Read the poem below by the poet Elizabeth Bishop:
ONE ART
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/oneart
In the poem, the persona 

Read the abstract below and then answer the question that follows.

The paper reflects on the role of technology in English language teaching (ELT) methodologies and on the impact of globalization and internationalization in education in general and in ELT in particular. The study is based on the assumption that access to information and technology is necessary to build social capital (WARSCHAUER, 2003) and that this access requires some English knowledge and digital literacy (FINARDI; PREBIANCA; MOMM, 2013). Departing from a bibliographic review on the use of ELT methodologies and the role of technologies in these methodologies, the study proposes that both the resistance to and the uncritical use of technologies and methodologies may bring negative consequences to the development of English language proficiency and social development in Brazil. The study concludes that in the post-method (BROWN, 2002; KUMARAVADIVELU, 2003) and information era (LEVY, 1999) technologies have a relevant and crucial role that should be critically considered in ELT methodologies. The study also suggests that the informed use of technologies and methodologies, allied with the teaching of English as an international language are essential to leverage the development and the internationalization of education in Brazil in a critical way in relation to the effects of globalization. 

Source: https://www.scielo.br/j/ides/a/nJqphLP8s4hp4zBLsTWrPLc/

According to the abstract,

Read the text below and then answer the question that follows:

The Hague, 29 September 1872.
My dear Theo,
I was glad to hear that you got back safely.
I missed you the first few days, and it was strange for me not to find you when I came home in the afternoon. We spent some pleasant days together, and actually did go for some walks and see a thing or two whenever we had the chance.
What terrible weather, you must feel anxious on your walks to Oisterwijk. Yesterday there were trotting races on the occasion of the exhibition, but the illumination and fireworks were postponed because of the bad weather, so it’s just as well you didn’t stay to see them
Regards from the Haanebeeks and the Rooses. Ever,
Your loving
Vincent

This text follows the conventions of

Read the text below. Then, choose the option that best fills in the gaps: 

In this paper, we present the status quo and challenges regarding the use of additional languages as a medium of instruction in Brazilian higher education. ________ contextualizing the importance of the process of internationalization at home (IaH) and additional languages in higher education. ______, the teaching of additional languages in Brazil, _______ has been until very recently relegated to the private sector and accessible only to an elite, is introduced. We then provide an overview of the present state of affairs of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in the country, which is still in its infancy. _______ to describe different ways in which language and content can be integrated in higher education, as well as how EMI can be introduced in disciplinary courses. __________ that EMI can maximize the learning of academic English by Brazilian students and content instructors, as well as encourage a more international higher education and balanced academic mobility by allowing foreign students to study in Brazil while preserving and even increasing the international interest in the Portuguese language. In a country located in the periphery of knowledge production and dissemination, we understand that the adoption of EMI can potentially foster the inclusion of more Brazilians in the global academic and research scenario. It gives them access to the knowledge produced internationally and, at the same time, enables the research produced in the country to be disseminated globally. 

Adapted from: https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/sfuer/article/view/941 

Read the text below about deepfakes:

Deepfakes are creating havoc across the globe, spreading fake news and pornography, being used to steal identities, exploiting celebrities, scamming ordinary people and even influencing elections. 

Yet a recent worldwide survey found 71% of people have no idea what deepfakes are.

Deepfakes are digital photos, videos or voices of real people that have either been synthetically created or manipulated using artificial intelligence (AI) and can be hard to distinguish from the real thing. 

You’ve probably seen a deepfake video or photo without even realising it. Computer-generated Tom Cruises, Taylor Swifts and Mark Zuckerbergs have been circulating on the internet for several years, but what started as a bit of harmless fun has now become much more serious. 

Earlier this year, a finance worker at a multinational firm in Hong Kong was tricked into paying AUD$39 million to fraudsters who used deepfake technology to impersonate the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference.

(…)

Australia’s Defence Chief Angus Campbell has expressed fears that the world is entering “an era of truth decay,” where misinformation will undermine democracy by sowing discord and distrust. 

