Questões de EFAF Inglês

Has technology ruined childhood?

Today, parents are increasingly worried about the safety of their children, and because of this, they are not letting their children out to play. As a result, children are no longer playing outside but shutting themselves away in their rooms and losing themselves in individualistic activities such as television viewing and computer games.

Yet, if they had the chance, they would rather get out of the house and go to the cinema, see friends or play sport. In fact, when asked what their idea of a good day was, only 1 in 7 said that they would turn on the television.

British teenagers have always retreated to their bedrooms, leaving the younger children to play in communal spaces such as the sitting room, garden or kitchen. However, children from the age of 9 are now turning to their bedrooms as a place to socialize.

Bedroom culture is a phenomenon of the past 20 years with families getting smaller and homes getting more spacious. Increasing prosperity has also contributed to the rise of the bedroom culture.

On average children devote 5 hours a day to screen media. Even so, only 1 child in 100 can be classed as a real screen addict, a child who spends a worrying 7 hours or more watching TV or playing computer games.

Although children generally have a few favorite programmes, they mostly use television to kill time when they are bored and have nothing special to do. Moreover, the distinction between individualistic media use and social activities such as chatting with friends is less extreme than is commonly assumed. Children gossip about television soap characters, make contact with other children on the internet, and visit friends to admire their new computer games.

As a result of the bedroom culture, it is becoming rarer for children over the age of 10 to watch television with their parents. Once in their rooms, children tend to stay up watching television for as long as they wish. Consequently it is getting harder to control children's viewing.

Fonte: Inside out Upper Intermediate (Student´s book)

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Text II

Learn English online: How the internet is changing language

       Online, English is now a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing. Noah Webster thought that a common language brings people together and helps create a new identity.

       Webster’s dictionary, now is in its ${11}^{th}$ edition, adopted the Americanized orthography familiar today${}^2$ “-er” in place of “-re” in theatre, not using the “u” from colour, losing one “l” in traveller, and listed new words for example, skunk and squash.

       The Internet is creating a similar language evolution, but at a much faster velocity. Some linguists anticipate that in $10$ years English will dominate the Internet, but in very different forms. That’s because people who speak English as a second language are more in number than native speakers. And they use it to communicate with other non-native speakers${}^5$, particularly on the Internet where people don’t pay so much attention to grammar and orthography and users don’t have to preoccupy about their way of speaking.

       Users of Facebook, for example, in a number of different “Englishes"${}^1$ including Indian English, or Hinglish, Spanglish (Spanish English) and Konglish (Korean English). For a long time, these variations existed in individual cultures, but now they are expanding and becoming popular online${}^6$. “On the Internet all that is important is that people can communicate - nobody has a right to tell them what the language has to be,” says Baron.

       The intensification of the use of the Internet in everyday life means that language online is not a zero result game. On the contrary, it permits multiple languages to show up and they are mixing into English${}^4$ that is becoming the world’s lingua franca${}^3$.

(Adapted from http://www.bbc.cokh/news/magazine-20332763 Acessado em 25/03/2013)

Glossary:

To lose: perder, retirar

Língua franca: idioma usado globalmente para a comunicação

Mark the option in which only one question is grammatically correct.

Text II

Learn English online: How the internet is changing language

       Online, English is now a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing. Noah Webster thought that a common language brings people together and helps create a new identity.

       Webster’s dictionary, now is in its ${11}^{th}$ edition, adopted the Americanized orthography familiar today${}^2$ “-er” in place of “-re” in theatre, not using the “u” from colour, losing one “l” in traveller, and listed new words for example, skunk and squash.

       The Internet is creating a similar language evolution, but at a much faster velocity. Some linguists anticipate that in $10$ years English will dominate the Internet, but in very different forms. That’s because people who speak English as a second language are more in number than native speakers. And they use it to communicate with other non-native speakers${}^5$, particularly on the Internet where people don’t pay so much attention to grammar and orthography and users don’t have to preoccupy about their way of speaking.

       Users of Facebook, for example, in a number of different “Englishes"${}^1$ including Indian English, or Hinglish, Spanglish (Spanish English) and Konglish (Korean English). For a long time, these variations existed in individual cultures, but now they are expanding and becoming popular online${}^6$. “On the Internet all that is important is that people can communicate - nobody has a right to tell them what the language has to be,” says Baron.

       The intensification of the use of the Internet in everyday life means that language online is not a zero result game. On the contrary, it permits multiple languages to show up and they are mixing into English${}^4$ that is becoming the world’s lingua franca${}^3$.

(Adapted from http://www.bbc.cokh/news/magazine-20332763 Acessado em 25/03/2013)

Glossary:

To lose: perder, retirar

Língua franca: idioma usado globalmente para a comunicação

“Webster’s dictionary is now in its ${11}^{th}$ edition.” The full form of the underlined item is

Text II

Learn English online: How the internet is changing language

       Online, English is now a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing. Noah Webster thought that a common language brings people together and helps create a new identity.

       Webster’s dictionary, now is in its ${11}^{th}$ edition, adopted the Americanized orthography familiar today${}^2$ “-er” in place of “-re” in theatre, not using the “u” from colour, losing one “l” in traveller, and listed new words for example, skunk and squash.

