of the reading and we try to activate their schema (plural schemata) (…). This is the knowledge that allows many British, American, West Indian, Pakistani and Indian people (for example) to make sense of headlines like England in six-wicket collapse (a reference to the game of cricket), whereas many Canadians would instantly understand what it means to be sent to the penalty box and why being sent there might give another team a power play (both terms come ice hockey, Canada’s national sport)”.



(HARMER, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching.
4 th Ed. Essex, England: Pearson, 2007, p. 271).


According to Harmer, a “lead-in” task is crucial while tackling with receptive skills. Choose the alternative that DOES NOT present an example of such a task.
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Q2385585 Inglês
      “The procedure for teaching receptive skills generally starts with a lead-in. This is where we engage students with the topic of the reading and we try to activate their schema (plural schemata) (…). This is the knowledge that allows many British, American, West Indian, Pakistani and Indian people (for example) to make sense of headlines like England in six-wicket collapse (a reference to the game of cricket), whereas many Canadians would instantly understand what it means to be sent to the penalty box and why being sent there might give another team a power play (both terms come ice hockey, Canada’s national sport)”.



(HARMER, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching.
4 th Ed. Essex, England: Pearson, 2007, p. 271).


Choose the alternative that presents the “receptive skills” in English Language Teaching.
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Q2385584 Inglês
      “Although the movement began as a largely British innovation, focusing on alternative conceptions of a syllabus, since the mid-1970s the scope of Communicative Language Teaching has expanded. Both American and British proponents (…) see it as an approach (and not a method) that aims to (a) make communicative competence the goal of language teaching and (b) develop procedures for the teaching of the four language skills that acknowledge the interdependence of language and communication. Its comprehensiveness thus makes it different in scope and status from any of the other approaches and methods (…)”.


(RICHARDS, J.C. & RODGERS, T. Approaches and
Methods in Language Teaching: A description and
analysis. Cambridge: CUP, 1986, p. 66).

The desired goal of the Communicative Approach is to 
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Q2385583 Inglês
      “Although the movement began as a largely British innovation, focusing on alternative conceptions of a syllabus, since the mid-1970s the scope of Communicative Language Teaching has expanded. Both American and British proponents (…) see it as an approach (and not a method) that aims to (a) make communicative competence the goal of language teaching and (b) develop procedures for the teaching of the four language skills that acknowledge the interdependence of language and communication. Its comprehensiveness thus makes it different in scope and status from any of the other approaches and methods (…)”.


(RICHARDS, J.C. & RODGERS, T. Approaches and
Methods in Language Teaching: A description and
analysis. Cambridge: CUP, 1986, p. 66).

Learners’ production, according to the Communicative Approach, takes _______________ into account as _______________ is judged not in the abstract, but in context.

Choose the alternative that completes the blank. 
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Q2385582 Inglês
      “Although the movement began as a largely British innovation, focusing on alternative conceptions of a syllabus, since the mid-1970s the scope of Communicative Language Teaching has expanded. Both American and British proponents (…) see it as an approach (and not a method) that aims to (a) make communicative competence the goal of language teaching and (b) develop procedures for the teaching of the four language skills that acknowledge the interdependence of language and communication. Its comprehensiveness thus makes it different in scope and status from any of the other approaches and methods (…)”.


(RICHARDS, J.C. & RODGERS, T. Approaches and
Methods in Language Teaching: A description and
analysis. Cambridge: CUP, 1986, p. 66).

Choose the alternative that DOES NOT present a distinctive feature of the Communicative Approach.
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Q2126219 Inglês

Read the text below and answer the question:

1 Speech is one of the most important ways of communicating. It consists of far more that just

2 making noises. To talk and also to be understood by other people, we have to speak a language,

3 that is, we have to use combinations of sounds that everyone agrees stand for a particular

4 object or idea. Learning a language properly is very important. The basic vocabulary of English is not

5 very large, and only about 2,000 words are needed to speak it quite well. But the more words you

6 know, the more ideas you can express, and the more precise you can be about their exact meaning.

