SEDUC-AL (Secretaria de Educação do Estado de Alagoas) - Professor - Inglês - CESPE (Cebraspe) (Centro de Seleção e de Promoção de Eventos Universidade de Brasília) - 2018

The expression “all over the world" (R.2) is synonymous with worldwide.

In the fragment “English teachers, therefore, need to appreciate the special status English has" (R. 9 and 10), “appreciate" means like or enjoy.

The sentence: “For some people, it is acquired as a first language" (R.15) can be correctly rewritten as For some people, it has acquired as a first language.

It can be inferred from the text that there should be three distinct approaches to the teaching of English, depending on how and why students acquire this language.

In terms of word formation, the adjective “international" (R.27) is a case of affixation, as a prefix and a suffix have been added to the root of the word nation.

The word “economic", in “economic inequality" (R.24), could be replaced by economical, without changing the meaning of the text.

It can be inferred from the text that some students of English resent it because of the negative feelings that colonialism inspires.

In the fragment “in countries like Australia, Canada, the United States and Great Britain" (R. 29 and 30) “like" can be correctly replaced with such.

In “Although some 380 million people speak it as a first language" (R. 28 and 29), the word “some" means more than.

The ideia contained in the fragment “since it provides for high levels of interconnectedness" (R.2) can also be correctly expressed as because it makes profound interconnectedness possible.