According to Brazilian PCN, it should become important to remember that:

Read the following fragment and give a comprehension to the phrasal verb “cheer up”: “She was very disappointed, but faced up bravely to the situation. In fact, when Chris, Sara, Michael and I visited her in hospital, so, that was she who cheered us up and made us laugh! I think that year we were making up for the limitations of the one before.” (Life, love and laughter. Horne, Molly. Braunton)

Read the following fragment, and then, choose the alternative with the right synonyms according to the given context: “I carried him to tire myself, the way some people rush into activity when their plans fail. If I sometimes recognized this, I blamed my Aunt Lilian who had brought me up to give too much importance to careers and causes and things of the mind, simply because she had never known, herself, any of the pleasures of the body, and had, as a result, made me feel guilty now.” (A woman of my age. Bawden, Nina.)

What's new in English language teaching?

This is an article about new trends in English language teaching (ELT) resources, but none of the trends that follow are, strictly speaking, new.

Take, for example, the idea of spaced repetition, which is a buzzword at the moment. Back in 1885 (I told you it wasn’t a new idea), Hermann Ebbinghaus carried out an experiment designed to measure how quickly we forget. He discovered that, unless new information is reinforced, we quickly forget what we have learned. In the 1930s, other researchers followed this up by looking at how often we need to reinforce new information, and found that spacing out repetition – revising the information every two days, then every four, then every eight, and so on – was most effective.

[…]

Another way in which digitalisation is affecting ELT resources is in the way it's connecting learners with the outside world. Students nowadays have access to an incredible amount of English-language material online. But while this is clearly beneficial, it can also be a bit overwhelming. Students don’t always know where to go for the most appropriate material. For teachers, the amount of time needed to find, select and prepare materials can be off-putting.

Disponível em: <https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/whats-new-english-languageteaching>. Acesso em: 19 fev. 2017.

De acordo com o trecho, a autora afirma que

Teaching approaches: what is audiolingualism?

There seems to be a widely held perception amongst language teachers that methods and approaches have finite historical boundaries – that the Grammar-Translation approach is dead, for example. Similarly, audiolingualism was in vogue in the 1960s but died out in the 70s after Chomsky’s famous attack on behaviorism in language learning.

In this context, it is worth considering for a moment what goes on in the typical language learning classroom. Do you ever ask your students to repeat phrases or whole sentences, for example? Do you drill the pronunciation and intonation of utterances? […] If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then, consciously or unconsciously, you are using techniques that are features of the audiolingual approach. This approach has its roots in the USA during World War II […].

The audiolingual approach was also based on the behaviorist theory of learning, which held that language […] is a form of behavior. In the behaviorist view, language is elicited by a stimulus and that stimulus then triggers a response. The response in turn then produces some kind of reinforcement, which, if positive, encourages the repetition of the response in the future or, if negative, its suppression. When transposed to the classroom, this gives us the classic pattern drill- Model […]. In its purest form audiolingualism aims to promote mechanical habit-formation through repetition […].

While some of this might seem amusingly rigid in these enlightened times, it is worth reflecting on actual classroom practice and noticing when activities occur that can be said to have their basis in the audiolingual approach. Most teachers will at some point require learners to repeat examples of grammatical structures […]. Although the audiolingual approach in its purest form has many weaknesses, to dismiss the audiolingual approach as an outmoded method of the 1960s is to ignore the reality of current classroom practice […].

Disponível em: <http://www.onestopenglish.com/methodology/methodology/teachingapproaches/teaching-approaches-what-is-audiolingualism/146488.article>. Acesso em: 15 fev. 2017.

Na leitura do texto, considera-se que

What do you mean? Oh, oh

When you nod your head yes

But you wanna say no

What do you mean? Hey-ey

When you don't want me to move

But you tell me to go

What do you mean?

Oh, what do you mean?

Said you're running out of time, what do you mean?

Oh, oh, oh, what do you mean?

Better make up your mind

What do you mean?

You’re so indecisive of what I’m saying

Tryna catch the beat, make up your heart

Don't know if you're happy or complaining

Don't want for us to end, where do I start?

First you wanna go to the left then you wanna turn right

[…]

Disponível em:

<https://www.google.com.br/search?q=justin+bieber&biw=1366&bih=662&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&

sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwi3ndKZuZrSAhXFeCYKHbYYBJ8Q_AUICSgE#tbm=isch&q=albuns+do+justin>.

Acesso em: 15 fev. 2017.

Os trechos destacados são traduzidos, respectivamente, por:

My Bully Dressed Up as Me for Halloween

Halloween my freshman year in high school was the scariest day of my life. But it wasn't scary because of a ghost or a monster – it was scary because in one moment, my life turned upside down.

Just a year before, I moved from New York to California. While in New York, I had been relentlessly bullied. And when I moved to California and started a new life, it seemed like a giant Band-Aid had "fixed" the problem. I had new friends, I started acting in plays and writing stories, and the bullying had stopped.

[…]

I got a text message from a classmate I had known in New York. The text included a photo of a girl I didn't know wearing a big sign around her neck. The sign had my name on it: Aija Mayrock. I was so confused. Who was this person? I went on Facebook and saw dozens of people posting the same picture. A girl whom I'd never met dressed up as "me" for Halloween.

