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Comentadas sobre pronúncia e som | pronunciation and sound em inglês
Foram encontradas 172 questões
Ano: 2026
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Paraíso - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2026 - Prefeitura de Paraíso - SC - Professor de Língua Inglesa |
Q3880534
Inglês
In English phonetics and phonology, the study of sound
production and perception focuses on how phonemes are
articulated and distinguished. Regarding English vowels
and consonants, choose the correct alternative.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FURB
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Biguaçu - SC
Prova:
FURB - 2025 - Prefeitura de Biguaçu - SC - Professor III - Inglês |
Q3855958
Inglês
Analyze the statements below.
I. Spoken English often presents reductions and connected speech not commonly found in writing.
II. The same vowel letter in English may represent different sounds depending on the word, as in "cat", "cake", and "father".
III. Listening and speaking skills should be developed only after reading and writing.
It is correct what is stated in:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FURB
Órgão:
Prefeitura de São João Batista - SC
Prova:
FURB - 2025 - Prefeitura de São João Batista - SC - Professor Fundamental II 6ª/9ª - Inglês - Edital nº 2 |
Q3824601
Inglês
Phonetic knowledge is important because it can help
learners comprehend how sounds are produced in
English. Studying Phonetics can help develop better
listening comprehension, improve pronunciation, increase
intelligibility, and improve overall communication.
Regarding Phonetics, read the following statements and
select the correct alternative:
I.The sounds / θ/ and /ð/ are also present in the Phonetic Alphabet of the Portuguese language.
II.A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another.
III.A grapheme is the written representation of a sound.
IV.In the English language, each letter of the alphabet corresponds to one specific sound.
V.The phoneme /∫/ is present in the words nation and mission.
I.The sounds / θ/ and /ð/ are also present in the Phonetic Alphabet of the Portuguese language.
II.A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another.
III.A grapheme is the written representation of a sound.
IV.In the English language, each letter of the alphabet corresponds to one specific sound.
V.The phoneme /∫/ is present in the words nation and mission.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FURB
Órgão:
SED-SC
Prova:
FURB - 2025 - SED-SC - Professor - Segunda Língua Estrangeira Inglês - Edital nº 3.021 |
Q3810838
Inglês
Read the groups of words bellow:
I.executive − summary − export.
II.design − begin − discuss.
III.bug − wonderful − wizard.
Which group or groups of words have the stressed syllable at the end?
I.executive − summary − export.
II.design − begin − discuss.
III.bug − wonderful − wizard.
Which group or groups of words have the stressed syllable at the end?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CEV-URCA
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Mauriti - CE
Prova:
CEV-URCA - 2025 - Prefeitura de Mauriti - CE - Professor de Letras - Inglês |
Q3750953
Inglês
Texto associado
Text 1– The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)
Pluto– this was the cat’s name– was my favorite pet and
playmate. I alone Blank I him, and he attended me wherever I
went about the house. It was even with difficulty that I could
prevent him from following me through the streets.
Our friendship lasted, in this manner, for several years, during which my general temperament and character– through the
instrumentality of the Fiend Intemperance– had (I blush to confess it) experienced a radical alteration for the worse. I Blank II,
day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the
feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language
to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence. My
pets, of course, were made to feel the change in my disposition.
I not only neglected, but ill-used them. For Pluto, however, I still
retained sufficient regard to restrain me from maltreating him, as
I made no scruple of maltreating the rabbits, the monkey, or even
the dog, when by accident, or through affection, they came in my
way. But my disease grew upon me– for what disease is like
Alcohol!– and at length even Pluto, who was now becoming
old, and consequently somewhat peevish– even Pluto Blank III
to experience the effects of my ill temper.
From: https://poestories.com/read/blackcat. Accessed on 10/15/2025
When addressing the pronunciation of the regular past tense morpheme -ed, which verbs from the excerpt of The Black Cat can be presented as examples of the [d] allophone?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
FACET Concursos
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Congo - PB
Prova:
FACET Concursos - 2025 - Prefeitura de Congo - PB - Professor Licenciado em Inglês |
Q3684648
Inglês
In Received Pronunciation (RP), the word bath is pronounced /bɑːθ/, while in General American it is /bæθ/.
