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Ano: 2024Banca: AMAUCOrganização: Prefeitura de Piratuba - SCDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Discurso Direto e Indireto
Discourse markers play a fundamental role in achieving
textual coherence by linking ideas and signaling
relationships between them. However, their function often
depends on the context in which they are used. Analyze
the sentences below and select the option where the
discourse marker's function is misinterpreted:
Ano: 2023Banca: INSTITUTO AOCPOrganização: IF-MADisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Discurso Direto e Indireto
You are an English language professor at IFMA
and you are teaching your learners the genre
“discursive essay”. Which of the rhetorical moves
below are NOT usually typical of this genre?
Ano: 2024Banca: FEPESEOrganização: Prefeitura de Brusque - SCDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Verbos | Discurso Direto e Indireto
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Google News, Thursday, June 16, 2021
Teaching methods keep changing with the times,................... the blackboard of the old days ........... electronic teaching today. Mr. Kam, physics instructor
the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is one of
those who has changed ......... the times.
Mr. Kam employs a two-pronged approach. First, he
uses multimedia teaching materials during lectures.
Second, he arranges internships for undergraduates.
These can take the form of learning assistantships at
the university or teaching assistantships at secondary
schools, and also there’s always the odd science project at the Space Museum.
The initiatives have earned him the Faculty Exemplary
Teaching Award 2020. A CUHK alumnus, he is grateful
for the chance to teach at the university after earning
his doctoral degree there. His teaching position actually represents the fulfillment of a dream, for the status
of professors during his days as a university student
was extremely high and he could meet them only during lectures.
After being a teacher for 10 years, Mr. Kam has found
no apparent regression in the learning abilities of students, but he believes teachers should not just force
knowledge on students - they have to pay careful
attention to their needs too.
The multimedia materials that Mr. Kam uses to illustrate his area of interest includes animation and
video clips. He encourages students to read popular
astronomy magazines and share any note-worthy
content they find. Mr. Kam also gets his undergraduates to help prepare students sitting for physics
papers in public exams or to help out on research
projects undertaken by meteorological officers at the
observatory.
He also arranges for his undergraduates to teach students from other faculties during physics liberal studies classes through talks and star-gazing expeditions.
Such responsibilities serve two greater purposes.
First, undergraduates become even more motivated
to learn when they find out they have to guide other
students. Second, physics students are, unlike arts students, not at their best when called upon to express
themselves. Acting as assistants allows them to practice their skills and build up their self- confidence.
I asked Mr. Kam what he found most satisfying in
teaching.
And the answer is obvious. It is the deep friendship he
forms with students. Mr. Kam says many former students still come back to see him occasionally despite
being busy parents. He draws considerable satisfaction from seeing his students grow into mature adults.
For Mr. Kam, the best teachers will never find extracurricular activity a burden because the good work that is
done today plants the seed for future generations.
Choose the alternative that contains the correct indirect form (indirect speech) of the sentence
“I enjoyed some subjects more than others. I’ve preferred
science subjects.”.
Ano: 2014Banca: UECE-CEVOrganização: UECEDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Discurso Direto e Indireto
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Brazil plowed billions of dollars into building a
railroad across arid backlands, only for the longdelayed project to fall prey to metal scavengers.
Curvaceous new public buildings designed by the
famed architect Oscar Niemeyer were abandoned
right after being constructed. There was even an illfated U.F.O. museum built with federal funds. Its
skeletal remains now sit like a lost ship among the
weeds.
As Brazil sprints to get ready for the World
Cup in June, it has run up against a catalog of
delays, some caused by deadly construction
accidents at stadiums, and cost overruns. It is
building bus and rail systems for spectators that will
not be finished until long after the games are done.
But the World Cup projects are just a part of a
bigger national problem casting a pall over Brazil’s
grand ambitions: an array of lavish projects
conceived when economic growth was surging that
now stand abandoned, stalled or wildly over budget.
Some economists say the troubled projects
reveal a crippling bureaucracy, irresponsible
allocation of resources and bastions of corruption.
Huge street protests have been aimed at
costly new stadiums being built in cities like Manaus
and Brasília, whose paltry fan bases are almost sure
to leave a sea of empty seats after the World Cup
events are finished, adding to concerns that even
more white elephants will emerge from the
tournament.
“The fiascos are multiplying, revealing
disarray that is regrettably systemic,” said Gil
Castello Branco, director of Contas Abertas, a
Brazilian watchdog group that scrutinizes public
budgets. “We’re waking up to the reality that
immense resources have been wasted on
extravagant projects when our public schools are
still a mess and raw sewage is still in our streets.”
