Билет 1

1. The importance of grammar in teaching a foreign language.

2. How is grammar used in reading, writing, listening and speaking?

Билет 2

1. Student's difficulties in learning English grammar.

2. Tell about the ways to overcome grammar difficulties

Билет 3

1. The Grammar-translation method.

2. Agree or disagree?

1. There are many approaches, methods and technique of teaching grammar.

2. Teacher should integrate elements of different methods.

3. Teacher shouldn’t have its own approach.

4. Teacher should choose what is best suitable.

5. Teacher should have a concrete plan of classroom work.

Билет 4

1. Deductive and inductive methods of teaching grammar.

2. Explain the disadvantages of inductive method of teaching grammar.

Билет 5

1. Communicative method of teaching grammar: presentation, practice, production.

2. Tell about the importance of feedback in teaching grammar.

Билет 6

1. Principles of teaching grammar.

2. Answer the question: What is the main principle the teacher should use to achieve results in teaching English grammar? Explain why.

Билет 7

1. Types of exercises for learning English grammar.

2. Give examples of drill exercises.

Билет 8

1. Types of exercises for learning English grammar.

2. Define the type of grammar exercise and do it:

Make sentences, using the verbs: see, hear, smell, taste, ride.

Example: the food in your plate.

Can you taste the food in your plate?

1. the bicycle

2. something sweet in this.

3. your street on this map.

4. someone laughing.

5. the gas

Билет 9

1. Types of exercises for learning English grammar.

2. What is the type of grammar exercises? Give its general features.

Did you see ________ man that I told you about?

a) the b) a c) an d) -

Билет 10

1. The process of listening. Reasons for listening and purposes for teaching listening.

What you listen to	For what you listen to
Telephone conversations Announcements at the airport or railway station News by radio or TV Radio or TV for entertainment A lesson or a lecture Somebody’s instructions	Pleasure Making answers Fulfilling instructions thinking critically getting important information keeping the content orally and in written form

2. Join sentences from two columns. There are numerous situations, in which it is necessary “to listen”. In the left column is what you “listen to” in the real world. In the right column you will write for what you “listen to” in each case.

Билет 11

1. Types of listening.

2. Answer the question: As a language learner, what types of listening is easier for you? Why?

Билет 12

1. Principles of teaching listening.

2. Answer the question: Can the teacher use authentic listening material at primary school?

Билет 13

1. The most common difficulties in listening comprehension.

2. Rate the following listening operations in order of difficulty for you. Which do you think is the most difficult operation for a non-native listener? Explain your choice.

Operations	Rank
Hearing the sounds
Recognising words
Understanding different accents
Understanding the meaning of intonation
Coping with noise
Recognising sentences
Predicting the meaning
Understanding the whole message

Билет 14

1. The most common difficulties in listening comprehension.

2. Give the possible solutions of phonetic and lexical difficulties in listening comprehension.

Билет 15

1. Resources for teaching listening.

2. Continue the sentence: The main advantage of live speech over recorded material is…

Билет 16

1. Resources for teaching listening.

2. Tell about the difference between authentic and ready-made (course book’s) materials.

Билет 17

1. Resources for teaching listening.

2. Tick T/ F sentences:

1. Teacher’s speech is the main source in teaching listening.

2. Teacher should speak clearly.

3. Recordings of course books have adapted material.

4. Authentic listening is not important in teaching listening.

5. Authentic listening must be used only at high levels.

6. Video is richer than audio.

Билет 18

1. Pre-listening, while-listening and post-listening stages in teaching listening.

2. Present your teaching techniques in three stages (pre-listening, while-listening and post-listening) for listening to the text:

One cold night a woman went to a doctor’s house and asked him to see her child. The child was ill. When they got to the woman’s house, the doctor began to examine the child. He took his temperature and looked into his eyes and mouth. Then he realized that the child was suffering from hunger because the family was very poor. So the doctor didn’t write a prescription but he gave the woman some money.

Use the following plan:

1. How would you engage learners with the topic?

2. What listening tasks would be appropriate for this tape script?

3. What kinds of activities may follow listening?

4. Would you use this tape? Why? Why not?