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Sobre interpretação de texto | reading comprehension em inglês
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Ao mencionar uma atividade comum no ensino de leitura, como a solicitação de leitura em voz alta pelos estudantes, os PCNs (1998) argumentam que tal prática
Segundo os PCNs de língua estrangeira (1998), para que o processo de construção de significados de natureza sociointeracional seja possível, as pessoas utilizam três tipos de conhecimento. Ao chamar a atenção dos alunos para o título do texto a ser lido e solicitar que eles “think about the topic – what do you know about it?”, o professor de língua inglesa está acionando o conhecimento
Ao tratar da questão do método, os PCNs de língua estrangeira (1998) fazem uma breve discussão sobre a recorrente busca por um método ideal, afirmando que, no final da década de 1980, os métodos de ensino-aprendizagem
Scrivener (2005, p. 109) also claims that teachers “should be prepared to respond to the learners and adapt what they have planned as they go, even to the extent of throwing the plan away if appropriate.” This claim corresponds to which of the following teachers' approaches to planning?
In a chapter entitled 'Planning lessons and courses', Scrivener (2005) suggests that before teaching an actual class, it helps if a teacher is clear about what they want to do. Although one can not ever completely predict how learners will respond to anything in the class, a lot is going to happen and the better prepared a teacher is, the more likely it is that he/she will be ready to cope with whatever happens. In this sense, planning is a
Read the text to answer question 55.
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The cartoon refers to a sort of thought that is the basis of a trend in modern languages teaching and learning. Which theory is that?
Read the text to answer question 54.
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Regarding cultural clash, the cartoon illustrates that
In the following elements, the ones considered to be the key reversal in the Flipped Classroom are
Social and psychological distance between the second or foreign language learner and the target language community is a preeminent factor in the determination of the extent to which the language learner will acquire the target language, without developing pidginization. Which language learner theory is this statement part of?
Memorization of vocabulary lists and extensive repetition of drills are typical examples of the procedures in the following language teaching methodologies, respectively, the:
Read the text to answer question 50.
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In the cartoon, the humorous situation is settled due to the
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Image B illustrates the principles in language teaching defended by the
Questions 48 and 49 refer to the following picture:
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Image A depicts a teaching model which
For questions 43 to 47, refer to the following text:
Time for global business to stop profiting from Amazon destruction by Tica Minami - 13 April, 2016 Huge hydropower dams in the Amazon rainforest aren't just bad for Indigenous communities, biodiversity and the climate – they're bad for the companies involved. Here's why. The Amazon is the world's largest remaining area of tropical rainforest, but every day it gets a little smaller – while big business profits get a little bigger. Over 750,000 km² of Amazon rainforest (an area larger than all of France) has already been destroyed by industrial agriculture, cattle ranching, illegal logging and infrastructure projects. And new threats keep coming: this time in the Tapajós River basin. What's happening in the Tapajós? The Brazilian government is planning a massive hydropower project for the Tapajós basin – over 40 medium or large dams, including one 7.6 km wide mega-dam. This dam alone would flood an area of rainforest the size of New York City, threatening the livelihoods of the Indigenous Munduruku People who have lived along the Tapajós River for centuries. The mega-dam – called São Luiz do Tapajós – doesn't just threaten local communities and ecosystems. It also harms the climate. Building the massive structure produces substantial emissions, as does the decay of flooded rainforest vegetation and soil. Figure 1 So who would want to help build the São Luiz do Tapajós dam? It takes huge amounts of capital and technology from companies all over the world to build a hydropower dam. Greenpeace Brazil has been investigating who might want to profit from this destructive project and released a new report on their findings – and on the risky nature of Amazon hydropower – today. So far, Greenpeace Brazil has found that the São Luiz do Tapajós dam is attracting the interest of a number of Brazilian and foreign energy companies. None of these companies have announced their intentions publicly yet, though. What's at stake for companies who get involved with São Luiz do Tapajós dam? The banks, insurers, suppliers and contractors that become involved in Amazon hydropower projects face serious financial and reputational risks. Hydropower dams attract international attention for their destruction to the environment and impacts on local communities. Moreover, these dams and other large government infrastructure projects have also recently been tied to corruption. Amazon destruction impacts all of us. People must act globally to stop this global project. Brazil's dash for Amazon hydropower is destined to fail its people while enriching a few. Wherever you are in the world, your voice matters. Add your name to help keep the Tapajos alive! |
Disponível em: <http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/amazonrainforest-hydropower-tapajos-dam-belo-monte/blog/56142/>. Acesso em: 3 abr. 2016. [Adaptado].
