ESL Supplemental Practice Test 1 –
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1. Mr. Sauls teaches a high school biology class made up of native speakers and intermediate to
advanced ESL students. A good bit of the course work involves conducting experiments in class by
following written directions provided by the teacher. Students work collaboratively on each
experiment. Which of the following teaching activities would enable Mr. Sauls to promote his ESL
students understanding of science content?
A. To help the students understand the scientific concepts addressed by the hands-on
experiments, Mr. Sauls has the ESL students read elementary-level books on the
relevant science concepts.
B. Before the next experiment, Mr. Sauls schedules a computer lab period so that ESL
students can search for information on the experiment on websites in their native
language.
C. Before the next experiment, Mr. Sauls models a similar experiment and posts
illustrations throughout the room to reinforce the ESL stu - Correct Answers: ✔✔C
2. Mr. Reyes teaches fourth grade in a South Texas school district. He wants to create a multicultural
and multilingual environment in his math classes. One day, he brings in materials for students to
make their own piñatas. Mr. Reyes creates a math unit structured around the piñatas as
manipulatives. In what primary way does the introduction of the piñatas contribute to creating a
multicultural and multilingual environment?
A. The students will be unable to talk about the piñatas in English and will have to use
Spanish.
B. The students will want to talk in Spanish, and this will provide the teacher an
opportunity to direct the students into English-only math.
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, C. Because he is using piñatas as props, the teacher will have to create the math
problems in Spanish.
D. The math lessons the teacher creates around the piñatas will connect students funds
of knowledge to academic course content. - Correct Answers: ✔✔D
3. Mr. Reyes teaches fourth grade in a South Texas school district. He wants to create a multicultural
and multilingual environment in his math classes. One day, he brings in materials for students to
make their own piñatas. Mr. Reyes creates a math unit structured around the piñatas as
manipulatives. In what primary way does the introduction of the piñatas contribute to creating a
multicultural and multilingual environment?
A. The students will be unable to talk about the piñatas in English and will have to use
Spanish.
B. The students will want to talk in Spanish, and this will provide the teacher an
opportunity to direct the students into English-only math.
C. Because he is using piñatas as props, the teacher will have to create the math
problems in Spanish.
D. The math lessons the teacher creates around the piñatas will connect students funds
of knowledge to academic course content. - Correct Answers: ✔✔C
4. A high school teacher wants to promote his ELL students' vocabulary development but does not
want to administer vocabulary tests. To best meet his literacy development goal, the teacher
A. has students pick vocabulary slips out of a box. Each student creates an illustrated
poster to introduce her or his word to the whole class.
B. makes a list of challenging words from the class texts and has students guess at the
meaning of the words.
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, C. makes a list of challenging words from the class texts and has students find where the
words occur in those texts.
D. posts a new-word-a-day calendar and has a student volunteer read the word of the
day at the beginning of each school day. - Correct Answers: ✔✔A
5. ESL teachers at a high school with a sheltered instruction program present a workshop on
Effective Teaching Strategies for Promoting ESL Student Success in All Content Areas. The
workshop is a response to content-area teachers' concerns about not knowing how to adjust their
teaching to meet ESL students' needs. Which of the following additional advocacy activities would
best enable the ESL teachers to improve their content-area colleagues' instructional effectiveness?
A. The ESL teachers team teach one or two classes with the content-area teachers to
demonstrate how to accommodate instruction and integrate ESL strategies.
B. The ESL teachers tell the content-area teachers to avoid difficult vocabulary and to
repeat everything multiple times because ESL students have trouble hearing things
correctly.
C. The ESL teachers tell the content-area teachers that ESL students often lack parental
support in challenging acad - Correct Answers: ✔✔A
6. A high school teacher is having a writing conference with Ana, an advanced ELL student. The
teacher asks a question about a sentence in the draft. The student writer responds, "As I was
reading the sample essay. It had a sentence like this one." The student's utterance is an example
of
A. interference.
B. transfer.
C. word coinage.
D. code-switching. - Correct Answers: ✔✔D
7. A high school teacher is having a writing conference with Ana, an advanced ELL student. To most
likely promote the student's oral-language competence, the teacher
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, A. makes the student repeat the utterance until she uses only L2 language.
B. corrects the student orally and has her write down the corrected L2 version.
C. doesn't say anything because the insertion of the L1 word does not interfere with the
speaker's communicative intent.
D. repeats the sentence, correcting the student's L1 usage and tells her never to use L1
words in L2 utterances. - Correct Answers: ✔✔C
8. In assigning listening and speaking class activities, an ESL teacher needs to take into account
individual differences in language and culture because
A. in a class with diverse languages and cultures represented, the teacher needs to figure
out how to get everyone to understand each other.
B. culturally based behavioral and social norms impact oral-language interactions in the
class environment.
C. most ESL students are very uncomfortable about speaking in public.
D. rates of oral-language acquisition vary significantly among individual students. -
Correct Answers: ✔✔B
9. The following sentences are from a high school student's essay about the day he and his
classmates made a teacher cry. "Instead of starting the new lesson like we did everyday, she
asked us what we thought about her and her teaching. That's when an explosion of comments
erupted from us like lava flowing from a volcano." Which of the following terms is the best label
for the underlined phrase?
A. Hyperbole
B. Imagery
C. Simile
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1. Mr. Sauls teaches a high school biology class made up of native speakers and intermediate to
advanced ESL students. A good bit of the course work involves conducting experiments in class by
following written directions provided by the teacher. Students work collaboratively on each
experiment. Which of the following teaching activities would enable Mr. Sauls to promote his ESL
students understanding of science content?
A. To help the students understand the scientific concepts addressed by the hands-on
experiments, Mr. Sauls has the ESL students read elementary-level books on the
relevant science concepts.
B. Before the next experiment, Mr. Sauls schedules a computer lab period so that ESL
students can search for information on the experiment on websites in their native
language.
C. Before the next experiment, Mr. Sauls models a similar experiment and posts
illustrations throughout the room to reinforce the ESL stu - Correct Answers: ✔✔C
2. Mr. Reyes teaches fourth grade in a South Texas school district. He wants to create a multicultural
and multilingual environment in his math classes. One day, he brings in materials for students to
make their own piñatas. Mr. Reyes creates a math unit structured around the piñatas as
manipulatives. In what primary way does the introduction of the piñatas contribute to creating a
multicultural and multilingual environment?
A. The students will be unable to talk about the piñatas in English and will have to use
Spanish.
B. The students will want to talk in Spanish, and this will provide the teacher an
opportunity to direct the students into English-only math.
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, C. Because he is using piñatas as props, the teacher will have to create the math
problems in Spanish.
D. The math lessons the teacher creates around the piñatas will connect students funds
of knowledge to academic course content. - Correct Answers: ✔✔D
3. Mr. Reyes teaches fourth grade in a South Texas school district. He wants to create a multicultural
and multilingual environment in his math classes. One day, he brings in materials for students to
make their own piñatas. Mr. Reyes creates a math unit structured around the piñatas as
manipulatives. In what primary way does the introduction of the piñatas contribute to creating a
multicultural and multilingual environment?
A. The students will be unable to talk about the piñatas in English and will have to use
Spanish.
B. The students will want to talk in Spanish, and this will provide the teacher an
opportunity to direct the students into English-only math.
C. Because he is using piñatas as props, the teacher will have to create the math
problems in Spanish.
D. The math lessons the teacher creates around the piñatas will connect students funds
of knowledge to academic course content. - Correct Answers: ✔✔C
4. A high school teacher wants to promote his ELL students' vocabulary development but does not
want to administer vocabulary tests. To best meet his literacy development goal, the teacher
A. has students pick vocabulary slips out of a box. Each student creates an illustrated
poster to introduce her or his word to the whole class.
B. makes a list of challenging words from the class texts and has students guess at the
meaning of the words.
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, C. makes a list of challenging words from the class texts and has students find where the
words occur in those texts.
D. posts a new-word-a-day calendar and has a student volunteer read the word of the
day at the beginning of each school day. - Correct Answers: ✔✔A
5. ESL teachers at a high school with a sheltered instruction program present a workshop on
Effective Teaching Strategies for Promoting ESL Student Success in All Content Areas. The
workshop is a response to content-area teachers' concerns about not knowing how to adjust their
teaching to meet ESL students' needs. Which of the following additional advocacy activities would
best enable the ESL teachers to improve their content-area colleagues' instructional effectiveness?
A. The ESL teachers team teach one or two classes with the content-area teachers to
demonstrate how to accommodate instruction and integrate ESL strategies.
B. The ESL teachers tell the content-area teachers to avoid difficult vocabulary and to
repeat everything multiple times because ESL students have trouble hearing things
correctly.
C. The ESL teachers tell the content-area teachers that ESL students often lack parental
support in challenging acad - Correct Answers: ✔✔A
6. A high school teacher is having a writing conference with Ana, an advanced ELL student. The
teacher asks a question about a sentence in the draft. The student writer responds, "As I was
reading the sample essay. It had a sentence like this one." The student's utterance is an example
of
A. interference.
B. transfer.
C. word coinage.
D. code-switching. - Correct Answers: ✔✔D
7. A high school teacher is having a writing conference with Ana, an advanced ELL student. To most
likely promote the student's oral-language competence, the teacher
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, A. makes the student repeat the utterance until she uses only L2 language.
B. corrects the student orally and has her write down the corrected L2 version.
C. doesn't say anything because the insertion of the L1 word does not interfere with the
speaker's communicative intent.
D. repeats the sentence, correcting the student's L1 usage and tells her never to use L1
words in L2 utterances. - Correct Answers: ✔✔C
8. In assigning listening and speaking class activities, an ESL teacher needs to take into account
individual differences in language and culture because
A. in a class with diverse languages and cultures represented, the teacher needs to figure
out how to get everyone to understand each other.
B. culturally based behavioral and social norms impact oral-language interactions in the
class environment.
C. most ESL students are very uncomfortable about speaking in public.
D. rates of oral-language acquisition vary significantly among individual students. -
Correct Answers: ✔✔B
9. The following sentences are from a high school student's essay about the day he and his
classmates made a teacher cry. "Instead of starting the new lesson like we did everyday, she
asked us what we thought about her and her teaching. That's when an explosion of comments
erupted from us like lava flowing from a volcano." Which of the following terms is the best label
for the underlined phrase?
A. Hyperbole
B. Imagery
C. Simile
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