Choose the sentence in which there is an adverb of
frequency.
Analyze the following sentences and
choose the correct answer:
I - There’s __ great restaurant nearby. II - ___ next part will be next month, time and venue TBA. III - Is there anybody here?
I - There’s __ great restaurant nearby. II - ___ next part will be next month, time and venue TBA. III - Is there anybody here?
Read the following dialogue.
Caio: Have you seen Joana lately?
Ramon: I hadn’t, but I heard she borrowed some money from the bank.
Caio: But what about her inheritance?
Ramon: Word has it she frittered all away.
Caio: That’s crazy!
Ramon: Yeah, I know.
Based on this dialogue, analyze the assertions below.
I. In “she frittered all away”, Ramon intends to say that Joana squandered all her inheritance.
II. Ramon correctly uses auxiliary verbs in his first and last lines.
III. “Lately” is a time adverb in Caio’s fist line.
The CORRECT assertion(s) is(are):
Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds
Melting of ice is slowing planet’s rotation and could disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS. The climate crisis is causing the length of each day to get longer, analysis shows, as the mass melting of polar ice reshapes the planet.
The phenomenon is a striking demonstration of how humanity’s actions are transforming the Earth, scientists said, rivalling natural processes that have existed for billions of years. The change in the length of the day is on the scale of milliseconds but this is enough to potentially disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS navigation, all of which rely on precise timekeeping.
The length of the Earth’s day has been steadily increasing over geological time due to the gravitational drag of the moon on the planet’s oceans and land. However, the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets due to human-caused global heating has been redistributing water stored at high latitudes into the world’s oceans, leading to more water in the seas nearer the equator. This makes the Earth more oblate – or fatter – slowing the rotation of the planet and lengthening the day still further.
The planetary impact of humanity was also demonstrated recently by research that showed the redistribution of water had caused the Earth’s axis of rotation – the north and south poles – to move. Other work has revealed that humanity’s carbon emissions are shrinking the stratosphere.
“We can see our impact as humans on the whole Earth system, not just locally, like the rise in temperature, but really fundamentally, altering how it moves in space and rotates,” said Prof Benedikt Soja of ETH Zurich in Switzerland. “Due to our carbon emissions, we have done this in just 100 or 200 years. Whereas the governing processes previously had been going on for billions of years, and that is striking.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/15/climate-crisis-making-days-longer-study
Qual das palavras destacadas é um
advérbio?
Read Text Iand answer question.
Text I
More More More: What Is Money Dysmorphia?
Do you ever worry that you don't have enough money, even though your bank account suggests you're doing fine? You might be experiencing "money dysmorphia.” This is a term for when a person has a distorted view of their financial situation — particularly when a wealthy person believes they don't have enough money to be secure. The idea is similar to body dysmorphia, where a person agonizes about flaws they perceive in their body, even if they are not noticeable to others.
American lawyer and financial expert Ali Katz may have been the first to use the term, having written about money dysmorphia extensively in 2016. But it wasn't until late 2023 that it started trending. Because, as it turns out, the feeling can be pretty common — especially among young people.
In August 2023, Bloomberg published the results of a survey of over 1,000 Americans making over $175,000 a year. And while earning this much would put these people among the 10% richest in the country, a quarter of them said they felt "very poor," "poor,” or that they were just managing to get by.
In addition, a December 2023 survey for Intuit Credit Karma found that, out of 1,006 Americans, 29% experienced money dysmorphia — which the survey defined as "having a distorted view of one's finances that could lead them to make poor decisions.” That figure rose to 41% among millennials, who are usually defined as those born between 1981 and 1996. And it was 43% among Generation Z, typically considered to have been born between 1997 and 2012.
Some believe social media is to blame. With Instagram and TikTok full of influencers flaunting lavish lifestyles, it's understandable that young people might feel insecure about their own financial situations. And as well as causing stress, money dysmorphia might make people stay in jobs they don't like, or choose work over spending time with their families.
Speaking to Business Insider, Katz said it's important to actually calculate how much is enough for you — and "know the difference between what you need and what you want."
Adapted from: https://engoo.com.br/app/dailynews/article/more-more-more-what-is-moneydysmorphia/eMBHgsr7Ee6RxDeDj30Epw
Analyze scenario ll and choose the correct answer.
Scenario Il - “Noticeable" is replaced by an adverb that means "in a way that is easy to see or notice” in the following sentence from text I:
“(..) even if they are not noticeable to others.”
Considering only the word itself and disregarding the change in meaning of the sentence, the correct spelling of the adverb will be:
Scenario Il - “Noticeable" is replaced by an adverb that means "in a way that is easy to see or notice” in the following sentence from text I:
“(..) even if they are not noticeable to others.”
Considering only the word itself and disregarding the change in meaning of the sentence, the correct spelling of the adverb will be:
Julgue o item subsequente.
