TESTING VOCABULARY

LIMITED RESPONSE (GROUP TESTING)

The type of vocabulary testing activity below is “Limited Response” which is done with a group of young learners. The teacher hands out copied version of the activity to each learner in the class. He shows pictures and says, “Draw a circle around the train.” Then he asks three questions one by one for only very short answers; “Is the train blue?”, “Is the train yellow?” and “What colour is the train?” The whole class answers at the same time; “No”, “No” and “Green”. Lastly, the teacher says, showing the space under the picture, “Give a name to your train.” And the learners are expected to write any name they want. The teacher asks the similar questions below for each mean of transport and the learners do the same things.

1) TRAIN

“Draw a circle around the train.”

“Is the train blue?” (NO)

“Is the train yellow?” (NO)

“What color is the train?” (GREEN)

“Give a name to your train.”

2) BUS

“Draw a circle around the bus.”

“Is the bus black?” (NO)
 “Is the bus purple?” (NO)

“What colour is the bus?” (RED)

“Give a name to your bus.”

3) CAR

“Draw a circle around the car.”

“Is the car green?” (NO)

“Is the car blue?” (NO)

“What color is the car?” (BLACK)

“Give a name to your car.”

4) PLANE

“Draw a circle around the plane.”

“Is the plane yellow?” (NO)

“Is the plane red?” (NO)

“What colour is the plane?” (BLUE)

“Give a name to your plane.”

5) MOTORBIKE

“Draw a circle around the motorbike.”

“Is the motorbike green?” (NO)

“Is the motorbike black?” (NO)

“What color is the motorbike?” (YELLOW)

“Give a name to your motorbike.”

MULTIPLE-CHOICE COMPLETION

(Phrase/Sentence Completion)

“Circle the letter of the word that best complete each sentence.”

1) Spyware is __________ that hides itself somewhere on your computer collecting information about you and what you do on the internet.

a) hardware
b) ironware
c) software*
d) labware

2) “Move the __________ pointer to the top menu bar and select pattern by holding down the button.”

a) turtle
b) spider
c) hamster
d) mouse*

3) During the use of such programs, the user becomes familiar with the layout of the __________ and typing in information, as well as with search program commands.

a) keylock
b) keyboard*
c) keynote
d) keystone

4) In recent years, the recording industry feels it has suffered some reduced sales because of music piracy. People __________ music or transfer files from the Internet instead of buying the music on CDs sold by recording companies.

a) import
b) download*
c) forward
d) unmount

5) “If too many users attempt to access Facebook at once, it will not be possible to __________, and an entrance failure message will appear.“

a) log on*
b) sign in
c) hold on
d) check in

MULTIPLE-CHOICE PARAPHRASE

(Synonym Identification)

“Circle the letter of the best short definition of the key word.”

1) “After battery has been charged for a suitable period of time, an alarm feature alerts you to unplug charger from power outlet.”

a) unlock
b) cut down
c) disconnect*
d) break up

2) Every hotel in the group has a pleasant lounge and bar open until late for hotel guests and they all have a well recommended restaurant serving very reasonably priced food.

a) waiting room*
b) show room
c) board room
d) bed room

3) In some cases, teachers in fee-paying schools knew nothing until they received a letter announcing “the school has shut down and they are out of a job”.

a) call off
b) close down*
c) shut up
d) cover up

4) We can arrange for your luggage to be sent on ahead to each of the overnight stops.

a) group
b) property
c) hotel
d) belonging*

(Unrelated-Word Identification)

“Circle the letter of the word that is unrelated to the key word.”

5) Router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks and it is connected to two or more data lines from different networks.

a) internet
b) e-mail*
c) ethernet
d) wireless

SIMPLE COMPLETION

(Stem-First Procedure)

“Complete the words with suitable suffixes. E.g. Attraction”

1) (depend) So many items in our everyday life would be useless without __________ resources to make them worthwhile.

(dependable)

2) (prefer) “You walk to your London office in __________ to using your car on your non-interviewing days?” he asked, and Fabia looked swiftly down at the carpet.

(preference)

3) (embarrass) He gave an __________ laugh, then looked at his watch, saying, “No, it can't be ten past seven.”

(embarrassed)

4) (relax) “You also know this place exists for…” she paused for a piece of a second “…rest and __________.”

(relaxation)

5) (pollute) Our roads were clean and hygienic, and in our cities the air was not __________ with gases from a million exhaust-pipes.

(polluted)