The CELTA Handbook quiz

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