ESL Terminology Quiz

1. Your student has big problems with fricatives. Which word will cause greater difficulty for this student?

    favour

    black

    total

    church

2. If your school had a power cut, which would be worst affected?

    scanning

    C.A.L.L.

    roleplay

    interlanguage

3. What type of reading is a person most likely to use when looking up a phone number in the directory?

    intensive

    extensive

    skimming

    scanning

4. Which of the following sentences would naturally have most examples of "weak forms"?

    Give me a large, cold beer at once.

    That man wants me to go and speak with him.

    The yellow one is the only one that I can see.

    Help me understand the main points of this problem.

5. Giovanni from Italy has problems with consonant clusters. Which word in the following sentence may cause him a problem. "Spring came very quick that year and Philip said goodbye to his wife and headed north."

    spring

    very

    goodbye

    headed

6. The director of your school wants "realia" to play a bigger part in your lessons. What does he/she want from you?

    more honesty with the students about their problems

    more conversation about real life

    more authentic materials

    more authentic accent from you

7. Some teachers use a piece of paper or a light piece of cloth in front of students' mouths in their teaching of what phonetic phenomenon?

    close vowels

    nasal sounds

    plosive sounds

    schwa

8. A native speaker from New York and one from London meet up. What will be the same?

    dialect

    language

    accent

    intonation

9. The English word "rest" and the Italian word "restare" do not mean the same thing. What is this an example of?

    lexical digression

    false friends

    vocabularic diversity

    word traps

10. Which of the following should you worry about if your boss says it is too high during your lessons?

    PPP

    QASI

    RSVP

    TTT