The CELTA Handbook quiz

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  1. What forms the basis of communicative language teaching?
    1.   notions
    2.   structures
    3.   word meanings
    4.   functions
  2. Language usage focuses on significance but language use focuses on ...
    1.   meaning
    2.   functions
    3.   understanding
    4.   value
  3. Homophones are ...
    1.   words where the stress shifts to signal a different meaning
    2.   words which look the same but are differently pronounced
    3.   words which are the same in two languages
    4.   words which look different but are pronounced the same
  4. 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 idiomatic clause
    4.   an opaque idiom
  5. How many syllables are there in denationalisation?
    1.   5
    2.   7
    3.   8
    4.   6
  6. a, some, those, my, his, any, seventy-three are examples of ...
    1.   determiners
    2.   content words
    3.   lexical words
    4.   pronouns
  7. The word handmade is ...
    1.   a compound adjective
    2.   a blended word
    3.   a compound verb
    4.   a compound noun
  8. When we are talking about what people say rather than what they know about language, we are discussing ...
    1.   structural awareness
    2.   articulation
    3.   competence
    4.   performance
  9. In the sentence, The silly boy immediately spent all the money I lent him. the words immediately spent form:
    1.   the complement
    2.   the object
    3.   a modified verb phrase
    4.   the noun phrase
  10. In the sentence, The silly boy immediately spent all the money I lent him. the subject is:
    1.   the silly boy immediately
    2.   all the money I lent him
    3.   boy
    4.   the silly boy
  11. A book written for learners which describes the language systems is a ...
    1.   prescriptive, pedagogical grammar
    2.   prescriptive, reference grammar
    3.   descriptive, pedagogical grammar
    4.   descriptive, reference grammar
  12. If you are listening to understand how to use a chain saw safely, you are using ...
    1.   extensive listening skills
    2.   top-down processing
    3.   monitoring listening
    4.   intensive listening skills
  13. 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 verb phrase
    2.   the object
    3.   the subject
    4.   the complement of the verb
  14. SLA stands for ...
    1.   Service Level Agreement
    2.   Special Libraries Association
    3.   Secondary Language Access
    4.   Second Language Acquisition
  15. CELTA written assignments must be:
    1.   500 and 1000 words
    2.   between 750 and 1000 words
    3.   1000 and 1500 words
    4.   650 and 900 words
  16. How many consonant sounds are there in English?
    1.   24
    2.   23
    3.   21
    4.   22
  17. The receptive skills are ...
    1.   writing and reading
    2.   reading and listening
    3.   speaking and writing
    4.   speaking and listening
  18. If you are looking at a departure board to find your gate number you are ...
    1.   scanning
    2.   scudding
    3.   surfing
    4.   skimming
  19. 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
  20. If, in a CELTA assignment, you write, It is blindingly obvious that ... you are guilty of ...
    1.   using an inappropriate copular verb
    2.   hedging too much
    3.   using colloquial language and failing to hedge
    4.   being aggressive
  21. Active Construction of Grammar Theory is a theory of ...
    1.   pragmatism
    2.   behaviourism
    3.   structuralism
    4.   cognitivism
  22. 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 no meaning
    3.   an alternative way to say a sound which carries meaning
    4.   a sound which distinguishes between minimal pairs
  23. Modal auxiliary verbs ...
    1.   can never stand alone
    2.   express how the speaker feels
    3.   are primary auxiliary verbs
    4.   make tenses with main verbs
  24. In the sentence, John has been drinking, the aspect of the tense is ...
    1.   past perfect
    2.   past simple
    3.   perfect progressive
    4.   simple progressive
  25. If you tell someone the rule and then ask them to apply it, you are using ...
    1.   a discovery approach
    2.   an inductive approach
    3.   a systematic approach
    4.   a deductive approach