SPEAKING AND LISTENING

 SPEAKING AND LISTENING

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

1. What is the main purpose of using drills in the classroom?

A. For accuracy

B. For fluency

C. For both fluency and accuracy

2. The ability of a speaker to use the language to communicate is referred to as?

A. Linguistic competence

B. Communicative competence

C. Language competence

3. What constitute the macro skills of a language?

A. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing

B. Stress, intonation, and juncture

C. Receptive skills

4. Stress, intonation, juncture are micro skills for mastering which macro skills of language?

A. Listening

B. Speaking,

C. Reading

D. Writing

5. Which stage of a storytelling lesson should the teacher teach meaning of unfamiliar words?

A. Pre-presentation stage

B. Presentation stage

C. Post-presentation stage

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6. The sound, rhythm, intonation, and stress of the language can only be perfectly adapted through…..

A. Listening

B. Speaking

C. Reading

D. Writing

7. What is the purpose of teaching meaning of unfamiliar words in storytelling lesson?

A. For learners to understand the story

B. For learners to update their vocabulary items

C. For learners to know the story outline

8. At what stage of a verse lesson should the teacher take learners through sound sensitizing activities?

A. Pre-presentation stage

B. Presentation stage

C. Post-presentation stage

9. At what stage of a verse lesson is very appropriate for elicitation of pupils’ personal response?

A. Pre-presentation stage

B. Presentation stage

C. Post-presentation stage

10. What is the main reason for a teacher using talk tokens?

A. For fluency

B. For motivation

C. For equal participation

11. Successful listening can also be looked at in terms of the ……. makes use of when listening.

A. strategies the listener

B. strategies the speaker

C. resources the listener

D. resources the speaker

12. A well-prepared scheme of work should have the following except …

A. give an overview of the total course content

B. provide a relationship between the teacher and the students

C. provide for a sequential listing of learning tasks

D. shows a relationship between content and support materials.

13. A well-prepared scheme of work should provide a basis for all the following except…

A. evaluation of the course

B. long range planning

C. time for excursion

D. training

14. A pupil constructs the following sentences to teach a lesson.

“I teachers Mathematics”

“He do goes to school on time” Which component of listening and speaking is the pupil violating?

A. Fluency

B. Grammar

C. Pronunciation

D. Vocabulary

15. At what stage is it very appropriate for pupils to tell a similar story in the class?

A. Pre-presentation stage

B. presentation stage

C. post-presentation stage

D. Any of the stages

16. A teacher prepares to teach a story lesson to basic five pupils. She prepares a poster depicting the story. At what stage is the teacher supposed to use the poster?

A. Pre-presentation stage

B. presentation stage

C. post-presentation stage

D. Any of the stage

17. In a lesson, a teacher’s learning indicator is “Identify the roles speaking and listening play in JHS learners’ literacy development” This learning indicator is….

A. general

B. general and specific

C. long term and short term

D. specific

18. When a listener hears something, this may remind him of something in his previous knowledge and this in turns, leads him to predict the kind of information he is likely to hear. Which approach is the student using?

A. Bottom-up processing

B. Horizontal processing

C. Top-down processing

D. Vertical processing

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19. The way in which sentences and parts of sentences are linked together is referred to as….

A. Cohesion

B. Unity

C. Coherent

D. Paragraph development

20. Why is it necessary to rehearse during planning to co-teach a lesson?

A. To manage time well

B. To be confident

C. To get high mark

D. To have mastery of the presentation

Provide the most appropriate answer to the questions below.

1. Activities that draw pupils’ attention (awareness) to sounds are referred to as……………………………………………………………………………………………

2. An exercise that involves building sentences from the end of a line is called………………………………………………………………………………………

3. Audio-lingual approaches to language teaching, which placed emphasis on repeating structural patterns through oral practice are referred to as…………………………………

4. An interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing, receiving and processing information is known as………………………………………………………..

