Skills
This is a receptive skill that involves understanding spoken language.
What is listening?
The rise and fall of the voice in speech, which can convey emotion or differentiate a statement from a question.
What is intonation?
This is a common lesson structure that follows the PPP stages.
What is Presentation, Practice, Production?
A letter or letters added to the beginning or end of a word to make a new word, which can be a different part of speech from the original word.
What is an affix?
An activity where students complete a text by filling in missing words at regular intervals.
What is a cloze test?
When ideas in a spoken or written text fit together clearly and smoothly, and so are logical and make sense to the listener or reader.
What is coherence?
The smallest unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another, such as the /p/ sound in 'pat' versus the /b/ sound in 'bat'.
What is phoneme?
The teaching technique where the teacher asks students questions to find out what they already know.
What is eliciting?
The opposite of another word.
What's an antonym?
The type of test that measures a learner's general ability in a language, regardless of any specific course they have taken.
What is a proficiency test?
The process of correcting errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation in a written text.
What is proof-reading?
The emphasis placed on a particular syllable within a word
What is word stress?
The technique of asking simple questions to check if learners have understood the meaning of a new word or grammar point.
What are concept checking questions?
The name for a word that describes or gives more information about a verb, adjective, or other adverb, such as 'quickly' or 'very'.
What is an adverb?
A communicative activity where students work in pairs, each having different information they need to share to complete a task.
What is an info-gap activity?
The strategy of using context clues and prior knowledge to guess the meaning of an unfamiliar word while listening or reading.
What is inferring/deducing the meaning?
The study of speech sounds and sound patterns in a language.
What is phonology?
This technique involves using physical actions and gestures to show the meaning of new language, especially with young learners.
What is TPR (Total Physical Response)?
These are words that join other words, phrases, or clauses, for example, 'but' or 'although'.
What are conjunctions?
An activity where students are given scrambled words or sentences and must put them in the correct order.
What is a jumbled text?
The ability to use appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation in different social situations.
What is accuracy?
The /ə/ sound is called the _______.
A repetitive, whole-class activity where students repeat a new word or phrase after the teacher to practice pronunciation.
What is drilling?
Words that have the same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings, such as 'bank' (a river bank) and 'bank' (a financial institution).
What are homonyms?
An informal type of assessment that focuses on giving students feedback to help them improve during a course.
What is formative assessment?