Campbell told a defence conference in 2023 that artificial intelligence and deepfakes would “seriously damage public confidence in elected officials” by making it impossible for most people to distinguish fact from fiction.

Source: https://unisa.edu.au/connect/enterprisemagazine/articles/2024/what-are-deepfakes-and-should-we-beworried/ 

Choose the correct alternative based on the text. 

Read the excerpt below of Virginia Woolf’s “A room of one’s own”:

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say. Shakespeare himself went, very probably,--his mother was an heiress--to the grammar school, where he may have learnt Latin--Ovid, Virgil and Horace--and the elements of grammar and logic. He was, it is well known, a wild boy who poached rabbits, perhaps shot a deer, and had, rather sooner than he should have done, to marry a woman in the neighbourhood, who bore him a child rather quicker than was right. That escapade sent him to seek his fortune in London. He had, it seemed, a taste for the theatre; he began by holding horses at the stage door. Very soon he got work in the theatre, became a successful actor, and lived at the hub of the universe, meeting everybody, knowing everybody, practising his art on the boards, exercising his wits in the streets, and even getting access to the palace of the queen.

Meanwhile his extraordinarily gifted sister, let us suppose, remained at home. She was as

adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother's perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers. They would have spoken sharply but kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the conditions of life for a woman and loved their daughter--indeed, more likely than nots he was the apple of her father's eye. Perhaps she scribbled some pages up in an apple loft on the sly but was careful to hide them or set fire to them. Soon, however, before she was out of her teens, she was to be betrothed to the son of a neighbouring woolstapler. She cried out that marriage was hateful to her, and for that she was severely beaten by her father. Then he ceased to scold her. He begged her instead not to hurt him, not to shame him in this matter of her marriage. He would give her a chain of beads or a fine petticoat, he said; and there were tears in his eyes. How could she disobey him? How could she break his heart? (...) 

According to the narrator: 

Read the following excerpt of a book review:

Machado de Assis is one of Brazil’s most cherished writers. Born in 1839, he was the grandson of freed slaves. ________ was not abolished in Brazil until 1888, when Machado de Assis was already 49 years old, a fact I learned after being _____ surprised by the casual mention of slaves throughout this novel. In spite of his family’s poverty and lack of opportunity for education, Machado de Assis _____ through various bureaucratic positions until finally gaining prominence as a writer and poet. He taught himself French, English, German, and Greek, and eventually founded the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Nevertheless, he has never had a vast following among English-speaking readers, which is a shame.

Dom Casmurro is a simple tale about an aging man named Bento Santiago, who is one day moved to document the story of his life. His life is not all that extraordinary, to be honest. He falls in love with the girl next door, ______ with her and a close family friend to avoid being sent to the seminary, eventually marries and has a son, and then becomes jealous and suspicious. In his old age, where the novel begins, he has taken to living in a reproduction of his ________ home, suggesting a sort of Citizen Kane-type regret (rather, I guess Citizen Kane suggests a type of Dom Casmurrotype regret).

Source: https://cannonballread.com/2023/09/dom-casmurrokimmie/

Choose the option that best completes the gaps in the excerpt: 

Read the excerpt below, in which Gloria Anzaldúa describes her experience as a child with Mexican descent in the United States of America:
I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess – that was good for three licks on the knuckles with a sharp ruler. I remember being sent to the comer of the classroom for “talking back” to the Anglo teacher when all I was trying to do was tell her how to pronounce my name. “If you want to be American, speak ‘American.’ If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico where you belong.”
(…) At Pan American University, I and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents. Attacks on one’s form of expression with the intent to censor are a violation of the First Amendment.
(…) Wild tongues can’t be tamed, they can only be cut out.
Reference: Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999. I

In this passage, Anzaldúa

Look at the comic strip below.

Source: https://www.middleweb.com/20394/daily-comic-strip-chronicles-teaching-life/ 

Choose the correct alternative according to the text.