Which concept explains this phenomenon?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
EVO Concursos
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Romelândia - SC
Prova:
EVO Concursos - 2025 - Prefeitura de Romelândia - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3553782
Inglês
In phonetics, the consonant sound /θ/ as in think is
classified as:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
EVO Concursos
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Romelândia - SC
Prova:
EVO Concursos - 2025 - Prefeitura de Romelândia - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3553779
Inglês
Which of the following words contains a schwa /ə/
sound in its most common pronunciation?
Ano: 2024
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Nova Odessa - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Nova Odessa - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - PEB II - Inglês |
Q3455265
Inglês
Select the option that correctly identifies the
voicing and place of articulation for the English
consonant sound represented by the initial sound
in the word "jeep".
Ano: 2024
Banca:
SELECON
Órgão:
Prefeitura de São Gonçalo - RJ
Prova:
SELECON - 2024 - Prefeitura de São Gonçalo - RJ - Professor Docente I - Inglês |
Q3412145
Inglês
Texto associado
Read the following text:
TEXT I
The teaching of English as a foreign language in the context
of Brazilian regular schools: a retrospective and prospective
view of policies and practices
Read the following text:
The movement towards a more meaningful approach to the
teaching of English as a foreign language in Brazilian regular
schools reached its climax in the 20th century with the publication
of the Brazilian National Curricular Parameters (PCN) for the
teaching of foreign languages at basic education level. Since
then, the community of teachers has been divided into those who
welcomed the contents, views and propositions of the document,
and the ones who believed that the suggestions it contained were
inappropriate. At the center of this controversy was the importance
given by the official policies to the teaching of reading, as opposed
to an approach, borrowed from private language institutes, which
historically favored a focus on the oral skills.
A brief overview of the recent history of ELT in Brazilian regular
schools
During the 1970s, the so-called audiolingual method, based on
behaviorist and structuralist assumptions, was still considered the
only scientific way of teaching a foreign language. Its emphasis
on the oral skills and on the exhaustive repetition of structural
exercises seemed to work well in the contexts of private language
institutes. Those contexts were characterized by the gathering of
small numbers of highly motivated students per class, a weekly
time-table superior in the number of hours to the one adopted in
regular schools, and plenty of audiovisual resources. Questionable
in itself, both because of its results (which in time were revealed to
be less efficient than believed, especially in terms of fluency) and
its theoretical assumptions, the method ended up being adopted
by regular schools due to its positive reputation at the time. The
failure of the methodology in this context would soon become
evident, generating extreme frustration both amongst teachers
and students.
From the 1980s on, with the spread of ideas connected to the
so-called communicative approach and the growth of English
for Specific Purposes (ESP), the community of researchers and
teachers interested in the context of regular schools started
reviewing the assumptions and logic of English Language Teaching
(ELT). Recognizing that each and every school discipline needs to
justify its presence in the curriculum socially and educationally, this
movement identified the skill of reading as the most relevant one
for the students attending the majority of Brazilian regular schools. This understanding was achieved by considering not only the
possibility of real use outside school, but also the role this approach
could play in the achievement of other educational goals, such
as the improvement of student's reading abilities in Portuguese
as a mother tongue. This movement reached its climax with the
publication of the Brazilian National Curricular Parameters (PCN)
for the teaching of foreign languages at basic education level by
the end of the 1990s. The document recommended the focus on
the teaching of reading within a view of language as discourse.
However, it did not close the door on the teaching of any other skill,
as long as the context made it possible and relevant.
This understanding was achieved by considering not only the
possibility of real use outside school, but also the role this approach
could play in the achievement of other educational goals, such
as the improvement of student's reading abilities in Portuguese
as a mother tongue. This movement reached its climax with the
publication of the Brazilian National Curricular Parameters (PCN)
for the teaching of foreign languages at basic education level by
the end of the 1990s. The document recommended the focus on
the teaching of reading within a view of language as discourse.
However, it did not close the door on the teaching of any other skill,
as long as the context made it possible and relevant.
Another important characteristic of the Parameters that should
not be overlooked is their emphasis on teacher's autonomy. This
emphasis can be seen clearly in the fact that no content or method
is imposed upon the teachers. What one can find are suggestions
and relevant information for teachers to make their own decisions,
taking into consideration the context within which they work. In
other words, the Parameters do not force any teacher to limit their
focus on the teaching of reading, if they believe they can go further
than that.
