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Interview Task 45 minutes
(i) Language Awareness
A Grammatical Terminology
Match the grammatical terms to the underlined word in each sentence.
Example: What a lovely day.
1. He speaks quickly.
2. I like cats.
3. There isn’t any rice in the cupboard.
4. The pen is on the table.
5. It’s a dog.
6. That’s the teacher who I don’t like.
7. That’s mine.
8. She works in Ankara.
9. I don’t like him.
10. Is that your coat?
11. The cinema is behind the supermarket.
adjective
12. I opened the letter because I thought it was for me.
13. She forgot to do her homework.
14. I like playing tennis.
15. You should go to the doctor.
16. I have lived in Turkey for a long time.
17. My roof was mended today.
18. I’m starting the course next week.
1. Adverb
2. Uncountable noun
3. Uncountabke noun
4. Definite article
5. Article
6. Personal pronoun
7. Posessive pronoun
8. Personal pronoun
9. Personal pronoun
10. Posessive adjective
11. Preposition
12. Gerund
13. Auxiliary verb
14. Lexical verb
15. Auxiliary verb
16. Auxiliary verb
17. Past participle
18. Present particle
infinitive adjective modal verb present participle conjunction countable noun
possessive adjective auxiliary verb indefinite article preposition
uncountable noun possessive pronoun definite article relative pronoun past participle
gerund personal pronoun object pronoun adverb
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B Naming Tenses
(from face2face Upper Intermediate Student’s Book, C Redston & G Cunningham, CUP, 2007, page 6-7)
Look at the article taken from a popular coursebook. Match the underlined words to the correct verb forms.
Present Simple .More people speak English.. Past Continuous have started moving
Past Simple Was chosen Present Perfect Continuous has been building
Present Perfect Simple is stored Present Simple Passive being invented
Past Perfect Simple had reached Past Simple Passive been spoken
Present Continuous is also changing
Fill in the gaps in these rules with continuous, perfect, simple or passive.
· We usually use .......Perfect........verb forms to talk about things that are repeated, permanent or
completed.
· We usually use ........continuous.........verb forms to talk about things that are in progress, temporary or
unfinished.
· We usually use .....continuous.......verb forms to talk about things that connect two different time
periods (the past and the present, etc.)
· We usually use .............passive...... verb forms when we are more interested in what happens to
somebody or something than in who or what does the action.
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(ii) Writing Task
Please write an essay of 250 - 300 words on the topic below. You will be assessed on the following
criteria:
· Task achievement
· Use, accuracy and range of grammar and vocabulary
· Spelling and punctuation
What do you consider to be the qualities of a good teacher and why?
Teachers play an important role in educating children and
teenagers and for this reason there must be good qualities for
being a role model and a good teacher.
A teacher should possess ample knowledge, sense of humor,
patience, passion, confidence and empathy. A good teacher
should have enough knowledge of the subject she is
teaching also about the culture and the society . She
should have full command on her subject. The teacher should
use the latest and most useful teaching techniques, she
should be open to the change. There should be place for
new ideas and new methods. A good teacher should know
that her students are visual, auditory and kinesthetic
learners and accommodate their needs carefully .
A good teacher should have confidence in herself and
also should be creative, motivated and have good rapport
with students and parents. Classroom management is
another important factor for a good teacher. A good
teacher should know how to maintain discipline in the class.