       The Internet is creating a similar language evolution, but at a much faster velocity. Some linguists anticipate that in $10$ years English will dominate the Internet, but in very different forms. That’s because people who speak English as a second language are more in number than native speakers. And they use it to communicate with other non-native speakers${}^5$, particularly on the Internet where people don’t pay so much attention to grammar and orthography and users don’t have to preoccupy about their way of speaking.

       Users of Facebook, for example, in a number of different “Englishes"${}^1$ including Indian English, or Hinglish, Spanglish (Spanish English) and Konglish (Korean English). For a long time, these variations existed in individual cultures, but now they are expanding and becoming popular online${}^6$. “On the Internet all that is important is that people can communicate - nobody has a right to tell them what the language has to be,” says Baron.

       The intensification of the use of the Internet in everyday life means that language online is not a zero result game. On the contrary, it permits multiple languages to show up and they are mixing into English${}^4$ that is becoming the world’s lingua franca${}^3$.

(Adapted from http://www.bbc.cokh/news/magazine-20332763 Acessado em 25/03/2013)

Glossary:

To lose: perder, retirar

Língua franca: idioma usado globalmente para a comunicação

Choose the option that completes the blank in the text.

Text I

What is offshore English

       Offshore English is a term used by many people for international English (I). It is the English spoken and written by non-native speakers in international communication (II)${}^3$. Many in business are starting to worry that native speakers are actually at a disadvantage in international communication. A good example of this situation was when a company tried to sell flight simulators to South Korea, where a French company won the contract because the buyers found it easier${}^2$ to understand the English that the French people spoke than the English spoken by the British company.

       Many native English speakers feel little necessity to learn foreign languages, so they often don’t understand the difficulties and problems learners have. They also don’t see $(1)$ the need to modify their language for a foreign audience, so they use $(2)$ idioms, synonyms, colloquialisms, phrasal verbs, etc, and don’t think $(3)$ of the impact this has $(4)$ on a foreign businessperson.

       The English studied by non-native speakers tends to use a more simple vocabulary, and considering the similarities in courses in many parts of the world, emphasized by a small number of course books (Headway Series)${}^1$ and the domination of a few examinations, for example TOEFL, etc. This means that non-native speakers from different countries and cultures sometimes understand each other more easily than the native speaker. Few native speakers outside the world of ESL (English as a Second language) teaching have much idea of what non-native learners assimilate, and think that as their English is native speaker level, they speak it better than their non-native counterparts. Because of this, companies are offering courses in Offshore English to native speakers to train them to speak the type of English that will make it easier for non- native speakers to understand. So they will gain more contracts.

(Adapted from http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/what-offshore-english.html Acessado em 14/03/2013)

Glossary:

Foreign: estrangeiro

Businessperson: homem/ mulher de negócios

Counterpart: seu semelhante

To win: ganhar, vencer

Disadvantage: desvantagem

Outside: do lado de fora

Level: nível

Select the question(s) below that have (has) answer(s) in the sentences I and II (04).

How does the speaker use Offshore English?

Who speaks Offshore English?

What is the term Offshore English?

Why is Offshore English spoken and written?

Mark the right option.

Text I

What is offshore English

       Offshore English is a term used by many people for international English (I). It is the English spoken and written by non-native speakers in international communication (II)${}^3$. Many in business are starting to worry that native speakers are actually at a disadvantage in international communication. A good example of this situation was when a company tried to sell flight simulators to South Korea, where a French company won the contract because the buyers found it easier${}^2$ to understand the English that the French people spoke than the English spoken by the British company.

       Many native English speakers feel little necessity to learn foreign languages, so they often don’t understand the difficulties and problems learners have. They also don’t see $(1)$ the need to modify their language for a foreign audience, so they use $(2)$ idioms, synonyms, colloquialisms, phrasal verbs, etc, and don’t think $(3)$ of the impact this has $(4)$ on a foreign businessperson.

       The English studied by non-native speakers tends to use a more simple vocabulary, and considering the similarities in courses in many parts of the world, emphasized by a small number of course books (Headway Series)${}^1$ and the domination of a few examinations, for example TOEFL, etc. This means that non-native speakers from different countries and cultures sometimes understand each other more easily than the native speaker. Few native speakers outside the world of ESL (English as a Second language) teaching have much idea of what non-native learners assimilate, and think that as their English is native speaker level, they speak it better than their non-native counterparts. Because of this, companies are offering courses in Offshore English to native speakers to train them to speak the type of English that will make it easier for non- native speakers to understand. So they will gain more contracts.

(Adapted from http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/what-offshore-english.html Acessado em 14/03/2013)

Glossary:

Foreign: estrangeiro

Businessperson: homem/ mulher de negócios

Counterpart: seu semelhante

To win: ganhar, vencer

Disadvantage: desvantagem

Outside: do lado de fora

Level: nível

Consider the underlined verbs ($1$ to $4$) in the text. Mark the alternative in which they are changed into the Simple Past Tense. They are, respectively,