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3730055 Ano: 2025
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: FUNCERN
Orgão: IF-RN
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Question 22 must be answered based on the following poem.

Brazil, January 1, 1502

Elizabeth Bishop

[...]

Januaries, Nature greets our eyes

exactly as she must have greeted theirs:

every square inch filling in with foliage––

big leaves, little leaves, and giant leaves,

blue, blue-green, and olive,

with occasional lighter veins and edges,

or a satin underleaf turned over;

monster fernsin silver-gray relief,

and flowers, too, like giant water lilies

up in the air––up, rather, in the leaves––

purple, yellow, two yellows, pink,

rust red and greenish white;

solid but airy; fresh as if just finished

and taken off the frame.

A blue-white sky, a simple web,

backing for feathery detail:

brief arcs, a pale-green broken wheel,

a few palms, swarthy, squat, but delicate;

and perching there in profile, beaks agape,

the big symbolic birds keep quiet,

each showing only half his puffed and padded,

pure-colored or spotted breast.

Still in the foreground there is Sin:

five sooty dragons near some massy rocks.

threatened from underneath by moss

in lovely hell-green flames,

attacked abThe rocks are worked with lichens, gray moonbursts

splattered and overlapping,

ove

by scaling-ladder vines, oblique and neat,

“one leaf yes and one leaf no” (in Portuguese).

The lizards scarcely breathe; all eye

sare on the smaller, female one, back-to,

her wicked tail straight up and over,

red as a red-hot wire.

Just so the Christians, hard as nails,

tiny as nails, glinting,

in creaking armor, came and found it all,

not unfamiliar:

no lovers’ walks, no bowers,

no cherries to be picked, no lute music,

but corresponding, nevertheless,

to an old dream of wealth and luxury

already out of style when they left home––

wealth, plus a brand-new pleasure.

Directly after Mass, humming perhaps

L’Homme armé or some such tune,

they ripped away into the hanging fabric,

each out to catch an Indian for himself––

those maddening little women who kept calling,

calling to each other (or had the birds waked up?)

and retreating, always retreating, behind it.

Adapted from: https://voetica.com/poem/2759

The sentences below, from Bishop’s poem, are rewritten in the passive voice. Select the alternative that shows a grammatically correct option:

 

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3730054 Ano: 2025
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: FUNCERN
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You have meticulously planned a trip to Japan next year: flights booked, hotels reserved, itinerary finalized. Considering the nuanced differences in future tense constructions and their pragmatic implications, select the option that most precisely conveys this situation:
 

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3730053 Ano: 2025
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: FUNCERN
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For question, read the text below and select which answers best fit the question.
Professional sport
When I talk about practice, I mean something individual. If you look at professional golfers or tennis players, you will observe that the practice composes the basis of their preparation for tournaments. Of course it does, (1) for these are individual sports. [...] Part of what is fascinating, and slightly repellent, about sports lies in that curious inversion of values (2) insofar much that we admire in ordinary life - humility, compassion, unwillingness to take advantage of the weakness of others - is reversed on the field of play. Professional sport is all about winning. And, within reason the more you practice (and the more you train) the better your chances of doing so.
Adapted from: WALLACE, David Foster. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis. Little, Brown and Company, 2011.
The conjunction "insofar" is the correct choice for the following sentence: "Part of what is fascinating, and slightly repellent, about sports lies in that curious inversion of values (2) insofar much that we admire in ordinary life - humility, compassion, unwillingness to take advantage of the weakness of others - is reversed on the field of play." because
 

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3730052 Ano: 2025
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
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For question, read the text below and select which answers best fit the question.
Professional sport
When I talk about practice, I mean something individual. If you look at professional golfers or tennis players, you will observe that the practice composes the basis of their preparation for tournaments. Of course it does, (1) for these are individual sports. [...] Part of what is fascinating, and slightly repellent, about sports lies in that curious inversion of values (2) insofar much that we admire in ordinary life - humility, compassion, unwillingness to take advantage of the weakness of others - is reversed on the field of play. Professional sport is all about winning. And, within reason the more you practice (and the more you train) the better your chances of doing so.
Adapted from: WALLACE, David Foster. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis. Little, Brown and Company, 2011.
In the sentence "Of course it does, (1) for these are individual sports.", the word "for"
 

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3730051 Ano: 2025
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
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Question 18 must be answered based on the following excerpt.

Read the excerpt below from Pennycook’s The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language and answer the following question.

More important for understanding the global spread of English are close and detailed understandings of the ways in which English is embedded in local economies of desire. We need to evaluate the global spread of English, and the role of English language teachers as its agents, critically and carefully in order to appreciate the ways in which demand for English is part of a larger picture of images of change, modernization, access and longing. It is tied to the languages, cultures, styles and aesthetics of popular culture with its particular attractions for youth, rebellion and conformity; it is enmeshed within local economies, and all the inclusions, exclusions and inequalities this may entail; it is bound up with changing modes of communication, from shifting internet uses to its role in text-messaging; it is increasingly entrenched in educational systems, bringing to the fore many concerns about knowledge, pedagogy, culture and curriculum. [...] To understand the power and politics of ELT, then, we need detailed understandings of the role English plays in relation to local languages, politics and economies. [...] We are never just teaching something called English but rather we are involved in economic and social change, cultural renewal, people’s dreams and desires.

