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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.

adjective

1. He speaks quickly.
2. I like cats.
3. There isnt any rice in the cupboard.
4. The pen is on the table.
5. Its a dog.

1. Adverb
2. Countable noun
3. Uncountable noun
4. Definite article
5. ndefinite article

6. Thats the teacher who I dont like.

6. Relative pronoun

7. Thats mine.

7. Possessive pronoun

8. She works in Ankara.

8. Personal pronoun

9. I dont like him.

9. Object pronoun

10. Is that your coat?

10. Possessive adjective

11. The cinema is behind the supermarket.

11.

Preposition

12. I opened the letter because I thought it was

for me.

12.

Conjunction

13. She forgot to do her homework.

13. nfinitive verb

14.

Gerund

15.

Modal verb

15. You should go to the doctor.

16.

Auxiliary verb

16. I have lived in Turkey for a long time.

17.

Past participle

17. My roof was mended today.

18.

Present participle

14. I like playing tennis.

18. Im starting the course next week.

infinitive adjective modal verb present participle
conjunctioncountable
noun
possessive adjective
auxiliary verb
indefinite article
preposition
uncountable noun
possessive pronoun
definite article
relative
pronoun
past participle
gerund
personal pronoun
object pronoun

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B Naming Tenses

(from face2face Upper Intermediate Students 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
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Past Simple
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Present Perfect Simple
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Past Perfect Simple ..................................
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Past Continuous
Present Perfect Continuous
Present Simple Passive
Past Simple Passive

Present Continuous ..................................

Fill in the gaps in these rules with continuous, perfect, simple or passive.

We usually use ........................................verb forms to talk about things that are

repeated, permanent or completed.
We usually use ..................................verb forms to talk about things that are in
progress, temporary or unfinished.

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We usually use ............................verb forms to talk about things that connect two
different time periods (the past and the present, etc.)
We usually use ................................. verb forms when we are more interested in what
happens to somebody or something than in who or what does the action.

(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?
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