TESOL Reading Quiz

Which are receptive (input) skills?

• Speaking and writing

• Writing and listening

• Speaking and Reading

• Reading and Listening

Which are productive (output) skills?

• Writing and Reading

• Speaking and Reading

• Speaking and Writing

• Listening and Speaking

Reading inside of the classroom is also known as ____________.

• Extensive reading

• Output reading

• Intensive reading

• Input reading

The purpose or goal of extensive reading is ___________.

• to develop specific skills

• for pleasure

• to do research for University

• to teach language

Which is NOT a necessary key skill in reading?

• Making Inference

• Skimming

• Predicting

• Paraphrasing

Activating schemata means to ____________.

• review previous English lessons

• get students to make predictions about the passage

• use prior knowledge and experience to make connections

• guide students to the plot of the story

How are skimming and scanning different?

• There is no difference they both mean the same thing

• One means to read through everything thoroughly and the other means to just read the title.

• Skim to understand the gist and scan to find specific information.

• Scan to understand the gist and skim to find specific information

When you use the words around an unfamiliar word to figure out the meaning that is called ___________.

• predicting

• Inferencing

• contextual guesswork

• scanning

Making Inference to something means to ____________.

• predict what the person will say

• read between the lines

• refer to the same meaning of another word

• speak in tongues

Which are the 4 primary language skills?

• Listening, Communication, Speaking and Reading

• Reading, Acting, Speaking and Writing

• Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing

• Watching, Reading, Listening and Speaking