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Ano: 2025
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Q3430816
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Read the text to answer question:
It is suggested that the field of language teaching has moved away from a reliance on prescriptive methods towards a
more nuanced understanding of the complexities of language learning. For example, Richards and Rodgers (1986) note
that there have been calls to abandon the search for a single
“supermethod” and to instead focus on equipping teachers
with “a repertoire of methods and skills that can be used selectively in different contexts”. This reflects a move away from
the idea that there is one “right” way to teach language, and
towards an approach that values flexibility, adaptability, and a
recognition of the diverse contexts in which language learning
takes place (Richards, 2001).
Realistically speaking, each method has its own advantages and disadvantages; up till now, no method has been
empirically proven the best for all language educators to blindly adopt without discussion. For example, the current great
enthusiasm for (and wide adoption of) the Communicative
Language Teaching (CLT) method in Egypt can be attributed to the failure of the previously adopted method (i.e. the
Grammar-Translation Method) to meet the national language
learning goals. It failed to develop a language learner who can
communicate properly in English. This does not mean that the
CLT will stay forever, especially in this Information and Communication Technology-dominated age (ICT) that has been
changing the nature of language and how it should be taught
(Abdallah, 2011).
(M. Abdallah, 2024. Disponível em:
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED660475.pdf.
Adaptado)
A BNCC recomenda chamar a atenção para as semelhanças e diferenças entre a língua inglesa e a língua
portuguesa. Um modo de fazê-lo poderia ser destacar
cognatos e falsos cognatos. Das palavras a seguir, no
contexto do texto, o falso cognato encontra-se em
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FGV
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SEPLAN-SE
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Q3406125
Inglês
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READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER QUESTION
The importance of assessing the social and economic impacts of
environmental policies
Policymakers face the challenge of supporting both inclusive and
sustainable economic development and a healthy environment.
While the most desirable policy outcome is one that achieves the
greatest environmental benefits while also advancing socioeconomic goals, it is important for policymakers to fully
understand the possible trade-offs between these objectives. A
better understanding of the broader impacts of environmental
policies is crucial to mitigate their adverse effects on competing
goals, especially as countries are faced with the arduous task of
responding to mounting environmental challenges in economically
turbulent times.
Governments are under pressure to scale up and accelerate their
ambition on climate and environmental goals. But in taking such
action forward, they have to carefully navigate a number of
headwinds. These include the long-term impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic on both the economy and society, cost-of-living crisis,
political tensions and geopolitical crises such as the Russian
invasion of Ukraine. Low-income people and the poorest
economies are the hardest hit, primarily due to the steep increases
in the price of energy and food.
The level of environmental policy stringency can have an impact
on a variety of policy outcomes. Empirical research is crucial to
shed light on these interlinkages. Previous research has shown that
more stringent environmental policy has achieved significant
environmental benefits with little aggregate effect on economic
performance. However, localized effects may generate winners
and losers, with significant losses for certain sectors, firms or
individuals and benefits for others. Nonetheless, at present, the
empirical evidence on these distributional aspects is still scarce,
despite its crucial role in supporting good policy design. More than
ever, regulators need better tools and insights to assess the
consequences of environmental policies on the economy and on
social outcomes.
Adapted from the brochure downloaded from
https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/social-and-economic-impacts-ofenvironmental-policies.html
The opposite of the adjective in “the hardest hit” (2nd paragraph)
is:
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Q3406124
Inglês
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The importance of assessing the social and economic impacts of
environmental policies
Policymakers face the challenge of supporting both inclusive and
sustainable economic development and a healthy environment.
While the most desirable policy outcome is one that achieves the
greatest environmental benefits while also advancing socioeconomic goals, it is important for policymakers to fully
understand the possible trade-offs between these objectives. A
better understanding of the broader impacts of environmental
policies is crucial to mitigate their adverse effects on competing
goals, especially as countries are faced with the arduous task of
responding to mounting environmental challenges in economically
turbulent times.
