Questões de Concursos

Read the short dialogue below and answer the question:

A:Did you finish the report?

B:I tried, but it wasn't easy. I asked Mark, but he didn't know much about it either.

A:Did he at least send you the files?

B:No. Said he'd do it later.

Which of the following best explains a cohesive mechanism used in this dialogue?

Complete the sentence below with the most appropriate prepositions:

"The professor insisted___the importance of clarity___academic writing and advised students to reflect___their feedback before submitting the final version."

Choose the alternative that correctly and respectivelycompletes the sentence above.

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The teaching of instrumental English went through five stages of development, beginning with register analysis and culminating in the learner-centered approach, which focuses on the specific needs of learners.

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When the concept of prior knowledge is addressed in language teaching, it's important for the teacher to understand that this relates to the cultural and socioeconomic aspects of the student, which will facilitate text comprehension and reduce the impact of knowledge of foreign language rules when working with a text.

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The early methods of teaching foreign language, including instrumental English, date back to the 16th century and focused primarily on oral communication and everyday situations.

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Requests for action or permission cannot be reported in Reported Speech using a subordinate clause with "if" or an infinitive. Therefore a sentence such as "He asked if it would be ok to miss next class" is an incorrect use of reported speech.

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The teacher's role in the teaching process goes beyond mere content transmission, as they must act as a mediator, planning strategies that stimulate active learning among students, promoting not only the assimilation of knowledge but also cognitive, reflective, and critical development.

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The school and the classroom are just part of a sociocultural and institutional context, without any influence on the students' learning process.

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In Reported Speech, verb tenses always shift back one tense in relation to the tense originally used in direct speech. For example, the direct sentence "Where are you going?" when reported would change to "They asked where were you going?", shifting simple present into simple past.

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According to Bakhtin (1997), discourse genres have minimal influence on the language we use since the immediate social situation is the sole determining factor in the choice of utterances.

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Teaching methods are directly related to the specific objectives and content of disciplines, being applicable universally and independent of students' characteristics.

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In the traditional paradigm, assessment is based on memorization and repetition, while in the complexity paradigm, assessment aims to lead students to reflect and understand, not just to memorize and recite.

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According to Machado (2009), knowledge about text genres is irrelevant for constructing meaning, as text interpretation is independent of its generic structure.

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Returning assessments to students with additional notes, not just indicating what is correct or incorrect, is a recommended strategy to avoid embarrassment and encourage self-assessment.

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In a noun phrase, the nucleus is always a noun or a noun pronoun. Though it may contain modifiers, determiners, adjectives, and other elements, the nucleus of the phrase is the noun, which provides the main meaning of the expression. Therefore, all noun phrases will have a noun as their central element.

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When reporting direct yes-no questions in Reported Speech, it is common to introduce a subordinate clause with "if" or "whether". So it is correct to say that the reported sentence "She asked if you were going home" is properly adapted to reported speech.