TKT - Phonology and approaches in ELT

In Total Physical Response, the students

• reply in writing when the teacher asks a question

• may give instructions for other students to follow

• tell the teacher which activities they want to do

In Task-based Learning, the students are usually asked to

• do an activity together before they focus on language

• apply the language rules they have learned to a real-life situation

• do a spoken activity before they do a written one

In the Lexical Approach, the teacher is likely to encourage students to

• record common groupings of words

• study how words have developed over time

• look at the order of words in grammatical structures

In a guided discovery approach, the teacher first

• presents the form of the target language

• gives the students examples to analyse

• asks the students to use the language to communicate with one another

In PPP, the teacher usually

• asks students to begin by doing a short test

• avoids asking students to use the language communicatively

• monitors students carefully in the practice stage of the lesson

In a Grammar Translation approach, the teacher is unlikely to

• correct minor mistakes made by students

• ask students to do much fluency practice

• allow the students to use dictionaries

Which of the following contains a contraction?

• USA

• can't

• bye

How many phonemes does place have?

• two

• three

• four

Which of these words is a minimal pair?

• think / thinking

• she / ship

• cut / cat

How many weak vowel sounds does 'banana' have?

• one

• two

• three