《英语教学法》（1）期末考试试题之二（开卷考试）
Part I. Fill in the blanks with correct information: 30%
1. The Grammar-Translation Method came about as a result of __________________.
2. People learned Ancient Greek and Latin as________________.
3. In a functional-notional syllabus, the language taught would not be described in only grammatical forms, but
also___________, _________, __________ and ____________.
4. The term ―communicative competence‖ was first used by _____________ in applied linguistics. 5. Krashen‘s Natural Order of Language Learning was based on _____________.
6. Various language learning methods arose in the 70s in particular in North America and in Europe, which concerned
the learner as a whole person, also referred to as _________.
7. Imagine a situation in which students learn a language in the following way. They sit around a table with
comfortable chairs and with a tape recorder in the middle. When one wants to say something, he whispers it in his mother tongue to the teacher who is standing behind him, who then translates it into the target language and the student repeats that. This approach is called ___________. 8. ESP is the abbreviation of ________________.
9. In Taba‘s model of curriculum processes, the last two stages are___________ and ______________.
10. Knowing how to make correct sentences has very little value on its own and has to be supplemented
by________________________ and _________________________ when it is used as a normal means of communication.
11. A student with very limited language would be forgiven for errors of _____________.
12. Language processing is ______________________ and what is understood involves far more than
___________________________________.
13. Turn-taking is a characteristic of ___________________.
14. A CLT syllabus will cover situations, topics, functions, _________________, and ________________. 15. List some examples of authentic materials: _______________, ______________, _____________.
Part II Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for false. 20%
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
People learned Ancient Greek and Latin in order to communicate in real life situations. The Threshold Level was an example of the Grammar –Translation Method.
Making errors will lead to bad habit formation, so we should correct them whenever they occur. Suggestopedia is believed to be the most of the humanistic methods.
A textbook with such course design as Unit 1 Personal pronouns, Unit 2 Attributive clauses, Unit 3 The passive voice, etc. is based on a skills syllabus.
6. It is true that inappropriately used expressions can produce more harm than structurally poor sentences. 7. Back-channel responses are used by one speaker to interrupt the other speaker.
8. In CLT students do not learn in the classroom; instead they learn the language in real life.
9. Good learners learn different styles of speech and writing and learn to vary their language according to the
formality of the situation.
10. While the students are engaged in the communicative activity the teacher should not intervene, such as telling them
that they are making mistakes, insisting on accuracy or asking for repetition.
Part III 50%
Design a reading lesson with three stages as required.
Imagine that you would teach this text to a senior middle school class; think about the pre-reading
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The States Explained
Like all Dads, my father sometimes seemed to be practicing for a world‘s most boring competition. He used to have the habit, when I was a boy, of identifying and reporting the state of origin of all the other cars on any highway we happened to be traveling along.
In America, as I expect you know, each state issues its own number plates, so you can tell at a glance where another car is from, which enabled my father to make observations like, ?Hey, another car from Wyoming. That‘s three this morning.‘ Or: ?Mississippi. Wonder what he‘s doing up here?‘ Then he would look around hopefully to see if anyone wanted to add a comment, but no one ever did. He could go on like that all day, and often did.
I once wrote a book making good-natured fun of the old man for his many interesting and unusual talents when behind the wheel—the ability to get lost in any city, to drive the wrong way down a one-way street so many times that people would eventually come and watch from their doorways, or spend an entire afternoon driving around within sight of an amusement park or other eagerly sought attraction without actually finding the entrance. One of my teenaged children recently read that book for the first time and came with it into the kitchen where my wife was cooking and said in a tone of amazed discovery, ―But this is Dad,‖ meaning me.
I have to admit it. I have become my father. I even read number plates, though my particular interest is the slogan. Many states, you see, include a friendly message or piece of information on their plates, like ―Land of Lincoln‖ for Illinois, ―Vacationland‖ for Marina, ―Sunshine State‖ for Florida, and the crazy ―Shore Thing‖ for New Jersey.
I like to make jokes and comments on these so when, for instance, we see Pennsylvania‘s ―You‘ve got a friend in Pennsylvania‖, I turn to the passengers and say in an injured tone, ―Then why doesn‘t he call?‖ However, I am the only one who finds this an amusing way to spend a long journey.
All this is by way of introducing our important lesson for the day, namely that the United States isn‘t so much a country as a collection of fifty small independent nations, and you forget this at your peril. It all goes back to the setting up of a federal government after the War of Independence when the former colonies didn‘t trust each other. In order to keep them happy, the states were given an extraordinary range of powers. Even now each state controls all kinds of matters to do with your personal life—where, when and at what age you can legally drink, whether you can carry a concealed weapon, own fireworks, or legally gamble; how old you have to be to drive; whether you will be killed in an electric chair, by lethal injection, or not at all, and how you have to be to get yourself in such a fix; and so on.
If I leave our town of Hanover, and drive over the Connecticut River to Vermont, I will find myself suddenly subject to perhaps 500 completely different laws. I must, among much else, buckle my seat belt, acquire a licence if I wish to practise dentistry and give up all hope of erecting roadside hoardings, since Vermont is one of just two states to outlaw highway advertising. On the other hand, I may carry a gun on my person without any problem, and if I am arrested for drunken driving I may legally decline to give a blood sample.
Since I always buckle anyway, don‘t own a gun, and haven‘t the faintest desire to stick my fingers in people‘s mouths, even for very good money, these matters don‘t affect me. Elsewhere, however, differences between our state laws can be dramatic, even alarming.
States decide what may or may not be taught in their schools, and in many places, particularly in the Deep South, textbooks must accord with very narrow religious views. In Alabama, for instance, it is illegal to teach evolution as anything other than ―an unproven belief‖. All biology textbooks must carry a statement saying ―This textbook discusses evolution, a controversial theory some scientists present as a scientific explanation for the origin of living things. ―By laws, teachers must give equal weight to the notion that the earth was created in seven days and everything on it—fossils, coal deposits, dinosaur bones—is no more than 7,500 years old. I don‘t know what slogan Alabama has on its number plates, but ―Proud to be Backward: sounds suitable to me.
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