[…]

Disponível em: <http://www.seventeen.com/life/real-girl-stories/a32006/my-bully-dressed-up-as-me-for-halloween/>.

Acesso em: 15 fev. 2017.

De acordo com o texto,

Disponível em: <http://reallifeglobal.com/learning-english-comics-calvin-and-hobbes/>. Acesso em: 19 fev. 2017.

Na tirinha, a expressão “put up with” significa

Choose lhe correct alternative for the translation of the underlined words, according to the text.

Ask any ltalian, and they've likely never heard of ancient Norba, once a flourishing Latin city located around 50 km south of Rome. Perched on the edge of a cliff in the Lepini Mountains in western ltaly's Lazio region, 'Norba, now in ruins, is one of the country's best preserved examples of city planning from several thousands of years ago. lts location was almost impenetable: surrounded by a waIl constructed of colossal limestone boulders, there was only one-way in and out.

Font: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170303-the-italian-city-that-stood-up-to-rome

Read the following article:

The Americans who 'adopt' other people's embryos

When Jennifer and Aaron Wilson found they could not get pregnant, they knew exactly what they wanted to do.

The couple from North Carolina had the choice of starting in vitro fertilisation (IVF), in which mature eggs are fertilised with sperm in a laboratory. Or they could have tried to adopt a child already in need of a home.

Instead they applied to a specialist Christian fertility clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee - the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) - which promised to help them "adopt" an embryo.

Doctors often create extra embryos when a couple undergoes IVF, in case multiple rounds of treatment are needed. But this can leave many left over. More than 600,000 are currently being held in frozen storage in the US, most of them waiting to be used by the couple that created them the next time they want to try to have a child. But not all of these embryos are needed, and it is estimated that one in 10 are available for embryo donation.

For many couples who have had IVF treatment, what happens to those no-longer-needed frozen embryos is a question that requires careful consideration - should the embryos be kept indefinitely in cryo-preservation or discarded? If the couple believes human life starts at conception, this can be an urgent moral dilemma.

A similar dilemma confronts pro-life couples seeking fertility treatment. Should they opt for IVF, and add to the ranks of frozen embryos preserved in liquid nitrogen? Or should they instead "adopt" a frozen embryo from a donor?

Some families have different arrangements, then: After undergoing IVF, Andy and Shannon Weber from Alabama had two children, now aged eight and five, and wanted to donate their leftover embryos.

"Our belief is that life begins at conception and the little embryos, they are human life, not just a couple of cells put together. We definitely couldn't destroy them or let them sit there in cryo-preservation forever," says Andy.

But he and his wife were also keen that they should go to a "good, solid Christian" family.

"We wanted a married couple - a man and a woman. We didn't really want a single parent or any sort of alternative lifestyle," says Andy.

"By no means did we care about race or ethnicity. We just wanted the embryos to go to a good home."

Unlike in the UK where equality laws mean clinics have to treat all patients equally, centres in the US can help donors select parents for their embryos based on criteria such as race, sexuality and religion.

Adapted from: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36450328

Reading the news report we can say that:

(i) Couples who struggle to conceive a child are sometimes given the option of using a donated embryo.

(ii) In the UK this is commonly referred to as "embryo adoption", particularly at Christian clinics, where it is regarded as losing a life –

(iii) and where the future parents may have to be married and heterosexual to be eligible for treatment.

Correct the mistake in the following sentence: “Everyone know that after a week of too little vegetables and too many beer.”

A respeito do texto acima, considere as seguintes afirmativas:

1. Asem Hasna teve sua perna amputada antes de completar 23 anos.

2. Hasna, refugiado sírio, tem ajudado seus compatriotas feridos em conflitos confeccionando próteses em 3D.

3. Os primeiros objetos em 3D confeccionados por Hasna foram um marcador de livros e um ímã de geladeira.

4. A mulher que perdeu sua mão direita na guerra da Síria ajuda seu compatriota Hasna, confeccionando membros em 3D.

5. A organização – ROW –, situada em Amman, ensina refugiados a confeccionar membros em 3D a um preço acessível.

Assinale a alternativa correta.

Sobre a sigla EEG, considere as seguintes expressões:

1. Brainwave-sensing headsets.

2. Electroencephalograph headsets.

3. User’s passwords.

É/São expressão(ões) que substitui(em) a sigla EEG:

A respeito do Panoptic Studio, local que serviu de apoio para o projeto, considere as seguintes afirmativas:

1. Recebeu uma doação para esse projeto há dez anos.

2. Tem dois andares.

3. Apresenta arquitetura com uma superfície arredondada.

Assinale a alternativa correta.

Com base no texto, considere as seguintes informações:

1. O nome da instituição que desenvolveu a pesquisa.

2. O local onde está situado o estúdio Panoptic.

3. O número de pessoas que serviram como cobaias no experimento.

4. A época em que o estúdio foi construído.

5. A dificuldade de serem encontrados modelos humanos para interagir com computadores.

O texto apresenta as informações contidas nos itens: