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Ano: 2024Banca: Fundação CETREDEOrganização: Prefeitura de Caucaia - CEDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Verbos
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The Impact of Globali-zation: Opportunities and Challenges
In today’s interconnected world, the concept of globalization plays a significant role. Globalization refers to the increased interconnectedness of people, cultures, economies, and nations across the globe. It has been driven by advances in technology, trade, and communication, making the world a smaller and more interdependent place.
One of the most noticeable aspects of globalization is the rise of multinational corporations. Companies like Apple, Google, and Coca-Cola have a global presence and impact. They operate in multiple countries, manufacture products in one part of the world, and sell them in another. This has led to greater access to goods and services for consumers worldwide but has also raised questions about economic inequality and exploitation.
Globalization has also transformed the way we communicate. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have connected people from different corners of the world. Information and news now travel at lightning speed, influencing public opinion and shaping global events. However, this instant connectivity has also brought concerns about privacy, misinformation, and cyberbullying.
The impact of globalization is evident in culture and lifestyle as well. The exchange of music, movies, and fashion trends between countries has created a global pop culture. People can enjoy sushi in New York, listen to K-pop in Brazil, or watch Hollywood movies in India. While this cultural exchange can be enriching, it has also led to fears of cultural homogenization and the loss of local traditions.
In conclusion, globalization has profoundly affected our world in various ways, from economics to culture to communication. It has opened up opportunities and posed challenges that societies must address in our interconnected global community.
FONTE: Adapted from: https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/definition/ globalization. Accessed on October 10, 2023.
Which phrasal verb best completes the sentence?
“She had to _________ the assignment before the deadline”.
Ano: 2020Banca: IBADEOrganização: Prefeitura de Linhares - ESDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Vocabulário | Verbos
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An interview with Paolo Kwan, 20, from Hong Kong, who is improving his English while studying Business Administration at Sierra College in northern California.
WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO STUDY IN THE USA?
It provides a nice education in a beautiful country. When I
was younger I used to watch American movies and I
wanted to visit the United States. They always talked about
the American dream, and I wanted to come and see it.
HOW DID YOU CHOOSE YOUR INTENSIVE ENGLISH PROGRAM?
Sierra College is one of the biggest community colleges in northern California. It is in a quiet location but has a beautiful campus.
The college has a good business program. I can study for two years at Sierra College and then two years at my transfer school to earn my degree.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST?
I also enjoy the quality of the teaching at the college. There is a writing center where I can go at any time. The teachers can make suggestions to improve my essay, regarding grammar and my vocabulary. At the Math Center, they can explain in detail the problems.
WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST?
I miss the food and also my family.
WHAT WAS YOUR BIGGEST SURPRISE?
I was surprised by the cultural difference. The taste and style of food is very different. The amount of food is a lot larger. A small portion in the USA is a large portion in Hong Kong. When people from America find out that I am from another country they ask a lot of questions. They are very interested in you and finding out about Hong Kong.
... YOUR BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT?
I have not had any since I came here.
HOW HAVE YOU HANDLED:
... LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES?
It is important not to be shy, as that does not help you when you are trying to improve your language. I make sure that I study, practice and speak as often as I can—that is the only way to improve. ...
FINANCES?
I am being supported by my family.
... ADJUSTING TO A DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM?
The American system is much more open. In Hong Kong you just learn what the teacher writes on the board. In America, you discuss the issues and focus more on ideas
WHAT ARE YOUR ACTIVITIES?
I am interested in traveling around the USA. I have been to San Francisco, which you can reach by train from Sierra College. In my free time I go out with friends.
HOW EASY OR DIFFICULT IS MAKING FRIENDS?
It has not been that hard to make friends in the USA. Other people at the college are friendly and want to make friends as well.
HOW IS YOUR U.S. EDUCATION RELEVANT TO YOUR PERSONAL GOALS AND TO THE NEEDS OF YOUR COUNTRY?
I think that the U.S. education system will provide me with
good resources and skills to be able to support myself in
order to get hired in my own country
WHAT IS YOUR ADVICE TO OTHER STUDENTS?
An awesome life experience is waiting for you in the future. You will learn so much more than you think. Nothing is impossible, so go ahead and give it a try.
Adapted from: https://www.studyusa.com
In informal American English the students usually use the
verb FLUNK.
If we say that Paolo flunked the math test last semester,
we mean that he:
Ano: 2021Banca: CMM - Concursos e SeletivosOrganização: Prefeitura de Bataguassu - MSDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Verbos Modais | Verbos | Adjetivos | Comparativo e Superlativo
Complete the sentence below with the right verb and
adjective.