The growing list of troubled development
projects includes a $3.4 billion network of concrete
canals in the drought-plagued hinterland of
northeast Brazil — which was supposed to be
finished in 2010 — as well as dozens of new wind
farms idled by a lack of transmission lines and
unfinished luxury hotels blighting Rio de Janeiro’s
skyline.
Economists surveyed by the nation’s central
bank see Brazil’s economy growing just 1.63 percent
this year, down from 7.5 percent in 2010, making
2014 the fourth straight year of slow growth.
President Dilma Rousseff’s supporters contend
that the public spending has worked, helping to keep
unemployment at historical lows and preventing
what would have been a much worse economic
slowdown had the government not pumped its
considerable resources into infrastructure
development.
Still, a growing chorus of critics argues that
the inability to finish big infrastructure projects
reveals weaknesses in Brazil’s model of state capitalism. First, they say, Brazil gives
extraordinary influence to a web of state-controlled
companies, banks and pension funds to invest in
ill-advised projects. Then other bastions of the
vast public bureaucracy cripple projects with audits
and lawsuits.
“Some ventures never deserved public
money in the first place,” said Sérgio Lazzarini, an
economist at Insper, a São Paulo business school,
pointing to the millions in state financing for the
overhaul of the Glória hotel in Rio, owned until
recently by a mining tycoon, Eike Batista. The
project was left unfinished, unable to open for the
World Cup, when Mr. Batista’s business empire
crumbled last year. “For infrastructure projects
which deserve state support and get it,” Mr.
Lazzarini continued, “there’s the daunting task of
dealing with the risks that the state itself creates.”
The Transnordestina, a railroad begun in
2006 here in northeast Brazil, illustrates some of
the pitfalls plaguing projects big and small.
Scheduled to be finished in 2010 at a cost of about
$1.8 billion, the railroad, designed to stretch more
than 1,000 miles, is now expected to cost at least
$3.2 billion, with most financing from state banks.
Officials say it should be completed around 2016.
But with work sites abandoned because of audits
and other setbacks months ago in and around
Paulistana, a town in Piauí, one of Brazil’s poorest
states, even that timeline seems optimistic. Long
stretches where freight trains were already
supposed to be running stand deserted. Wiry
vaqueiros, or cowboys, herd cattle in the shadow
of ghostly railroad bridges that tower 150 feet
above parched valleys. “Thieves are pillaging metal
from the work sites,” said Adailton Vieira da Silva,
42, an electrician who labored with thousands of
others before work halted last year. “Now there
are just these bridges left in the middle of
nowhere.”
Brazil’s transportation minister, César
Borges, expressed exasperation with the delays in
finishing the railroad, which is needed to transport
soybean harvests to port. He listed the
bureaucracies that delay projects like the
Transnordestina: the Federal Court of Accounts;
the Office of the Comptroller General; an
environmental protection agency; an institute
protecting archaeological patrimony; agencies
protecting the rights of indigenous peoples and
descendants of escaped slaves; and the Public
Ministry, a body of independent prosecutors. Still,
Mr. Borges insisted, “Projects get delayed in
countries around the world, not just Brazil.”
Some economists contend that the way
Brazil is investing may be hampering growth
instead of supporting it. The authorities
encouraged energy companies to build wind farms,
but dozens cannot operate because they lack
transmission lines to connect to the electricity grid.
Meanwhile, manufacturers worry over potential
electricity rationing as reservoirs at hydroelectric
dams run dry amid a drought.
Then there is the extraterrestrial museum in
Varginha, a city in southeast Brazil where residents claimed to have seen an alien in 1996. Officials
secured federal money to build the museum, but
now all that remains of the unfinished project is the
rusting carcass of what looks like a flying saucer.
“That museum,” said Roberto Macedo, an economist
at the University of São Paulo, “is an insult to both
extraterrestrials and the terrestrial beings like
ourselves who foot the bill for yet another project
failing to deliver.”
Adapted from www.nytimes.com/April 12, 2014.
The two sentences “‘Some ventures never
deserved public money in the first place,’ said
Sérgio Lazzarini, an economist at Insper, a São
Paulo business school” and “‘That museum,’ said
Roberto Macedo, an economist at the University of
São Paulo, ‘is an insult to both extraterrestrials
and the terrestrial beings like ourselves who foot
the bill for yet another project failing to deliver’”
contain, respectively, examples of
Ano: 2024Banca: MS ConsultoriaOrganização: Prefeitura de Nova Itarana - BADisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Discurso Direto e Indireto
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Climate crisis is making days longer,
study finds
Melting of ice is slowing planet’s rotation and
could disrupt internet traffic, financial
transactions and GPS. The climate crisis is
causing the length of each day to get longer,
analysis shows, as the mass melting of polar ice
reshapes the planet.
