Questões de Concursos Públicos - IF-SC - 2019 - IF-SC - Docente - Inglês

According to the New World Encyclopedia, Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for Analytic Philosophers has been concerned with four central problems, which are: (Available at: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Philosophy_of_language )

Brazilian Portuguese learners of English tend to mispronounce and misperceive ‘final s’ in plural forms (nouns) and third person singular forms (in the present simple tense) as well as ‘final ed’ in simple past forms of regular verbs. Another common difficulty is choosing between “a” or “an”. In fact, there are simple phonological rules that can help learners overcome such difficulties. Mark (T) for the true statements and (F) for the false ones. ( ) The words moved, laughed, played, and rained have the same final sound. ( ) The words moved, laughed, hated, and shaked have two syllables. ( ) Considering the use of the indefinite article (a, an), it is correct to say: a car, a house, a dog, a one-eyed man, a university, an umbrella, and, an apple. ( ) The words cats, umbrellas, candles, and birds have the same final sound. ( ) The words books, chiefs, tops, and fakes have the same final sound. Mark the alternative which contains the CORRECT sequence from the first to the last propositions.

Which is the topic addressed in the text?

The best word to replace the term “bear” in the text is

According to Brown (2007), the two most valuable reading strategies for English learners are:

Brown (2007:390-397) states that “trends in the teaching of writing in ESL and others foreign language have, not surprisingly, coincided with those of the teaching of other skills, especially listening and speaking. […] Over the past few decades of research on teaching writing to second language learners, a number of issues have appeared, some of which remain controversial in spite of reams of data on second language writing.” Check the alternative that has three of those issues.

Choose the alternative with the CORRECT order of procedures for learners to improve their listening skills.

Choose the option that contains an INCORRECT definition of the words according to their meaning in the text above.

According to Brown (2007), which of the strategies below is not a strategy for ESL reading comprehension:

Choose the alternative that BEST replaces the underlined word preserving the meaning of the sentence below: “Watch or not, you will be deluged by postmortems, hot takes, tweets, TV segments and panel debates.” Ruiz, Michelle. Vogue “Why you shouldn’t watch Trump’s Oval office address tonight,” Jan. 8th 2019.