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Read this sentence from Text I and analyze it:“Many...

TEXT I – Tema: O papel da Língua Inglesa na BNCC

IS THE BNCC REALLY GOING TO AFFECT MY CLASSES?

(by Lúcia Rodrigues Alves)

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1 Everywhere we look we find people talking about the BNCC and its effect on regular

2 education in Brazil. However, I wonder if everybody is aware of the real consequences we

3 will have to deal in mainstream schools as well as language centers because of it. Many

4 teachers who I have talked to claim that the BNCC should only be the concern of publishing

5 houses, as if the new curriculum base would only affect syllabus. We might be mislead into

6 thinking that, as teachers, all we have to do is follow the syllabus, and make minor adaptations

7 to a coursebook which is chosen for us. Other teachers say that they work at language centers

8 and the BNCC was designed for basic education. Therefore, they think they do not have to

9 worry about it since English schools have to worry just about the teaching of English and we

10 do not play a role where the BNCC should be taken into consideration.

11 My experience has shown me that, before stating an opinion about the relevance of the BNCC,

12 we have to try going deep into it so we have more tools to get to our opinions before jumping

13 to conclusions which might be misleading. When you look at the document […] we will see

14 that it has almost 500 pages, among which only a small bit is devoted to the English language

15 teaching, less than 20 pages. It is quite common to skip everything and go straight to these 18

16 pages and disconsider everything which is stated before. This might be a very dangerous

17 movement since you might, by doing so, make the mistake of simply comparing what you

18 have in your current coursebook and what comes in those 18 pages and have a checking

19 attitude: just comparing the syllabus you have and what is there, or what is missing. However,

20 this approach to the BNCC might be quite superficial and pointless.

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In conclusion…

22 As a conclusion, I invite all my fellow colleagues of profession to give some thought on the

23 BNCC. There are many problems to point out throughout this document and many areas in

24 which the how-to-do-it is blurred and unclear. The challenges to face are enormous, specially

25 in terms of the necessary teacher development which is the base for the implementation of

26 this new curriculum base. Perhaps, the best we could do for the time being would be to locate

27 the positive points that may improve our teaching practices and include these items little by

28 little in what we do in the classroom. It is with the union of many small changes that education

29 in Brazil might act in order to become something of value to help us create the kind of nation

30 we need our country to be. During the 70’s, Paulo Freire already stated: “É preciso, sobretudo,

31 e aí já vai um dos saberes indispensáveis ao Educador, que o formando, desde o princípio

32 mesmo de sua experiência formadora, assuma-se como sujeito também da produção do saber.

33 É preciso que o Educador se convença definitivamente de que ensinar não é transferir

34 conhecimento, mas criar as possibilidades para a sua produção ou a sua construção.”

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(Adapted from: Accessed on July 1st, 2023)https://www.luciarodriguesalves.com.br/is-the-bncc-really-going-to-affect-my-classes/.

Answer questions 26 to 30 according to TEXT I.

Read this sentence from Text I and analyze it:


“Many teachers who I have talked to claim that the BNCC should only be the concern of publishing houses, as if the new curriculum base would only affect syllabus”. This sentence presents an example of reported speech. Which of the following alternatives also presents an example of reported speech?


A

Other teachers say: “We work at language centers and the BNCC was designed for basic education”.


B

“Everywhere we look we find people talking about the BNCC and its effect on regular education in Brazil”.


C

“During the 70's, Paulo Freire already stated: “É preciso, sobretudo, e aí já vai um dos saberes indispensáveis ao Educador (…)”.


D

Other teachers say: “we do not play a role where the BNCC should be taken into consideration”.


E

“Other teachers say that they work at language centers and the BNCC was designed for basic education”.