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Language Skills

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 15mins

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1.

When working with receptive skills materials, the teacher needs to be sure to

a)

teach vocabulary at the conclusion of the exercise.

b)

teach vocabulary initialy through the detailed questions

c)

pre-teach the vocabulary.

2.

Scanning is

a)

when students read quickly for specific details.

b)

when students read quickly for the main idea.

c)

when students practice speed reading to increase the number of words per minute they can process.

3.

The best way to begin comprehension work in teaching a vocabulary word is

a)

to ask students to check the dictionary.

b)

define it on the board.

c)

elicit meaning from the students to see if someone already knows it.

4.

Which reading strategy is related to identifying words that are similar in L2 and L1?

a)

Identifying the text type

b)

Identifying cognates

c)

Identifying communicative purposes

d)

Identifying non-verbal elements

5.

The strategy of SKIMMING can be explained as:

a)

observing the text quickly just to detect the general topic, without worrying about the details.

b)

quickly looking through the text until you find the information you want.

c)

reading the text carefully in order to learn new vocabulary and structures

d)

none of the above

6.

The strategy of SCANNING can be explained as:

a)

observing the text quickly just to detect the general topic, without worrying about the details.

b)

quickly looking through the text until you find the information you want.

c)

reading the text carefully in order to learn new vocabulary and structures

d)

none of the above

7.

In a good reading lesson, the tasks must follow as to require the use of strategies in the order:

a)

Full reading, skimming, scanning;

b)

Skimming, Scanning, full reading;

c)

Scanning, Skimming, full reading

d)

Scanning, Full reading, Skimming.

8.

Concerning Listening, in general a lesson should follow these steps, respectively:

a)

1 Play recording/ 2 Set Questions / 3 Check / 4 Play recording again if necessary.

b)

1. Set questions / 2. Check / Play recording again if necessary / Set questions

c)

1 Set questions / 2 Play recording / 3 Check / 4 Play recording again if necessary.

9.

The image represent...

a)

Language Skills

b)

English language

c)

The four language skills of English

d)

Four skills

10.

To activate Schemata, Teachers should provide students with information or examples they are unfamiliar with.

a)

False

b)

True

11.

When students are not intereted in the topic, as teachers we should...

a)

Vary topics and genre

b)

Activate schemata

c)

Find the topic material which will involve them

d)

All of the above

12.

According to Chomsky (1965), which of the following statements is true about competence?

a)

It is the ability to use language appropriately in real situations.

b)

It is the ability to master lexical items and rules of morphology, syntax, sentence grammar, semantics, and phonology.

c)

It is the intuitive knowledge of the underlying grammatical system that all native speakers of a language have.

13.

The ability to form a sentence from the following words: I have a bicylce refers to

a)

grammatical competence

b)

discourse competence

c)

strategic competence

14.

Knowing how to use and respond to language appropriately given the setting, the topic and the relationship among people communicating refers to which competence below?

a)

discourse competence

b)

sociolinguistic competence

c)

strategic competence

15.

Read the following conversation.

Speaker 1: They want to offer me a position.

Speaker 2: They will not?

Speaker 1: No, they want.

Speaker 2: Ah, they want. I see.

What communicative competence does the conversation exemplify?

a)

discourse competence

b)

sociolinguistic competence

c)

strategic competence

16.

Which communicative competence can be seen in the two sentences below?

It rained heavily yesterday. Therefore, the whole event was canceled.

a)

discourse competence

b)

sociolinguistic competence

c)

strategic competence

17.

The ability to use Yours faithfully at the end of a letter of scholarship application instead of Best wishes refers to which competence below:

a)

discourse competence

b)

sociolinguistic competence

c)

strategic competence

18.

The ability to add the prefix un to some adjectives so that you can create opposite meanings refers to

a)

grammatical competence

b)

sociolinguistic competence

c)

strategic competence

19.

When you know that you have been misunderstood in a conversation and try to repair that communicative problem, you are demonstrating your:

a)

grammatical competence

b)

sociolinguistic competence

c)

strategic competence

20.

Reading is an active skill because

a)

Students have to understand the general idea of the text

b)

Students have to understand the meaning of the words andthe main idea to agree or disagree with the text

c)

Students can choose what they want to read

21.

A listening strategy considered as listener-based and the listener uses background knowledge to make sense of what he/she is listening to.

a)

Top-down

b)

Bottom-up

c)

Intensive

d)

Extensive

22.

In what listening strategy should we categorize the following:

listening for specific details

a)

Top-down

b)

Bottom-up

23.

In what listening strategy should we categorize the following:

drawing inferences

a)

Top-down

b)

Bottom-up

24.

In what listening strategy should we categorize the following:

making predictions

a)

Top-down

b)

Bottom-up

25.

Accuracy is about

a)

getting your message across

b)

turn-taking in conversation

c)

communication efectiveness

d)

Grammar rules, pronunciation and vocabulary

26.

It is fluency when

a)

you are thinking about your mistakes

b)

You don't care about your mistakes

27.

Fluency is more concerned with

a)

the speed at which you speak

b)

the grammar mistakes you can make

28.

Is the following fluency-focused or accuracy-focused?

"Students spend 5–10 minutes preparing a 3-minute spoken description of their dream house.

They may make notes but should not be reading from a script.

Place students in pairs and have them exchange descriptions.

Shuffle the partners, and ask students to deliver the same description, but in 2.5 minutes.

Shuffle again, and give them 2 minutes. "

a)

Accuracy-focused

b)

Fluency-focused

29.

Which of the following is/are NOT typical of an accuracy-focused activity?

a)

Teachers draw students' attention to details of how we construct a grammatical form

b)

Teachers model, repeat, and give feedback.

c)

Teachers help students to notice the gap between the correct and incorrect language.

d)

There is no correction or interruption.