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Comentadas sobre vocabulário | vocabulary em inglês
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Read the text:
"Many educators argue that integrating technology into the classroom can significantly enhance students’ learning experiences. However, others claim that excessive reliance on digital tools may reduce critical thinking skills."
The word “enhance” in the text is closest in meaning to:
( ) The phrasal verb "lined up" in the first paragraph indicates that the upcoming books are physically standing in a straight queue at the printing press.
( ) The expression "gotten in on" in the third paragraph suggests that Penguin Books has started participating in the same profitable trend that the British Library began.
( ) The expression 'lined up' is used idiomatically to indicate that more volumes are scheduled or prepared for future release.
( ) The term "back in" in the final sentence is used to describe the physical movement of a book being placed inside a prínting machine.
Which alternative CORRECTLY fills in the above? parenthesis
I. It functions as a technical shorthand in the literary world; it specifically emphasizes the availability of the content to the general public rather than the physical act of pressing ink onto paper.
II. It signals to the reader that the work has returned to the "active" catalogue of a publisher, making it a crucial term for libraries and book collectors to identify titles that are no longer "rare" or "out of print."
III. The author uses "back in print" as a prepositional collocation to indicate the specific medium of the reissue.
The CORRECT statements are:
(__) Collocations são combinações habituais de palavras que soam naturais para falantes nativos, como o uso de "make" em "make a mistake" e "do" em "do homework".
(__) Um campo semântico refere-se a um grupo de palavras que compartilham um tema comum, como "physician," "nurse," e "surgeon" dentro do campo da medicina.
(__) O fenômeno dos "false cognates" descreve palavras que possuem ortografia semelhante em inglês e português e que compartilham exatamente o mesmo significado em qualquer contexto.
(__) A fixidez das collocations permite que o falante substitua livremente os termos por sinônimos dicionarizados sem alterar a naturalidade ou a correção idiomática da frase.
Após análise, assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA dos itens acima, de cima para baixo:
To answer question, read the text below.
The Language of Performance
Well, the word “performative” is generally meant as an insult. It’s meant to trivialize and indicate that someone is play-acting or “faking it.” It suggests that someone is only doing something to be seen doing it, and not because it represents a sincere interest or enjoyment.
This is one of those situations in which metaphors are overextended, and language distorts rather than describes natural human behavior. It is normal for our species for men and women to “perform” acts to impress both our own sex and the opposite sex. Males and females have different sex “roles,” and we “perform” acts to satisfy those roles.
The language seems to “portray” us as “actors performing roles” and implies that we are all essentially “lying” or “faking.” This is the kind of wordcel wordtrap that lends itself to Marxist gender theory ideology and postmodernist thinking.
“Nothing is real, everything is fake. Everything is a performance.”
That’s a frame, but it isn’t the whole picture.
Men are primates. We imitate each other. Monkey see, monkey do. And yes, we do things to try to impress each other. You can frame that in a way that seems trivial or superficial, but it is also foundational to human nature and social hierarchy.
Fonte: https//mrjackdonovan.substack.com/p/on-performative-males
Collocations are pairs or groups of words that are habitually juxtaposed in English. Based on this concept, identify which of the following terms from the text are examples of collocations:
I. Whole picture (Fifth paragraph)
II. Human nature (Sixth paragraph)
III. Social hierarchy (Sixth paragraph)
IV. Sex roles (Second paragraph)
V. Human behavior (Second paragraph)
Which of the statements are CORRECT?
To answer question, read the text below.
The Language of Performance
Well, the word “performative” is generally meant as an insult. It’s meant to trivialize and indicate that someone is play-acting or “faking it.” It suggests that someone is only doing something to be seen doing it, and not because it represents a sincere interest or enjoyment.
This is one of those situations in which metaphors are overextended, and language distorts rather than describes natural human behavior. It is normal for our species for men and women to “perform” acts to impress both our own sex and the opposite sex. Males and females have different sex “roles,” and we “perform” acts to satisfy those roles.
The language seems to “portray” us as “actors performing roles” and implies that we are all essentially “lying” or “faking.” This is the kind of wordcel wordtrap that lends itself to Marxist gender theory ideology and postmodernist thinking.
“Nothing is real, everything is fake. Everything is a performance.”
That’s a frame, but it isn’t the whole picture.
Men are primates. We imitate each other. Monkey see, monkey do. And yes, we do things to try to impress each other. You can frame that in a way that seems trivial or superficial, but it is also foundational to human nature and social hierarchy.
Fonte: https//mrjackdonovan.substack.com/p/on-performative-males
Read the following statements about the phrase faking it (first paragraph) and mark True (T) or False (F):
( ) It is a phrasal verb (intransitive, with "it" as a pronoun object).
( ) It appears in the context of the word performative.
( ) It is implying sincerity, synonymous with pretending or acting truly.
