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1052109 Ano: 2016
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: NUCEPE
Orgão: Pref. Teresina-PI
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TEXT 06
The (in)appropriate speaker model?
"Anyone working in the field of English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) has to face sooner rather than later a serious contradiction: that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English. This suggestion always meets, however, with strong resistance from many quarters, and this is particularly so in the case of accent. The result is that two particular native speaker English accents, Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA), continue to command special status around the English speaking world including international/lingua franca communication contexts where sociolinguistic common sense indicates that they are inappropriate and irrelevant."
Source: adapted from: JENKINS, J. (Un)pleasant? (In)correct? (Un)Intelligible? ELF Speakers' perceptions of their accents. In: MAURANEN, Anna and RANTA, Elina (Ed.).English as a Lingua Franca:Studies and Findings. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p.10-35.
In the text 06, the numbers "116” (line 14) and "35" (in the reference), are, in compliance with Bristish usage, written respectively as:
 

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1052108 Ano: 2016
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: NUCEPE
Orgão: Pref. Teresina-PI
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“Connectors, or conjunctives (Halliday & Hasan, 1976), are a type of cohesion device that make explicit the logical relations between sentences (cause, addition, comparison, condition, etc.). Common connectors include and, but, however, and because. Such connectors are of limited utility, however, unless the reader understands how connectors function and the logical relationship each specifies.” Source: GOLDMAN, Susan R. & MURRAY, John. Knowledge of Connectors as Cohesion Devices in Text: A Comparative Study of Native English and ESL Speakers. (Adapted) In: www.dtic.mil/cgibin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA213269. Access: March 23rd, 2016.
From the groups of logical conjunctives below, which one contains connectors that specify a similar logical relation?
 

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1052107 Ano: 2016
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: NUCEPE
Orgão: Pref. Teresina-PI
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The ING ending word is used as an adjective in the sentence
 

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1052106 Ano: 2016
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: NUCEPE
Orgão: Pref. Teresina-PI
Provas:
Read text 2 and answer the question according to it.

TEXT 2
GOOGLE HAS REFUSED GOVERNMENT DEMANDS TO TAKE DOWN A GAY MUSIC VIDEO IN KENYA
Kenya’s attempt to stop people from watching a music video celebrating gay couples is backfiring. Three weeks after trying to ban a local rap artist’s remake of Same Love, (1)__________ Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Google Kenya has refused to pull the video from YouTube, where it has now been viewed (2)____________ 140,000 times. Kenyan regulators banned the video in late February, claiming that the content threatens to turn the country (3)___________ “Sodom and Gomorrah” and declaring that anyone caught distributing it would be punished. But the agency that banned it also retweeted a link to it—which ended up bringing more attention to Kenya’s nascent gay rights campaign. (…)
Source: http://qz.com/638461/google-hasrefused-government-demands-to-take-downa-gay-music-video-in-kenya (adapted). Access: March 22nd, 2016.
In the passage, the word backfiring is a synonym with
 

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1052105 Ano: 2016
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: NUCEPE
Orgão: Pref. Teresina-PI
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“Mr. Preaud and his wife, who is pregnant, hit the ground as people screamed, “Get down, get down!” After the second explosion, he looked up to see a giant fan — part of an air-conditioning unit — that had landed near them. They had been eating at a Délifrance, talking about Salah Abdeslam, the terrorism suspect who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after a four-month global manhunt.”
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/europe /brussels (adapted). Access: March 23rd, 2016.
The word “manhunt” in the sentence “the terrorism suspect who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after a four-month global manhunt” is a synonym with
 

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1052104 Ano: 2016
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: NUCEPE
Orgão: Pref. Teresina-PI
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TEXT 05
What is English as a Lingua Franca
What students need most from their language classes affects how we teach. But to what extent do we consider students' needs when it comes to pronunciation? How often do we stop to consider the needs of students who are learning English to mainly communicate with other non-native speakers? In this situation, English is used as a Lingua Franca ( henceforth ELF) - a common language between people who do not share the same native language. So their needs are quite different to students who go to the UK, for example, and want to integrate within that culture and so may want to sound as much like a native speaker as possible. The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with. This does not necessarily mean sounding like a native speaker.
Source: adapted from https://www.britishcouncil.org/voicesmagazine/how-teach-english-lingua-franca-elf. Access: March 24th , 2016.
Considering the words taken from the text 05, the underlined words with the appropriate stress syllable are
 

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1052103 Ano: 2016
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: NUCEPE
Orgão: Pref. Teresina-PI
Provas:
Identify the item that best replaces the phrasal verb in bold type.
I’ve just ran into your sister on the mall.
 

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1052102 Ano: 2016
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: NUCEPE
Orgão: Pref. Teresina-PI
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TEXT 05
What is English as a Lingua Franca
What students need most from their language classes affects how we teach. But to what extent do we consider students' needs when it comes to pronunciation? How often do we stop to consider the needs of students who are learning English to mainly communicate with other non-native speakers? In this situation, English is used as a Lingua Franca ( henceforth ELF) - a common language between people who do not share the same native language. So their needs are quite different to students who go to the UK, for example, and want to integrate within that culture and so may want to sound as much like a native speaker as possible. The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with. This does not necessarily mean sounding like a native speaker.
Source: adapted from https://www.britishcouncil.org/voicesmagazine/how-teach-english-lingua-franca-elf. Access: March 24th , 2016.
The same type of underlined comparative of the excerpt taken from the text 05 "The priority for students using ELF, on the other hand, is to be as intelligible as possible to the people they are communicating with." (lines 16 to 18), is:
 

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1052101 Ano: 2016
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: NUCEPE
Orgão: Pref. Teresina-PI
Provas:
Identify the item that best replaces the phrasal verb in bold type.

He tore up all her letters when she decided to move.
 

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1052100 Ano: 2016
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: NUCEPE
Orgão: Pref. Teresina-PI
Provas:
TEXT 06
The (in)appropriate speaker model?
"Anyone working in the field of English as a Lingua Franca (henceforth ELF) has to face sooner rather than later a serious contradiction: that despite the widespread acceptance of the extensive role of English as an international lingua franca and its increasing number of functions in this respect, there is still an almost equally widespread resistance to this lingua franca’s forms. Given the well-established sociolinguistic fact that languages are shaped by their users, and that nowadays “native speakers are in a minority for [English] language use” (Brumfit 2001, 116), it would make sense for English language teaching to move away from its almost exclusive focus on native varieties of English. This suggestion always meets, however, with strong resistance from many quarters, and this is particularly so in the case of accent. The result is that two particular native speaker English accents, Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American (GA), continue to command special status around the English speaking world including international/lingua franca communication contexts where sociolinguistic common sense indicates that they are inappropriate and irrelevant."
Source: adapted from: JENKINS, J. (Un)pleasant? (In)correct? (Un)Intelligible? ELF Speakers' perceptions of their accents. In: MAURANEN, Anna and RANTA, Elina (Ed.).English as a Lingua Franca:Studies and Findings. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p.10-35.
The sentence “...languages are shaped by their users...” (lines 11 and 12) in active voice is, "users
 

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