Section 1: General TEFL Knowledge
1. Q: What does TEFL stand for?
A: Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
2. Q: What is the difference between TEFL and TESOL?
A: TEFL focuses on teaching English abroad; TESOL includes both domestic and
international teaching.
3. Q: What is CELTA?
A: Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults, a highly respected TEFL
certification.
4. Q: Is a degree required for TEFL?
A: Not always, but many employers prefer or require one.
5. Q: What is the minimum TEFL certification hour requirement?
A: Typically 120 hours.
6. Q: What is an EFL learner?
A: An English as a Foreign Language learner—someone learning English in a non-
English-speaking country.
7. Q: What does ESL mean?
A: English as a Second Language.
8. Q: What is a PPP lesson format?
A: Presentation, Practice, Production.
9. Q: What are receptive skills?
A: Reading and listening.
10. Q: What are productive skills?
A: Speaking and writing.
11. Q: What is classroom management?
A: Techniques used to maintain order and engagement in the classroom.
12. Q: What is scaffolding in TEFL?
A: Providing support to help students achieve learning goals gradually.
13. Q: What is TPR?
A: Total Physical Response – using movement to teach vocabulary and actions.
14. Q: What is the communicative approach?
A: A method focused on real-life communication and interaction.
15. Q: Why is error correction important?
A: It helps learners improve accuracy and confidence.
16. Q: What is a needs analysis?
A: A process to assess students' language needs and goals.
17. Q: What are authentic materials?
A: Real-world resources (e.g., menus, videos, brochures) used for language learning.
18. Q: What is the silent period?
A: A phase when learners listen more than speak while building language
comprehension.
19. Q: What is the difference between accuracy and fluency?
A: Accuracy is correctness; fluency is smoothness and ease of use.
20. Q: What is a warm-up activity?
A: A short task to activate prior knowledge or build energy at the start of class.
, Section 2: Grammar and Vocabulary
21. Q: What is the past simple form of “go”?
A: Went.
22. Q: What is a phrasal verb?
A: A verb combined with a preposition or adverb (e.g., “look up”).
23. Q: Give an example of a countable noun.
A: “Apple” – you can count apples.
24. Q: Give an example of an uncountable noun.
A: “Water” – it cannot be counted individually.
25. Q: What is the comparative form of “good”?
A: Better.
26. Q: What is a modal verb?
A: A verb that expresses ability, permission, or obligation (e.g., can, must).
27. Q: Define subject-verb agreement.
A: The verb must match the subject in number and person.
28. Q: What is the function of a conjunction?
A: To connect words, phrases, or clauses (e.g., and, but, because).
29. Q: What is an auxiliary verb?
A: A helper verb used with main verbs (e.g., be, do, have).
30. Q: What is the present perfect tense used for?
A: Actions that happened at an unspecified time or have relevance now.
31. Q: What is the passive voice?
A: When the subject receives the action (e.g., "The cake was eaten").
32. Q: What is the infinitive form of a verb?
A: The base form preceded by “to” (e.g., to run).
33. Q: Give an example of an adjective.
A: “Beautiful.”
34. Q: What are synonyms?
A: Words with similar meanings (e.g., big and large).
35. Q: What are antonyms?
A: Words with opposite meanings (e.g., hot and cold).
36. Q: What is a conditional sentence?
A: A sentence that shows a condition and result (e.g., “If it rains, we’ll stay home”).
37. Q: What is the third conditional structure?
A: If + past perfect, would have + past participle.
38. Q: What are determiners?
A: Words that introduce nouns (e.g., a, the, some, many).
39. Q: What is code-switching?
A: Alternating between two languages in conversation.
40. Q: What are collocations?
A: Words that commonly go together (e.g., “make a decision”).
1. Q: What does TEFL stand for?
A: Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
2. Q: What is the difference between TEFL and TESOL?
A: TEFL focuses on teaching English abroad; TESOL includes both domestic and
international teaching.
3. Q: What is CELTA?
A: Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults, a highly respected TEFL
certification.
4. Q: Is a degree required for TEFL?
A: Not always, but many employers prefer or require one.
5. Q: What is the minimum TEFL certification hour requirement?
A: Typically 120 hours.
6. Q: What is an EFL learner?
A: An English as a Foreign Language learner—someone learning English in a non-
English-speaking country.
7. Q: What does ESL mean?
A: English as a Second Language.
8. Q: What is a PPP lesson format?
A: Presentation, Practice, Production.
9. Q: What are receptive skills?
A: Reading and listening.
10. Q: What are productive skills?
A: Speaking and writing.
11. Q: What is classroom management?
A: Techniques used to maintain order and engagement in the classroom.
12. Q: What is scaffolding in TEFL?
A: Providing support to help students achieve learning goals gradually.
13. Q: What is TPR?
A: Total Physical Response – using movement to teach vocabulary and actions.
14. Q: What is the communicative approach?
A: A method focused on real-life communication and interaction.
15. Q: Why is error correction important?
A: It helps learners improve accuracy and confidence.
16. Q: What is a needs analysis?
A: A process to assess students' language needs and goals.
17. Q: What are authentic materials?
A: Real-world resources (e.g., menus, videos, brochures) used for language learning.
18. Q: What is the silent period?
A: A phase when learners listen more than speak while building language
comprehension.
19. Q: What is the difference between accuracy and fluency?
A: Accuracy is correctness; fluency is smoothness and ease of use.
20. Q: What is a warm-up activity?
A: A short task to activate prior knowledge or build energy at the start of class.
, Section 2: Grammar and Vocabulary
21. Q: What is the past simple form of “go”?
A: Went.
22. Q: What is a phrasal verb?
A: A verb combined with a preposition or adverb (e.g., “look up”).
23. Q: Give an example of a countable noun.
A: “Apple” – you can count apples.
24. Q: Give an example of an uncountable noun.
A: “Water” – it cannot be counted individually.
25. Q: What is the comparative form of “good”?
A: Better.
26. Q: What is a modal verb?
A: A verb that expresses ability, permission, or obligation (e.g., can, must).
27. Q: Define subject-verb agreement.
A: The verb must match the subject in number and person.
28. Q: What is the function of a conjunction?
A: To connect words, phrases, or clauses (e.g., and, but, because).
29. Q: What is an auxiliary verb?
A: A helper verb used with main verbs (e.g., be, do, have).
30. Q: What is the present perfect tense used for?
A: Actions that happened at an unspecified time or have relevance now.
31. Q: What is the passive voice?
A: When the subject receives the action (e.g., "The cake was eaten").
32. Q: What is the infinitive form of a verb?
A: The base form preceded by “to” (e.g., to run).
33. Q: Give an example of an adjective.
A: “Beautiful.”
34. Q: What are synonyms?
A: Words with similar meanings (e.g., big and large).
35. Q: What are antonyms?
A: Words with opposite meanings (e.g., hot and cold).
36. Q: What is a conditional sentence?
A: A sentence that shows a condition and result (e.g., “If it rains, we’ll stay home”).
37. Q: What is the third conditional structure?
A: If + past perfect, would have + past participle.
38. Q: What are determiners?
A: Words that introduce nouns (e.g., a, the, some, many).
39. Q: What is code-switching?
A: Alternating between two languages in conversation.
40. Q: What are collocations?
A: Words that commonly go together (e.g., “make a decision”).