To be or not to be: professional identities and beliefs
When asked why they were against the focus on reading, most
teachers who take this position, told me that they considered
the teaching of reading to be "not enough". Most of them also
added that if the teaching of reading was designed to fit a context
where one cannot effectively teach the oral skills, then we should
not adapt ourselves to that context, but rather demand the
improvements that would make more feasible the teaching of the
so-called four skills.
Let us consider these statements more closely. The first one is
about quantity, that is, by teaching "only" the reading skill, the
teacher would be denying her/his students the opportunity for
learning all the other skills. They would be denied the opportunity
for learning to speak English, which is, after all, assumed to be the
real goal of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL).
Reasonable and democratic as it may seem, such an argument
fails to take into consideration at least one extremely relevant
issue: the fact that in Brazil there are virtually no reports of
successful teaching of the four skills in contexts other than the
private language institutes. Before the mid-1980s, several different
attempts were made to make ELT work out at regular schools,
but only those which completely changed the characteristics
of the classes (making them look almost exactly like the small,
homogeneous classes of the private institutes) were able to
achieve some (questionable) level of success. In other words, the
integrative approach to ELT, with its claim of teaching the four skills,
focusing especially on the oral skills, has never been successful in
our regular schools, including most of the private ones, with very
few exceptions. If that is indeed the case, then it makes very little
sense to speak of giving our students more or less of something
that they never really had. And even if we are to speak in such
terms, then it is extremely clear (at least for those who tried it) that
the communicative teaching of one skill is definitely better (and
more) than the pantomime of allegedly teaching the four skills,
which was never successful in the context of Brazilian schools.
Where do we go from here?
Any attempt to establish new policies for the teaching of EFL at
Brazilian regular schools should start with the recognition that
the PCN were a very important step towards meaningful foreign
language education in this context. Without such recognition,
there will always be the suspicion that the old beliefs connected to
the professional identity of the teacher as an instructor are coming
back.
Surely, we do not want to teach only reading forever. But sound
attempts to go forward in enhancing the relevance of our teaching
should start with the discussion of the three groups of reasons
that justified the propositions of the PCN. The focus on reading
was considered the most adequate for the majority of our schools
because of practical considerations about our working conditions,
social relevance, and educational relevance.
As far as practical conditions and educational relevance are
concerned, virtually no major change has occurred in order to
justify reframing our teaching. However, in what concerns social
relevance, it is undeniable that the growth of the Internet has
provided a new context for the use of the English language outside
schools. For that reason, it is my belief that skills other than reading
may now be taught in our classes without representing a return to
a rationale that is alien to our schools. The teaching of writing in
the context of Internet genres and practices is definitely necessary,
if we want our students to have their own voice, becoming able to
project their own local identities in global contexts.
Adapted from: ALMEIDA, Ricardo Luiz Teixeira de. Scielo Brazil –
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada - https://www.scielo.br/j/rbla/a/
nNz3Jtj85xmms8MnNfwRpMn/?lang=en. Accessed: 05/02/2024.
In phonetics and phonology, schwa sound is an unrounded
central mid vowel, whose symbol, in the International Phonetic
Alphabet, is /ə/. In many languages, such a vowel arises through
the neutralization of unstressed vowels or through epenthesis.
Among the words below, taken from the text, the one containing a
schwa sound is:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
CEV-URCA
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Brejo Santo - CE
Prova:
CEV-URCA - 2025 - Prefeitura de Brejo Santo - CE - Professor de Inglês |
Q3336627
Inglês
Among the allophones of the phoneme /t/, check the option that is labialized:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Caconde - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Caconde - SP - Professor de Inglês |
Q3289558
Inglês
Which word sounds differently?
Ano: 2024
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Paraty - RJ
Prova:
Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Paraty - RJ - Professor de Educação Básica II - Língua Inglesa |
Q3269566
Inglês
Consider the following statements about the phonological system of the English language and answer the question:
I. The distinction between the sounds /ʃ/ (as in "she") and /tʃ/ (as in "chair") is a contrast between a fricative and an affricate.
II. The English phoneme /ɪ/ (as in "sit") and /i:/ (as in "seat") differ in both length and quality, with the latter being a tense, long vowel.
III. In English, stress can affect both meaning and grammatical category, as seen in words like "record" (noun) and "record" (verb), where the noun is stressed on the second syllable, and the verb on the first.
