Instructions
Choose the best answer for each of the following multiple-choice questions.
Questions
1. The oracy skills are ------------------------------------------------------------
a) Listening and reading
b) Reading and writing
c) Listening and speaking
d) Speaking and writing
2. Which of the following activities would not develop pupils’ listening skill?
a) Visual discrimination
b) Riddles
c) Sounds walk
d) Rhymes
3. Which skills deal with how people extract and make meaning from communication?
a) Receptive skills
b) Productive skills
c) Primary skills
d) Secondary skills
4. Which of the following pairs of language skills must we teacher first?
a) Reading and speaking
b) Speaking and listening
c) Reading and writing
d) Speaking and writing
5. A colleague teacher of yours wonders why you are giving much attention to the teaching of
listening and speaking in your English lessons. What are your reasons?
a) They are the receptive skills
b) They are the primary skills.
c) They are the productive skills
d) They are the secondary skills
6. Which of these can rhymes develop best in children?
a) Writing
b) Speaking
c) Reading
d) Seriousness
7. Which of these is not an aspect of the oval language component of the primary curriculum?
a) Riddles
b) Songs
c) Poem
d) Speech work
8. Which of the following is not a good strategy for developing listening skills?
a) The blind mouse strategy
b) Completion game
c) The metter and child game.
d) Dictation exercises.
9. Hearing depends on one of these:
a) Being passive while listening
b) Making meaning of what is heard.
c) Availability of enough sound
d) A good functioning of the oral organs.
10. Which of the following is true?
a) We hear will our ears but we listen with our minds.b) We can listen to what we have not heard.
c) We can easily interpret sounds we have not heard.
d) Listening is an active process of hearing.
11. Speaking involves -------------------structures are used and in --------situation.
a) When, which
b) How, what
c) Why, what
d) When, what
12. Speaking is a/an -----------skill.
a) Oracy
b) Literacy
c) Receptive
d) Passive
13. One of these is not an appropriate activity for developing speaking skills in pupils.
a) Role pay.
b) Conversation
c) Chain drills
d) Identifying rhyming words.
14. The following are all activities that can be used to develop the skills of oral language in
pupils except. ------------------
a) Sorting
b) Story telling
c) Singing
d) Sound walk
15. Literacy means one’s ability to -----------------
a) Read and write
b) Read, write and understand written language
c) Listen and speak
d) Think and speak
16. Story telling is one of the activities a teacher can use to develop a pupils -------------
a) Seriousness
b) Basic writing
c) Mechanical writing
d) Speaking and listening skills.
17. The following are the components of speaking and listening except. ------------
a) Fluency
b) Comprehensive
c) Analysis
d) Vocabulary
18. The procedure for teaching a speaking lesson include the following except. ----------
a) While speaking activities
b) Pre-speaking activities
c) Intermittent activities
d) Post-speaking activities
19. The following are the problems associated with using strategies to teach speaking and
listening lesson except ---------------
a) Large class size
b) Time allocated for the lesson
c) Inadequate LTME
d) Punctuality of the teacher.
20. One of the following is next an example of assessment tool for assessing speaking and
listening skills of the learners.
a) Dictation exercises
b) Retelling story
c) Sorting items
d) Following directions
ANSWER KEY
1. C
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. B
7. D
8. C
9. A
10. D
11. B
12. A
13. C
14. A
15. B
16. D
17. B
18. C
19. D
20. C
By kaaKyiRe Ransford
