TKT (Teacher Knowledge Test)

"To teach is to touch a life forever".


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TKT is a test developed by Cambridge ESOL for English teachers to speakers from other languages. ...




Phonology refers to the sound features that are used in a language to communicate meaning.

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Extra information

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A brief explanation of what phonoly is and how to apply it.

Exercises to practice.

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Practice some TKT tasks about Phonology.


Function is the reason for communication. The reason or purpose for our communication is called function. It could be expressed orally or in writing. It explores and describes how people use the language.

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EXTRA INFORMATION

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Useful videos to learn more about Functions.

EXERCISES TO PRACTICE

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Practice some TKT tasks.


This blog is written for readers that are interested to learn about reading, its subskills and types. It contain the most relevant and useful information. So enjoy it.

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READING SUBSKILLS

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This blog took into account the most relevant reading subskills.

TYPES OF READING

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This blog explains the diferrent types of reading that will help people to have a better undestanding of the way that they can acquire useful information.

READING PRACTICE

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This blog contains diferrent websites where you can find free e-books that you can read to learn about diferent subject depends what you need.


What is writing?

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PROCESS OF WRITING

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This blog will describe the process of writing: thinking, drafting, revising, and editing.”

This blog explains in a concise way the types of classroom writing performance.

PRACTICE

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Exercises


Language has four skills, two perceptive and two productive. Listening belongs to.....

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Listening Sub-skills

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The four English language skills: reading, listening, writing, and speaking has sub-skills to make clear the use of the skill. Listening has a variety of sub-skills. Here, we are going to name some of them.

Connected Speech

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Listening focuses on understanding spoken language. It means that sounds, words, and sentences are joined to have a connected speech. Connected speech is when people communicate in a certain language, every word has some effects on each other.

Practice questions:

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Try to solve the following exercises to know if you need more practice before taking the TKT Test.


Speaking is another skill from English language. Unlike listening, speaking is a productive skill.

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Speaking sub-skills

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As second language speakers, we have the need to be a good one. There are some sub-skills that it requires. Here, you have some important ones with their descriptions.

Extra Information

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If you want to make sure about your knowledge of speaking, see the video before making practice questions.

Practice Questions

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Solve the questions before reading the information. Write your answer on your noteboke and chek it with the answer key


Motivation is the desire and willingness of people that make them to start or contiue doing something.

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Key Concepts

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There are six important factors that influence learner's motivation in a classroom

According to Z. Dornyei and K. Csizér, investigators of motivation, have set ten important items that influece learners' motivation


Recently, some investigators have discovered that learning a language is more than only study. Exposure is the new way to learn because when people are exposed to English by reading books, writing letters, watching movies or videos and listening to music, learners unconsciously start using the language.

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KEY CONCEPTS

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Some researchers have studied some different ways to acquire a language that involves some factors

Language is taught, learned and acquired depending on age, level, culture and environment


Errors are part of the leaning process, students show frequently them. There is no exception with the language learning. Students tend to have errors as part of their experience with the language. Even if they have mistakes, they are learning. Students will be aware of the needs. Through mistakes they will make some changes to correct them and to improve them.

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It is clear that L1 is learned in a different context and in a different way in comparison with L2. There are three main difference between them such as age, ways of learning, and the context.

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EXTRA INFORMATION

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Videos to reinforce your knowledge with L1 and L2, and to practice some examples.


Here you will find the description of the most common learning styles. Besides I short description about Gardner's theory related to the multiple intelligences.

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MOTIVATION

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This blog explains how motivation influence in English learning to learners acquire the language.

Each learner has his own experience at learning a language

MATURITY

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Teacher should be aware of the different stages of people when they are learning a language because it determines the grade of maturity that they could have at moment to develop learning skills.

LEARNING STRATEGIES

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This blog show different examples of learning strategies to help them to be more autonomous when acquiring a new language like the English.


A teacher needs to identify learners' needs. Also, there are some types of needs, we are going to specify on the following pages.

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KIND OF NEEDS

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There are different kinds of needs. A teacher should know how to identify each of them to help their students overcome them.

A learner's need represent an obstacle for acquiring complete learning. Teachers must know those needs to help them to overcome and offer equality for everybody.

EXERCISES

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Here, you will find some exercises similar to the real exam. Practice and verify your answer on the answer-key page.


An approach referring to language teaching is the theoretical way of language and its works. In the following chart, we are going to explain some approaches to language teaching.

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As you have already read, an approach refers to the teory of the language. There are many different approaches. All of those approaches were held by different prponents. Here, you will find four theoretical orientations to clasify them.

KEY POINTS

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Here, you are going to check a detailed video that gives you key points to be prepared for the exam.

EXERCISES

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Read carefully all of the exercises and write in your notebook the answers. Then check and correct them with the answer-key page.


Aims are what teachers and students want to achieve in a lesson or sequence of lessons. Teachers should plan a variety of classroom activities to achieve those aims.

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HOW DO WE IDENTIFY AIMS?

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Identifying and selecting the most appropriate aims for a group of students. There are three different kinds of aims: main, subsidiary, and personal.

WRITING AIMS

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The aims can be flexible and dependable on several things like your students' level and interests, syllabus, teaching method, and some others. It is recommendable to write the aims before starting a lesson plan to make sure what learners are able to do at the end of the lesson.

PRACTICE EXERCISES

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Practice the following exercises in your notebook. Then, check the answer on the answer key page


A lesson plan is the teacher's road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done effective during class time. Planning a lesson helps teachers to:...............

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LESSON PLAN PROCEDURE

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Lesson plans have different methods and approaches to be developed like TBL, CLIL, PPP, Lexical Approach, Functional Apprach, etc. Furthermore, teachers have to fullfill requirements asked by the institution where they work.....

LESSON PLAN EXAMPLES

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As you already know, there are a huge amount of lesson templates. Institutions and teachers design the template according to their needs. A lesson should have all of the components required to be a good lesson. Does not matter the design, the most important thig is the content.

PRACTICE EXERCISES

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Practice the following exercises in your notebook. Then, check the answer on the answer key page.


This blog show you how to plan a series of lesson plans.

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SEQUENCE OF LESSONS

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This blog describes the kind of sequence of lesson that you as teacher should know in order to integrate language and topics into a lesson.

Here you will find some aspects to ensure that your lesson plan is appropriate and have the most important components.

This blog is about what aspects we have to take into account to plan a lesson plan. For example the aims, method or approach, techniques, and activities in order to achieve the identified aim.


This blog has some examples of formal assessment activities.

ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES

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Reference resources are all the sources where we can find plenty of information about two main points. They are about language and teaching. So, it is crucial and useful help to prepare the classes. Some factors are included in it.

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Teachers select their coursebook and supplementary materials according to their students´ profile and their purposes with them. It helps to portray how the students are developing, their similarities and differences with the lessons.

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Some information to write and speak accurately and avoid making a lot of mistakes at the time to produce the English langauge either orally or verbally.

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KEY CONCEPTS

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Key concepts about mistakes to take into account into the lessons.

COMMON ENGLISH MISTAKES

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The most common mistakes at learning English language.


Every teacher plays an important role in the students' lives. A teacher inspires and encourages them to acquire knowledge and make positives changes in the world.....

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TEACHERS' ROLES

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Here, you are going to read some roles teachers adop during a class and a short description. Also, you can understand at wha stage is adopted each teacher's role.

At the beginning, selecting a teacher role coculd ne difficult because you don not feel comfortable or not have experience with a specific role.

EXERCISES

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Practice this exercises and be prepared for the exam!! Check the answers on the answer key.


What does grouping learners mean?

KEY CONCEPTS

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30May

Here, you have the answers to the exercises that you did in each unit.

UNIT 1

1. a. between;  b. next to;  c. behind;  d. in front of 

2. a. P;    b. P;    c. F;    d. PS 

3. a. is living; b. haven´t gotten/ have not gotten; c. didn´t eat / did not eat; d. don´t have/ do not have; e. will work

4. a. but;   b. not only...but also;  c. although;  d. and  e. because 

UNIT 2

1. Answer may vary 

2. a. ice cream (answer may vary)  b. brainstorm (answer may vary)   c. airplane  (answer may vary)   d. daydream (answer may vary) 

3. Answer may vary

UNIT 4

A. 1. E; 2. A; 3. C; 4. G; 5. D; 6. B

B. 

  1. I
  2. F
  3. I
  4. F
  5. I
  6. N

UNIT 6  

  1. C
  2. B

UNIT 7

                           
1. A
2. A
3. C
4. C

UNIT 8

1. H                
2. A
3. E
4. G
5. B
6. F
7. D

UNIT 22

1B

2A

3C

4H      


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