Questões de Concurso

Analyze the sentences according to English Phonetics and Phonology.
1. The words ship and sheep differ only in spelling; they are pronounced exactly the same.
2. Word stress can change the meaning or grammatical category of some English words, such as record (noun) and record (verb).
3. The plural ending -s has different pronunciations depending on the final sound of the noun.
4. The words live (verb) and live (adjective, meaning not recorded)”, are pronounced the same way.
5. Correct pronunciation involves not only producing individual sounds accurately but also using appropriate stress and intonation.
Choose the alternative which contains the correct statements.

Read the sentence below:

Read the sentence below: "Another major blow to the wave theory of light camefrom the photoelectric effect, first observed by HeinrichHertz in 1887, when ultraviolet light caused electriccharge to be emitted from a metal surface."

Judge the statements below as TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).

( ) The segment “first observed by Heinrich Hertz in 1887” is a reduced passive construction that modifies “the photoelectric effect”.

( ) The verb “caused” is in the simple past and situates the described event within the historical sequence developed in the paragraph.

( ) In “to be emitted”, the noun phrase “electric charge” is grammatically represented as the entity affected by the process.

The CORRECT sequence is:

To develop auditory discrimination, a teacher prepares sentences containing English words that differ by one sound. Students listen to each sentence and identify the word they hear. Match the word pairs in Column I with the phonological contrast described in Column II.

Column         I
1.Ship   /  Sheep 2.Fan    /   Van 3.Rice    /  Rise 4.Bet      /  Bat

Column II

I.Contrast between voiced and voiceless consonants.
II.Contrast between a short front vowel and a long front vowel.
III.Contrast involving the final consonant sound.
IV.Contrast between two front vowel sounds.

Select the alternative that presents the correct matching.

Students listen to a recorded conversation in which one speaker says:
"You finished the report."
The sentence is heard first with falling intonation and then with rising intonation.
Which analysis most accurately describes the contrast?

When reading a text in which the preposition “through” is used, as in “expressed through visuals” (3rd paragraph), the teacher should tell the students that the word is pronounced in the same way as in