UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ESOL EXAMINATIONS

English for Speakers of Other Languages

DELTA MODULE ONE D031/1

Understanding language, methodology and resources
for teaching
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PAPER 1

Wednesday 3 JUNE 2009 Morning 1 hour 30 minutes

Additional materials:
Answer booklet

Time 1 hour 30 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Do not open this booklet until you are told to do so.
Write your name, Centre number and candidate number in the spaces provided on your
answer booklet and on any separate answer paper used.
Complete all tasks.
Write your answer in the separate answer booklet. Use a pen.
You may write on the question paper, but you must write your answer in pen in the answer
booklet. You will have no extra time for this, so you must finish in one hour and thirty minutes.
At the end of the test, hand in both the question paper and the answer booklet and ensure that
any separate paper used is placed inside the back cover of the answer booklet.

INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES

This paper consists of five tasks.
Suggested timings are indicated for each task.

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UCLES 2009 Delta Module One
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Task One (5 minutes)

Provide the term for each definition.

Write your answers in your answer booklet. Provide only one answer per question.

a a feature of connected speech when a sound changes to another sound because of a

neighbouring sound e.g. in ten boys /n/ followed by /b/ changes to /m/ as in /tembz/

b a word which is opposite in meaning to another one, for example adjectives such as big small or
verbs such as arrive leave

c a test which compares test takers to each other rather than against external criteria

d a procedure in which students create a text by planning, drafting, revising, editing and then
publishing or sharing it with others

e verbs which are used to support another verb in a sentence and have a grammatical function such
as showing tense, aspect, person, voice and mood e.g. be, do, have, will, may, can

f language used by speakers to avoid frequent, long or silent pauses, to hold the floor, gain thinking
time etc. e.g. er, um, well, you know

Task Two (15 minutes)

Provide a definition and an appropriate brief example or illustration for four of the terms below.

Write your answers in your answer booklet.

a syntax

b bound morpheme

c compound words

d TPR (Total Physical Response)

e tonic syllable

f genre
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Task Three (15 minutes)

The extract for this task is a speaking activity for pre-intermediate level learners.

Identify a total of five key speaking subskills/features of discourse that learners at this level would
need in order to complete the activity successfully. Provide an example specific to this activity to
support each choice.

Write your answer in your answer booklet.

The extract is taken from face2face Pre-intermediate Students Book, Chris Redston and Gillie
Cunningham, Cambridge University Press, 2005, page 118.

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Task Four (30 minutes)

The text for this task is reproduced on the opposite page.

a The text is a human interest story from a popular newspaper. Identify five features of the text
which are typical of this genre. Give one example of each feature you identify. You must
include features of organisation and of language.

b (i) Look at this extract from the text (lines 1-3). Comment on the form and meaning/use of the
words in bold as they are used in this text.

Everyone wants their wedding day to be perfect and chances are this couple
will have at least one good one ...

(ii) Comment on the phonology of the following:

at least one good one (line 3)

c Look at the following three extracts taken from the text, all of which contain the word would.
Comment on the form and meaning/use of would in each case.

So the couple decided that, if their families could not come to the wedding, the
wedding would come to them. (lines 9-11)
Mrs Feeney, 31, said the five ceremonies would cost them 7,000... (lines 13-15)
I would certainly recommend having lots of weddings. (lines 34-35)

d Look at this extract from the text.

(i) Comment on the form and meaning/use of the word in bold.

(ii) What problems might learners have with the form and meaning/use?

...a beach wedding attended by Mrs Feeneys father, Peter (lines 28-29)

Write your answers in your answer booklet.

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Copyright Associated Newspapers Ltd 2008

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Task Five (25 minutes)

The text for this task is reproduced on the opposite page. It was written by a learner in an
intermediate class in response to the following task:

Write a description of your country to put in our class encyclopaedia. Include

information on geography, important dates, economy, natural resources, places of
interest and languages.

a Identify three key strengths and three key weaknesses of the text. Provide an example of each
strength and each weakness.

Your answer should focus on some or all of the areas listed below:

Task achievement
Organisation
Complexity and range of language
Accuracy of language

b Which one of the weaknesses identified above would you choose to prioritise? Give three
reasons for your choice.

Write your answers in your answer booklet.

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