( ) It is a compound noun.
Which option CORRECTLY fills in the parenthesis above, from top to bottom?
To answer question, read the text below.
The Language of Performance
Well, the word “performative” is generally meant as an insult. It’s meant to trivialize and indicate that someone is play-acting or “faking it.” It suggests that someone is only doing something to be seen doing it, and not because it represents a sincere interest or enjoyment.
This is one of those situations in which metaphors are overextended, and language distorts rather than describes natural human behavior. It is normal for our species for men and women to “perform” acts to impress both our own sex and the opposite sex. Males and females have different sex “roles,” and we “perform” acts to satisfy those roles.
The language seems to “portray” us as “actors performing roles” and implies that we are all essentially “lying” or “faking.” This is the kind of wordcel wordtrap that lends itself to Marxist gender theory ideology and postmodernist thinking.
“Nothing is real, everything is fake. Everything is a performance.”
That’s a frame, but it isn’t the whole picture.
Men are primates. We imitate each other. Monkey see, monkey do. And yes, we do things to try to impress each other. You can frame that in a way that seems trivial or superficial, but it is also foundational to human nature and social hierarchy.
Fonte: https//mrjackdonovan.substack.com/p/on-performative-males
“Students improve their language skills through practice.”
Assinale a alternativa em que a palavra em destaque pode ser substituída por um sinônimo adequado sem alteração significativa de sentido.
Match the terms in Column 1 with their correct definitions in Column 2.
Column 1 Terms
1. Transaction Cost Economics
2. Eclectic Paradigm
3. Institutional Voids
4. Global Value Chains
5. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
Column 2 Definitions
(_) The absence or underdevelopment of market-supporting institutions
(_) The system of cross-border production and distribution activities.
(_) A framework explaining why firms expand internationally based on OLI advantages.
(_) The costs associated with conducting and managing economic exchanges.
(_) The ownership of business operations in a foreign country.
Select the alternative that presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.
(_) There are four prepositions missing in the final paragraph. The most appropriate sequence is: in; on; to; by.
(_) The sentence Hedging instruments are employed by firms to manage risks is correctly written in the Passive Voice.
(_) The word nearshoring, in the fifth paragraph, refers to moving production overseas.
(_) Mitigating transaction costs most nearly means reducing transaction costs.
(_) In the sixth paragraph, the expressions not only and but also, form a correlative conjunc tion pair used to connect two related ideas.
Select the alternative that presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.
Identify the alternative that presents the informal equivalent of the formal expression purchase.
(__)The word "actual" in English is a false cognate that means "na verdade" or "real", and it should not be translated as "atual" in Portuguese.
(__)The English term "novel" refers to a long fictional narrative in prose (romance), while the Portuguese word "novela" is typically translated as "soap opera" or "short novel".
(__)"Comprehensive" is a cognate word that shares exactly the same meaning with "compreensivo" in Portuguese, usually describing someone who is empathetic.
(__)Lexical precision in academic English requires the use of phrasal verbs instead of Latinate single-word equivalents to increase the level of formality and abstraction.
Now, choose the CORRECT alternative with the sequence from top to bottom:
I.Phrasal verbs are idiomatic combinations consisting of a verb and a particle (adverb or preposition) that often function as a single semantic unit.
II.Transitive phrasal verbs can be separable, allowing the object to be placed between the verb and the particle, especially when the object is a personal pronoun.
III.Idioms are expressions whose meaning can be easily deduced by the literal sum of the meanings of their individual component words.
Which of the statements above is/are CORRECT?
I.Hyponymy is a relationship of inclusion, where the meaning of a more specific term (the hyponym) is included within the meaning of a more general term (the hypernym).
II.Antonymy always involves absolute opposites, meaning that words like "hot" and "cold" cannot be placed on a scale or modified by adverbs of degree in formal registers.
III.Polysemy refers to a single lexical item that possesses multiple related meanings, often originating from the same etymological root or metaphorical extension.
Which of the statements above is/are CORRECT?
Text for question.
I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.
I had been actually invited. A chauffeur in a uniform of robin’s-egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby’s, it said, if I would attend his “little party” that night. He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it – signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand.
Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven, and wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn’t know – though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train. I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low, earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans. I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were at least agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.
FITZGERALD, F. S. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. p. 41-42
Read the following passage from Passing, by Nella Larsen, and answer the question.
Stepping out of the elevator that had brought her to the roof, she was led to a table just in front of a long window whose gently moving curtains suggested a cool breeze. It was, she thought, like being wafted upward on a magic carpet to another world, pleasant, quiet, and strangely remote from the sizzling one that she had left below.
LARSEN, Nella. Passing. In: The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen – Passing, Quicksand and The Stories. New York: Anchor Books, 2001, p. 164.
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