Questão de Inglês — Palavras conectivas | Connective words — VUNESP 2025
InglêsPalavras conectivas | Connective words
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- vu107645
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- VUNESP
- Órgão
- SEDUC-SP
- Ano
- 2025
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- Superior
- Cargo
- Professor de Educação Básica II - Inglês - QM 2023
Read the text to answer question.
Stephen R. Covey (2017) once explained the importance
of priorities by using an experience he had in a business
class. He stated that a professor stood in front of a group of
students and set a large canning jar in front of them. He filled
it to the top with rocks and asked the students if it was full.
They responded yes. Then he took out a bucket of sand and
filled the jar again, and students watched as the sand poured
inside the spaces between the large rocks. The professor
asked again if the jar was full. This time students hesitated,
and with good reason. The professor proceeded to fill the jar
with a pitcher of water, after which he asked the students to
explain the purpose behind this visual demonstration. After
several incorrect responses, (including something along the
lines of. There is always room for more stuff in your life), the
professor gave his answer, which amounts to this: Unless you
put the rocks in first, they will never fit into the jar.
This story demonstrates the principle of prioritizing,
of knowing what matters most and what matters least, and
that what matters most must be placed in the first position.
No doubt, this is a very relevant way to analyze your own
ecosystem1
.
As you move forward in developing a lifestyle that
incorporates language learning, you must constantly reflect
on whether or not you have prioritized your tasks well. If you
imagine your ecosystem as the canning jar, and your language
tasks as items that fill up the jar, you can see how making the
right decisions will increase your chances of not only enjoying
the learning process but making it more successful. Always
remember that it is not just “doing a lot of language stuff”
that will bring you success but rather that by putting priorities
in their place, language learning can happen on its own.
Let’s talk about how to prioritize language learning tasks by
using the metaphor of the canning jar itself and discuss two
concepts: fixed and fluid.
(Dixon, Shane. The language learner guidebook: powerful tools to help you
conquer any language. [S.l.]: Wayzgoose, 2018. Adaptado)
1
A language ecosystem describes a holistic environment that encourages
and extends the learning and application of language beyond the classroom
through a diverse system of tasks and incentives.
In the fragment from the text “As you move forward in developing a lifestyle that incorporates language learning”, the word in bold may be replaced with no change in meaning or structure by:
- AThough.
- BBecause.
- CSince.
- DWhen.
- EIf.