Adverbs can function as sentence modifiers, providing
additional information about the speaker's attitude,
certainty, or the likelihood of an event. Adverbs in this
context, such as “fortunately” or “surprisingly,” play a vital
role in conveying the speaker's perspective in American
English.
Which of the sentences uses the linking word "despite" CORRECTLY?
Consider the following text:
How to Make a Cup of Green Tea
To prepare a cup of green tea, follow these steps. First, boil water to about 80°C (176°F); avoid using boiling water as it can make the tea taste bitter. Place a green tea bag or one teaspoon of loose green tea leaves into a cup. Pour the hot water over the tea and let it steep for 2to 3 minutes. Do not steep for too long, as this can affect the flavor. After steeping, remove the tea bag or strain the leaves. Finally, enjoy your tea plain or add a touch of honey if you prefer a bit of sweetness.
Select the alternative that correctly identifies the linguistic features present in the text.
How to Make a Cup of Green Tea
To prepare a cup of green tea, follow these steps. First, boil water to about 80°C (176°F); avoid using boiling water as it can make the tea taste bitter. Place a green tea bag or one teaspoon of loose green tea leaves into a cup. Pour the hot water over the tea and let it steep for 2to 3 minutes. Do not steep for too long, as this can affect the flavor. After steeping, remove the tea bag or strain the leaves. Finally, enjoy your tea plain or add a touch of honey if you prefer a bit of sweetness.
Select the alternative that correctly identifies the linguistic features present in the text.
Gabriele Tinti’s Hungry Ghosts is a cycle of 51 poems written in collaboration with the photographer Roger Ballen, whose photographic negatives are reproduced in the book. The images are mostly terrifying, in keeping with the otherworldly inclination of the poems. This bilingual edition includes Tinti’s original Italian poems with English translations by David Graham, interspersed with Greek lines taken from inscriptions found on archaeological objects and from ancient Greek texts.
The book is inspired by the Petavatthu, a Theravada Buddhist scripture that includes stories about the realm of the “hungry ghosts,” a category of supernatural beings ubiquitous in East and South Asian religions, with section headings such as “Abandoned Ghosts,” “Protectors,” “Guardians,” and “Hungry Ghosts.” T he poems are quite short and try to emulate the obscure, esoteric quality of scriptural language, though they struggle, at times, under the weight of too many venerable references drawn from both Buddhist and Greek traditions.
Internet:<poetryfoundation.org>(adapted).
About the linguistic and lexical features of the preceding text, judge the following item.
The word “though” (last sentence of the second paragraph) is used to introduce a concessive clause.
Read the text to answer question:
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is an approach which is neither language learning nor subject learning, but an amalgam of both and is linked to the processes of convergence – the fusion of elements which may have been previously fragmented, such as subjects in the curriculum. This is where CLIL is groundbreaking.
To give a parallel example common in recent times, we can take studies on the environment. A seminal publication on the subject in the 1960s later led to a need to educate young people in schools so as to both inform and, perhaps more crucially, influence behavior. Topics relating to the environment could already be found in chemistry, economics, geography, physics, and even psychology. Yet, as climate change became increasingly worrying, education responded with the introduction of a new subject: “Environmental studies”.
In order to structure this new subject, teachers of different disciplines would have needed to climb out of their respective mindsets grounded in physics, chemistry, geography, psychology and so on, to explore ways of building an integrated curriculum, and to develop alternative methodologies by which to implement it. Climate change is a global and local phenomenon, so the increasing availability in some countries of information and communication technologies during the 1990s provided tools by which to make some of these methodologies operational.
If we return to languages and CLIL, we have a similar situation. The late 1990s meant that educational insight was firmly set on achieving a high degree of language awareness. Appropriate methodologies were to be used to attain the best possible results in a way which accommodated diverse learning styles.
(D. Coyle, P. Hood, D. Marsh. CLIL: content language integrated learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2010.)
The word “yet” is polysemic (has more than one meaning)
in English. Choose the alternative in which it is being used
with the same meaning as in the excerpt from the second
paragraph “Yet, as climate change became increasingly
worrying…”.
TSE•
“Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic...”,
began a recent article in Surfaces and Interfaces, a scientific
journal. Attentive readers might have wondered who exactly that
bizarre opening line was addressing. They might also have wondered
whether the article was written by a human or by a machine.
It is a question ever more readers of scientific papers are
asking. LLMs (Large Language Models) are now more than good
enough to help write a scientific paper. They can breathe life into
dense scientific prose and speed up the drafting process, especially
for non-native English speakers. Such use also comes with risks:
LLMs are particularly susceptible to reproducing biases, for
example, and can churn out vast amounts of plausible nonsense.
Internet:<economist.com>(adapted).
According to the information stated in the preceding text and the vocabulary used in it, judge the following item.
The word “biases” (last sentence of the text) is, in its context, an adverb.
