Questões de Inglês

Prefixes and suffixes give different meanings to words. They are sets of letters that are added to the beginning or end of another word. They are not words in their own right and cannot stand on their own in a sentence: if they are printed on their own they have a hyphen before or after them. Knowing the prefixes which of the alternatives below show one that has a negative meaning?

The communicative approach is based on the idea that learning language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning. When learners are involved in real communication, their natural strategies for language acquisition will be used, and this will allow them to learn to use the language. Available at: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/communicative-approach. Access in: 22/06/2018. An example of it is:

Where's the best place in America to live if you want to maximize your chances of living longer? Based on an authoritative new state-by-state study of the American burden of disease, disability and premature death, and how it has changed from 1990 to 2016, you might consider setting down roots in Hawaii, where residents have the longest life expectancy, 81.3 years. But if your goal is to live long and stay healthy as long as you can, call Minnesota your home, which outranks every state and the District of Columbia for average length of healthy life expectancy, 70.3 years. Perhaps I should have stayed in Minneapolis, a city I loved and still do nearly 53 years after moving to New York to work for The New York Times. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/well/how-to-increase-your-chances-of-having-a-long-healthy- life.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&action=click&contentCollection=health®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=7&pgtype=sectionfront. Access in: 22/06/2018. What word best describes the word “burden"?

Kate Brosnahan Spade, the fashion designer and businesswoman, hanged herself in an apparent suicide Tuesday at a Manhattan apartment, according to a New York Police Department source. Police responded at 10:10 a.m. after Spade was found by her housekeeper, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said. A suicide note was found at the scene, he said. Spade addressed her daughter in the note, according to two NYPD sources. Spade's body was discovered in her apartment, an NYPD officer at the Upper East Side apartment building said. The designer, 55, started Kate Spade New York in 1993 and opened her first shop in the city three years later, the company's website states. Available at: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/05/us/kate-spade-dead/index.html. Access in: 22/06/2018. This text has many verbs in the past and as it is know they have different pronunciation even though they are regular verbs. Which of these have / t / sound?

Britain's Roman Villas Numerous monuments recall the 400 or so years when Britain was part of the Roman Empire. Ancient city walls, old roads, front defenses. But it is at the villas that one feels closest to the everyday life of Roman Britain. The villas were homes. In their kitchens bread was baked. Along their corridors echoed family conversations. They were well built and handsomely decorated. The first villa was built around A.D. 80-90. It was a small farm. Later on the house was extended, kitchens and baths were added.

It is known that many villas were destroyed by fire. Their ruins remain hidden for years and it is often by accident that the site is discovered. So in Hampshire a number of oyster-shells were found by a farmer, and the shells, remnants of a long-ago feast, led to the discovery of the villa at Rockbourne. Available at: http://englishstandarts.blogspot.com/2012/06/passive-voice-texts-proverbs-and.html. Access in: 22/06/2018. The text was written mainly in the past, therefore we can also see many times the passive voice in it. How many times can you count the passive voice in the passage above?

Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, adverbs themselves or a noun. To understand and to have a more complete understanding of what the speaker meant we need to complete with one of the adverbs. Which one would be the only one to fit better? Take into account the word order as well. The sun ________ shines ________.

_________ is one of the main determinants of second/foreign language (L2) learning achievement and, accordingly, the last three decades have seen a considerable amount of research that investigates the nature and role of _________ in the L2 learning process. Much of this research has been initiated and inspired by two Canadian psychologists, Robert Gardner and Wallace Lambert. Available at: http://seas3.elte.hu/coursematerial/RyanChristopher/Dornyei(1994)_Foreign_Language_Classroom.pdf. Access in: 22/06/2018. ESP is a growing field of EFL and the most vital distinction of it lies on _________. Available at: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/F044%20ELT- 34%20English%20for%20Specific%20Purposes%20-%20An%20International%20Seminar_v3.pdf. Access in: 22/06/2018. Which one would be the one to fit better? Take into account the word order as well.