In parsing the following sentence, determine what traditional function each unit in the sentence has, according to this code:
|
N Noun |
A adjective |
P preposition |
V Verb |
PRN pronoun |
AUX auxiliar |
DET determiner |
“Greenpeace Brazil has been investigating who might want to profit from this destructive project”.
For questions 43 to 47, refer to the following text:
Time for global business to stop profiting from Amazon destruction by Tica Minami - 13 April, 2016 Huge hydropower dams in the Amazon rainforest aren't just bad for Indigenous communities, biodiversity and the climate – they're bad for the companies involved. Here's why. The Amazon is the world's largest remaining area of tropical rainforest, but every day it gets a little smaller – while big business profits get a little bigger. Over 750,000 km² of Amazon rainforest (an area larger than all of France) has already been destroyed by industrial agriculture, cattle ranching, illegal logging and infrastructure projects. And new threats keep coming: this time in the Tapajós River basin. What's happening in the Tapajós? The Brazilian government is planning a massive hydropower project for the Tapajós basin – over 40 medium or large dams, including one 7.6 km wide mega-dam. This dam alone would flood an area of rainforest the size of New York City, threatening the livelihoods of the Indigenous Munduruku People who have lived along the Tapajós River for centuries. The mega-dam – called São Luiz do Tapajós – doesn't just threaten local communities and ecosystems. It also harms the climate. Building the massive structure produces substantial emissions, as does the decay of flooded rainforest vegetation and soil. Figure 1 So who would want to help build the São Luiz do Tapajós dam? It takes huge amounts of capital and technology from companies all over the world to build a hydropower dam. Greenpeace Brazil has been investigating who might want to profit from this destructive project and released a new report on their findings – and on the risky nature of Amazon hydropower – today. So far, Greenpeace Brazil has found that the São Luiz do Tapajós dam is attracting the interest of a number of Brazilian and foreign energy companies. None of these companies have announced their intentions publicly yet, though. What's at stake for companies who get involved with São Luiz do Tapajós dam? The banks, insurers, suppliers and contractors that become involved in Amazon hydropower projects face serious financial and reputational risks. Hydropower dams attract international attention for their destruction to the environment and impacts on local communities. Moreover, these dams and other large government infrastructure projects have also recently been tied to corruption. Amazon destruction impacts all of us. People must act globally to stop this global project. Brazil's dash for Amazon hydropower is destined to fail its people while enriching a few. Wherever you are in the world, your voice matters. Add your name to help keep the Tapajos alive! |
Disponível em: <http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/amazonrainforest-hydropower-tapajos-dam-belo-monte/blog/56142/>. Acesso em: 3 abr. 2016. [Adaptado].