“I know I can ___ a product that is ___ than what almost
everybody else in the market is making.”
Ano: 2025Banca: SECPLANOrganização: Prefeitura de Presidente Kennedy - ESDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Verbos Modais | Verbos
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Read the text below and answer the questions that follow.
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Should schools just say no to pupils using phones?
14th July 2024
Natalie Grice – BBC News
“I wouldn’t say it’s a good thing for a child never to have a smartphone. I think it’s part of a balanced life. You’ve got to live in your own time.”
These are not the words you might expect to hear from a teacher at a school that has never in its history allowed pupils under sixth form age to use a mobile phone on the premises.
But Sarah Owen, deputy head at Stanwell School in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, was simply expressing a personal opinion, rather than the school’s view about a young person’s wider life.
It is clear that she and the school have very firm opinions on what is best for children while they are on school grounds.
For Stanwell pupils in years 7 to 11, that has always meant no phones. Not in lessons, not in the corridor, not at breaktimes.
It is such a long-established rule that it presumably comes as no surprise to pupils and parents when they join the school, which is starting to seem as if it may have been ahead of a growing curve.
In the past few years, a number of schools across Wales and further afield have introduced total bans on mobiles. While Stanwell only asks pupils to keep phones switched off in their bags, others require the devices to be handed in at the start of the day.
Llanidloes High School in Powys is one which has implemented this policy in the past few years and Ysgol Penrhyn Dewi in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, followed suit at the start of this year.
Sarah Owen has been at Stanwell School since 2000 and says that there has always been a no phone policy in the school. For Sarah, it is a question not of trying to impinge on their students’ freedom, but of giving them vital time away from mobile life, for welfare as well as educational reasons.
“We genuinely believe this is in their best interests,” she said. “Phone addiction and screen addiction and scrolling, the loss of concentration, the loss of soft skills around listening and interacting with others, that’s something we need to be concerned about as a society generally.”
“We want children to be interacting with each other, having conversations, playing football, having those connections and interactions with other people.”
Sarah also believes it gives pupils relief from the possibility of being “photographed, filmed, mocked in some way – that’s not a nice way for children to live”. She said she wanted her pupils to have “some sanctuary from the anxiety of feeling so scrutinised and looked at”.
Adapted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles
Consider the following sentences. Choose the only one in
which the modal verb has not been used correctly:
Ano: 2016Banca: NUCEPEOrganização: Prefeitura de Teresina - PIDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Verbos | Substantivos e Compostos | Infinitivo e Gerúndio
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TEXT 04
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As (1) ______ result of the new
information technologies and computer-mediated
communications, contemporary
communication has become highly
multimodal moving, particularly, towards the
extensive use of (2) _______image, while
meaning is inevitably derived from ways that
are multimodal. Nowadays, almost all texts
consist of visual elements, which in
combination with language hold a prominent
role in conveying the essential information.
In this context, people, especially youths, are
exposed to (3) _______ variety of
multimodal texts, such as video games,
websites, picture books, school textbooks,
magazine articles, advertisements, and
graphic novels - that involve a complex
interplay of written text, visual images,
graphics, and design elements.
As a consequence of (4) _______
above social changes, the field of education,
in particular, the teaching and learning of
languages has been influenced, as the
traditional literacy pedagogy, which
emphasizes language as a central means of
meaning, has been challenged to expand
beyond the skills of encoding and decoding
texts. In this way, educators should draw on
the Multiliteracies framework and reconsider
their instructional approaches in order to
familiarize students, especially, foreign
language learners, with the multimodal
approach by accentuating the interplay of
language and image that are present in
conventional and electronic texts.
Source: adapted from
https://www.academia.edu/6247350/Strategic_re
ading_in_multimodal_EFL_texts. Access: March
24th , 2016.
Considering the context of use in the text 04,
the words "teaching" and "learning" (line
22) in the second paragraph are
Ano: 2020Banca: NUCEPEOrganização: Prefeitura de Timon - MADisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Pronome Objetivo | Substantivos Contáveis e Incontáveis | Pronomes | Verbos | Substantivos e Compostos | Advérbios e Conjunções
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Answers the question according to the text below.
TEXT IV
Technology is supposed to make us more connected. We can stay in touch
with our friends all the time on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, and, of
course, by texting. But are our smartphones actually getting in the way
of real socializing? Could technology be making us more alone?
