Teaching English to Young Learners: Quiz

Answer the following questions based on your course readings for this module. Choose the correct answer from the possible answers provided.

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What is one of the main differences between children and adult EFL students?

Which of the following is true?

What is important to do in the first class where you teach the letter “o”?

Which of the following is a phonic:
1. the sound   as in ‘jet’;
2. the letter ‘j’;
3. ‘jay’

You are introducing the letter ‘i’. You have just drilled the word ‘lip’. When will you drill the word
‘bike’?

You have just finished teaching single-letter vowel sounds to your students. Which of these
sounds is a suitable choice to focus on in your next lesson?

What is the double-letter sound in the word ‘headline’?

When is the best time to introduce the plural form of nouns?

What is the best way of teaching children to pronounce the word ‘road’?

Francis has asked her colleagues some advice on how to teach writing to her young students.
Here is the advice three of them gave:

Fenton: "Get them to imagine that the whiteboard is a page from their exercise-books and
demonstrate to them on the board where to begin writing letters/words and how to write them."

Deon: "Teach them two ways of writing each letter but not at the same time – first teach all the
letters in upper case, then all the letters in lower case."
Kate: “Show them how some letters fit between two lines while others reach the higher line or the
lower line”
Whose advice is incorrect?

You are a little frustrated because your students speak too much native language in class.
They know that you understand their language, so you realise they do not feel motivated enough
to speak English. How can you encourage them to speak only English in class?

It will probably be impossible for you to keep young learners enthusiastic about learning
English if you:

If you have a student who repeatedly misbehaves and disrupts lessons, which of the following
courses of action could be reasonable and effective?

Annette has selected these three structures to teach 5 year-old children in their first year of
learning English:
1. Which do you like better, … or …?
2. The past simple of regular and irregular verbs
3. Have you ever been to…

Are all those structures suitable for learners of that level?

What is the recommended duration of each activity in a lesson with young learners?