ELT Concourse CELTA: the CELTA Handbook quiz

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

The CELTA Handbook quiz

Multiple-choice test