On Figure 1, which word play conveys the message written in large font? A
For questions 43 to 47, refer to the following text:
Time for global business to stop profiting from Amazon destruction by Tica Minami - 13 April, 2016 Huge hydropower dams in the Amazon rainforest aren't just bad for Indigenous communities, biodiversity and the climate – they're bad for the companies involved. Here's why. The Amazon is the world's largest remaining area of tropical rainforest, but every day it gets a little smaller – while big business profits get a little bigger. Over 750,000 km² of Amazon rainforest (an area larger than all of France) has already been destroyed by industrial agriculture, cattle ranching, illegal logging and infrastructure projects. And new threats keep coming: this time in the Tapajós River basin. What's happening in the Tapajós? The Brazilian government is planning a massive hydropower project for the Tapajós basin – over 40 medium or large dams, including one 7.6 km wide mega-dam. This dam alone would flood an area of rainforest the size of New York City, threatening the livelihoods of the Indigenous Munduruku People who have lived along the Tapajós River for centuries. The mega-dam – called São Luiz do Tapajós – doesn't just threaten local communities and ecosystems. It also harms the climate. Building the massive structure produces substantial emissions, as does the decay of flooded rainforest vegetation and soil. Figure 1 So who would want to help build the São Luiz do Tapajós dam? It takes huge amounts of capital and technology from companies all over the world to build a hydropower dam. Greenpeace Brazil has been investigating who might want to profit from this destructive project and released a new report on their findings – and on the risky nature of Amazon hydropower – today. So far, Greenpeace Brazil has found that the São Luiz do Tapajós dam is attracting the interest of a number of Brazilian and foreign energy companies. None of these companies have announced their intentions publicly yet, though. What's at stake for companies who get involved with São Luiz do Tapajós dam? The banks, insurers, suppliers and contractors that become involved in Amazon hydropower projects face serious financial and reputational risks. Hydropower dams attract international attention for their destruction to the environment and impacts on local communities. Moreover, these dams and other large government infrastructure projects have also recently been tied to corruption. Amazon destruction impacts all of us. People must act globally to stop this global project. Brazil's dash for Amazon hydropower is destined to fail its people while enriching a few. Wherever you are in the world, your voice matters. Add your name to help keep the Tapajos alive! |
Disponível em: <http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/amazonrainforest-hydropower-tapajos-dam-belo-monte/blog/56142/>. Acesso em: 3 abr. 2016. [Adaptado].
Considering the threats to the livelihoods of the indigenous people, the power of weather harm represented by the building of the hydropower project for the Tapajós basin is compared to
For questions 43 to 47, refer to the following text:
Time for global business to stop profiting from Amazon destruction by Tica Minami - 13 April, 2016 Huge hydropower dams in the Amazon rainforest aren't just bad for Indigenous communities, biodiversity and the climate – they're bad for the companies involved. Here's why. The Amazon is the world's largest remaining area of tropical rainforest, but every day it gets a little smaller – while big business profits get a little bigger. Over 750,000 km² of Amazon rainforest (an area larger than all of France) has already been destroyed by industrial agriculture, cattle ranching, illegal logging and infrastructure projects. And new threats keep coming: this time in the Tapajós River basin. What's happening in the Tapajós? The Brazilian government is planning a massive hydropower project for the Tapajós basin – over 40 medium or large dams, including one 7.6 km wide mega-dam. This dam alone would flood an area of rainforest the size of New York City, threatening the livelihoods of the Indigenous Munduruku People who have lived along the Tapajós River for centuries. The mega-dam – called São Luiz do Tapajós – doesn't just threaten local communities and ecosystems. It also harms the climate. Building the massive structure produces substantial emissions, as does the decay of flooded rainforest vegetation and soil. Figure 1 So who would want to help build the São Luiz do Tapajós dam? It takes huge amounts of capital and technology from companies all over the world to build a hydropower dam. Greenpeace Brazil has been investigating who might want to profit from this destructive project and released a new report on their findings – and on the risky nature of Amazon hydropower – today. So far, Greenpeace Brazil has found that the São Luiz do Tapajós dam is attracting the interest of a number of Brazilian and foreign energy companies. None of these companies have announced their intentions publicly yet, though. What's at stake for companies who get involved with São Luiz do Tapajós dam? The banks, insurers, suppliers and contractors that become involved in Amazon hydropower projects face serious financial and reputational risks. Hydropower dams attract international attention for their destruction to the environment and impacts on local communities. Moreover, these dams and other large government infrastructure projects have also recently been tied to corruption. Amazon destruction impacts all of us. People must act globally to stop this global project. Brazil's dash for Amazon hydropower is destined to fail its people while enriching a few. Wherever you are in the world, your voice matters. Add your name to help keep the Tapajos alive! |
Disponível em: <http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/amazonrainforest-hydropower-tapajos-dam-belo-monte/blog/56142/>. Acesso em: 3 abr. 2016. [Adaptado].
