Questões de Concurso

During an oral-comprehension lesson, students compare a carefully articulated recording with a spontaneous exchange. The teacher wants them to analyze how prominence, reduction, and connected speech contribute to meaning and may affect listening.

Considering English phonology in oral interaction, mark T, for true, and F, for false.

(__)In "Emma sent A draft, but not the final one," prominence on "a" can contribute to a contrast between an unspecified draft and the expected final version.
(__)A rising intonation contour gives an utterance interrogative grammatical structure independently of its syntax and communicative context.
(__)Reduced or coalescent forms in sequences such as "did you" may make segmentation difficult for learners who recognize the words more easily in isolation.
(__)Maintaining full vowels in unstressed grammatical words is necessary for an utterance to remain intelligible in spontaneous English speech.

After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom.

Regular English inflectional endings may have different pronunciations even when their spelling remains the same. A teacher selects words from a classroom text so that students can identify how plural "-s" and past "-ed" endings are pronounced.

Match the items in Column I with the words in Column II.

COLUMN I
1.Plural "-s" pronounced with an "s" sound, as in cats.
2.Plural "-s" pronounced with a "z" sound, as in dogs.
3.Past "-ed" pronounced as an extra syllable, as in needed.
4.Past "-ed" pronounced with a "t" sound, as in worked.

COLUMN II
(__)roads.
(__)worked.
(__)maps.
(__)wanted.

Select the alternative that presents the CORRECT association, from top to bottom.

An English teacher uses spelling activities together with oral discrimination so that students do not assume a one-to-one relationship between letters and sounds. The activity includes letter names and words whose similar spelling patterns correspond to different pronunciations.

Considering English orthography and pronunciation, mark T, for true, and F, for false.

(__)The letter name "G" begins with the same consonant phoneme found at the beginning of "job."
(__)The conventional English name of the letter "H" begins with the phoneme /h/.
(__)The grapheme "c" represents the same consonant phoneme in "city" and "cat."
(__)The words "though," "through," and "thought" illustrate that similar orthographic sequences may correspond to different phonological patterns.

After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom. 

Several regular past forms occur in the text, including lived, linked, and uncovered. Although each is written with the ending -ed, the phonological realization of that ending depends on the preceding sound.
Considering standard English pronunciation, mark T, for true, and F, for false. 

(__)In lived , the -ed ending is typically realized as /d/.
(__)In linked , the -ed ending is typically realized as /tu/.
(__)In uncovered , the final -ed normally forms an additional syllable pronounced /yd/.
(__)The different realizations of -ed demonstrate that identical orthographic endings may correspond to different phonetic forms.

After analysis, select the alternative that presents the CORRECT sequence of the items above, from top to bottom.

The word "technology" occurs repeatedly in the article and can be used to evaluate recognition of lexical stress. The question concerns the standard stress pattern rather than differences in individual accent or vowel quality.

Which representation identifies the syllable carrying primary lexical stress in technology?