Which of the following is correct?
Ano: 2024
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Paraty - RJ
Prova:
Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Paraty - RJ - Professor de Educação Básica II - Língua Inglesa |
Q3269564
Inglês
Consider the following pairs of words:
1 - 'photograph - pho'tographer
2 - 'politics - po'litical
3 - e'lectric - elec'tricity
4 - 'industry - in'dustrial
5 - 'diplomat - di'plomatic
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the phonological phenomenon illustrated by these word pairs?
Ano: 2024
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Paraty - RJ
Prova:
Avança SP - 2024 - Prefeitura de Paraty - RJ - Professor de Educação Básica II - Língua Inglesa |
Q3269547
Inglês
Complete the following sentence with the correct phonological term:
In English, the phenomenon where a word’s pronunciation is simplified by omitting certain sounds is
known____________ as .
Ano: 2022
Banca:
FUNCERN
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Maxaranguape - RN
Prova:
FUNCERN - 2022 - Prefeitura de Maxaranguape - RN - Professor Fundamental II - Língua Inglesa |
Q3266732
Inglês
In “The baby has been crying for almost an hour. The minute we brought in the new puppy, our mother began laying down sheets of newspaper. We should spend some time tidying before the guests arrive.”, there are words (formed by suffixation) that obey the following spelling rule:
Ano: 2022
Banca:
FUNCERN
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Maxaranguape - RN
Prova:
FUNCERN - 2022 - Prefeitura de Maxaranguape - RN - Professor Fundamental II - Língua Inglesa |
Q3266730
Inglês
The phonetic transcription (BrEng) [ˈlʌv ˈɪz ðə ˈməʊst ˈsʌtᵊl ˈpaʊə ˈɪn ðə ˈwɜːld] means:
Ano: 2022
Banca:
FUNCERN
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Maxaranguape - RN
Prova:
FUNCERN - 2022 - Prefeitura de Maxaranguape - RN - Professor Fundamental II - Língua Inglesa |
Q3266729
Inglês
In English, “Voiced Dental Fricative” is the description for the phoneme:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
VUNESP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Itapevi - SP
Prova:
VUNESP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Itapevi - SP - Professor Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q3235086
Inglês
Texto associado
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ELF: English as a lingua franca
The Vienna Oxford International Corpus of English
(VOICE), a collection of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)
currently under construction, defines lingua franca as an
additionally acquired language system that serves as a
means of communication for speakers from different speech
communities, who use it to communicate with each other but
for whom it is not their native language.
Early findings from the VOICE corpus tentatively identify
a number of features which point to systematic lexicogrammatical differences between native-speaker English and
ELF, for example dropping the third person present tense ‘s’
(e.g. she wear), omitting definite and indefinite articles,
insertion of prepositions (e.g. can we discuss about this
issue). These features are not a threat to comprehension, as
they involve typical errors that most English teachers would
correct and remediate. However, Seidlhofer (2004) points out
that they appear to be generally unproblematic and do not
cause an obstacle to communicative success in ELF.
The work of Jenkins (1996, 2000, 2004, 2005) has also
been very influential in relation to the teaching of pronunciation
for ELF. Her research finds that a number of items common to
most native-speaker varieties of English were not necessary
in successful ELF interactions; for example, the substitution
of voiceless and voiced th with /t/ or /s/ and /d/ or /z/ (e.g.
think became sink or tink, and this became dis or zis). Jenkins
argues that such features occur regularly in ELF interactions
and do not cause intelligibility problems.
Problems may arise in the (perhaps unfair) equation
between a reduced or ‘stripped down’ ELF syllabus and an
impoverished experience of the L2. Indeed, it could be argued
that learners of any language always end up producing less
than the input they are exposed to, and that if that input itself
is deliberately restricted, then even less will be the outcome.
(O’KEEFFE, A., MCCARTHY, M. & CARTER, R. From corpus to classroom.
Language Use and Language Teaching. Cambridge, CUP. 2007. Adaptado)
Das palavras a seguir, retiradas do texto, assinale aquela
em que as vogais /ea/ em negrito possuem a mesma pronúncia encontrada na palavra feature.
Ano: 2024
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Belmonte - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2024 - Prefeitura de Belmonte - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3229283
Inglês
Why is it important to practice intonation in English speech?
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