Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.

In “She drives ________” and in “She has a ________ car”, you can fill in the blanks with the word fast because both the adjective and the adverb have the same form.

In regard to error treatment and language teaching methods, decide about the correctness of the items below.

In Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), errors of form are tolerated during fluency-based activities and are seen as a natural outcome of the development of communication skills. The teacher may note the errors during fluency activities and return to them later with an accuracy-based activity.

In regard to sentence connection, decide about the correctness of the following statements.

There is no change in meaning in “Luke, you had better listen to me, or be ready to bear the consequences” if the linking word is replaced by besides.

Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.

Where have all my students gone? There is everybody in the classroom.

According to the established rules of phonetics and phonology of the English language, judge the items below.

The following sets of words are illustrative of minimal pairs: toe/so, later/litter, they/day, bid/bead.

As regards language teaching methods, judge the following items.

There is student-to-student interaction in drilling exercises or when students take different roles in dialogs, but this interaction is teacher-centered. Also, students are not allowed to initiate interaction. This describes the nature of student-student interaction in Suggestopedia.

In regard to sentence connection, decide about the correctness of the following statements.

“Mark’s friends don’t like Japanese food, and Mark doesn’t either” would still be correct if rewritten as Mark’s friends don’t like Japanese food, and so does he.

Judge the following items.

“Playing video games and to watch sitcoms on cable TV are my favorite pastimes” is an example of coordinated structures with appropriate parallelism.

As regards language teaching methods, judge the following items.

Integrating the four skills (reading, speaking, listening, and writing) from the beginning is a characteristic of the Audio- Lingual Method because it is concerned with habit formation.

With regard to verb tenses and verb forms, judge the items below.

“That morning, by the time Hugh woke up, his wife had already gone to work” implies that Hugh did not see his wife that morning.

As regards language teaching methods, judge the following items.

Content-based Instruction, Task-based Instruction, and the Participatory Approach to foreign language teaching subvert the idea that students should learn to use a language and suggest instead that they should use a language in order to learn it.

Having in mind the established rules for the formation of comparative forms, judge the following items.

The sooner you arrive, the better.

With regard to verb tenses and verb forms, judge the items below.

Considering that Patricia said: “Don’t do this!” to her daughter, in reported speech, this sentence changes to “Patricia told her daughter for her not doing that.”

Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.

In “When traveling, one should be careful with one’s personal belongings”, the underlined form does not exist as a possessive adjective.

Having in mind the established rules for the formation of comparative forms, judge the following items.

Gisele Bündchen is at least 20 centimeters taller that the average Brazilian man.

As regards language teaching methods, judge the following items.

One of the basic assumptions of the Grammar-Translation Method is that by learning to communicate students will be more motivated to study a foreign language since they will feel they are learning to do something useful with the language.

With regard to verb tenses and verb forms, judge the items below.

The sentence “I wouldn’t have to deal with pollution if I lived in the countryside” describes a real present situation.

Decide about the correctness of the following items in regard to adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns.

In “The audience was _______ at the tragic ending of the play” and “The _______ news made them speechless”, the blanks should be filled in respectively with the words shocked and shocking.

With regard to verb tenses and verb forms, judge the items below.

In “He stopped smoking” and in “He stopped to smoke”, the meaning is the same because the verb “to stop” accepts both the infinitive and the gerund forms.

As regards language teaching methods, judge the following items.

In Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), the target language is a vehicle for classroom communication, not just the object of study. That is one of the reasons why the use of the mother tongue should be handled sensibly and carefully.