Questão 3168153

Texto para questões 73 e 74

During a writing activity in English, the teacher observes that more than half of the students struggle with the correct use of the Past Simple and Present Perfect tenses, especially in distinguishing between the two in isolated sentences — e.g., “They have seen that movie last week” instead of “They saw that movie last week” or “She worked here since 2020” instead of “She has worked here since 2020”. The teacher notices that the students have no difficulty identifying the two tenses in reading comprehension activities. This indicates a passive understanding of the structures, but a lack of practice and confidence in their active use. The students, in late adolescence (16-17 years old), are in Piaget’s formal operations stage, with the ability to abstract, to analyze critically, and to generalize rules, as long as they are presented clearly, so students have opportunities for practical application. Their engagement is significantly higher in activities that connect the content to real-world contexts, such as discussions about personal experiences or global issues. The teacher is then determined to find and implement a strategy to help her students.

“Oh!” cried Anne eagerly, “I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who resemble you. God forbid that I should undervalue the warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow-creatures! I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as — if I may be allowed the expression — so long as you have an object. I mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone”.

AUSTEN, J. Persuasion. Phoenix Edition, 2001.

In a public high school, an English teacher uses the excerpt from Jane Austen’s Persuasion to help students recognize and analyze literary language features such as irony, tone, and figurative expressions. This pedagogical approach meets Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) standards by promoting critical literacy and interpretive skills in English language learning. What is the primary focus of the teacher’s lesson using the Persuasion excerpt?