The CELTA Handbook quiz

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