Internet:<economist.com>(adapted).
According to the information stated in the preceding text and the vocabulary used in it, judge the following item.
The word “biases” (last sentence of the text) is, in its context, an adverb.
Leia o texto para responder à questão.
In a study of more than 100,000 people, researchers found that those with less healthy lifestyles were more likely to reduce their risk of colorectal cancer with regular aspirin use than those with healthier behaviors (JAMA Oncol 2024 Aug 1). Regular aspirin use was defined as two or more 325 mg tablets a week or a daily 81 mg dose; less healthy lifestyles were characterized by higher body mass index, smoking, greater alcohol consumption, less physical activity, and poorer diet. Those with the unhealthiest lifestyles had a 3.4% chance of developing colorectal cancer if they didn’t take aspirin regularly, whereas those who did had a 2.1% chance of developing the disease. In contrast, people with the healthiest lifestyles had a 1.5% chance of developing colorectal cancer if they took aspirin regularly and a 1.6% chance if they didn’t. This result suggests that physicians can pursue a nuanced approach when prescribing aspirin for disease prevention.
(https://aacrjournals.org. 26 de julho a 01 de agosto 2024. Adaptado)
No trecho do texto – ... whereas those who did had a
2.1% chance of developing the disease... –, o termo
destacado em negrito, no contexto, expressa
Leia o texto para responder à questão.
Seventeen of 34 types of cancer have become more common in younger generations in the United States, the broadest study of its kind to date has found. The analysis, published in August 2024 in The Lancet Public Health, examined data from 23.7 million people born between 1920 and 1990 and diagnosed with cancer between 2000 and 2019. It found, for example, that people born in 1990 were 2.6 to 3.6 times more likely to develop cancers of the small intestine, kidney, and pancreas than those born in 1955, and 2.6 times more likely to develop endometrial cancer than someone born in 1930. The findings suggest people are increasingly being exposed to carcinogens during early life or young adulthood. However, younger birth cohorts were at the same or lower risk of death from most types of cancer than older ones.
(www.science.org. Agosto de 2024. Adaptado)
No trecho do texto – However, younger birth cohorts
were at the same or lower risk... –, o termo destacado em
negrito pode ser substituído, sem alteração de sentido,
por:
Abstract
This article is concerned with the role of reading aloud (RA) in language learning. General ELT methodology literature does not recommend the practice. However, recent research and specialist literature recommend using RA for various purposes. It can help reading by reinforcing graphemicphonemic correspondences. It can aid the acquisition of prosodic features of English and help to develop writing skills by using it as oral proofreading. RA can also be used as a technique for autonomous learning and may help some anxious students to feel more able to speak. It is suggested that the benefits of RA could outweigh the disadvantages, and that the latter could be mitigated by careful and appropriate use of the activity. A small study of NS and NNS teachers and learners gives support to most of the purposes recommended above. This evidence suggests that the role of RA in language learning should now be reappraised.
Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249252655_ Reading_aloud_A_useful_learning_tool. Accessed on Sept. 12th, 2024.
In the sentence “However, recent research and specialist
literature recommend using RA for various purposes”,
the conjunction however is closest in meaning to
A língua inglesa, assim como muitas outras, apresenta palavras com sons semelhantes, mas com significados e grafias distintos. A compreensão dessas nuances fonéticas é crucial para a comunicação oral e escrita, evitando equívocos e mal-entendidos.
Complete as lacunas das frases a seguir com a palavra correta, considerando a pronúncia e o contexto:
The___(weather/whether) forecast predicts heavy rain for tomorrow.
She couldn't decide___(which/witch) dress to wear to the party.
The___(principal/principle) of the school gave a speech at the graduation ceremony.
He___(threw/through) the ball to his teammate.
They walked___(passed/past) the bakery and weretempted by the delicious smell of fresh bread.
A sequência correta de preenchimento das lacunas, de cima para baixo, é:
Julgue o item que se segue.
The position of the conjunction at the end of the sentence
in “It’s nice, though” is correct, as it means “however”.
Which of the following sentences contains a
correctly used conjunction?
Considerando o mesmo trecho de Virginia Wolf, que alternativa traduz corretamente a conjunção opositiva
presente no mesmo?
É fácil dizer-se que não é um grande livro. Mas que qualidade lhe faltará? Talvez a de nada acrescentar à nossa visão de vida.
É fácil dizer-se que não é um grande livro. Mas que qualidade lhe faltará? Talvez a de nada acrescentar à nossa visão de vida.
Select the option where the adverbs of frequency in English are correctly ordered from least frequent
to most frequent:
Observe the following examples:
● Rabbits are fast runners → Rabbits run fast
● Tigers are patient hunters → Tigers hunt patiently
I - Ants are hard workers →______________________ .
II - Bats are quiet but quick flyers →_________________________ .
Select the alternative that correctly structures the sentences I and II using adverbs: