1. Among Filipinos, the characteristic that makes English difficult to
understand is that it is a strange language.
2. ESP is centered on language appropriate to various activities that can
relate well with grammar, lexis, register, discourse, and genre.
3. In a performance-based assessment in ESP, using a rubric is best
applicable to oral interview.
4. Among ASEAN countries, Singapore is known as a shopper’s paradise.
5. An example of word-formation processes that changes “kindergarten”
to kinder and “air conditioning” to “aircon” is known as clipping.
6. A speaker should change the language according to the needs of the
listener or based on the dictate of the situation. This is NOT done by
sophisticating the language by using high terminologies for basal
learners.
7. Vowels are speech sounds made simply by shaping the oral cavity to
give the sound a particular color or timbre.
8. “PROFLIGATE as the spring sunshine.” The capitalized word means
overabundant.
9. An example of a bound morpheme ending in –ion that changes a verb
into a noun is action.
10. Everyone is an example of indefinite pronoun.
11. The indirect speech “I’m studying English a lot at the moment” means
he was studying English a lot at that moment.
12. Term, which represents the role of interlocutors, is NOT among the
variable of functional grammar
13. Systematic Functional Linguistics has three variables: Tenor, Field, and
Mode.
14. “We put it off too long” is a structure that uses “off” as an adverbial
particle.
15. “Alex is giving his boss a headache” is a structure that contains a
ditransitive verb group.
16. Course outline is the summary of main points of a text, lecture, or
course of study.
17. Audio-lingual method anchors on behaviorist assumption that
language learning is the acquisition of a set of correct language habits.
18. English is MOST interesting subject for Rizza. The adjective that
expresses supreme value is called Superlative Adjectives.
19. “Pedestrians are not permitted beyond this point” is an official sign in
the passive voice.
20. The THIRD child is the most brilliant. The capitalized word is an
example of ordinal adjectives.
21. Dwindle : increase :: stiffen : relax (Contrasting Analogy)
22. Farce is a type of comedy based on far-fetched humorous situation
often with ridiculous or stereotyped characters.
23. Life is like a roller coaster is an example of SIMILE.
24. Sounds like bam, bang, booing are examples of onomatopoeia.
25. The type of paragraph for the topic “The day I won the oratorical title
changed my self-perception” is Narrative.
26. “How long is the poem?” is NOT included in a poem’s context.
27. Imagery is BEST explained as when the author sends mental images in
the minds of the readers using words.
28. In a novel or short story, when the point of view assumed by the
narrator is able to tell everything that happens in the story, he is
omniscient.
29. When a scene in a story, novel, or play is interrupted to show an event
that happened in the past, it is known as flashback.
30. The resolution of the conflict of a story is called denouement.
31. In fiction, the transformation of a character from arrogance to
humility or the purgation and purification of character is known as
catharsis.
32. “Bad credit” and “Debit Card”, “The earthquake” and “the queer
shake” are examples of anagrams.
33. My head is bloody but unbowed is an example of Alliteration.
34. Juxtaposition is when a funeral home was built next to a children’s
nursery.
35. “O! Wild west wind!” is an example of Apostrophe.
36. Cliché is a colloquial expression that has been overused.
37. Silent Way method makes use of rods and colorful charts.
38. Skill-based Syllabus is a type of syllabus that is a collection of specific
abilities that may play a part in using language.
39. Use of grade readers is one approach applied in ESP to teach students
with a low level of knowledge of English. These materials refer to
different version of books with simplified grammar and vocabulary.
40. The strategy using examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, and
illustrations based on local culture, history and reality is called
localization.
41. The Philippine Qualifications Framework is very significant in the
development of content and performance standards.
42. An Act Enhancing the Philippine Basic Education System by
Strengthening Its Curriculum and Increasing the Number of Years for
Basic Education, Appropriating Funds Therefor and for Other
Purposes,” otherwise known as the “Enhanced Basic Education Act of
2013”
43. Substituting different sounds for the first sound of a familiar song can
help in developing phonological awareness.
44. Listening to classical music is one of his preferred leisure activities.
45. The past tense of hang is hung. Hanged is for death.
46. The study of the ways non-native speakers acquire, comprehend, and
use linguistic patterns or speech acts in a second language is known as
Inter-language Pragmatics.
47. Linguistic interference occurs when students learn another language
or dialect.
48. A summary of the main points of a text, lecture, or course of study is
called Course Outline.
49. Learning for empowerment and better self-image is an example of
intrinsic motivation.
50. An example is the term room for someone who stays in a dormitory or
shared room of a boarding house without meals provided is known as
bed spacer.
51. The primary aim of second language teaching using Audio-Lingual
Method is oral proficiency.
52. The aspect of Communicative Competence that deals with the
appropriate use of communication and coping strategies is known as
Strategic Competence.
53. Interpretability is the ability of the listener to understand the
speaker’s intentions behind the word or utterance.
54. A teaching practice which is compatible with Communicative
Approach is one that gives priority to oral communication.
55. The boy and the girl’s uncle is an example of a sentence fragment.
56. “Don’t make any comment unless you are fully aware of the issue.” is
an example of a complex sentence.
57. Josh dreads wild animals in the zoo. The function of the underlined
constituent is optional modifier.
58. Descriptive grammar refers to the structure of a language as it's
actually used by speakers and writers.
59. Prescriptive grammar refers to the structure of a language as certain
people think it should be used.
60. “The man with a tall hat sits rather uncomfortably at the dinner table”
is syntactically ambiguous.
61. “Shakespeare is a literary titan” exemplifies the literary device
Allusion.
62. Motif in literary writing is an image or idea repeated throughout a
work or several works of literature.
63. The focus of Medieval Literature is Religious, Divine and Spiritual.
64. New Criticism excludes the reader’s response, the author’s intention,
historical and cultural contexts, and moralistic bias from their analysis.
It does not allow inter-textual reading of literature.
65. Neoclassicism is characterized by a re-examination and imitation of
classical models, literary styles and values of the ancient Greek and
Roman authors.
66. All interpretations and meanings of a text are correct as accepted by
a Reader-Reception Critic.
67. In the excerpt “Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey / Dost
sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.”, Alexander Pope used
a literary device called Anticlimax.
68. Aesthetic Distance is the audience’s ability to remove themselves so
that they can contemplate and evaluate the performance and the
play.
69. Translatability is the capacity for some kind of meaning to be
transferred from one language to another without undergoing radical
change.
70. The literary movement known as the era of “decadence” which was a
reaction against realism, naturalism, and highly structured poetry is
called Symbolism.
71. Naturalism emphasized the hereditary psychological component of
characters and experimenting the connections between human
psychology and external environment.
72. A word can have associated mental images and meanings, often these
cannot be found in dictionaries. These are called Connotations.
73. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” In the opening lines of the
novel The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens used juxtaposition.
74. “The time is out of joint, O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it
right.” The two lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet which is
characterized by having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and
the same meter to form a complete thought is called a couplet.
75. A figure of speech that uses exaggeration is Hyperbole.
76. Appeal to Ethos means that the author convinces the audience using
his credibility, character or expertise. These include enumerating work
experiences, accomplishments, and character.
77. Appeal to Pathos means that the author convinces the audience using
emotions. The author aims to gather the audience’s sympathy and
draw pity or sometimes makes them angry.
78. Appeal to Logos means that the author convinces the audience using
logic and reason. The author presents facts, evidences and data to
convince the audience’s minds to accept his arguments.
79. Epiphora, also known as “epistrophe,” is a stylistic device in which a
word or a phrase is repeated at the ends of successive clauses.
80. The MOST important sentence in any essay is the thesis sentence.
81. Self-fulfilling Prophecy is where the prophecies are realized due to the
actions of a character who tries to prevent them (for example:
Oedipus Rex)
82. Antanaclasis is the literary trope in which a single word or phrase is
repeated, but in two different senses.
83. The person assigned to dictate the actor’s line if he forgets is called a
prompter
84. A poem that tells a lively or tragic story is called ballad.
85. The characteristic of a formalist’s criticism is that criticism is focused
on the work itself.
86. Nemesis is a literary device is where the good characters are rewarded
for their virtues, and the evil characters are punished for their vices.
87. The glass unicorn in The Glass Menagerie, the rocking horse in “The
Rocking-Horse Winner,” and the road in Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”
are examples of subjects.
88. “It’s no wonder everyone refers to Mary as another Mother Teresa in
the making; she loves to help and care after people everywhere, from
the streets to her own friends.” This is an example of an Allusion.
89. The words spoken by an actor directly to the audience watching a play
that the characters in the play do not hear are called aside.
90. The myths of the Greeks reflect a view of the universe that
acknowledges the mystery and beauty of humanity.
91. Antigone is sentenced to death for the crime of performing the burial
rituals of her brother.
92. Maria Makiling is a famous Filipino legend.
93. Malakas at Maganda is a famous Filipino creation myth.
94. The presence of the three gods: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos in Greek
Mythology symbolize that mortals’ fate depends on the gods.
