Observe the fragment bellow about the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT):

Communicative language teaching (CLT) is an approach to language teaching that emphasizes learning a language first and foremost for the purpose of communicating with others. Communication includes finding out about what people did on the weekend . . . or on their last vacation and learning about classmates’ interests, activities, preferences and opinions and conveying one’s own. It may also involve explaining daily routines to others who want to know about them, discussing current events, writing an email message with some personal news, or telling others about an interesting book or article or Internet video clip.

Concerning the approach defined in the text above, choose the alternative that includes correct information about the CLT:

The notion of speech genres is very popular in the current language teaching studies. Regarding that topic, observe this fragment that presents the following definition:

All the diverse areas of human activity involve the use of language. Quite understandably, the nature and forms of this use are just as diverse as are the areas of human activity. This, of course, in no way disaffirms the national unity of language. Language is realized in the form of individual concrete utterances (oral and written) by participants in the various areas of human activity. These utterances reflect the specific conditions and goals of each such area not only through their content (thematic) and linguistic style, that is, the selection of the lexical, phraseological, and grammatical resources of the language, but above all through their compositional structure. All three of these aspects – thematic content, style, and compositional structure – are inseparably linked to the whole of the utterance and are equally determined by the specific nature of the particular sphere of communication. Each separate utterance is individual, of course, but each sphere in which language is used develops its own relatively stable types of these utterances. These we may call speech genres.

Concerning the notion of genre presented in the text above, select the alternative that best summarizes this concept:

Syntax is the level of language analysis that is mostly concerned on how words are intelligibly put together according to the rules of a certain language. About the syntax of the English language, read the excerpt bellow:

Our discussion of syntax begins with two central ideas. The first is that certain relationships hold between words whereby one word, the head, controls the other words, the modifiers. A given head may have more than one modifier, and may have no modifier. The second idea is that words are grouped into phrases and that groupings typically bring together heads and their modifiers. In the large dog, the word dog is the head, and the and large are its modifiers. In barked loudly, the word barked is the head and loudly the modifier.

The fragment above explained the concepts of heads, modifiers and phrases through the description of a phenomenon called modification. Considering the concepts presented, read the statements bellow, decide if they are true (T) or false (F), and choose the correct alternative:

I. The phrases “great house”, “big apartment” and “ground rules” are all considered adjective phrases because their heads are adjectives;
II. In the sentence “The George broke his arm”, there is an unaccepted modification, because “The” cannot modify “George”, at least in Standard English;
III. In the phrases “my book”, “book shelf” and “the book”, the word book is the head in all of them;
IV. The phrases “have been”, “did not go” and “will be” are examples of verb phrases;
V. In the sentence “Accountant sits at her desk”, there is a modifier missing regarding the use of Standard English.

Choose the alternative that correctly presents the true (T) and false (F) statements considering the correct order:

Read the following text and fill in the gaps with the alternative that accurately presents all the missing words:

Fill in the gaps with the alternative that shows the words that can be correctly used in the text:

Read the text bellow about the history of the English Language:

Based on the text above, decide which statements are true (T) or false (F), and choose the correct option based on the order of the statements:

I. The text is about the influence of other languages in the vocabulary of English. It shows how English is more similar to other West Germanic languages than to North Germanic languages. Moreover it also explains the presence of Latin vocabulary in English;
II. The sentence “England was ruled for a long period after 1066 by a monarch and a nobility whose native language was a variety of French”, in the 3rd and 4th lines, can be changed to “A monarch and a nobility whose native language was a variety of French ruled England for a long period after 1066” without any alteration in meaning;
III. The only reason why English has Latin words is due to the French influence, inasmuch as francophone people ruled England for a long period of time;
IV. Latin was the dominant liturgical language of Europe after the Protestant Reform in most West European countries.

Choose the alternative that correctly presents if the statements above are true (T) or false (F) according to their order: