TEXT 2 Because she was correcting homework and planning lessons, Britany went to bed late – and then she overslept! She had a quick shower but she didn’t have any time to put on he

TEXT 2

Because she was correcting homework and planning lessons, Britany went to bed late – and then she overslept!

She had a quick shower but she didn’t have any time to put on her makeup. Luckily, she doesn’t wear much anyway, but she had wanted to put on some lipstick at least. Too bad! She made herself a coffee and checked the mail. But nobody, it seemed, had remembered her birthday – except for John and Clare whom she had invited for dinner later in the day.

At school, none of her colleagues seemed to have remembered that it was her birthday either and that made her miserable, but at least the children in her second grade class were in a happy mood. It cheered her up, and so every time one of them did something good or gave her a correct answer, she gave them a gold star. They loved that. Luckily, she had enough stars so everyone went home with at least one!

When she got home, Britany was still tired, so she lay down to have a bit of rest but she didn’t get much sleep because her parents rang from the UK to wish her a happy birthday. At least somebody had remembered! When she finished the call there was no time left for sleeping. She had to get dinner ready.

A few minutes later the doorbell rang. She opened the door. There were a lot of people outside. All of them were wearing party hats! A few of them were carrying plates of food. Most of them were colleagues from her school, but there were many others, too. And then they started to sing ‘Happy Birthday …’.

In: HARMER, Jeremy. Teacher Knowledge: core concepts in English language teaching. Pearson Education limited. Essex, UK: 2012.

As palavras birthday, doorbell, lipstick e homework foram extraídas do Text 2. Considere as seguintes afirmativas a respeito de sua formação e usos:

I. São palavras formadas pela justaposição de elementos (prefixos + substantivos) cujos componentes formadores geralmente têm origem em outras línguas (latim, grego etc.).

II. São palavras formadas por composição – Compound words –, tal como a palavra ‘sunflower’ (sun + flower), em que a combinação das partes dá o sentido geral da união.

III. São palavras originais, básicas da língua inglesa, que dão origem a novos vocábulos ou podem agregar novos significados com a junção de prefixo, sufixo ou de outro radical.

IV. São todos substantivos formados pelo processo de composição – Compounding –, sendo homework an ‘uncountable noun’, isto é, não faz a forma regular do plural.

Está CORRETO o que se afirma apenas em

1. I e III.
2. I, II e III.
3. III e IV.
4. IV.
5. II e IV.