5. Speaking is often connected with ………………………………………………………….

MARKING SCHEME

Choose from the alternatives (A – C) the one that is the most appropriate answer to the questions below.

1. What is the main purpose of using drills in the classroom?

A. For accuracy

B. For fluency

C. For both fluency and accuracy

2. The ability of a speaker to use the language to communicate is referred to as?

A. Linguistic competence

B. Communicative competence

C. Language competence

3. What constitutes the macro skills of a language?

A. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

B. Stress, intonation, and juncture

C. Receptive skills

4. Stress, intonation, juncture are micro skills for mastering which macro skills of language?

A. Listening

B. Speaking,

C. Reading

D. Writing

5. Which stage of a storytelling lesson should the teacher teach meaning of unfamiliar words?

A. Pre-presentation stage

B. Presentation stage

C. Post-presentation stage

6. The sound, rhythm, intonation, and stress of the language can only be perfectly adapted through…..

A. Listening

B. Speaking

C. Reading

D. Writing

7. What is the purpose of teaching meaning of unfamiliar words in storytelling lesson?

A. For learners to understand the story

B. For learners to update their vocabulary items

C. For learners to know the story outline

8. At what stage of a verse lesson should the teacher take learners through sound sensitizing activities?

A. Pre-presentation stage

B. Presentation stage

C. Post-presentation stage

9. At what stage of a verse lesson is very appropriate for elicitation of pupils’ personal response?

A. Pre-presentation stage

B. Presentation stage

C. Post-presentation stage

10. What is the main reason for a teacher using talk tokens?

A. For fluency

B. For motivation

C. For equal participation

11. Successful listening can also be looked at in terms of the ……. makes use of when listening.

A. strategies the listener

B. strategies the speaker

C. resources the listener

D. resources the speaker

12. A well-prepared scheme of work should have the following except …

A. give an overview of the total course content

B. provide a relationship between the teacher and the students

C. provide for a sequential listing of learning tasks

D. show a relationship between content and support materials

13. A well-prepared scheme of work should provide a basis for all the following except…

A. evaluation of the course

B. long range planning

C. time for excursion

D. training

14. A pupil constructs the following sentences to teach a lesson.

“I teachers Mathematics”

“He do goes to school on time” Which component of listening and speaking is the pupil violating?

A. Fluency

B. Grammar

C. Pronunciation

D. Vocabulary

15. At what stage is it very appropriate for pupils to tell a similar story in the class?

A. Pre-presentation stage

B. presentation stage

C. post-presentation stage

D. Any of the stages

16. A teacher prepares to teach a story lesson to basic five pupils. She prepares a poster depicting the story. At what stage is the teacher supposed to use the poster?

A. Pre-presentation stage

B. presentation stage

C. post-presentation stage

D. Any of the stage

17. In a lesson, a teacher’s learning indicator is “Identify the roles speaking and listening play in JHS learners’ literacy development” This learning indicator is….

A. general

B. general and specific

C. long term and short term

D. specific

18. When a listener hears something, this may remind him of something in his previous knowledge and this in turns, leads him to predict the kind of information he is likely to hear. Which approach is the student using?

A. Bottom-up processing

B. Horizontal processing

C. Top-down processing

D. Vertical processing

19. The way in which sentences and parts of sentences are linked together is referred to as….

A. Cohesion

B. Unity

C. Coherent

D. Paragraph development

20. Why is it necessary to rehearse during planning to co-teach a lesson?

A. To manage time well

B. To be confident

C. To get high mark

D. To have mastery of the presentation

Provide the most appropriate answer to the questions below.

1. Activities that draw pupils’ attention (awareness) to sounds are referred to as sound sensitizing activities

2. An exercise that involves building sentences from the end of a line is called

back chaining.

3. Audio-lingual approaches to language teaching, which placed emphasis on repeating structural patterns through oral practice are referred to as language drills.

4. An interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing, receiving, and processing information is known as listening.

5. Speaking is often connected with listening.