Teaching and learning English -revision

What are the 2 receptive skills?

Answer explanation

listening and reading

The ability to start a conversation, keep it up and finish it, is

• social competence

• discourse competence

• linguistic competence

• communicative competence

Decoding is

• extracting information and using prior knowledge

• linking information together to make sense of a reading/listening text

• linking letters with sounds and using this knowledge to sound out unfamiliar words

• understanding the words that are read/heard in context

An example of a bottom-up activity is not

• identify synonyms or antonyms of a set of words in the text

• identify the tense of verbs

• putting a series of pictures or a sequence of events in the right order

• recognize the parts of speech of a set of words

Inferring is

• making meaning of the text by reading between the lines and using personal knowledge

• critically reflecting on and judging the author's purpose, attitude, etc

• using information or elements from a passage and personal knowledge to anticipate what the text is about

• reading/listening to a text to get its general idea

Which of the following tips do not refer to young children?

• making notes

• kind-hearted, motivating, friendly teacher

• simple instructions

• connection between knowledge and the world around

Which of the following statements are descriptions of a spoken language?

• it is generally produced in complicated sentence structures

• it is produced with little to no repetition

• it is sometimes produced in incomplete sentences

• it is fixed and stable

What activities fit the production stage of a 3p model?

• videos, songs

• PPT, flashcards

• role plays, creating stories

• read and repeat, worksheets

Which statements refer to communicative activities (fluency-based)?

• materials control

• content not form

• form not content

• reflect classroom use of language

Which reading strategies are effective?

• ask teacher for help anytime you meet an unfamiliar word

• look at titles, subtitles, pictures and other visuals before reading

• say words quietly to yourself

• translate a difficult section of text into L1