TOPIC 3

According to RD 157/2022, which language skills should be prioritised in early stages of Primary Education?

• Reading and writing.
• Listening and speaking.
• Grammar and vocabulary.
• Translation and memorisation.

Answer explanation

Early stages emphasise oral communication: listening and speaking.

Which of the following is not a listening sub-skill mentioned by Harmer (2001)?

• Predicting content.
• Inferring meaning.
• Recognising discourse patterns.
• Silent reading.

Answer explanation

Silent reading is related to reading skills, not listening.

In Harmer’s three-stage model for listening lessons, which stage focuses on comprehension activities like matching or ordering events?

• Pre-listening.
• While-listening.
• Post-listening.
• Feedback stage.

Answer explanation

The while-listening stage focuses on comprehension activities.

Which of the following activities would be most appropriate for the production stage of speaking instruction?

• Repeating sentences after the teacher.
• Filling in a gap-fill dialogue.
• Doing a role-play or information gap task.
• Listening to a recording silently.

Answer explanation

Production tasks encourage freer communication, such as role-plays.

Which strategy is an example of pre-reading activity?

• Summarising the text.
• Brainstorming ideas with images.
• Sequencing events from the text.
• Writing an ending for the story.

Answer explanation

Pre-reading prepares learners with background knowledge and vocabulary.

Matthews, Spratt, and Dangerfield (1991) include all of the following as areas in writing development except:

• Graphic skills.
• Grammatical skills.
• Phonological skills.
• Rhetorical skills.

Answer explanation

Phonological skills belong to oral communication, not writing development.

Which component of communicative competence refers to using language appropriately in social contexts?

• Linguistic competence.
• Sociolinguistic competence.
• Discourse competence.
• Strategic competence.

Answer explanation

Sociolinguistic competence focuses on contextually appropriate language.

According to Canale and Swain, which competence helps learners overcome communication breakdowns?

• Strategic competence.
• Linguistic competence.
• Appropriacy.
• Graphic skills.

Answer explanation

Strategic competence enables learners to solve communication problems.

Which of the following best illustrates the integration of UDL principles in the English classroom?

• Teaching only through grammar-translation.
• Providing multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement.
• Correcting all errors immediately to ensure accuracy.
• Focusing exclusively on written assessments.

Answer explanation

UDL promotes flexibility in representation, expression, and engagement.

Which of the following classroom projects best integrates the four skills with ICT?

• Memorising vocabulary lists.
• Writing isolated sentences from a textbook.
• Creating a digital poster about a favourite animal with written, oral, and visual elements.
• Listening to a recording without follow-up tasks.

Answer explanation

A digital poster project integrates oral, written, reading, and listening skills with ICT.