The text discusses some drawbacks for the companies involved in building up Amazon hydropower dams. One of them is the
Read the following text to answer question 41.
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The image shows a motto which contains a deviation from standard English grammar in that it
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions 34 to 40.
- The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States formed one of those unbelievable incidents of
- history because by 1867, Russia was nervously eager to get rid of it, while the United States still
- recovering from the Civil War and immersed in the impending impeachment of President Johnson,
- refused to accept it on any terms.
- At this impasse an extraordinary man monopolized center stage. He was not a Russian, a fact which
- would become important more than a century later, but a soi-disant baron of dubious background; half
- Austrian, half Italian, and a charmer who was picked up in 1841 for temporary duty representing Russia in
- the United States and who lingered there till 1868. In that time, Edouard de Stoeckl, parading himself as a
- nobleman, although no one could say for sure how or when or even if he had earned his title, became
- such an ardent friend of America that he married an American heiress and took upon himself the task of
- acting as marriage broker between Russia, which he called homeland, and the United States, his adopted
- residence.
- He faced a most difficult task, for when the United States showed hesitancy about accepting Alaska,
- support for the sale withered in Russia, and later when Russia wanted to sell, half a dozen of the most
- influential American politicians led by Secretary of State William Seward of New York looked far into the
- future and saw the desirability of acquiring Alaska to serve as America's artic bastion, yet the hard-
- headed businessmen in the Senate, the House and the general public opposed the purchase with all the
- scorn they could summon. 'Seward's Icebox' and 'Seward's Folly' were two of the gentler jibes. Some
- critics accused Seward of being in the pay of the Russians; others accused De Stoeckl of buying votes in
- the House. One sharp satirist claimed that Alaska contained nothing but polar bears and Eskimos, and
- many protested that America should not accept this useless, frozen domain even if Russia wanted to give
- it away.
- Many pointed out that Alaska had no wealth of any kind, not even reindeer, which proliferated in other
- northern areas, and experts affirmed that an arctic area like this could not possibly have any minerals or
- other deposits of value. On and on went the abuse of this unknown and somewhat terrifying land, and the
- castigations would have been comical had they not influenced American thinking and behavior and
- condemned Alaska to decades of neglect.
- But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target, and with
- Seward's unflinching support and admirable statesmanship, the sale squeaked by with a favorable margin
- of one vote. By such a narrow margin did the United States come close to losing one of her potentially
- valuable acquisitions, but of course, had one viewed Alaska from the vantage point of frozen Fort Nulato
- in 1867, with the thermometer at minus-fifty-seven and about to be attacked by hostile Athapascans, the
- purchase at more than $7,000,000 would have seemed a poor bargain.
- Now the comedy intensified, became burlesque, for although the U.S Senate had bought the place,
- the U.S. House refused to appropriate the money to pay for it, and for many tense months the sale hung
- in the balance. When a favorable vote was finally taken, it was almost negated by the discovery that
- Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash for which he refused to give an accounting. Widely
- suspected of having bribed congressmen to vote for land that was obviously worthless, the baron waited
- until the sale was completed, then quietly slipped out of the country, his life's ambition having been
- achieved.
- One congressman with a keen sense of history, economics and geopolitics said of the whole affair:
- 'If we were so eager to show Russia our appreciation of the help she gave us during the Civil War, why
- didn't we give her the seven million and tell her to keep her damned colony? It'll never be of any use to
- us.'
Excerpt from: MICHENER, James A. Alaska. Fawcett Books: New York, 1988, p. 369 - 370.
