METHODOLOGY 1 - B1

1. Intensive reading refers to reading which students do often away from the classroom. true. false.

2. Extensive reading involves reading for pleasure. true. false.

3. Intensive reading is usually accompanied by study activities. true. false.

4. When you want to look for a telephone number, or are interested in knowing what is on TV at a certain time, you skim the information. true. false.

5. When you want to get a general idea of what a text is about, you skim it. true. false.

6. Students have more thinking time when they attempt spontaneous reading than when they write. true. false.

7. Guided writing occurs when students are given models to follow and what they write looks very much like the original text. true. false.

8. In acrostic poems, the letters that start each line, when read downwards, form a word which is the topic of the poem. true. false.

9. In simulations, students act as if they were in a real-life situation. true. false.

10. Constant interruption from the teacher will benefit the purpose of the speaking activity. true. false.

11. Most students want to be able to understand what people are saying to them in English, either face-toface, on TV, on the radio, etc. true. false.

12. When a teacher reformulates a statement, he repeats what the student has said, emphasizing the mistake. true. false.

13. The expression “I done it yesterday” is a correct variety of the use of do in some parts of Britain. So, it is perfectly correct for certain regions. true. false.

14. The listening that occurs away from the classroom is the intensive one. true. false.

15. In live listening, the speaker cannot interact with the audience. true. false.

16. In the case of live listening, students should be encouraged to ask for repetition and clarification when they need it. true. false.

17. Much recorded speech on the radio or on the Internet is authentic. true. false.

18. Questions such as: “I’m sorry”, “I don’t understand what X means”, “Could you repeat that?” are useful in live listening. true. false.

19. Teachers are free to adapt the lesson by rewriting parts of it, replacing some of the activities, reordering activities or reducing the number of activities in the sequence. true. false.

20. One of the first things teachers should do is to pilot a book with a class, so they can assess their strengths and weaknesses. true. false.

21. Lack of plan may suggest a level of professionalism by part of the teacher. true. false.

22. A plan helps to remind teachers what they intended to do ─especially if they get distracted or momentarily forget what they have proposed. true. false.

23. Teacher should consider students’ background and characteristics when planning. true. false.

24. There is one particular situation in which planning is especially important, and that is when the teacher is to be judged as good or bad as part of the teachers’ performance assessment. true. false.

25. The core of the plan is in the description of how it will be executed. true. false.

26. The students’ age, level, cultural background and individual characteristics don’t matter when deciding what activities and methods to use in the classroom. true. false.

27. The purpose of an exit test is to find out not only what students know, but also what they don’t know. true. false.

28. Progress tests have the function of seeing how the students are getting on with the lessons, and how well they have assimilated what they have been taught. true. false.

29. Achievement tests include a variety of test types and measure the students’ abilities in all four skills, as well as their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. true. false.

30. Continuous assessment helps teachers to measure their students’ achievement done all through the learning period and not just at the end. true. false.

31. A placement test is an instrument used at the end of a lesson, unit or academic semester to grasp evidence of learning without any specific purpose. true. false.

32. A portfolio is a collection of a students’ work which he or she gradually adds to and which can be used to give a grade at the end of a semester or as part of a scheme of continuous assessment. true. false.

33. A good tests needs to be valid; that is, it does what it says it will. true. false.

34. Integrative testing means testing one thing at a time. true. false.

35. Motivation refers to the overall capacity of teachers to manage the classroom in difficult situations when fill-in and cloze activities are demanded. true. false.

36. In transformation items, students are asked to change the form of listening material to show their progress in speaking aloud. true. false.

37. Direct Test Items are crucial elements in the process of speaking and live listening instruction materials. true. false.

38. One of the suggested alternatives to avoid subjectivity when marking is the creation of scales for a range of different items. true. false.

39. When designing tests for our classes, it is helpful to make a list of the things we want to test. true. false.

40. When marking tests, especially progress tests we design ourselves, we need to strike a balance Pag. 3 de 4 between totally subjective one-mark-only evaluation on the one hand, and over-complexity in markingscale on the other. true. false.

41. When writing progress tests, it is important to try to work out what our students want to achieve, otherwise we can increase the confidence on them. true. false.

42. Direct test items are much more difficult to mark than indirect items. true. false.

43. The same material can be used to assign different tasks. true. false.

44. In peer help, better students cannot be helpful for weaker ones. true. false.

45. When using pairwork and groupwork with large classes, it is important to give clear instructions and good feedback. true. false.

46. In order to create an English environment in the class, eachers can allow students to use their native language. true. false.

47. After students have received their tasks, they should just glance at their grades, put them into a folder and never look at them again. true. false.

48. Students who show problem behavior have to be asked to leave the class. true. false.

49. The respect for the teacher’s ´professionalism may be diminished if the class sees sarcasm as a weapon to control problem behavior. true. false.

50. Quiet students speak more when they are playing a role in which they don’t have to be themselves. true. false.