A quiz on Teaching Speaking

“Classroom discussion is not dominated by a minority of talkative participants, all get a chance to speak, and contributions are fairly evenly distributed.”, whom should be evenly distributed?

• Talkative participants

• Classroom minority

• Classroom teachers

• All students

“Learners are eager to speak because they are interested in the topic and have something new to say about it, or because they want to contribute to achieving a task objective.”, what is important to arouse the learners?

• The student eagerness

• An interesting topic

• A new topic

• An objective

“…they feel less exposed if they are speaking their mother tongue. If they are talking in small groups, it can be quite difficult to get some classes, particularly the less disciplined or motivated ones to keep to the target language.”, the problem is…

• talking in small groups

• students with less discipline

• speaking mother tongue in English classes

• students with less motivation keep to the target language

“Some questions or suggested lines of thought can help to stimulate discussion, but not too many arguments for and against should be fed to the class in advance: leave room for their own initiative and originality.”, what is needed?

• room for creativity

• for and against

• not too many arguments

• questions and suggestions

“…some years ago an oral component was introduced into the Israeli school-leaving exam, with a 20% weighting in the final grade; the immediate effect was a very noticeable rise in the emphasis on oral work in classrooms and improvement in learners’ speaking skills.”, what is improved?

• components of the oral exam in Israel

• the weighting of school-leaving exam

• the rise in oral work emphasis

• students speaking skills

“…He likes to express his opinions, but his ideas are often silly, and laughed at. He has bad breath.”, the underlined means in Thai

• เขาหายใจติดขัด

• เขามีปัญหาในการหายใจ

• เขามีลมหายใจที่ไม่ดี

• เขาปากเหม็น

Choose the following choice that corresponds to the given statement in each item.

"Easy and effective communication, uses long turns"

• Dialogues

• Simulations

• Task-based activities

• Things in common

• Fluency

Choose the following choice that corresponds to the given statement in each item.

"It is goal-oriented, required the group to achieve an objective."

• Dialogues

• Simulations

• Task-based activities

• Things in common

• Fluency

Choose the following choice that corresponds to the given statement in each item.

"...are good for beginning learners, or those who are less confident.."

• Dialogues

• Simulations

• Task-based activities

• Things in common

• Fluency

Choose the following choice that corresponds to the given statement in each item.

"Students sit in pairs; choose someone they do not know well. "

• Dialogues

• Simulations

• Task-based activities

• Things in common

• Fluency