Consider the statements below:
I. The verbs 'claimed' (line 20), 'pointed out' (line 23), and 'affirmed' (line 24) are verbs of saying;
II. The sentence 'Alaska contained nothing' (line 20) can be rewritten as 'Alaska did not contain anything';
III. The sentence 'Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash' (lines 37) means that the Baron won that sum of money only after the negotiations were finished.
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions 34 to 40.
- The transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States formed one of those unbelievable incidents of
- history because by 1867, Russia was nervously eager to get rid of it, while the United States still
- recovering from the Civil War and immersed in the impending impeachment of President Johnson,
- refused to accept it on any terms.
- At this impasse an extraordinary man monopolized center stage. He was not a Russian, a fact which
- would become important more than a century later, but a soi-disant baron of dubious background; half
- Austrian, half Italian, and a charmer who was picked up in 1841 for temporary duty representing Russia in
- the United States and who lingered there till 1868. In that time, Edouard de Stoeckl, parading himself as a
- nobleman, although no one could say for sure how or when or even if he had earned his title, became
- such an ardent friend of America that he married an American heiress and took upon himself the task of
- acting as marriage broker between Russia, which he called homeland, and the United States, his adopted
- residence.
- He faced a most difficult task, for when the United States showed hesitancy about accepting Alaska,
- support for the sale withered in Russia, and later when Russia wanted to sell, half a dozen of the most
- influential American politicians led by Secretary of State William Seward of New York looked far into the
- future and saw the desirability of acquiring Alaska to serve as America's artic bastion, yet the hard-
- headed businessmen in the Senate, the House and the general public opposed the purchase with all the
- scorn they could summon. 'Seward's Icebox' and 'Seward's Folly' were two of the gentler jibes. Some
- critics accused Seward of being in the pay of the Russians; others accused De Stoeckl of buying votes in
- the House. One sharp satirist claimed that Alaska contained nothing but polar bears and Eskimos, and
- many protested that America should not accept this useless, frozen domain even if Russia wanted to give
- it away.
- Many pointed out that Alaska had no wealth of any kind, not even reindeer, which proliferated in other
- northern areas, and experts affirmed that an arctic area like this could not possibly have any minerals or
- other deposits of value. On and on went the abuse of this unknown and somewhat terrifying land, and the
- castigations would have been comical had they not influenced American thinking and behavior and
- condemned Alaska to decades of neglect.
- But an ingenious man like Baron de Stoeckl was not easily diverted from his main target, and with
- Seward's unflinching support and admirable statesmanship, the sale squeaked by with a favorable margin
- of one vote. By such a narrow margin did the United States come close to losing one of her potentially
- valuable acquisitions, but of course, had one viewed Alaska from the vantage point of frozen Fort Nulato
- in 1867, with the thermometer at minus-fifty-seven and about to be attacked by hostile Athapascans, the
- purchase at more than $7,000,000 would have seemed a poor bargain.
- Now the comedy intensified, became burlesque, for although the U.S Senate had bought the place,
- the U.S. House refused to appropriate the money to pay for it, and for many tense months the sale hung
- in the balance. When a favorable vote was finally taken, it was almost negated by the discovery that
- Baron de Stoeckl had disposed of $125,000 in cash for which he refused to give an accounting. Widely
- suspected of having bribed congressmen to vote for land that was obviously worthless, the baron waited
- until the sale was completed, then quietly slipped out of the country, his life's ambition having been
- achieved.
- One congressman with a keen sense of history, economics and geopolitics said of the whole affair:
- 'If we were so eager to show Russia our appreciation of the help she gave us during the Civil War, why
- didn't we give her the seven million and tell her to keep her damned colony? It'll never be of any use to
- us.'
Excerpt from: MICHENER, James A. Alaska. Fawcett Books: New York, 1988, p. 369 - 370.
The word 'pay' may be both a noun, as in 'the pay' (line 19) and a verb, as in 'to pay' (line 35) without having to change its spelling. The same may occur to all the words bellow, EXCEPT for:
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