Read the excerpt from the novel by the French writer Édouard Louis:

It’s 12.33 am and I start to write in this dark and silent room. Outside through the open window I hear voices in the night and police sirens in the distance.
I’m 26 years and a few months old; most people would say that my life is ahead of me, that nothing has started yet, but for a long time now I’ve been living with the feeling that I’ve lived too much; I imagine that’s why the need to write is so deep, to fix the past in writing and, I suppose, to get rid of it, or maybe, conversely, the past is so anchored in me now that I’m forced to talk about it, at every moment, on every occasion, maybe it has won out, and by believing I’m getting rid of it I’m only bolstering its existence and its ascendency over my life, maybe I’m trapped – I don’t know.
When I was 21 it was already too late, I’d already lived too much – I’d known misery, poverty in my childhood, my mother asking me time and again to go and knock on the neighbours’ or my aunt’s door with an imploring voice so they’d give us a packet of pasta and a jar of tomato sauce because she had no more money and she knew that a child would be more easily pitied than an adult.
I’d known violence, my cousin who died in prison at 30, my older brother who was sick with alcoholism even as a teenager, who woke up drunk most mornings because his body was so steeped in alcohol, my mother who denied it with all her might to protect her son who swore to us every time he drank that it was the last time, that after that he’d never drink again. The fights in the village cafe, the obsessive racism of rural, isolated communities, underlying every sentence, or even every word.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/28/edouard-louischange-book-extract

The narrator in this passage 

Read the lyrics by Nina Simone:
Ain't got no home, ain't got no shoes Ain't got no money, ain't got no class Ain't got no skirts, ain't got no sweaters Ain't got no perfume, ain't got no love Ain't got no faith
Ain't got no culture, ain't got no mother Ain't got no father, ain't got no brother Ain't got no children, ain't got no aunts Ain't got no uncles, ain't got no love Ain't got no mind
Ain't got no country ain't got no schooling Ain't got no friends, ain't got no nothing Ain't got no water, ain't got no air Ain't got no smokes, ain't got no ticket
Ain't got no water, ain't got no love Ain't got no hair, ain't got no God Ain't got no wine, ain't got no money Ain't got no bed, ain't got no God Ain't got no love
What have I got? Why am I alive anyway? Yeah, what have I got? Nobody can take away
Source: https://www.letras.mus.br/nina-simone/aint-got-noigot-life/

As an English teacher, how would you explain the linguistic choices of the song based on the recommendations brought by the Brazilian National Common Core Curriculum (Base Nacional Comum Curricular)? 

In the context of the last paragraph, the word which is a false cognate is

While discussing the notion of language functions with their students, a teacher shows them the following sentences:
• Have you considered leaving in the morning instead of now?
• If I were you, I’d think it over before taking action.
• How about giving this decision a second thought?
• It’s a good idea to rest for a while before you go on with the report.
The students are then asked to decide which shared function the four sentences serve, and they will be correct if they choose

In the last sentence of the part on sociolinguistic competences – “participants may often be unaware of its influence”, the referent of the bolded word is

Examples of non-referential pronoun it (a pronoun that does not have a referent) used in the text are:

•  It has been common in second language…

•  It is of course not surprising…

•  It is clear from learning theory…

The word “it” in bold is a non-referential pronoun in alternative:

De acordo com o autor do texto, interferência

No excerto do trecho “that is, the interfering effects of the native language on the target (the second) language”, a expressão destacada introduz uma

Não só o falante francês citado no texto sofre influência de sua língua materna no uso de tempos verbais em inglês. Também o falante de português comete frequentemente erros devido às diferentes formas como as duas línguas expressam suas noções de tempo. Há erro de interferência do português na frase da alternativa

In the extract from the fourth paragraph “E-communication is a form of writing that resembles casual conversation”, the bolded part is being used as

The fragment “Emoji were originally developed in Japan in the 1990s” (paragraph 4) is in the passive voice. However, not all English verbs can take a passive. The alternative in which the sentence can be rewritten in the passive voice is: