Questão
ID 2410086Disciplina: Língua Inglesa
Assunto: Interpretação de Texto | Text Interpretation
Ano: 2017 Banca: INSTITUTO EXCELÊNCIA Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Lauro Muller
Replica of the Titanic

The Titanic is a ship. People finish working on it in 1912. It leaves from England. It is going to the USA, but it hits an iceberg. The ship sinks. Around 1,500 people die.
A Chinese firm is building a model of the Titanic. The model is as big as the original Titanic. It can simulate the sinking, too.
The model is not cheap. It costs 1 billion yuan (around \$146 million). People can visit it in 2017.
The teaching of a foreign language at school has an important role to play in, which allows students to get in touch with other cultures, with different ways of learning and comprehending the reality. In an effort to facilitate learning, there is a tendency to organize the contents in an excessively simplified way, with little meaningful dialogues for students or small texts, often decontextualized, followed by the discovery of words and structures. Working with translation, copying and repetition. This way, what is the real meaning of teaching the English language at school?