2nd partial exam

These are two characteristics of a succesful speaking activity

• Learners are eager to speak

• Learners are worried about mistakes

• A classroom discussion is dominated by a minority

• Learners express themselves in relevant utterances.

What is an example of a sub-skill listening activity?

• intensive listening questions

• questions that ask for directions or instructions

• production skills questions

• questions that look for speaker's attitude

What is extensive reading?

• Students get a general understanding of the text (no necessarily undestanding everything)

• students focus on vocabulary and its tipical natural language use

• Students start reading but do not finish texts (skimming)

• Students are only interested in the conclusions of the texts.

What does the second writing stage means? (deconstructing the genre)

• Students have enough knowledge of the topic to be able to write about it.

• At this stage students write the their own text.

• Students become familiar with the purpose, overall structure and linguistic features that they are going to write.

• Students and teacher write a text together.

What are the stages of a discussion speaking activity?

• pre-activity, during the activity and post activity

• preparation, experience and reflection

• building the topic, modeling the genre, joint construction and indepent discussion

According to Nunan (1990), a conversation is an example of a

• one way listening activity

• information based topic activity

• two-way listening activity

• interpersonal topic activity

What is intensive reading?

• students have a general understanding of the text without understanding everything

• students are expected to understand everything they read (very detailed vocabulary)

• students read but not finish texts (skimming)

• Students look for a conclusion in a reading.

Which stage of writing involves students and teachers writing together.

• Modeling the genre

• Building in the field

• independent writing

• joint construction

This activity requires using brief notes or lists, a rearrangement of jumbled items, a drawing, a spoken summary, etc. The objective is the interaction among participants.

• Task activity

• extensinve activity

• intensive activity

• topic activity

How is the suggested process of a listening activity?

• pre activity, during the listening, post-activity

• Turn-taking roles, share ideas in teams and peer work

• checking schemata, follow a general trend and specific details.