The highlighted words in the text are respectively.
Ano: 2024Banca: CETREDEOrganização: Prefeitura de Ubajara - CEDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Compreensão de Texto | Verbos | Advérbios de Lugar, Modo, Tempo e Frequência | Advérbios e Conjunções
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):
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Read the text below and answer the questions that
follow.
When is it time to stop studying?
It's 10 p.m. and six government employees are out
checking the streets of Seoul, South Korea. But these
are not police officers searching for teenagers who
are behaving badly. Their mission is to find children
who are still studying. And stop them.
Education in South Korea is very competitive. The aim
of almost every schoolchild is to get into one of the
country’s top universities. Only the students with the
best grades get a place. The school day starts at 8
a.m. and the students finish studying somewhere
between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. at night. This is because
many go to private academies called hagwon after
school. Around 74 percent of all students attend a
hagwon after their regular classes finish. A year’s
course costs, on average, $2,600 per student. In
Seoul, there are more private tutors than
schoolteachers, and the most popular ones make
millions of dollars a year from online and in-person
classes. Most parents rely on private tutoring to get
their children into a university.
With so much time spent in the classroom, all that
students in South Korean high schools do is study and
sleep. Some of them are so exhausted that they
cannot stay awake the next day at school. It is a
common sight to see a teacher explaining the lesson
while a third of the students are asleep on their desks.
The teachers don’t seem to mind. There are even
special pillows for sale that fit over the arms of the
chairs to make sleeping in class more comfortable.
Ironically, the students spend class time sleeping so
that they can stay up late studying that night.
The South Korean government has been aware of the
faults in the system for some time, but now they have
passed some reforms. Today, schoolteachers have to
meet certain standards or take additional training
courses.
However, the biggest challenge for the government is
the hagwons. Hagwons have been banned from
having classes after 10 p.m., which is why there are
street patrols searching for children who are studying
after that time. If they find any in class, the owner of
the hagwon is punished and the students are sent
home. It's a strange world, where some children have
to be told to stop studying while others are reluctant to
start.
Adapted from: LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina & OXENDEN, Clive.
American English File 3 - Workbook. 2"“ edition. Oxford: OUP,
2014.
The phrasal verb SEARCHING FOR in "But these are
not police officers searching for teenagers...” (first
paragraph) could be replaced in this context by:
Ano: 2023Banca: VUNESPOrganização: Prefeitura de São Bernardo do Campo - SPDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Verbos | Verbos Modais
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Communicating successfully in another language
means shifting frames of reference, shifting norms, shifting
assumptions of what can and cannot be said, what might
be considered ambiguous, what should be explicit and what
ought to remain tacit, and so on. In other words, using another
language effectively involves more than vocabulary and
structures; it involves thinking differently about language and
communication.
The question is, how can we begin to understand another
way of thinking, how can we be sensitized to different
cultural frames, when we are in a classroom in Nebraska,
Nairobi, or New South Wales? One answer, I will argue, is
by reading, writing, and discussing texts. By examining the
particular ways in which language is used to capture and
express experiences, we not only learn a great deal about the
conventions of the language, but can also begin to glimpse
the beliefs and values that underlie the discourse.
The basic message is a simple one: academic language
teaching must foster literacy, not only in terms of basic reading
and writing skills, but also in terms of a broader discourse
competence that involves the ability to interpret and critically
evaluate a wide variety of written and spoken texts. Preparing
students to communicate in multiple cultural contexts, both
at home and abroad, means sensitizing them to discourse
practices in other societies and to the ways those discourse
practices both reflect and create cultural norms. I here argue
that this kind of literacy is essential to real communicative
ability in a language, and is therefore an indispensable goal
in our efforts to prepare future generations for the challenges
associated with the increased internationalization of many
aspects of our society.
(Richard Kern, Literacy and language teaching. Adaptado)
The first sentence in the text is rich in the use of
modalization. Note the fragment “shifting assumptions of
what can and cannot be said, what might be considered
ambiguous, what should be explicit and what ought to
remain tacit, and so on.”
It is correct to state that, in the context given,
Ano: 2021Banca: IBFCOrganização: SEED - RRDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Verbos | Presente Perfeito
Leia as frases apresentadas abaixo e
identifique em que tempo verbal elas se
encontram:
I. He has just gone out;
II. I have read the intructions
III. I have been working;
IV. I have letters to write.
Assinale a alternativa que indique somente
frases que estão no presente perfeito.
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