Microsoft Word Glossary March 2011 doc

Pupil profile chart 
A table or diagram used by teachers to record learners performance and progress in different skills during a course.
See chart, assessment chart/assessment profile. 
 
Puppet 
A model of a person or animal often made of paper or cloth, which a teacher or learners can move by putting their 
hand inside. Puppets are often used when teaching young learners. 
 
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Qualify
verb
 
Used in grammatical descriptions to refer to words that limit the meaning of something, e.g. in the sentence 
‘The young student sitting at the end of the row’, the underlined words qualify ‘student’. 

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Quantifier 
A word or phrase such as much, few or a lot of which is used with a noun to show an amount, e.g. I don’t have much 
time; I have a lot of books about music. 
 
Question mark: see punctuation. 
 
Question tag, tag question 
A phrase that is added to the end of a sentence to make it a question, or to check that someone agrees with the 
statement just made, e.g. It’s very cold, isn’t it? It isn’t very far, is it?  
 
Raise awareness
To help learners to start to understand something that they may not already know by drawing attention to it.
For example, if you teach learning strategies, it can raise learners’ awareness of how to learn.
 
Ranking, rank ordering, prioritising rank 
verb
 
Putting things in order of importance. In the classroom, a prioritising or rank-ordering activity is a communicative 
activity in which learners are given a list of things to rank (put in order of importance). It involves discussion, 
agreeing/disagreeing and negotiating.