I. Multiple choice:

1. In China, foreign language teaching is composed of activities on four levels, the first of which is ______.

A. operation in the classroom B. preparation C. educational planning. D. evaluation

2. ______, created by linguists in their analysis of the sound system, the lexicogrammar and the meaning of a language, makes it possible to talk about what to teach.

A. Pedagogic grammars B. Dictionaries C. Linguistics D. The metalanguage

3. ______ is an official document that authoritatively determines the content and principles of teaching and learning.

A. A syllabus B. A textbook C. An educational plan D. A test

4. In a communicative syllabus, the objective of teaching a foreign language is developing learner’s ______.

A. linguistic competence B. Communicative competence C. grammatical competence D. sociolinguistic competence

5. The structural syllabus takes ______ as the basic teaching unit.

A. the word B. the discourse C. the sentence D the text

II. Answer the following questions:

1. What are the applications of linguistics to foreign language teaching?

2. What are the implications of linguistics to foreign language teaching?

3. What are the references to which the syllabus of foreign language teaching is designed?

4. What is the assumption of the structural syllabus?

5. What are the advantages and defects of the structural syllabus?

6. Give a brief introduction of the communicative syllabus.

7. What are the roles that the teacher needs to fulfill in communicative language teaching?

8. What’s the value of linguistics in the professional development of language teachers?

9. List three teaching methods that you are familiar with.