Governments are under pressure to scale up and accelerate their
ambition on climate and environmental goals. But in taking such
action forward, they have to carefully navigate a number of
headwinds. These include the long-term impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic on both the economy and society, cost-of-living crisis,
political tensions and geopolitical crises such as the Russian
invasion of Ukraine. Low-income people and the poorest
economies are the hardest hit, primarily due to the steep increases
in the price of energy and food.
The level of environmental policy stringency can have an impact
on a variety of policy outcomes. Empirical research is crucial to
shed light on these interlinkages. Previous research has shown that
more stringent environmental policy has achieved significant
environmental benefits with little aggregate effect on economic
performance. However, localized effects may generate winners
and losers, with significant losses for certain sectors, firms or
individuals and benefits for others. Nonetheless, at present, the
empirical evidence on these distributional aspects is still scarce,
despite its crucial role in supporting good policy design. More than
ever, regulators need better tools and insights to assess the
consequences of environmental policies on the economy and on
social outcomes.
Adapted from the brochure downloaded from
https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/social-and-economic-impacts-ofenvironmental-policies.html
In the first paragraph, the word that means “a situation in which
you balance two opposing situations or qualities”.
(in https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english) is:
(in https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english) is:
Ano: 2025
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Q3398366
Inglês
Assinale a alternativa correta que em representa
Português a tradução de “String”:
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Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG
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Q3398365
Inglês
Assinale a alternativa correta que representa
em Português a tradução de “Straighten”:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
EVO Concursos
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG
Prova:
EVO Concursos - 2025 - Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG - Professor II - Inglês |
Q3398364
Inglês
Assinale a alternativa correta que representa
em Português a tradução de “Queue”:
Ano: 2025
Banca:
EVO Concursos
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG
Prova:
EVO Concursos - 2025 - Prefeitura de Santa Rita de Ibitipoca - MG - Professor II - Inglês |
Q3398363
Inglês
Assinale a alternativa correta que representa
em Português a tradução de “Jitter”:
Ano: 2025
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VUNESP
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP
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VUNESP - 2025 - Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP - Professor da Educação Básica II - Inglês |
Q3393782
Inglês
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Read the following text to answer question:
The Missing Ingredient in Education? Curiosity.
It’s easy to forget how important individual passion is in
education; too often it can feel like it’s a game of just painting
by the numbers. But if we all think about it for a moment,
isn’t learning actually meant to be a joyous experience? If
you think about your own life, haven’t you had an afternoon
fly past because you’ve been gripped by a certain task, a
particular lesson, a specific train of thought? School education
is no different. If we make room for young people’s individual
curiosities, notice and nurture them, we can make learning a
natural experience.
Once we find that individual spark in a child, in many
ways, the hard part is over. They can lead the way with their
learning and they don’t have to be coaxed into it. Curiosity can
be utilized through inquiry-based learning and schools all over
the world are already making the most of this type of learning.
For instance, children are driven to the museums where
they are engaged in stories, games and activities. To develop
curiosity, children identify an exhibit on a particular topic and
are encouraged to ask questions about the exhibits to fill in
the gaps in their own knowledge. Along with utilizing manmade resources such as museums, nature itself has an
important part to play in inquiry-based learning. The world is
full of natural wonders which can spark curiosity in children.
Not only is identifying and encouraging curiosity pivotal
in a child’s educational career, but it will be useful for them in
the working world too. By instilling these behaviours early on
we can help kids to become lifelong learners, which they will
need to be, as single-track careers become an antiquated idea
and we’ll potentially find ourselves working several different
careers within our lifetime. Curiosity may have killed the cat in
decades past, but it could be the key to a more stable future
for the next generation.
(Josephine Lister. Disponível em: https://hundred.org. Adaptado)
In the context of the text, the expression from the first
paragraph “painting by the numbers” means
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Prefeitura de Tremembé - SP
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Q3393768
Inglês
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Read the following extract to answer question.
A friend of mine who is an orchestral conductor was
asking me (early in our acquaintance) about what I did for
a living. When I told him that apart from other activities, I
wrote books about how to teach English he said ‘Books in
the plural? Surely once you’ve written one, there’s nothing
more to say!’ I wanted to reply that he had just argued himself
out of a job (I mean, how many performances of Beethoven
symphonies have there been in the twenty-first century
alone?), but someone else laughed at his question, another
musician made a different comment, the conversation moved
on, and so Martin-the-conductor’s flippant enquiry evaporated
in the convivial atmosphere of a British pub.
But his question was a good one. Surely we know how
to teach languages? After all, people have been doing it
successfully for two thousand years or more, and some
aspects of teaching in the past have probably not changed
that much. But other things have, and continue to change.
Which is (I suppose) why every time I re-examine past
assumptions about teaching, I find myself questioning and
reinterpreting things I thought were fixed. And of course, I am
not alone in this. We all do it all the time – or at least we do if
we haven’t closed our minds off from the possibility of change
and renewal.
Language teaching, perhaps more than many other
activities, reflects the times it takes place in. Language is
about communication, after all, and perhaps that is why
philosophies and techniques for learning languages seem to
develop and change in tune with the societies which give rise
to them. Teaching and learning are very human activities; they
are social just as much as they are (in our case) linguistic.
But it’s not just society that changes and evolves. The
last decades have seen what feels like unprecedented
technological change. The Internet has seen to that, and
other educational technology has not lagged behind. And it’s
exciting stuff. I’ve tried to reflect that excitement and newness
in parts of this new edition.
(Jeremy Harmer, How to teach English. Adaptado)
In the sentence from the last paragraph “The last decades
have seen what feels like unprecedented technological
change.”, the word in bold can be replaced, without
meaning change, by
Ano: 2025
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OBJETIVA
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Prefeitura de Barão - RS
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OBJETIVA - 2025 - Prefeitura de Barão - RS - Professor – Língua Inglesa |
Q3393020
Inglês
What does the phrasal verb below mean in the following
sentence?
They set off on their road trip early this morning.
They set off on their road trip early this morning.
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Q3393019
Inglês
What does the phrasal verb below mean in the following
sentence?
Charlie couldn’t put up with their whining anymore.
Charlie couldn’t put up with their whining anymore.
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Q3393015
Inglês
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Hypatia (born c. 355 CE—died March 415,
Alexandria) was a mathematician, astronomer, and
philosopher who lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s
history. She is the earliest female mathematician of whose
life and work reasonably detailed knowledge exists. Hypatia
was the daughter of Theon of Alexandria, himself a
mathematician and astronomer and the last attested
member of the Alexandrian Museum. Hypatia continued his
program, which was essentially a determined effort to
preserve the Greek mathematical and astronomical heritage
in (1) extremely difficult times. She is credited with
commentaries on geometry, number theory, as well as an
(2) astronomical table. These works, the only ones she is
listed as having written, have been lost, although there have
been attempts to (3) reconstruct aspects of them. She was,
in her time, the world’s leading mathematician and
astronomer, the only woman for (4) whom such claim can be
made.
She was also a popular teacher and lecturer on
philosophical topics of a less-specialist nature, attracting
many loyal students and large audiences. Her philosophy
was Neoplatonist and was thus seen as “pagan” at a time of
bitter religious conflict between Christians (both orthodox
and “heretical”), Jews, and pagans. Her philosophy also led
her to embrace a life of dedicated virginity.
The climate of tolerance lapsed, and shortly
afterward Hypatia became the victim of a particularly brutal
murder at the hands of a gang of Christian zealots.
The affair
made Hypatia a powerful feminist symbol and a figure of
affirmation for intellectual endeavor in the face of ignorant
prejudice. Her intellectual accomplishments alone were
quite ______ to merit the preservation and respect of her
name, but, sadly, the manner of her death added to it an
even greater emphasis.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica. Adapted.
The words underlined below can be substituted, in
order, while maintaining their original meaning, by:
The climate of tolerance lapsed, and shortly afterward Hypatia became the victim of a particularly brutal murder at the hands of a gang of Christian zealots. The affair made Hypatia a powerful feminist symbol and a figure of affirmation for intellectual endeavor in the face of ignorant prejudice.
The climate of tolerance lapsed, and shortly afterward Hypatia became the victim of a particularly brutal murder at the hands of a gang of Christian zealots. The affair made Hypatia a powerful feminist symbol and a figure of affirmation for intellectual endeavor in the face of ignorant prejudice.
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Órgão:
Prefeitura de Barão - RS
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Q3393012
Inglês
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Hypatia (born c. 355 CE—died March 415,
Alexandria) was a mathematician, astronomer, and
philosopher who lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s
history. She is the earliest female mathematician of whose
life and work reasonably detailed knowledge exists. Hypatia
was the daughter of Theon of Alexandria, himself a
mathematician and astronomer and the last attested
member of the Alexandrian Museum. Hypatia continued his
program, which was essentially a determined effort to
preserve the Greek mathematical and astronomical heritage
in (1) extremely difficult times. She is credited with
commentaries on geometry, number theory, as well as an
(2) astronomical table. These works, the only ones she is
listed as having written, have been lost, although there have
been attempts to (3) reconstruct aspects of them. She was,
in her time, the world’s leading mathematician and
astronomer, the only woman for (4) whom such claim can be
made.
She was also a popular teacher and lecturer on
philosophical topics of a less-specialist nature, attracting
many loyal students and large audiences. Her philosophy
was Neoplatonist and was thus seen as “pagan” at a time of
bitter religious conflict between Christians (both orthodox
and “heretical”), Jews, and pagans. Her philosophy also led
her to embrace a life of dedicated virginity.
The climate of tolerance lapsed, and shortly
afterward Hypatia became the victim of a particularly brutal
murder at the hands of a gang of Christian zealots.
The affair
made Hypatia a powerful feminist symbol and a figure of
affirmation for intellectual endeavor in the face of ignorant
prejudice. Her intellectual accomplishments alone were
quite ______ to merit the preservation and respect of her
name, but, sadly, the manner of her death added to it an
even greater emphasis.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica. Adapted.
Mark the item which CORRECTLY completes the blank in
the last paragraph of the text.
Ano: 2025
Banca:
IBADE
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Rolim de Moura - RO
Prova:
IBADE - 2025 - Prefeitura de Rolim de Moura - RO - Professor de Letras (Inglês - 20 Horas) |
Q3371437
Inglês
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TEXT I
Why do birds sing so loudly in the morning in spring? It’s the ‘dawn chorus’
As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony.
This phenomenon is known as the dawn chorus, and it’s special for a number of reasons: There are more birds singing at this time of year, and they also sing more often. This energetic burst of birdsong is often louder than usual too. The dawn chorus’ early morning explosion of sounds has even inspired multiple poems and songs.
“It's the epitome of spring,” says Jordan E. Rutter, an ornithologist at the American Bird Conservancy. After the long and cold winter, “all of a sudden you have this influx of so many beautiful birds coming back and singing.”
This harmony of birdsong at dawn happens during a fundamental time of the year. The dawn chorus is, in fact, mostly composed of birds of both genders singing to find a mate so they can breed (though males may sing more).
“There is such a large increase in quantity of song by individuals and the collective,” Rutter says. “These birds sing louder to literally be heard. They need to compete with each other as well, and the louder the better in regards to who is the most impressive mate.”
During this time, males also sing to assert their dominance and claim their territory. “Those songs are how they communicate to other males of the same species, or even just other birds and predators in general, and say, ‘This is my home,’” says Rutter.
In the United States and Canada, the dawn chorus can be heard roughly from March through May, when many bird species migrate there from their winter homes to breed. Peak dawn chorus times might depend on where you live, Rutter says. For example, April is peak for the southern U.S., but birds in Washington, D.C., will put on the best show in early May. (Alternatively, in the tropics, the dawn chorus can be heard almost any time of year, as many birds have a prolonged breeding season in those warmer climates.)
