The CELTA Handbook quiz

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