Fourth Year English Dept/ Testing. 2012- 2013.
c. Matching
Tests of this type are not popular nowadays as they test words in
isolation. In constructing these tests, the teacher has to prepare
two lists of words. The number of words in the second list should
be more than that of the first. Matching words can be based on
synonyms, antonyms or collocations. Below are three examples
illustrating the major types of matching items.
Example1
Write the number of the word in list "A" and the letter of the word
or phrase in list "B" that gives its meaning.
List A
1. difficult
2. support
3. emerge
List B
a. contribute
b. help
c. play part
d. hard
e. effective
f. appear
Example 2
Write the number of the word in list "A" and the letter of the word
or phrase in list "B" that gives its opposite meaning.
List
1.
2.
3.
A
ugly
back
respect
List
a.
b.
c.
d.
B
look down upon
bad
encourage
hate
e. beautiful
f. front
Example 3
Write the number of the word in list "A" and the letter of the word
in list "B" that best collocates with it.
List A
1. weak
2. heavy
3. sharp
4. easy
5. brave
List
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
B
pencil
chair
soldier
drinker
tea
mouth
The examiner may provide a contextualized vocabulary test in
which he provides the testees with.
a. a vocabulary list
b. pictures
c. stems
The testees are required to fill in the gaps in the stems with
words chosen from the list. The pictures function as situations that
give clues, consider this vocabulary test.