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Reading Quiz
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I.
ACCORDING TO THE TEXT “TEACHING VOCABULARY TO ADVANCE STUDENTS: A
LEXICAL APPROACH, CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER FOR EACH STATEMENT. (5
pts)
1. That students might have a receptive knowledge of a wide range of vocabulary
means:
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they can recognise the word
•
they can recognise the item and its meaning
•
they can recognise the item and its translation
•
none of them
2. According to Lewis, vocabulary should be:
A) at the centre of language teaching
B) at the centre of speaking
C) at the centre of language learning
D) at the centre of morphology
3. What is the process that our memory works in order to help teaching vocabulary?
A) Learning new items involving listening them first in our short- term memory
and afterwards in the memory in general
B) Learning new items involving seeing them first in our short-term memory and
afterwards in the long- term memory
C) Learning new items involving storing them first in our short-term memory and
afterwards in the long-term memory
D) Learning new items involving not only listening, seeing but also storing first in
our short-term memory and afterwards in the long-term memory
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4. What is the relevant characteristic of our “mental lexicon”?
A) It is highly wider and efficient, and that semantic related options are stored
individual
B) It is highly large and efficient, and that semantic related items are stored
together
C) It is highly organised and efficient, and that semantic related items are stored
individual
D) It is highly organised and efficient, and that semantic related items are stored
together
5. Learning styles are:
A) Visual, aural, Kinaesthetic and tactile
B) Visual, musical, kinaesthetic and tactile
C) Visual, aural, mathematics, kinaesthetic and tactile
D) None of them
II.
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CHART WITH THE MISSING INFORMATION ABOUT
TEACHING VOCABULARY. 6 pts
Memory strategies
Give examples
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Grouping, associating, placing new
words into a context
Applying images and sounds
In Structured way
Employing actions
III.
What is the better way teaching vocabulary according to Lewis? (4pts)
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IV.- ACCORDING TO THE TEXT “Words: Native and Borrowed”: CHOOSE THE CORRECT
ANSWER FOR EACH STATEMENT. (5 pts)
1.- Words through the time :
A) Remain and resist cultural changes
B) Change an evolve completely
C) They can be unrecognized
D) none of them
2.-According to author, a total lexicon of a language is :
A) a part of the language being studied
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B) a substantial change in language
C) a complete barometer of a society
D) the objective of a research
3.-The oldest words and data belongs to what period:
A) Old middle English period
B) Old English period
C) Primitive Old English
D) High middle English
4.- What is the main characteristic of “ the meaning of a word”?
A) It has a neutral relation
B) It can be generalize in every idiom
C) It has no relation
D) It is arbitrary
6. In Old English vowels were:
A) Only short
B) Fricative and long
C) Voiceless
D)Either long or short
V.- Discuss about Indo European origins of the words and the relation it has with the
development of words. 6 pts
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VII.- Explain the influence that William the Conqueror had after the Norman Conquest in
1066. (3 pts).
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Answer Key:
Name:_____________________________________Score: ________/45
Mark:__________
I.
ACCORDING TO THE TEXT “TEACHING VOCABULARY TO ADVANCE
STUDENTS: A LEXICAL APPROACH, CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER FOR
EACH STATEMENT. (5 pts)
1. That students might have a receptive knowledge of a wide range of vocabulary
means:
A) they can recognise the word
B) they can recognise the item and its meaning
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C) they can recognise the item and its translation
D) none of them
2. According to Lewis, vocabulary should be:
A) at the centre of language teaching
B) at the centre of speaking
C) at the centre of language learning
D) at the centre of morphology
3. What is the process that our memory works in order to help teaching vocabulary?
A) Learning new items involving listening them first in our short- term memory
and afterwards in the memory in general
B) Learning new items involving seeing them first in our short-term memory and
afterwards in the long- term memory
C) Learning new items involving storing them first in our short-term memory and
afterwards in the long-term memory
D) Learning new items involving not only listening, seeing but also storing first in
our short-term memory and afterwards in the long-term memory
4. What is the relevant characteristic of our “mental lexicon”?
A) It is highly wider and efficient, and that semantic related options are stored
individual
B) It is highly large and efficient, and that semantic related items are stored
together
C) It is highly organised and efficient, and that semantic related items are stored
individual
D) It is highly organised and efficient, and that semantic related items are stored
together
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5. Learning styles are:
A) Visual, aural, Kinaesthetic and tactile
B) Visual, musical, kinaesthetic and tactile
C) Visual, aural, mathematics, kinaesthetic and tactile
D) None of them
II.
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING CHART WITH THE MISSING INFORMATION
ABOUT TEACHING VOCABULARY. 6 pts
Memory strategies
CREATING MENTAL
LINKAGES
Grouping, associating,
placing new words into a
context
Applying images and
sounds
USING IMAGERY, SEMANTIC
MAPPING, USING
KEYWORDS AND
REPRESENTATING SOUNDS
IN MEMORY
REVIEWING WELL
In Structured way
Employing actions
III.
Give examples
PHYSICAL RESPONSE OR
SENSATION, USING
MECHANICAL TECHNIQUES
What is the better way teaching vocabulary according to Lewis? (4pts)
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LEWIS SAYS THAT “LANGUAGE CONSISTS NOT OF TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR AND
VOCABULARY BUT OFTEN OF MULTI-WORD PREFABRICATED CHUNKS” I.E INCLUIDING
COLLOCATIONS, FIXED AND SEMI-FIXED EXPRESSIONS AND IDIOMS. FOR NATIVE
SPEAKERS´FLUENCY VOCABULARY IS NOT A STORED ONLY AS INDIVIDUAL WORDS BUT
ALSO AS PARTS OF PHRASES AND LARGE CHUNKS.
IV.- ACCORDING TO THE TEXT “Words: Native and Borrowed”: CHOOSE THE CORRECT
ANSWER FOR EACH STATEMENT. (5 pts)
1.- Words through the time :
Remain and resist cultural changes
2.- According to author, a total lexicon of a language is :
a complete barometer of a society
3.-The oldest words and data belongs to what period:
Old English period
4.- What is the main characteristic of “ the meaning of a word”?
It is arbitrary
5.- In Old English vowels were:
Either long or short
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V.- Discuss about Indo European origins of the words and the relation it has with the
development of words (6 pts)
Ss must be able to establish that this point of history was quite important in the word
development process and it is consider the origin of the language as a central Key.
VI.- Explain and provide at least one example for Cognate and Non cognates words (6
pts)
Ss must be able to provide an answer according to the text and illustrate with examples the
difference between a cognate word and a non cognate one.
VII.- From the chapter 3, Choose a topic or theme that calls your attention, write about it,
provide examples and make a linkage with your professional development.(10 ptos)
Ss must be able to connect with clear arguments and exposition the relation of their
professional development and the topic they choose, in a coherent way and demonstrate way
that part of chapter is useful to him/her.
VIII.- Explain the influence that William the Conqueror had after the Norman Conquest in
1066. (3 pts).
Ss must be able to locate the main events after 1066 and set the consequences of this
historical event in which William the Conqueror had an important role.
