The CELTA Handbook quiz

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