Adapted from: PENNYCOOK, Alastair. The cultural politics of English as an international language. London: Longman, 1994.

According to the text, teaching English internationally involves:

 

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3730050 Ano: 2025
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: FUNCERN
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Question must be answered based on the following passage.

English for Specific Purposes (ESP) courses are designed for learners who require English for specific academic or professional fields. According to Hutchinson and Waters (1987, p. 12), “the purpose of an ESP course is to enable learners to function adequately in a target situation”.

Adapted from: HUTCHINSON, T.; WATERS, A. English for Specific Purposes: A learning-centred approach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

In this perspective, ESP courses include
 

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3730049 Ano: 2025
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
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Questions 15 and 16 must be answered based on the following text.

The term methods, as currently used in the literature on second and foreign language (L2) teaching, does not refer to what teachers actually do in the classroom; rather, it refers to established methods conceptualized and constructed by experts in the field. The exact number of methods that are commonly used is unclear. A book published in the mid sixties, for instance, provides a list of fifteen “most common” types of methods “still in use in one form or another in various parts of the world” (Mackey, 1965, p. 151). Two books published in the mid eighties (Larsen-Freeman, 1986; and Richards and Rodgers, 1986)—which have longoccupied the top two ranks among the books prescribed for methods classes in the United States—provide, between them, a list of eleven methods that are currently used. They are (in alphabetical order): Audiolingual Method, Communicative Methods, Community Language Learning, Direct Method, Grammar-Translation Method, Natural Approach, Oral Approach, Silent Way, Situational Language Teaching, Suggestopedia, and Total Physical Response.

It would be wrong to assume that these eleven methods provide eleven different paths to language teaching. In fact, there is considerable overlap in their theoretical as well as practical approaches to L2 learning and teaching. Sometimes, as Wilga Rivers (1991, p. 283) rightly points out, what appears to be a radically new method is more often than not a variant of existing methods presented with “the fresh paint of a new terminology that camouflages their fundamental similarity.” It is therefore useful, for the purpose of analysis and understanding, to cluster these methods in terms of certain identifiable common features. One way of doing that is to classify them as (a) language-centered methods, (b) learner-centered methods, and (c) learning-centered methods.

Adapted from: Kumaravadivelu, B. Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for language teaching.

Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003.

Language methods provide different paths to language teaching. Thus, Language-Centered Methods

 

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3730048 Ano: 2025
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
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Questions 15 and 16 must be answered based on the following text.

The term methods, as currently used in the literature on second and foreign language (L2) teaching, does not refer to what teachers actually do in the classroom; rather, it refers to established methods conceptualized and constructed by experts in the field. The exact number of methods that are commonly used is unclear. A book published in the mid sixties, for instance, provides a list of fifteen “most common” types of methods “still in use in one form or another in various parts of the world” (Mackey, 1965, p. 151). Two books published in the mid eighties (Larsen-Freeman, 1986; and Richards and Rodgers, 1986)—which have longoccupied the top two ranks among the books prescribed for methods classes in the United States—provide, between them, a list of eleven methods that are currently used. They are (in alphabetical order): Audiolingual Method, Communicative Methods, Community Language Learning, Direct Method, Grammar-Translation Method, Natural Approach, Oral Approach, Silent Way, Situational Language Teaching, Suggestopedia, and Total Physical Response.

It would be wrong to assume that these eleven methods provide eleven different paths to language teaching. In fact, there is considerable overlap in their theoretical as well as practical approaches to L2 learning and teaching. Sometimes, as Wilga Rivers (1991, p. 283) rightly points out, what appears to be a radically new method is more often than not a variant of existing methods presented with “the fresh paint of a new terminology that camouflages their fundamental similarity.” It is therefore useful, for the purpose of analysis and understanding, to cluster these methods in terms of certain identifiable common features. One way of doing that is to classify them as (a) language-centered methods, (b) learner-centered methods, and (c) learning-centered methods.

Adapted from: Kumaravadivelu, B. Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for language teaching.

Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003.

Comprehensible input - spoken language that is understandable to the learner - or just a little beyond the learner’s level; basic interpersonal communication skills and the belief that learners benefit from delaying production until speech “emerges” are characteristics of

 

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3730047 Ano: 2025
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
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Question 14 must be answered based on the following passage.

As fashions in language teaching come and go, the teacher in the classroom needs reassurance that there is some bedrock beneath the shifting sands. Once solidly founded on the bedrock, like the sea anemone, the teacher can sway to the rhythms of any tides or currents, without the trauma of being swept away purposelessly.

Adapted from: Rivers, Wilga M. Communicating Naturally in a Second Language: Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press, 1992. p. 373.

Study the words in bold and select the correct option.

 

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3730046 Ano: 2025
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
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Question 13 must be answered based on the following text.

This passage from “The Sign of the Four” by Arthur Conan Doyle, captures Holmes’ logical approach to deduction and showcases his analytical abilities.

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth", said Sherlock Holmes.

Available at: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/arthur-conan-doyle/the-sign-of-the-four/text/single-page#chapter-6

Study the sentence: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth", said Sherlock Holmes. Choose the option in which the Indirect Speech is used correctly.

 

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