Questões de Concursos FUNCERN

Read the lines of Bon Jovi’s Misunderstood.

Should I… could I have said the wrong things right a thousand times?

If I could just rewind, I see it in my mind

If I could turn back time, you’d still be mine

You cried, I died

I should have shut my mouth, things headed south

As the words slipped off my tongue, they sounded dumb

If this old heart could talk, it’d say you’re the one

I’m wasting time

When I think about it

I should have drove all night

Would have run all the lights, I was misunderstood

I stumbled like my words

Did the best I could, damn

Misunderstood

Could I… should I apologize for sleeping on the couch that night?

Staying out too late with all my friends

You found me passed out in the yard again

You cried, I tried

To stretch the truth, but didn’t lie

It’s not so bad

You think about it

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Genre based teaching sees text as discourse, or as the way we use language to communicate, to achieve purposes in particular situations. It is anchored on the idea that one needs to understand and use language to achieve social purposes in a given context. [...] Teaching learners to recognize, analyze and produce written genres will help them participate in academic, occupational and social context in the real world. A genre-based approach to the teaching of writing should focus on identifying how texts work as communication, regarding forms of language as located in social action. This focus on language forms does not imply a focus on grammar, which is detached from meaning and use, but knowledge of grammar that would allow learners to manipulate language in an effective way.

Adapted from: CARNEIRO, Marisa Mendonça; OLIVEIRA, Ana Larissa Adorno Marciotto. Writing as a social enterprise: sample in-class activities of a genre-based approach to teaching English as a foreign language. Available at: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/tla/article/view/8650768.