Questões de Concurso

The modal ‘could’ (line11) expresses

Teaching cultural dimensions of English requires avoiding both cultural invisibility and the treatment of communities as homogeneous groups with fixed characteristics.

Judge the statements below as True (T) or False (F).

(__) Comparing communicative practices across contexts while examining variation within the same community can support intercultural understanding without reducing individuals to national stereotypes.
(__) Presenting the practices of one dominant English-speaking group as the neutral cultural norm provides an appropriate reference from which other communities can be evaluated.
(__) Examining whose voices and cultural practices receive greater visibility in teaching materials can form part of critical intercultural education.
(__) Cultural content should remain separate from language use because meanings conveyed in interaction can be interpreted independently of social and cultural contexts.

The CORRECT sequence, from top to bottom, is:

A teacher is discussing how English can connect an unreal condition in the past with a hypothetical consequence in the present.

Select the sentence that presents a CORRECT mixed conditional and the intended temporal relationship.

Listening comprehension may be affected by features of connected speech even when learners already know the individual words in written form.

Analyze the statements below.

I. Changes in sentence stress can alter which information is interpreted as prominent or contrastive without requiring a change in the lexical words themselves.
II. Reduced forms in connected speech make grammatical words more prominent than stressed lexical words, thereby facilitating their identification by beginning listeners.
III. Coarticulation and reduction may make word boundaries less acoustically transparent, creating difficulties in segmenting continuous speech into familiar lexical items.

It is CORRECT to state that:

Articles, prepositions and conjunctions frequently encode distinctions that cannot be determined by translating isolated words.

Judge the statements below as True (T) or False (F).
(__) In "The children go to school every morning", zero article before school can indicate participation in its institutional function rather than reference to a particular building.
(__) In "The parents went to the school to meet the principal", the definite article is necessarily incorrect because institutional nouns cannot be preceded by the.
(__) The expression despite the delay is standard, whereas despite of the delay is not the usual standard construction.
(__) In standard written English, although can introduce a concessive clause without requiring but to connect the following main clause.

The CORRECT sequence, from top to bottom, is: