Delta Module 1 Terms Exam All Possible Questions and Answers with complete solution

cohesion - Answer-The use of grammatical and lexical means to achieve connected text, either spoken or written. These include: reference words e.g. this, the, it; linkers, e.g. However and topicrelated lexis. 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