The CELTA Handbook quiz

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  1. The word handmade is ...
    1.   a blended word
    2.   a compound noun
    3.   a compound adjective
    4.   a compound verb
  2. In the word dissatisfying, we have ...
    1.   one bound and two free morphemes
    2.   two bound and one free morpheme
    3.   three bound and one free morpheme
    4.   two bound and two free morphemes
  3. If you tell someone the rule and then ask them to apply it, you are using ...
    1.   a systematic approach
    2.   an inductive approach
    3.   a discovery approach
    4.   a deductive approach
  4. How many consonant sounds are there in English?
    1.   24
    2.   21
    3.   23
    4.   22
  5. CELTA written assignments must be:
    1.   500 and 1000 words
    2.   1000 and 1500 words
    3.   650 and 900 words
    4.   between 750 and 1000 words
  6. In the sentence, The silly boy immediately spent all the money I lent him. the words immediately spent form:
    1.   the complement
    2.   the noun phrase
    3.   a modified verb phrase
    4.   the object
  7. A book written for learners which describes the language systems is a ...
    1.   prescriptive, pedagogical grammar
    2.   descriptive, reference grammar
    3.   prescriptive, reference grammar
    4.   descriptive, pedagogical grammar
  8. In the sentence, The silly boy immediately spent all the money I lent him. the subject is:
    1.   the silly boy immediately
    2.   the silly boy
    3.   boy
    4.   all the money I lent him
  9. When we are talking about what people say rather than what they know about language, we are discussing ...
    1.   competence
    2.   performance
    3.   articulation
    4.   structural awareness
  10. SLA stands for ...
    1.   Special Libraries Association
    2.   Service Level Agreement
    3.   Secondary Language Access
    4.   Second Language Acquisition
  11. What forms the basis of communicative language teaching?
    1.   functions
    2.   notions
    3.   structures
    4.   word meanings
  12. In the sentence, The silly boy immediately spent all the money I lent him. the words all the money I lent him form:
    1.   the subject
    2.   the verb phrase
    3.   the object
    4.   the complement of the verb
  13. An allophone can best be described as ...
    1.   an alternative way to say a sound which is non-standard
    2.   an alternative way to say a sound which carries meaning
    3.   a sound which distinguishes between minimal pairs
    4.   an alternative way to say a sound which carries no meaning
  14. If you are looking at a departure board to find your gate number you are ...
    1.   surfing
    2.   scanning
    3.   skimming
    4.   scudding
  15. In the sentence, John has been drinking, the aspect of the tense is ...
    1.   past perfect
    2.   perfect progressive
    3.   simple progressive
    4.   past simple
  16. a, some, those, my, his, any, seventy-three are examples of ...
    1.   pronouns
    2.   determiners
    3.   content words
    4.   lexical words
  17. Modal auxiliary verbs ...
    1.   are primary auxiliary verbs
    2.   express how the speaker feels
    3.   can never stand alone
    4.   make tenses with main verbs
  18. If, in a CELTA assignment, you write, It is blindingly obvious that ... you are guilty of ...
    1.   using an inappropriate copular verb
    2.   being aggressive
    3.   hedging too much
    4.   using colloquial language and failing to hedge
  19. Active Construction of Grammar Theory is a theory of ...
    1.   cognitivism
    2.   behaviourism
    3.   pragmatism
    4.   structuralism
  20. Homophones are ...
    1.   words which look the same but are differently pronounced
    2.   words which look different but are pronounced the same
    3.   words where the stress shifts to signal a different meaning
    4.   words which are the same in two languages
  21. The receptive skills are ...
    1.   reading and listening
    2.   speaking and listening
    3.   speaking and writing
    4.   writing and reading
  22. Language usage focuses on significance but language use focuses on ...
    1.   value
    2.   meaning
    3.   functions
    4.   understanding
  23. If you can't understand a phrase by understanding all the words in it, you have encountered ...
    1.   an opaque idiom
    2.   a transparent idiom
    3.   a set phrase
    4.   an idiomatic clause
  24. How many syllables are there in denationalisation?
    1.   7
    2.   5
    3.   6
    4.   8
  25. If you are listening to understand how to use a chain saw safely, you are using ...
    1.   monitoring listening
    2.   intensive listening skills
    3.   top-down processing
    4.   extensive listening skills