Centre Number Candidate Number

Candidate Name

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ESOL EXAMINATIONS

English for Speakers of Other Languages

DELTA MODULE ONE D031/1

Understanding language, methodology and resources Sample Test
for teaching

PAPER 1
Additional materials:
Answer booklet

TIME 1 hour 30 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Write your name, centre number and candidate number in the spaces at the top of this page.
Write these details in the spaces provided on your answer booklet and on any separate answer
paper used.
Do not open this booklet until you are told to do so.
This paper consists of five tasks.
Complete all tasks.
Write your answers in the separate answer booklet. Use a pen.
You may write on the question paper, but you must write your answers in pen in the answer
booklet. You will have no extra time for this, so you must finish in one hour and thirty minutes.
At the end of the test, hand in both the question paper and the answer booklet and fasten any
separate paper used securely to the answer booklet.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

Suggested timings are indicated for each task.

This paper consists of 7 printed pages and 1 blank page.

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Task One (5 minutes)

Provide the term for each definition.

Write your answers in your answer booklet. Please provide only one answer per question.

a the positive or negative impact of a test on classroom teaching

b the replacing of a noun phrase or a clause by a single word in order to avoid repetition or to make
a text more cohesive

c the theory which claims that every speaker of a language knows a set of principles which apply to
all languages and also a set of parameters that can vary from one language to another, but only
within set limits

d the attitudinal meaning of a word, which may be culturally determined, such as whether it carries a
positive or negative meaning

e the place in an utterance where the major pitch movement begins, marking the focal point of the
message

f a process through which an error has become a permanent feature of a learner’s language use
and is believed to be resistant to correction

Task Two (15 minutes)

Provide a definition and an appropriate brief example or illustration for four of the terms below.

Write your answers in your answer booklet.

a adjacency pair

b anaphoric reference

c collocation

d order of acquisition

e structural syllabus

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