Methodology
The teacher asks “Is John at home now?” to check the meaning of "John has gone to work". What is this question called?
CCQ
What is normally the purpose of a warmer?
to engage learners and prepare them for the lesson
Students read the text quickly and choose the best title. What reading skill are they practising?
Reading for gist
What do we call positive comments such as “Excellent!” or “Well done”?
Praise
Why can giving instructions before distributing worksheets improve classroom management?
It prevents learners from becoming distracted by the materials and helps ensure everyone listens.
The teacher asks, “Is enormous a positive or negative word?”
What is the problem with this CCQ?
It does not clearly check the intended meaning; the question is potentially ambiguous.
Students listen to a recording once to understand the general idea. What is the name of this stage?
Listening for gist
Students listen to the dialogue and write down a phone number. What listening skill are they practising?
Listening for specific information
The teacher writes several errors heard during a speaking task on the board after the activity. What technique is this?
Delayed correction
Teacher: “I’m erasing this word because we don't need it anymore. Now I’m replacing it with ‘usually’.”
What is this?
Running commentary
Students look at examples of the past perfect and work out the rule themselves. What approach is this?
Guided discovery
After students complete a reading task, the teacher focuses on useful vocabulary and grammar from the text. What stage is this?
Language focus
The teacher shows the example of an activity with one student before asking everyone else to do it. What is this technique?
Demonstration
Student: “Yesterday I go to the cinema.”
Teacher: “Yesterday I…?”
What correction technique is this?
Elicitation / prompting self-correction
One student dominates every speaking activity. Give one technique the teacher could use to improve participation.
Managing turn-taking / assigning roles
What is the main difference between a slip and an error?
Slips are mistakes which students make in fluent speech accidentally and can correct them easily because they know the topic.
Errors appear when students haven't mastered the rules yet; they reflect a gap in their knowledge
What is the main difference between controlled and freer practice?
Controlled practice is for accuracy; freer - fluency
Give one example of a receptive vocabulary game and one productive vocabulary game.
Receptive games: fly swatters, boom boom clap, step on the card
Productive games: what's missing?, a bomb in the box, fast cards
The teacher collects students' written work and marks every error in red, rewriting the sentences.
Give one possible advantage and one possible disadvantage of this approach.
Advantage: students can clearly see the corrections. Disadvantage: it may discourage learner autonomy and does not require students to identify/correct their own errors.
Student: “She works in a hospital.”
Teacher: “She works in a hospital.”
What is this?
Echoing
A teacher explains a grammar rule for ten minutes and then asks students to complete 20 gap-fill sentences.
Name possible problems.
Excessive teacher talking time and insufficient meaningful practice.
The name of the writing stage which involves focus on the structure of the text
Focus on the layout
A type of reading which requires readers to use prior knowledge and textual evidence to figure out what an author implies or suggests without stating it directly (=reading between the lines)
Reading to infer textual meaning
A type of feedback which includes the assessment of the language used in writing
Feedback on accuracy
Students finish an activity five minutes earlier than expected.
What should the teacher ideally have prepared?
A meaningful extension/follow-up task rather than simply ending the lesson early.