Questões de Concurso
Comentadas sobre pronúncia e som | pronunciation and sound em inglês
Foram encontradas 154 questões
Ano: 2025
Banca:
INAZ do Pará
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Bocaina do Sul - SC
Prova:
INAZ do Pará - 2025 - Prefeitura de Bocaina do Sul - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3179429
Inglês
The varieties of English exhibit significant phonological
differences influenced by historical, regional, and
cultural factors. These differences affect the
pronunciation of specific sounds, rhythm, and
intonation patterns.
Consider the following phonological characteristics and analyze the alternatives to identify the only CORRECT statement regarding the differences between British English (Received Pronunciation), American English (General American), and Australian English:
Consider the following phonological characteristics and analyze the alternatives to identify the only CORRECT statement regarding the differences between British English (Received Pronunciation), American English (General American), and Australian English:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de São Miguel Arcanjo - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2025 - Prefeitura de São Miguel Arcanjo - SP - Professor Ensino Fundamental (6º ao 9º ano) - Língua Portuguesa e Inglês |
Q3171505
Inglês
Consider the pronunciation of the following
irregular verbs and their forms:
Lead – Led, led
Feed – Fed, fed
Bleed – Bled, bled
Breed – Bred, bred
Read – Read, read
Which statement is correct?
Lead – Led, led
Feed – Fed, fed
Bleed – Bled, bled
Breed – Bred, bred
Read – Read, read
Which statement is correct?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de São Miguel Arcanjo - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2025 - Prefeitura de São Miguel Arcanjo - SP - Professor Ensino Fundamental (6º ao 9º ano) - Língua Portuguesa e Inglês |
Q3171504
Inglês
Read the following sets of words and analyze
their vowel sounds.
1 - cat, hat, map
2 - sheep, meet, deed
3 - cup, luck, bus
Which statement describes the vowel sounds in these word sets?
1 - cat, hat, map
2 - sheep, meet, deed
3 - cup, luck, bus
Which statement describes the vowel sounds in these word sets?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de São Miguel Arcanjo - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2025 - Prefeitura de São Miguel Arcanjo - SP - Professor Ensino Fundamental (6º ao 9º ano) - Língua Portuguesa e Inglês |
Q3171503
Inglês
Analyze the following words.
1 - cup 2 - look 3 - shut 4 - bug 5 – truck
Which number corresponds to the word that has a different vowel sound from the others?
1 - cup 2 - look 3 - shut 4 - bug 5 – truck
Which number corresponds to the word that has a different vowel sound from the others?
Q3167546
Inglês
Texto associado
READ TEXT III AND ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT FOLLOWS IT:
Plastic Dreams
by Sarah Thompson
Plastic dreams, oh plastic dreams, a vision turned nightmare,
Once a symbol of progress, now a burden we must bear.
Our landfills overflow with your synthetic remains,
A haunting testament to our unsustainable chains.
Plastic dreams, oh plastic dreams, a promise unfulfilled,
Your convenience a facade, your consequences concealed.
Let us wake from this slumber, this toxic desire,
To create a world where nature's essence can inspire.
In our hands lies the power, to choose a different fate,
To abandon plastic dreams and embrace a sustainable state.
For only through conscious choices, can we break this vicious spell,
And ensure a future where our planet and poetry can dwell.
From: https://poemverse.org/poems-about-plasticwaste/#2_the_sea_s_lament_by_michael_anderson
The vowel sound in “bear” (2nd line) is the same as in
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Vinhedo - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Vinhedo - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q3167526
Inglês
Which word has a vowel sound that stands out from the others in terms of pronunciation?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Instituto Fênix
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Planalto Alegre - SC
Prova:
Instituto Fênix - 2025 - Prefeitura de Planalto Alegre - SC - Professor de Língua Estrangeira - Inglês |
Q3162558
Inglês
A pragmática estuda o uso da linguagem em contextos específicos, considerando a intenção do falante e as implicações comunicativas.
No diálogo abaixo, qual é a implicatura gerada pela fala de B?
A: Are you going to the party tonight?
B: I have a lot of work to do.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Instituto Fênix
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Planalto Alegre - SC
Prova:
Instituto Fênix - 2025 - Prefeitura de Planalto Alegre - SC - Professor de Língua Estrangeira - Inglês |
Q3162555
Inglês
A estilística foca na análise de estilos literários e linguísticos
em diferentes textos. No texto poético, por exemplo, a
aliteração é uma figura de linguagem comum. Qual das
alternativas apresenta um exemplo de aliteração em inglês?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês - Edital nº 1 |
Q3156528
Inglês
Regarding English consonant sounds, mark the incorrect option:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês - Edital nº 1 |
Q3156513
Inglês
Identify the option that contains words whose
pronunciation does not rhyme with the others.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Língua Inglesa |
Q3143803
Inglês
Which word has a different long vowel sound?
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Língua Inglesa |
Q3143802
Inglês
Identify the word with a different initial consonant sound:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Língua Inglesa |
Q3143801
Inglês
Identify the word with a distinct initial sound:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
Avança SP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP
Prova:
Avança SP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Morungaba - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II - Língua Inglesa |
Q3143797
Inglês
Find the word with a distinct initial sound:
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: 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: 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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