7 Words are the main thing we use in communicating what we want to say. The way we say the

8 words is also very important. Our tone of voice can express many emotions and shows whether we

9 are pleased or angry, for instance.

According to the text, speech is:
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Q2126218 Inglês

Read the text below and answer the question:

1 Speech is one of the most important ways of communicating. It consists of far more that just

2 making noises. To talk and also to be understood by other people, we have to speak a language,

3 that is, we have to use combinations of sounds that everyone agrees stand for a particular

4 object or idea. Learning a language properly is very important. The basic vocabulary of English is not

5 very large, and only about 2,000 words are needed to speak it quite well. But the more words you

6 know, the more ideas you can express, and the more precise you can be about their exact meaning.

7 Words are the main thing we use in communicating what we want to say. The way we say the

8 words is also very important. Our tone of voice can express many emotions and shows whether we

9 are pleased or angry, for instance.

Based on the text above, if we know only about 2,000 words in English, we:
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Q2126217 Inglês

Read the text below and answer the question:

1 Speech is one of the most important ways of communicating. It consists of far more that just

2 making noises. To talk and also to be understood by other people, we have to speak a language,

3 that is, we have to use combinations of sounds that everyone agrees stand for a particular

4 object or idea. Learning a language properly is very important. The basic vocabulary of English is not

5 very large, and only about 2,000 words are needed to speak it quite well. But the more words you

6 know, the more ideas you can express, and the more precise you can be about their exact meaning.

7 Words are the main thing we use in communicating what we want to say. The way we say the

8 words is also very important. Our tone of voice can express many emotions and shows whether we

9 are pleased or angry, for instance.

According to the author, the more words we know:
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Q2124645 Inglês
       Language teachers, like other teachers, had to quickly rethink priorities and means of delivery in response to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as measures to manage the pandemic. It isn’t surprising then that some of the findings in our 2021 survey relate to the pandemic.
       Language teaching was suspended by local education boards at one in five primary schools in January 2021 due to Covid-19, and the impact has been felt more acutely in deprived areas. Teachers in state secondary schools report that two in five pupils in Key Stage 3 (lower secondary) did not engage with language learning during the first national lockdown, leading to time lost to language learning for a lot of pupils.
         Dr Ian Collen said that “the most disadvantaged pupils are most likely to have been negatively affected by the impact of Covid-19, experiencing greater disruption to their language learning and fewer international opportunities. Looking to the future, schools should consider giving more curriculum time to languages, as well as more opportunities to use languages in real life, such as visits abroad.”
       Many teachers reported that they cannot wait to get back to face-to-face teaching in the classroom. Despite the barriers they have faced over the past year, it is encouraging to see how they pivoted to remote learning during the national lockdowns.


Internet: <www.britishcouncil.org> (adapted).

Based on the previous text, judge the following item.


The excerpt ‘the most disadvantaged pupils are most likely to have been negatively affected by the impact of Covid-19’ (third paragraph) would be correctly rewritten in indirect speech as: Dr Ian Collen said that the most disadvantaged pupils were most likely to had been negatively affected by the impact of Covid-19.


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Q2124642 Inglês

Internet: <http://www.callouscomics.com> (adapted).

Based on the comic strip above, judge the following item.


The humorous effect of the strip is caused by the attempt of one of the doctors to empower her patient by giving him a very obvious tip.


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Q2124639 Inglês

Internet: <https://www.graphicnews.com>.

Based on the infographic above, judge the following item. 


Up to 2003, JK Rowling has married twice and has lived in three different countries.


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Respostas
3661: C
3662: D
3663: B
3664: B
3665: A
3666: C
3667: C
3668: B
3669: A
3670: D
3671: B
3672: D
3673: A
3674: C
3675: D
3676: C
3677: A
3678: E
3679: E
3680: C