Questão 3128626

• Banca: VUNESP
• Órgão: Prefeitura de Itapevi - SP
• Ano: 2019
• Provas: VUNESP - 2019 - Prefeitura de Itapevi - SP - Professor de Educação Básica II PEB II – Inglês
• Disciplina: Pedagogia

     In order for collection of sentences and utterances to succed effectively, the discourse needs to be organised or conducted in such a way that it will be successful. In written English this calls for both coherence and cohesion. For a text to be coherent, it needs to be in the right order. (…)

      No matter how coherent a text is, however, it will not work unless it has internal cohesion. The elements in that text must cohere or stick to each other successfully to help us navigate our way around the stretch of discourse. One way of achieving this is through lexical cohesion, and a way of ensuring lexical cohesion is through the repetition of words and phrases. (…) We can also use interrelated words and meanings to bind a text together (…)

      Another similar cohesive technique is that of substitution, using a phrase to refer to something we have already written. (…) Writers also use linkers such as and, also, moreover (…)

      These features are also present in spoken language, which also shows many examples of ellipsis (where words from a written-grammar version of an utterance are left out without compromising the meaning of what is said). (…)

                      (Harmer, J. The practice of English language teaching. 2007. Adapted)

One way of garanteeing grammatical cohesion in English is by using tense agreement, since if the writer or speaker changes the verb tense constantly, it is difficult to follow. A teacher that follows the task-based or the communicative approach should

• A. teach the verb tenses right from the beginning of the school year because tenses are essential for communication.
• B. never teach the verb tenses, but expose the students to naturalistic forms of language acquisition within the school environment as if they were in an English speaking country.
• C. teach a verb tense per day. Little by little it becomes easier to remember them.
• D. introduce the verb tenses in the context in which they are necessary, not one day before. They will not make sense or be memorized otherwise.
• E. ask the students to look up the verb tense section of their grammar or coursebooks and to study it thoroughly in their own time.

Gabarito: D