CELTA Language Skills 2

Question 1

A CELTA trainee wants students to practice reading for specific information. Which task type best achieves this?

Accepted Answer

Scanning for names, dates, or figures

Answer

Scanning is the sub-skill of reading that targets specific details such as names, numbers, or facts without reading every word.

Question 2

Which of the following listening activities develops bottom-up processing skills?

Accepted Answer

Identifying individual phonemes and word boundaries in connected speech

Answer

Bottom-up processing begins with decoding sounds, phonemes, and words rather than using context or prior knowledge.

Question 3

A student writes 'I am agree with you.' What type of writing error is this?

Accepted Answer

Lexico-grammatical error

Answer

Using 'am' before 'agree' confuses adjectival and verbal constructions, making it a lexico-grammatical error.

Question 4

Which speaking activity is best classified as a 'fluency' task rather than an 'accuracy' task?

Accepted Answer

Debating a topic with a time limit and no interruption for correction

Answer

Fluency tasks prioritize communication and flow over correctness, as in unrestricted debate or discussion activities.

Question 5

In a CELTA lesson, a teacher uses a jigsaw reading. What is the primary skill aim?

Accepted Answer

Exchanging information gathered from different texts to construct meaning

Answer

Jigsaw activities involve students reading different texts and then sharing information, integrating reading with speaking skills.

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