英语教学法教程试题库Unit 1Part I Read the following statements or questions and choose the best answer for each statement orquestion.1. Much of human behavior is influenced by their_____ _____A. experiencesB. wisdomC. knowledgeD. parents2. What is the basis for syllabus design, teaching methodology, teaching and assessment procedures in the classroom?A. teaching attitudeB. definitions of languageC. structural view of languageD. functional view3. What does the structural view of language see language?A. a system of categories based on the communicative needs of the learnerB. a communicative tool to build up and maintain social relations between peopleC. a linguistic system made up of various subsystemsD. a linguistic system and a means for doing things4. What does the functional view of language see language?A. a system of categories based on the communicative needs of the learnerB. a communicative tool to build up and maintain social relations between peopleC. a linguistic system made up of various subsystemsD. a linguistic system and a means for doing things5. What does the interactional view of language see language?A. a system of categories based on the communicative needs of the learnerB. a communicative tool to build up and maintain socialrelations between people C. a linguistic system made up of various subsystemsD. a linguistic system and a means for doing things6. Which of the following teaching method is based on thebehaviorist theory? B A. Grammar translation B. Audio-lingualC. Task-based teaching and learningD. Communicative teaching 7. What are the characteristics of audio-lingual method?A. Language is learned by constant repetition and the the reinforcement of the teacherB. Mistakes were immediately corrected, and correct utterances were immediately praised.C. Students should be allowed to create their own sentences based on their understanding of certain rules.D. Both A and B.8. Which three groups can summarize all the elements of thequalities of a good teacher? A. Ethic devotion, professional qualities and personal stylesB. Ethic devotion, professional qualities and individual freedomC. Individual freedom, professional qualities and personal stylesD. Ethic devotion, personal styles and individual freedom9. What are the purposeful preparation that a language teacher normally receives before he starts the practice of teaching?A. Learning from other’s experiencesB. Learning the received knowledgeC. Learning from one’s own experiences as a teac herD. All of the above10. What qualities are considered good qualities of a good teacher?DA. Kind, humorous, well informedB. Hard working, disciplinedC. Well prepared, dynamic and patientD. All of the abovePart 2 Answer the following questions.1. A good teacher should possess many good qualities. List three qualities you think are the most important and explain reasons.Unit 21. What is the ultimate goal of foreign language teaching?A. Enable SS to use the foreign language in work or life.B. Enable SS to achieve accuracy of English language structure.C. Enable SS to achieve fluency of English language structure.D. Enable SS to speak standard English.2. What is the possible solution to bridge the gap between classroom language teaching and real-life language use?A. Task-based teaching and learningB. Communicative language teachingC. Presentation, practice and productionD. Engage---study---activate 3. What is linguistic competence concerned with?A. Appropriate use of the language in social contextB. Ability to create coherent written text or conversation and the ability to understand themC. Strategies one employs when there is communication breakdown due to lack of resourcesD. Knowledge of language itself, its form and meaning4. What is pragmatic competence concerned with?A. Appropriate use of the language in social contextB. Ability to create coherent written text or conversation and the ability to understand themC. Strategies one employs when there is communication breakdown due to lack of resourcesD. Knowledge of language itself, its form and meaning5. What is discourse competence concerned with?A. Appropriate use of the language in social contextB. Ability to create coherent written text or conversation and the ability to understand themC. Strategies one employs when there is communication breakdown due to lack of resourcesD. Knowledge of language itself, its form and meaning6. What is strategic competence concerned with?A. Appropriate use of the language in social contextB. Ability to create coherent written text or conversation and the ability to understand themC. Strategies one employs when there iscommunication breakdown due to lack of resources D. Knowledge of language itself, its form and meaning7. What is fluency competence concerned with?A. Appropriate use of the language in social contextB. Ability to link units of speech together with facility and without strain or inappropriateslowness or undue hesitationC. Strategies one employs when there is communication breakdown due to lack of resourcesD. Knowledge of language itself, its form and meaning8. What are the principles of communicative language teaching?A. Communication principle, task principle and meaningful principleB. Communication principle, accuracy principle and meaningful principleC. Communication principle, fluency principle and meaningful principleD. Communication principle, task principle and purpose principle9. What are the listening and speaking activities in traditional pedagogy? A. Listen to texts either read by the teacher or pre-recorded on the tape; repeat what is heard. B. Answer the questions according to what is heard; produce responses based on given clues C. Retell what is heardD. All of the above10. What are the five components of communicative competence?A. Linguistic competence, pragmatic competence, discourse competence, strategetic competence and fluencyB. Linguistic competence, pragmatic competence, discourse competence, strategetic competence and accuracyC. grammar competence, pragmatic competence, discourse competence, strategetic competence and fluencyD. grammar competence, pragmatic competence, discourse competence, strategetic competence and accuracyPart 2 answer the following questions1. What are the differences between language used in real life and language learned in the classroom under the traditional