Tkt unit one presentation

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What is the TKT?
* A certificate in teaching English
* TKT tests candidates’ knowledge of:
• concepts related to language.
• language use and its background
• and practice of language teaching and learning.
* For pre-service teachers and for
experienced teachers

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TKT consists of three modules which can
be taken together, or separately, in any
order.
What is the TKT?
1. Language and background to language learning
and teaching.
2. Lesson planning and use of resources for language
teaching.
3. Managing the teaching and learning process.

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How is TKT marked?
All of the TKT modules are
taken on paper and consist
of 80 questions per
module.
You will have 80 minutes to
take each module, and
each question is worth one
mark.

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How is TKT marked?
Candidates' performance is reported using
four bands.

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7. Task Types
There are 4 types:
1. Matching
2. Multiple Choice
3. Sequencing
4. Odd One Out

8. Matching
One-to-One

9. Matching
Matching options from a text

10. Matching
3/4/5 Option Matching

11. Matching
Matching dictionary

12. Matching
Matching Errors

13. Multiple choice

14. Multiple choice

15. Multiple choice

16. Sequencing

17. Sequencing

18. Odd One Out

19. Odd One Out

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22. *If you could be any animal, what would you be?
*If you could have a conversation with any famous person, dead or alive, whom would
you choose?
*If you were given a million dollars that you had to spend in a week, what would you
buy?
*What was your favorite childhood game or activity?
*What is your greatest fear?
*What superpower do you wish you had?
*What are your best talents?
*If you could travel anywhere, where would you go?
* What’s your biggest regret?
* What TV show do you watch when you want to zone out?
* If you could tarvel in time, WHEN were you go?
* If you went on a Karaoke night, what would you sing?
*What is the best gift you ever recieved?
Random questions

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Everyone likes grammar…
right?

25. What is it?
Grammar describes how we combine,
organize, and change words and parts
of words to make meaning.
Grammar is the study of what FORMS
and USES are possible in a language.
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26. Remember…
* We use grammar to describe parts of speech,
grammar structures and how words are formed.
* We also use grammar rules, to explain how it
works.
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27. Key concepts:
A part of speech: describes the function of a word or
phrase in a sentence.
Can you name the nine parts of speech?
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29. There are 9 parts of
speech.
– Adjectives
– Adverbs
– Determiners
– Prepositions
– Pronouns
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– Conjunctions
– Nouns
– Verbs
– Exclamations / Interjections

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31. Write these words down
– Adjectives
– Adverbs
– Determiners
– Prepositions
– Pronouns
– Conjunctions
– Nouns
– Verbs
– Exclamations
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32. Now match the definitions…
1. They show an action, state or experience.
2. They describe or give more information about a noun,
pronoun or part of a sentence.
3. They describe or give more information about how,
when or where something happens.
4. They add information to adjectives, verbs, other
adverb or sentences.
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33. 5. They make clear which noun is referred to or give
information about quantity.
6. They connect a noun, noun phrase or pronoun to another
word or phrase.
7. They replace or refer to a noun or noun phrase just
mentioned.
8. They join words, sentences or parts of sentences.
9. They name people, places, things, qualities,
ideas or activities. They act as the subject/object of the verb.
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34. Functions – parts of speech Answer Key
1. They show an action, state or experience.
verbs
2. They describe or give more information about a noun,
pronoun or part of a sentence.
adjectives
3. They describe or give more information about how, when
or where something happens.
adverbs
4. They add information to adjectives, verbs, other adverb or
sentences.
adverbs
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35. 5. They make clear which noun is referred to or give
information about quantity.
determiners
6. They connect a noun, noun phrase or pronoun to another
word or phrase.
prepositions
7. They replace or refer to a noun or noun phrase just
mentioned.
pronouns
8. They join words, sentences or parts of sentences.
conjunctions
9. They name people, places, things, qualities,
ideas or activities. They act as the subject/object of the verb.
nouns
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41. Remember:
• Grammar rules also describe grammatical
structures, the arrangement of words into
patterns which have meaning.
• Grammatical structures are described in terms of
form and use.
a) Form: refers to the grammatical parts that make
up the structure and the order in which they occur.
b) use: refers to the meaning that the structure is
used to express.
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42. • Examples:
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Term Form Use
Past continuous
tense
Subject + past tense of verb to
be + -ing form of the verb
e.g. He was eating.
To describe a temporary
or background situation
in the past
Passive voice Subject + to be + past participle
(+ by + agent)
To show what happens
to people or things.
Comparative of
‘long’ adjectives
more + long adjective + (+ than)
e.g. He was more famous than
him.
Generally used with
adjectives of two
syllables or more to
compare separate things
or people.

43. Key concepts and the language
teaching classroom ( true or false)
• 1. Grammar rules describe the way language
works.
• 2. Language never changes overtime, so
grammar rules never change.
• 3. Teachers need to keep up to date with what
parts of the language are changing and how to
teach these changes.
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44. Key concepts and the language
teaching classroom ( true or false)
• 4. Learning grammatical rules and structures
give learners enough help with learning how
to communicate.
• 5. Learning some grammatical rules and terms
makes language learning easier for some
learners.
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45. • 6. Speakers of a language can never speak
and write it well without consciously knowing
grammatical rules or terms.
• 7. Grammar rules always describe spoken
language.
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46. -.-
• Key concepts and the language teaching classroom ( true or
false)
Answer Key
1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. True
6. False
7. False
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48. Wrap Up!
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