The phenomenon is a striking demonstration of
how humanity’s actions are transforming the
Earth, scientists said, rivalling natural processes
that have existed for billions of years. The
change in the length of the day is on the scale of
milliseconds but this is enough to potentially
disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and
GPS navigation, all of which rely on precise
timekeeping.
The length of the Earth’s day has been steadily
increasing over geological time due to the
gravitational drag of the moon on the planet’s
oceans and land. However, the melting of the
Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets due to
human-caused global heating has been
redistributing water stored at high latitudes into
the world’s oceans, leading to more water in the
seas nearer the equator. This makes the Earth
more oblate – or fatter – slowing the rotation of
the planet and lengthening the day still further.
The planetary impact of humanity was also
demonstrated recently by research that showed
the redistribution of water had caused the
Earth’s axis of rotation – the north and south
poles – to move. Other work has revealed that
humanity’s carbon emissions are shrinking the
stratosphere.
“We can see our impact as humans on the
whole Earth system, not just locally, like the rise
in temperature, but really fundamentally, altering
how it moves in space and rotates,” said Prof
Benedikt Soja of ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
“Due to our carbon emissions, we have done
this in just 100 or 200 years. Whereas the
governing processes previously had been going
on for billions of years, and that is striking.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/15/climate-crisis-making-days-longer-study
Qual destes exemplos está usando
discurso indireto?
Ano: 2020Banca: GS Assessoria e ConcursosOrganização: Prefeitura de Romelândia - SCDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Discurso Direto e Indireto
The author said to me: Did you buy my book? The previous sentence in the
Reported Speech is:
Ano: 2020Banca: FACET ConcursosOrganização: Prefeitura de Capim - PBDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Verbos | Passado Simples | Discurso Direto e Indireto
Analyze the following sentences regarding the verb
tenses and direct or reported speech. Choose the
alternative that best describes them and in the
correct order:
i. None of them were, leaving global biodiversity in
a parlous state, the statement says. (line 4)
ii. Thompson said Scotland was set to meet nine of
the Aichi goals. (line 34)
Ano: 2023Banca: INSTITUTO AOCPOrganização: IF-MADisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Discurso Direto e Indireto
You are teaching your learners at IFMA how to
write a research project. You asked students to
write the introduction of the research project.
Learners handed in the written assignment, and
now you are writing comments for their feedback.
In this context, analyze the statements below, with
your comment and the area being focused on:
I. Comment: the introduction should briefly
describe the theme of your research, its aims
and explain the importance of your research.
Area: communicative aim of the genre.
II. Comment: I can understand your point here,
but connect the sentences in this paragraph
using linkers. Also, avoid repetition of words
by using pronouns and synonyms.
Area: organization and coherence.
III. Comment: avoid talking to your reader, that is
not typical of introduction in research
projects.
Area: language accuracy.
IV. Comment: your target reader is the professor
and/or another researcher, so use formal
language, avoiding contractions and
colloquial expressions.
Area: appropriate register of the genre.
V. Comment: use present perfect here, since
there is no time reference for the action and
this can happen again.
Area: appropriate tone of the genre.
VI. Comment: you discuss a number of different
points in a single block. Divide it into different
paragraphs.
Area: layout and organization.
The statements in which the feedback comment is
completely in line with the area are
Ano: 2021Banca: OMNIOrganização: Prefeitura de São João Batista - SCDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Presente Simples | Verbos | Passado Simples | Discurso Direto e Indireto
Quando transformamos um discurso direto (direct
speech) que está no tempo verbal simple present para
discurso indireto (indirect speech), o tempo verbal a
ser utilizado deve ser o simple past, como no exemplo
a seguir:
Mary said, I study every day. (simple presente)
Mary said she studied every day. (simple past)
Nesse contexto, quando o tempo verbal do discurso
direto for simple future, ao transformarmos para
discurso indireto, o tempo verbal a ser utilizado deve
ser:
Ano: 2021Banca: CETREDEOrganização: Prefeitura de Icapuí - CEDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Discurso Direto e Indireto
Analyze the following sentence.
"What is your name?" He asked me.
Put this sentence in the reported speech.