You are checking one of your intermediate student’s composition. As you adopt process writing, the first time you check a composition you just indicate the sort of mistake the student has made and then ask the learner to rewrite the composition. Your intermediate student has made five different mistakes in the sentences below. Choose the alternative in which the mistake IS NOT correctly indicated in parentheses.
Read the following statements about skimming and scanning:
1. Scanning is a more thorough activity which requires an overall view of the text and implies a definite reading competence.
2. Scanning is far more limited than skimming because it only means retrieving the information that is relevant to our purpose.
3. It is usual to make use of these two techniques together (skimming and scanning) when reading a given text. 4. We may skim through an article first just to know whether it is worth reading, then read it through more carefully because we have decided that it is of interest.
Choose the correct alternative.
Text 1
Text 2
What do Malala Yousafzai and the writer of the second text have in common?
Read the text below to answer question 17–18.
Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a form of dementia, which is a
brain disorder. It damages nerve cells in the brain. This affects
your ability to remember things, think clearly, and care for
yourself. AD begins slowly, and symptoms get worse with time.
Eventually, a person with AD might need help in many areas,
including eating and getting dressed. For some people in the
early or middle stages of the disease, medicine might help
symptoms, such as memory loss, from getting worse for a
limited time. Other drugs may help people feel less worried or
depressed. Dealing with Alzheimer’s disease can be extremely
difficult, but planning ahead and getting support can lighten the
load. AD usually begins after age 60, and risk goes up with age.
The risk is also higher if a family member has had AD. Scientists
are working to better understand AD. Ongoing studies are
looking at whether some things can help prevent or delay the
disease. Areas that are being explored include exercise, eating
omega–3 fatty acids, and keeping your brain active.
Alzheimer´s disease.
Available in: http://www.womenshealth.gov
Read the sentence below and choose the alternative that
presents a synonym to the underlined word.
“Ongoing studies are looking at whether some things can
help prevent or delay the disease.”
Questions 31 to 38 address both the teaching of English as a foreign language and the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs)
The three basic building blocks for successful foreign language teaching and learning may be described as Engage, Study and Activate (Harmer, 1997:32). The main aim of Activate is to:
Questions 31 to 38 address both the teaching of English as a foreign language and the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs)
When choosing texts for the reading lesson, text-related concepts such as Suitability of content, Exploitability and Readability should be taken into consideration. The concept of Readability is related to the:
The passive voice in the excerpt “Until recently, it had been considered a laughably inappropriate destination for a motherdaughter trip.” (lines 16-17) is being used because the agent:
The most suitable title for the New York Times text, bearing in mind its overall communicative function, is “Rio:
Questions 31 to 38 address both the teaching of English as a foreign
language and the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs)
Match each teaching model on the left to its corresponding
characteristic on the right:
The only correct sequence is expressed by:
One way in which a text is bound together is through cohesion. In the excerpt “If you want to know why people come to Rio de Janeiro, and came even during its years of bloody, decadent decline (…)” (lines 1–2), cohesion operates in the underlined elements by means of:
Verb phrases signal certain concepts. In the excerpt “(…) a strong national economy has been motivating the city of six million to remake itself.” (lines 21–23) and “Brazilian authorities have boasted that Rio’s murder rate has plunged.” (lines 23–24), the concept being signalled is that of:
In the last three lines, we can infer that if a person is ‘wired up’, s/he is
Read the excerpt and answer question 42.
“Vuvuzelas were ______ popular during the 2010
World Cup that they were selling as many as 50,000 of
them a month”.
(Adapted from www.cnn.com)
Choose the alternative that fills in the blank.
According to the text, choose the alternative that does not
fill in the blank.
Cracolândia __________.
