Professor Classe A - Língua Inglesa - Gramática - SGA DF

Having in mind the established rules for the formation of comparative forms, judge the following items.

The sooner you arrive, the better.

As regards language teaching methods, judge the following items.

In Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), the target language is a vehicle for classroom communication, not just the object of study. That is one of the reasons why the use of the mother tongue should be handled sensibly and carefully.

Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

The plural forms of hypothesis, thesis, and crisis are respectively hypotheses, theses, and crises.

According to the established rules of phonetics and phonology of the English language, judge the items below.

The following sets of words are illustrative of minimal pairs: toe/so, later/litter, they/day, bid/bead.

Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.

Where have all my students gone? There is everybody in the classroom.

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“Playing video games and to watch sitcoms on cable TV are my favorite pastimes” is an example of coordinated structures with appropriate parallelism.

With regard to verb tenses and verb forms, judge the items below.

In “He stopped smoking” and in “He stopped to smoke”, the meaning is the same because the verb “to stop” accepts both the infinitive and the gerund forms.

Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.

In “When traveling, one should be careful with one’s personal belongings”, the underlined form does not exist as a possessive adjective.

In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.

In Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), errors of form are tolerated during fluency-based activities and are seen as a natural outcome of the development of communication skills. The teacher may note the errors during fluency activities and return to them later with an accuracy-based activity.

With regard to verb tenses and verb forms, judge the items below.

The sentence “I wouldn’t have to deal with pollution if I lived in the countryside” describes a real present situation.

Judge the following items concerning subordinated structures.

“Although Grant did not have any money” requires another clause introducing an expected result, such as he didn’t go to the movies.

Judge the following items concerning subordinated structures.

The relative structure in “The judge praised the jury members who had respected the rules of court” means that some members of the jury failed to comply with the rules.

In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.

In Georgi Lozanov’s Suggestopedia, now called Desuggestopedia to reflect the importance placed on suggesting no limitations on learning, errors are corrected gently, with the teacher using a soft voice. This method is illustrative of what came to be known as an affectivehumanistic approach to language teaching.

In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.

In the Total Physical Response (TPR) approach, errors are expected when students first begin speaking. The teacher should be tolerant and only correct structural errors unobtrusively. As students get more advanced, the teacher can correct more minor errors.

With regard to verb tenses and verb forms, judge the items below.

In the sentences “Dancing is an excellent aerobic exercise” and “She is dancing with her brother”, the underlined forms are gerunds.

Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

Most nouns ending in f or fe have plurals in ves, as in half/halves, knife/knives, leaf/leaves, life/lives.

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In “The audience was _______ at the tragic ending of the play” and “The _______ news made them speechless”, the blanks should be filled in respectively with the words shocked and shocking.

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The singular and plural form of the following words is the same: series, species, means.

According to the established rules of phonetics and phonology of the English language, judge the items below.

The sound of the letter a in ago and in about is unstressed and it is called a schwa.

Having in mind the established rules for the formation of comparative forms, judge the following items.

The two brothers Peter and Paul are very good-looking, but Peter is the most handsome one.

Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.

Why should I be punished? I haven’t done nothing wrong.

According to the established rules of phonetics and phonology of the English language, judge the items below.

The pronunciation of the verb use has two different forms in “He used his pen to sign his name” and in “He used to wear short trousers when he was a boy”.

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The sentence “I have never met or spoke to your father” is gramatically correct.

According to the established rules of phonetics and phonology of the English language, judge the items below.

A shift (or change) in the stressed syllable of nouns such as contract, defect, object, progress turns them into verbs.

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In “The friendly lady sings beautifully”, the underlined words have both an adverbial function.

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In terms of sentence structure, “I came, I saw, I conquered” is an example of a simple sentence with asyndetic coordination.

In regard to sentence connection, decide about the correctness of the following statements.

There is no change in meaning in “Luke, you had better listen to me, or be ready to bear the consequences” if the linking word is replaced by besides.

Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.

In “She drives ________” and in “She has a ________ car”, you can fill in the blanks with the word fast because both the adjective and the adverb have the same form.

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“That morning, by the time Hugh woke up, his wife had already gone to work” implies that Hugh did not see his wife that morning.

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A disjunct is found in “Donna won’t cooperate, which makes things more difficult”.

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There is student-to-student interaction in drilling exercises or when students take different roles in dialogs, but this interaction is teacher-centered. Also, students are not allowed to initiate interaction. This describes the nature of student-student interaction in Suggestopedia.

Having in mind the established rules for the formation of comparative forms, judge the following items.

Gisele Bündchen is at least 20 centimeters taller that the average Brazilian man.

In regard to sentence connection, decide about the correctness of the following statements.

In “Medication is ineffective for some types of headaches; however, patients can learn how to deal with them”, the underlined connecting word is a conjunctive adverb linking two independent clauses.

Decide about the correctness of the following items concerning singular and plural forms.

Mathematics, athletics, and politics are singular nouns.

Having in mind the established rules for the formation of comparative forms, judge the following items.

The worse thing that could possibly happen to me is to lose my job.

As regards language teaching methods, judge the following items.

Content-based Instruction, Task-based Instruction, and the Participatory Approach to foreign language teaching subvert the idea that students should learn to use a language and suggest instead that they should use a language in order to learn it.

In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.

In the Silent Way, errors are to be avoided at all costs through the teacher’s awareness of where the students will have difficulty and restriction of what they are taught to say.

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One of the basic assumptions of the Grammar-Translation Method is that by learning to communicate students will be more motivated to study a foreign language since they will feel they are learning to do something useful with the language.

With regard to verb tenses and verb forms, judge the items below.

Considering that John asked: “How can I apply?”, in reported speech, this sentence would become: John asked how he can apply.

In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.

In the Grammar-Translation method, errors are seen as a natural, indispensable part of the learning process. The teacher uses students’ errors as a basis for deciding where further work is necessary. Self and peer correction are fostered as well.

With regard to verb tenses and verb forms, judge the items below.

Considering that Patricia said: “Don’t do this!” to her daughter, in reported speech, this sentence changes to “Patricia told her daughter for her not doing that.”

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In “The strong belief that he was unbeatable was Hugh’s first defeat”, the underlined passage has an appositive function.

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In “Fred built the cabin with his own hands”, the underlined fragment is an adjunct.

In regard to sentence connection, decide about the correctness of the following statements.

“Mark’s friends don’t like Japanese food, and Mark doesn’t either” would still be correct if rewritten as Mark’s friends don’t like Japanese food, and so does he.

As regards language teaching methods, judge the following items.

Integrating the four skills (reading, speaking, listening, and writing) from the beginning is a characteristic of the Audio- Lingual Method because it is concerned with habit formation.