Why is it a ‘dawn’ chorus?
But why birds sing in the early morning is still “an open question,” says Mike Webster, an ornithologist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. “There's a lot of debate, and I don't think there's any consensus on exactly why it is that everything happens at dawn."
One hypothesis is that weather conditions at daybreak make it easier for birdsong to travel.
“In general, sound travels farther when the air is cooler and more dense. Sound also transmits more clearly (and very slightly faster) when humidity is higher so that details of the song do not degrade as much over distance,” says Heather Williams, a professor at Williams College who has studied the neuroscience of birdsong. She notes that wind may also impede sound transmission. “At dawn, the cooler air results in decreased winds at ground level, so coupled with the higher humidity, sound carries farther and more clearly, with less distortion.”
Extract from
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/birds-dawn-chorus (Accessed on 14 April 2025.)
In line 8, the words more often mean:
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Q3370928
Inglês
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TEXT I
Why do birds sing so loudly in the morning in spring? It’s the ‘dawn chorus’
As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony.
This phenomenon is known as the dawn chorus, and it’s special for a number of reasons: There are more birds singing at this time of year, and they also sing more often. This energetic burst of birdsong is often louder than usual too. The dawn chorus’ early morning explosion of sounds has even inspired multiple poems and songs.
“It's the epitome of spring,” says Jordan E. Rutter, an ornithologist at the American Bird Conservancy. After the long and cold winter, “all of a sudden you have this influx of so many beautiful birds coming back and singing.”
This harmony of birdsong at dawn happens during a fundamental time of the year. The dawn chorus is, in fact, mostly composed of birds of both genders singing to find a mate so they can breed (though males may sing more).
“There is such a large increase in quantity of song by individuals and the collective,” Rutter says. “These birds sing louder to literally be heard. They need to compete with each other as well, and the louder the better in regards to who is the most impressive mate.”
During this time, males also sing to assert their dominance and claim their territory. “Those songs are how they communicate to other males of the same species, or even just other birds and predators in general, and say, ‘This is my home,’” says Rutter.
In the United States and Canada, the dawn chorus can be heard roughly from March through May, when many bird species migrate there from their winter homes to breed. Peak dawn chorus times might depend on where you live, Rutter says. For example, April is peak for the southern U.S., but birds in Washington, D.C., will put on the best show in early May. (Alternatively, in the tropics, the dawn chorus can be heard almost any time of year, as many birds have a prolonged breeding season in those warmer climates.)
Why is it a ‘dawn’ chorus?
But why birds sing in the early morning is still “an open question,” says Mike Webster, an ornithologist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. “There's a lot of debate, and I don't think there's any consensus on exactly why it is that everything happens at dawn."
One hypothesis is that weather conditions at daybreak make it easier for birdsong to travel.
“In general, sound travels farther when the air is cooler and more dense. Sound also transmits more clearly (and very slightly faster) when humidity is higher so that details of the song do not degrade as much over distance,” says Heather Williams, a professor at Williams College who has studied the neuroscience of birdsong. She notes that wind may also impede sound transmission. “At dawn, the cooler air results in decreased winds at ground level, so coupled with the higher humidity, sound carries farther and more clearly, with less distortion.”
Extract from
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/birds-dawn-chorus (Accessed on 14 April 2025.)
The expression all of a sudden can be best replaced by:
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Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC
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Prefeitura de Bombinhas - SC
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Q3369483
Inglês
Select the option that presents the synonym for the word "leap":
Ano: 2025
Banca:
AMEOSC
Órgão:
Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC
Prova:
AMEOSC - 2025 - Prefeitura de Iporã do Oeste - SC - Professor de Inglês |
Q3361766
Inglês
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'Why I want an IVF baby to screen out gene that
made me go blind'
Blind content creator and TikTok star Lucy Edwards says
she's "so excited" to be on a health kick to undergo IVF,
but reveals the dilemma she faced in deciding to screen
out the very gene that made her blind.
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All
podcast.
Lucy and her husband Ollie married at Kew Gardens two
years ago and are now ready to start a family - but there
are complications to consider.
Lucy has the rare genetic condition Incontinentia
Pigmenti (IP) and lost her sight due to this aged 17, just
months after meeting Ollie.
The condition runs through the female line - Lucy's mum
has IP although isn't blind, her Grandma did too and her
great-aunt was blind in one eye.
Lucy is totally blind, but, if she had been a boy, she may
not have survived.
The abnormal IP gene is located on the X chromosome.
Women have two X chromosomes, while males have X
and Y, meaning the appearance of the gene can be more
catastrophic in male pregnancies.
"My grandma actually had nine miscarriages," Lucy says.
This is one of the facts that played into the complicated
decision Lucy and Ollie made to opt for pre-implantation
genetic testing, a special type of IVF where embryos are
created outside of the body and screened for the genetic
condition. Only those embryos which are not affected by
the condition are placed back into the womb.
Without medical intervention, Lucy says there would be
four potential outcomes to any pregnancy she carried: A
healthy and unaffected boy or girl, an affected boy she
would likely miscarry or who would be born with severe
brain damage or an affected girl.
She pauses, then laughs: "That sounds horrible, doesn't
it? That's me."
And that's the quandary. IVF will edit out the very thing
that has made Lucy who she is today - a journalist,
advocate, author and broadcaster.
It is an emotive topic of debate. The most well-known
conversation is around Down's syndrome and the
number of women who choose to abort a pregnancy
once their baby is tested and diagnosed as having the
condition. The question is around the value people place
on other peoples' lives which may not look like our own.
In 2021 campaigner Heidi Crowter, who herself has
Down's syndrome, challenged legislation allowing
foetuses with the condition to be aborted up until birth.
She took her case to the High Court arguing the rules were discriminatory to disabled people who could live a
good life. She lost the case and the subsequent
argument she made at the Court of Appeal. The
European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) later rejected it
as well, but Heidi continues to campaign to have the law
overturned.
It is something Lucy is very aware of and she and her
husband have spent a long time considering.
"It's understanding that it is removing that part of me that
makes me, me," Lucy says. "It's such a personal decision
and I know that I'm opening myself up for possible
designer baby discussions, but I know I'm doing it for the
right reasons."
Lucy says first being diagnosed with IP and then losing
her sight as a teenager were both traumatic events and
she wants to minimise the likelihood of miscarriage to
limit any future traumatic load.
She says she found it impossible to "knowingly" consider
having a baby naturally once she knew the science was
available to give a baby the healthiest start possible.
"If I had a baby and, unknowingly, I had a gorgeous,
gorgeous baby with disabilities, I would be so thankful, so
happy and amazed but knowingly having this gene?
That's why we're having IVF."
IP doesn't just cause blindness, it can also cause severe
epilepsy and more difficult outcomes. Lucy says having
the option to ensure complications were not passed on
felt like both a responsibility and a privilege previous
generations did not have.
"Whether we like it or not, we have to be responsible
here. Maybe a responsible issue for you, if you have IP
or another genetic disorder, is to have a child naturally
and we are not judging you in any shape or form, this is
just our decision."
In response to their openness around this decision
comments were overwhelmingly positive from Lucy's fans
which she thinks might be because she is so "disability
positive" in her everyday life - "I love being blind," she
frequently states.
But Lucy says responses have been different around the
world. When she was working in Japan and her content
was reaching audiences unfamiliar with her story, she faced a lot more trolling.
"I got a lot of abusive comments that go into my spam
filter questioning why I would be a mother," she says. "I
know that I'm going to get a lot of abuse, but I'm just
going to block them.
"I'm going to be OK. All I think about is the other mothers
that have come before me who are competent, capable
and resilient."
Lucy, who is known for her How Does A Blind Girl...
series of videos, is overjoyed by the prospect of IVF but
she has also been frank about the fact she currently does
not qualify, owing to her current weight, a sensitive
element of IVF treatment that many keep to themselves.
NHS guidelines specify your Body Mass Index (BMI)
must be 30 or under to qualify - a healthy BMI is
considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9.
"I need to be a BMI of 30 and I'm very open that I need to
lose 9kg," Lucy says. "I've already lost 15kg."
Her health journey has involved swimming, lifting weights
and many runs with Ollie tethered to her as her sighted
guide. She has also found a love for batch cooking
nutritious meals which she posts about on all of her
channels on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube and the
workarounds she has developed as a blind cook.
"I wanted a positive representation of losing weight online
because it's all about this blinking jab," she says,
referring to weight loss injections. "I just wanted to lose it
healthily, have lots of nice food, talk about meal prep and
just smile and run."
Once she hits the required BMI, Lucy will qualify for three
rounds of IVF on the NHS.
She will contact her consultant, after which she has to
"spit in a cup" and offer up her DNA for genetic testing
and analysis.
Over a period of about three months, a genetics team will
"make a bespoke test to find the gene within my eggs,"
Lucy explains.
Meanwhile Lucy will inject herself with trigger shots to
stimulate the follicles within her ovaries to increase the
number of eggs produced which will be retrieved, and
then made into embryos with Ollie's sperm.
The embryos will then be tested so only ones without the
IP gene will be possible candidates. Those embryos will
be "shuffled about" so Lucy and Ollie don't know which
will be selected in terms of gender or other genetic
qualities, and implanted into Lucy, who will carry the baby
to term.
Lucy can't wait for the moment she holds her baby in her
arms.
"It will never stop being a thing within my mind that this
gene is being eradicated," she admits. "But I am very
happy in my decision."
A few days ago Lucy posted on Instagram, her cardigan
tightened at the back with a hairband to make it smaller
and fit.
"I've lost so much [weight] that my clothes are too loose
now so we had to tie it up with a bobble," she tells her
followers.
"Fingers crossed [we're] only a few weeks away from
ringing the clinic."
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In the sentence, "She has found a love for batch cooking
nutritious meals," the term "batch cooking" can best be
understood as:
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How does vocabulary choice influence the effectiveness of different text genres?
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Compensatory Strategies
A common set of communication devices involves
compensation for missing knowledge. These are called
“compensatory strategies”. We will elaborate here on three
of them.
Typical of beginning-level learners, for example, is
the memorization of certain phrases or sentences without
internalized knowledge of their components. These memorized
chunks of language, known as prefabricated patterns, include
“on the way to”, “Nice to meet you”, “I don’t speak English.”
Prefabricated patterns are sometimes the source of some fun.
In my first days of Kikongo learning in Africa, I tried to say, in
Kikongo, “I don’t know Kikongo” to those who attempted to
converse with me; I later discovered that, instead of saying
“Kizeyi Kikongo ko”, I had said “Kizoiele Kikongo ko” (I don’t
like Kikongo).
Code-switching is the use of a first or third language
within a stream of speech in the second language. Learners
in the early stages of acquisition might code-switch—use
their native language to fill in missing knowledge—whether
the hearer knows that native language or not. Sometimes the
learner slips in just a word or two, in the hope that the hearer
will get the gist of what is being communicated.
Yet another common compensatory strategy is a direct
appeal for help, often termed appeal to authority. Learners
may, if stuck for a particular word or phrase, directly ask a
proficient speaker or the teacher for the form (“How do you
say ?”). Or they might venture a possible guess
and then ask for verification from the proficient speaker. They
might also appeal to a bilingual dictionary for help. The latter
case can also produce some rather amusing situations. Once
a student of English as a second language, when asked to
introduce himself to the class and the teacher, said, “Allow me
to introduce myself and tell you some of the ...” At this point
he quickly got out his pocket dictionary and, finding the word
he wanted, continued, “some of the headlights of my past.”
(H. Douglas Brown. Disponível em: Principles of
language learning and teaching, 2006. Adaptado)
In the context of the third paragraph, the expression “get
the gist of” means to
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Prefeitura de Porto Alegre - RS
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Mark the correct definition of the highlighted word “untapped” (l. 09).
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