pedagogy?Unit 4Part 1 Read the following statements or questions and choose thebest answer for each statement or question.1. What should be included in a lesson plan?A. Aims to be achievedB. Materials to be coveredC. Activities to be organizedD. All of the above2. What are the principles for good lesson planning?A. Aim, variety, flexibility, learnability and linkageB. Aim, preparation flexibility and linkageC. Aim, micro-planning, macro-planning and flexibilityD. Aim, micro-planning, macro-planning and variety3. What are the guidelines for writing teaching aims in a lesson plan?A. Clear, briefB. Specific, students-orientedC. Specific, teacher-orientedD. Both A and B3. What are language contents?A. Structures, vocabulary, functions and topicsB. Pictures, vocabulary, communication and topicsC. PPT, structures, aims and summaryD. Structures, aims, functions and topics4. What are very commonly used teaching procedures and stages? A. Presentation, practice and productionB. Pre-reading, while-reading and post-readingC. Mechanical practice and meaningful practiceD. Both A and B4. What is the function of optional activities?A. Backups in case the lesson goes too fast and there are a few minutes left.B. Prepared for good studentsC. Prepared for bad studentsD. Used for emergency5. Which part is to be finished after a lesson in a lesson plan? A. Teaching aids B. End of a lesson summaryC. Optional activities and assignmentsD. After lesson reflectionPart 2 answer the following questions1. What benefits can language teachers get from planning a lesson?2. Explain five principles for good lesson planning in detail.3. What does macro planning involve?4. What are components of a lesson plan?unit 5Part 1 Read the following statements or questions and choose thebest answer for each statementor question.1. What are the possible roles of a teacher?A. Controller, assessorB. Organizer, prompterC. Participant, resource-providerD. All of the above 2. What role does a teacher play in the following activity? The teacher givesstudents 2 minutes to skim a text, and when time is up, he asks students to stop and answer some questions.A. ControllerB. AssessorC. OrganizerD. Prompter3. What role does a teacher play in the following activity? T: doyou have any hobbies?S: yes, I like singing and dancing.T: Uhm, and...?S: I also collect coins.T: Oh, really, how many...have you already...collected? A.Controller B. Assessor C. Organizer D. Prompter 4. What role does ateacher play in the following activity? The teacher writes one of five numbers (1-5) on a number of cards (the same numberas the students). Each student draws one card. Those who have drawn number 1 willform group, and those who have drawn number 2 will form group 2. Thus the students are put into five groups in a random way.A. ControllerB. AssessorC. OrganizerD. Prompter5. What role does a teacher play in the following activity?When a student has made a sentence with borrow, “I borrowed a paper to write aletter”, the teacher says, “Well, we don’t say a paper, we say a piece of paper.”A. ControllerB. AssessorC. OrganizerD. Prompter6. What role does a teacher play in the following activity?While doing a writing task either individually or in groups, the students need to use a particular word they don’t know. So they ask the teacher.A. ControllerB. AssessorC. participantD. Resource-provider7. What role does a teacher play in the following activity?The teacher asks a student a question “Have you ever bought clothes withproblems?” If the student doesn’t seem to be ready, t he teacher says “for example, ashirt without...” and points to the buttons on his own shirt or jacket.A. ControllerB. AssessorC. OrganizerD. Prompter8. What role does a teacher play in the following activity?When the students have in groups decided where to go for an spring outing, the teacher asks each group to tell the others why they have made such a choice. A. Controller B. Assessor C. Organizer D. Prompter9. What role does a teacher play in the following activity?When students are doing a group-work task, the teacher joins one or two groups for a short period of time.A. ControllerB. AssessorC. participantD. Resource-provider10. What role does a teacher play in the following activity?the teacher asks students to produce conversations (either orally or in writing) by using particular patterns or expressions they have just learned. A. Controller B. Assessor C. Organizer D. Prompter11. What role does a teacher play in the following activity?The teacher has a word in his mind and asks students to guess by asking only Yes/No questions until they make the correct guess.A. ControllerB. AssessorC. participantD. Resource-provider12. When is appropriate for the teacher to give classroom instructions to students?A. Give directions to tasks or activities, checking comprehension, giving feedbackB. Providing explanations to a concept or languagestructure, drawing attention C. Setting requirements, checking comprehension, assigning homework D. All of the above13. Why do novice teacher often have problems giving clear instructions?A. Their language proficiency is lowB. They are fresh form the universityC. Their instructions are too shortD. They are not able to target their instructions to the level ofthe learners 14. What are not good rules to follow for making instructions effective? A. Use simple instructions and make them suit the comprehension level of the studentsB. Use the mother tongue only when it is necessaryC. Use body language to assist understandingD. Not model the task or activity before letting students move into groups or pairs 15. Which of the following is the time when students work as a whole class? A. When all the students are under the control of the teacher B. When students work in pairs on an exercise or a taskC. When students work in small groupsD. When students are expected to work on their own at their own speed 16. Which of the following is the time when students work in a pair? A. When all the students are under the control of the teacher B. When students work in pairs on an exercise or a taskC. When students work in small groupsD. When students are expected to work on their own at their ownspeed 17. Which of the following is the time when students work in groups? A. When all the students are under the control of the teacher B. When students work in pairs on an exercise or a taskC. When students work in small groupsD. When students are expected to work on their own at their ownspeed 18. Which of the following is the time when students study by themselves? A. When all the students are under the control of theteacher B. When students work in pairs on an exercise or a taskC. When students work in small groupsD. When students are expected to work on their own at their ownspeed 19. Which of the following is the advantage of whole class work? A. It is an ideal way to show materials and do presentations together. B.It allows students to work together rather than under teacher’s guidance.C. There is always a great chance of different opinions and contributions to the work.D. It is less stressful.20. Which of the following is the advantage of pair work?A. It is an ideal way to show materials and do presentations together.B. It allows students to work together rather than underte acher’s guidance.C. It reinforces a sense of belonging among a group of members.D.It is very stressful.Part 2 answer the following questions1. What six conditions have to be met in order to achieve efficient classroom management?Unit 6Part 1 Read the following statements or questions and choose the best answer for each statement or question.1. Which of the following is true about pronunciation teaching? A. Learners whose native language has similar sounds are less likely to have problems with pronunciation.B. Learners who have more exposure to english need less focus on pronunciation.C. Beginning Chinese learners of english need a certain degree of focus on pronunciation.D. All of the above2. What is the realistic goal of teaching pronunciation?A. ConsistencyB. IntellegibilityC. Communicative efficiencyD. All of the above3. Which of the following do not belong to minimal pair?A. Will wellB. Till tellC. Fill fellD. Well well4. Which of the following belong to pronunciation perception practice? ing minimal pairs, odd one out B. Which order, completionC. Same or differentD. All of the above5. Which type does the following production practice belong to? The students repeat what the teacher says. This activity can practice individual sounds,individual words, groups of words, and sentences.A. Listen and repeatB. Fill in the blanksC. Make up sentencesD. Using meaningful context6. Which type does the following production practice belong to? She sells sea shells on the seashore.A. Make up sentencesB. Using meaningful contextC. Using picturesD. Using tongue twisters 7. What are the ways of practicing stress?A. Use gesturesB. Use the voiceC. Use the blackboardD. All of the above8. What does the falling into nation on the statement “he is moved to Glasgow.”indicate?A. I am telling you something you do not knowB. I have not finished yetC. I am asking a genuine questionD. I know you have told me before9. What does the falling intonation on the questi on “where do you live ?” indicate?A . I am telling you something you do not knowB. I have not finished yetC. I am asking a genuine question. I know you have tole me before D10. What is reflected as important in the following example? A. Would you please turn down the radio a little bit? B. Sorry. ? (no, I do not want to.)Or B. Sorry? ? (what did you say?)A. StressB. IntonationC. SoundsD. PitchPart 2 answer the following questions1. Why cannot most learners of english as a foreign language acquire native likeEnglish pronunciation?Unit 7Part 1 Read the following statements or questions and choose thebest answer for each statementor question.1. Which of the following statement is not true?A. Grammatical competence is essential for communicationB. There is a positive role of instruction for grammar learningC. Grammar teaching can enhance learner proficiencyD. Grammar learning is completely useless for children. 2. Which of the following is not grammar presentation method? A. Deductive method B. Inductive methodC. Guided discovery methodD. Communicative teaching method 3. Which of the following steps are typical for the deductive grammar teaching method?A. Give examples?explain rules?students do practice activitiesB. Authentic language data is provided?induces learners to realize grammar rules?apply the new structure to produce sentencesC. Explicit rules are give to students?Authentic language data is provided?applythe new structure to produce sentencesD. All of the above4. What are two grammar practice activities? A. Mechanical practice and meaningful practice B. Volume practice and communicative practice C. Interest practice and meaningful practice D. Mechanical practice and success oriented practice5. What are two broad categories of knowledge?A. Implicit knowledge and explicit knowledgeB. Obvious knowledge and unobvious knowledgeC. Inductive knowledge and deductive knowledgeD. Refereed knowledge and inferred knowledgeUnit 8Part 1 Read the following statements or questions and choose thebest answer for each statementor question.1. Which of the following statement is not true about vocabulary?A. a vocabulary item can be more than one wordB. Vocabulary can not be taught. It must be learned by the individuals.C. Words is best learned in contextD. An English-English dictionary is an important aid for students.2. What does it mean to know a word?A. knowledge its pronunciation and stressB. know its spelling and grammatical propertiesC. know its meaning and know when and how to use itD. all of the above3. what meaning is referred to if we say the meaning of “dog” is an animal with fourlegs and a tail, often kept as a pet or trained for work? A denotative meaning B. connotative meaning C. extended meaning D. inspired meaning4. What meaning is referred to if we say the meaning of “dog” is friendship andloyalty?A denotative meaning B. connotative meaning C. literal meaning D. labeled meaning 5. What is referred to if we say “see a movie, w atch a play, look at a picture”?A. denotative meaningB. connotative meaningC. collocationsD. synonyms6. What do the following examples indicate? Big, huge; enormous, immense; male, masculine A. synonyms B. antonyms C. hyponyms D. collocations7.What are two categories of vocabulary? A. receptive vocabulary and productive vocabulary B. innate vocabulary and learned vocabulary C. familiar vocabulary and unfamiliar vocabulary D. new vocabulary and old vocabulary。