JBL MODULE 1 ACTUAL TEST PAPER 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ tense.
Answer: A grammatical category which is used to indicate the time at
which an action happens by changing the form of the finite verb. English
has two: past and present, e.g. he walked and he walks.
⩥ direct test.
Answer: A test employing tasks which replicate real-life activities, e.g.
role-playing a job interview, writing a letter of complaint, or reading and
completing an application form.
⩥ minimal pair.
Answer: Two words which differ from each other in pronunciation by
only one phoneme e.g. met, mat; pin, bin.
⩥ superordinate/hypernym.
Answer: A term for an 'umbrella' item of lexis which subsumes a range
of more specific items, e.g. fruit in relation to apple, orange, pear.
⩥ product writing.
,Answer: An approach to developing learners' writing skills that is
informed by the belief that creating a written text is purely a matter of
imitating elements that are provided in a model.
⩥ gerund.
Answer: A noun that is created by adding -ing to the verb-stem (e.g.
Parking is not permitted).
⩥ corpus.
Answer: A database of real language samples (either spoken or written
texts) stored on a computer and which can be used for investigating
language use and structure. E.g. British National Corpus
⩥ content and language integrated learning, CLIL.
Answer: Using the medium of English to teach a subject such as
geography, natural science or history, to learners whose first language is
not English.
⩥ affricate.
Answer: A consonant sound in which the air flow is initially stopped, but
then is released slowly with friction, e.g. /tʃ/.
⩥ affixation.
,Answer: The morphological process of adding a bound morpheme to the
stem of a word, either at the end or at the beginning. This modifies the
word's meaning and/or changes its word class, e.g. adding ful to use or
un to tidy.
⩥ diagnostic test.
Answer: A type of test which is designed to show what language skills or
knowledge a learner already has. It is often used by a teacher to find out
how much a learner knows before beginning a language course.
⩥ assimilation.
Answer: A feature of connected speech when a sound changes to another
sound because of a neighboring sound e.g. in ten boys /n/ followed by
/b/ changes to /m/ as in /tembɔɪz/.
⩥ antonym.
Answer: A word which is opposite in meaning to another one, for
example adjectives such as big-small or verbs such as arrive-leave.
⩥ norm-referenced test.
Answer: A test which compares test takers to each other rather than
against external criteria.
⩥ process writing.
, Answer: A procedure in which students create a text by planning,
drafting, revising, editing and then publishing or sharing it with others.
⩥ auxiliary verbs.
Answer: Verbs which are used to support another verb in a sentence and
have a grammatical function such as showing tense, aspect, person,
voice and mood e.g. be, do, have, will, may, can.
⩥ discourse fillers.
Answer: Language used by speakers to avoid frequent, long or silent
pauses, to hold the floor, gain thinking time etc. e.g. er, um, well, you
know.
⩥ intransitive verb.
Answer: A verb which does not take an object (e.g. He runs every day.)
⩥ ellipsis.
Answer: The omission in speaking or writing of individual words, or
parts of a sentence, which are not needed to convey the meaning. For
example, it can be used to avoid repetition (e.g. 'Got a pen?' 'Yes, I
have.').
⩥ homophone.
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ tense.
Answer: A grammatical category which is used to indicate the time at
which an action happens by changing the form of the finite verb. English
has two: past and present, e.g. he walked and he walks.
⩥ direct test.
Answer: A test employing tasks which replicate real-life activities, e.g.
role-playing a job interview, writing a letter of complaint, or reading and
completing an application form.
⩥ minimal pair.
Answer: Two words which differ from each other in pronunciation by
only one phoneme e.g. met, mat; pin, bin.
⩥ superordinate/hypernym.
Answer: A term for an 'umbrella' item of lexis which subsumes a range
of more specific items, e.g. fruit in relation to apple, orange, pear.
⩥ product writing.
,Answer: An approach to developing learners' writing skills that is
informed by the belief that creating a written text is purely a matter of
imitating elements that are provided in a model.
⩥ gerund.
Answer: A noun that is created by adding -ing to the verb-stem (e.g.
Parking is not permitted).
⩥ corpus.
Answer: A database of real language samples (either spoken or written
texts) stored on a computer and which can be used for investigating
language use and structure. E.g. British National Corpus
⩥ content and language integrated learning, CLIL.
Answer: Using the medium of English to teach a subject such as
geography, natural science or history, to learners whose first language is
not English.
⩥ affricate.
Answer: A consonant sound in which the air flow is initially stopped, but
then is released slowly with friction, e.g. /tʃ/.
⩥ affixation.
,Answer: The morphological process of adding a bound morpheme to the
stem of a word, either at the end or at the beginning. This modifies the
word's meaning and/or changes its word class, e.g. adding ful to use or
un to tidy.
⩥ diagnostic test.
Answer: A type of test which is designed to show what language skills or
knowledge a learner already has. It is often used by a teacher to find out
how much a learner knows before beginning a language course.
⩥ assimilation.
Answer: A feature of connected speech when a sound changes to another
sound because of a neighboring sound e.g. in ten boys /n/ followed by
/b/ changes to /m/ as in /tembɔɪz/.
⩥ antonym.
Answer: A word which is opposite in meaning to another one, for
example adjectives such as big-small or verbs such as arrive-leave.
⩥ norm-referenced test.
Answer: A test which compares test takers to each other rather than
against external criteria.
⩥ process writing.
, Answer: A procedure in which students create a text by planning,
drafting, revising, editing and then publishing or sharing it with others.
⩥ auxiliary verbs.
Answer: Verbs which are used to support another verb in a sentence and
have a grammatical function such as showing tense, aspect, person,
voice and mood e.g. be, do, have, will, may, can.
⩥ discourse fillers.
Answer: Language used by speakers to avoid frequent, long or silent
pauses, to hold the floor, gain thinking time etc. e.g. er, um, well, you
know.
⩥ intransitive verb.
Answer: A verb which does not take an object (e.g. He runs every day.)
⩥ ellipsis.
Answer: The omission in speaking or writing of individual words, or
parts of a sentence, which are not needed to convey the meaning. For
example, it can be used to avoid repetition (e.g. 'Got a pen?' 'Yes, I
have.').
⩥ homophone.
