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Question 1
1.

What type of main focus does each speaking activity have?

  • Minimal pair games (like bingo 13 vs 30)
  • Saying an ABC list of words
  • Repeating a text over and over again, each time erasing words
  • Using gestures for words not known
  • Making German words sound English
  • Getting a point for saying a correct sentence
  • Asking the same question over and over again, each time changing partners
  • Naming as many things as you can in a picture
  • Accuracy
  • Fluency
  • Range
  • Strategies (strategic competence)
Question 2
2.

What is it called when learners repeat after you, e.g. you say "They draw" and they say "They didn't draw"?

Question 3
3.

What do you call the language AROUND a game or an activity (e.g in an exercise, you teach "That's right"! instead of or as importantly as the language on the worksheet).

Question 4
4.

The TKT course states "Fluency activities allow learners to choose the language they use to speak. They include tasks such as information-gap activities, problem solving, project work, discussions, explaining solutions." Do you know what examples of each are?

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Information gap
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One learner reads about the Asian elephant and the other about the African elephant. Then they share this with one another and fill in missing information about both elephants.
Problem solving
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You want your learners to plan a class breakfast in English but there is a limited budget. Groups present suggestions.
Project work
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The local tourist office has asked schools to create brochures and signs in English of sites in the local community. Your class will do this for 8 places around your town.
Question 5
5.

Describe a book-based project you would like to do with your class and say what skills it would help your learners to develop (think back to the last lesson)?

Question 6
6.
Words such as 'it's', 'there'll' and 'we've' are called _______ . We use them in speaking more often than in _______, though we do do that, too. Another thing we do when we speak is to use a lot of _______ to convey meaning. For instance, if we say "I like YOU" it means something different than "I LIKE you".
Question 7
7.

Which one is NOT true about D.E.A.R.?

Question 8
8.

Drag the characteristic to the appropriate approach

  • Focuses on sounds and phonemes
  • Focuses on word shapes
  • Focuses on quick recognition of words
  • Focuses on high frequency words
  • Focuses on grouping words by patterns
  • Whole language approach
  • Phonics approach
Question 9
9.

If you want to teach learners to be good readers, you can....
Choose all the correct answers.

Question 10
10.

What is a synonym for "memorizing" or "learning by heart"?

Question 11
11.

Drag the activities to the right category!

  • Listen/read and say what was not said/written but was implied.
  • Listen/read and summarize in 1 sentence.
  • Listening/reading for who said/wrote what and ticking the speaker in a chart.
  • Listen/read for specific info (e.g. to answer a question that asks "Where did they go?")
  • Listen/read and ask questions / make statements that take the text a step further ("I think they went to soccer practice because they do not play football there").
  • Listen/read and give what you heard/read a title.
  • Gist
  • Detail
  • Inference
Question 12
12.

Top down or bottom up?

  • Underlining all the modal verbs
  • Writing questions and listening/reading for answers
  • Underlining linking words
  • Predicting
  • Sequencing information
  • Distinguishing where one word ends and another begins
  • Top down
  • Bottom up
Question 13
13.

It is a good idea to have learners repeat what you said in English, in German.

Question 14
14.

If you want learners to be able to do the following things in English, you need to teach the corresponding language. Match the language with the function.

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expressing preferences
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I am very sorry.
inviting
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It's nice to meet you.
greeting
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Would you like to join our group?
refusing
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Maybe you can try this instead of that.
agreeing
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You're completely right.
giving advice
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I would rather have this than that!
apologizing
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No thank you, I don't want that.
Question 15
15.
We talk about functions of language because they suit the ideas behind the CEFR in that we need to think about what language we are teaching is useful for which communicative situation. We refer to the language used to express a function as an _______ , so if someone is asking for _______ , they might say "I don't understand that, do you think you can explain it more slowly?"
Question 16
16.
Reading for specific information such as numbers, proper nouns, or countries is called _______. Reading for gist is called _______ .
Question 17
17.

A recipe, a story, a letter....there are all different types of text __________.