95. In Greek Mythology, Jason sailed the long ship Argo in search for the
Golden Fleece.
96. Prometheus is the mythological titan punished by the gods for stealing
fire.
97. In the poem, “Vulture” by Chinua Achebe, the line that represents a
miserable or bleak scene is “Broken bones and a dead tree”
98. Li Qingzhao, the greatest Chinese poetess, is NOT known for
dominance of hyperbole.
99. Egyptian literature is identified as Mediterranean literature.
100. The first line of the Poem “Mind is Without Fear” by Rabindranath
Tagore “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high…” It
means only the fearless mind can hold its head upright.
101. Basho popularized Haiku in Japan. He creates visual and auditory
sensations with a few strokes of his writing brush.
102. “Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night” is a poem written by Omar
Khayyam.
103. Mao Tze-Tsung is a Chinese leader whose essays and poems depicted
the totalitarian rule in China and advocated a revolutionary
movement.
104. Haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5
syllable count.
105. The oldest Indian document of Sanskrit Literature is the Rig Veda
106. Thomas Jefferson refered to the Native Americans as “merciless
Indian savages.”
107. Benjamin Franklin added Humility in his 13 vitues because he is
reminded of his friend Quaker about how overbearing and insolent
he is.
108. New Criticism is characterized by emphasis on craft over content.
109. The forest in the play Midsummer Night’s Dream symbolize a place to
face trials for the characters to pass.
110. The “Declaration of Independence” is best described as accusatory
and subjective.
111. In Maya Angelou’s 'On the Pulse of Morning', it is suggested that each
new day gives people new chances.
112. Shakespeare’s technique of showing equivocation in his play
“Macbeth” is Irony.
113. According to Lincoln in “The Gettyburg Address”, the premise of the
war being fought is the government of the people, by the people, for
the people.
114. A story told in verse by unknown writers and usually meant to be sung
is a ballad.
115. The repetition of similar sounds usually consonant in a group of words
like “Doubting dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream
before?” is called Alliteration.
116. Sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic
pentameter.
117. A book-length fictional prose narrative which has many characters and
often complex plot is called a novel.
118. Epitaph is a description on a grave stone or a short poem in memory
of a deceased person.
119. Half rhyme is one of the major poetic devices. It is also called an
“imperfect rhyme,” “slant rhyme,” “near rhyme,” or “oblique rhyme”.
120. An important step in ensuring the relevance of the instructional
material to the rest of the curriculum is to keep a list of the goals and
objectives of the curriculum.
121. To home independent study strategies through prescribed tasks is
NOT a goal of K to 12 language teaching in the secondary level.
122. K to 12 language teaching in secondary school is NOT described as
literature-based and genre-focused.
123. All materials from the real world not intended for classroom use but
used in the classroom are called authentic materials.
124. The target language is used as an auxiliary / support language. This
statement DOES NOT characterized Direct Method of language
teaching.
125. The use of song, the worksheet, pair group, the teacher and the
students’ talk are provisions of the comprehensible input hypothesis
of Krahsen’s Monitor model.
126. Paul Grice’s cooperative principle is a set of norms that are expected
in conversations. It consists of four maxims: quality, quantity,
relation, and manner.
127. Maxim of quality: Utterance must tell the truth or something that is
provable by adequate evidence
128. Maxim of quantity: Utterance have to be adequate in speaking, not
more or less.
129. Maxim of relation: Response has to be relevant to the topic of
discussion.
130. Maxim of manner: Utterance has to avoid ambiguity or obscurity; it
should be direct and straightforward.
131. The generalization in the area of phonology that can be drawn from
the following linguistic data: table, attack, can, paper, space, accordion
is that a voiceless stop can be aspirated if it begins a syllable of a
stressed vowel.
132. The title of Leo Tolstoy’s short story about a man falsely judged and
accused of murder is “God Sees the Truth but Waits.”
133. Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta is considered as the Goddess of
Philippine Poetry.
134. “Magnificence”, the story about a girl abused by an old man, is
authored by Estrella Alfon.
135. The reality TV show Big Brother is based on the novel by George
Orwell entitled 1984.
136. When you use a fraction (one-third) with a countable noun, you use
the plural 'are'. If it was referring to a non-countable noun then it
would need to be singular 'is'.
137. /b/ sound is a voiced bilabial stop.
138. The first school established by the Americans in the Philippines that
aims to teach Filipinos how to use English is the Philippine Normal
School.
139. Direct Testing requires the candidate to perform precisely the skill
that the test wishes to measure.
140. The Structuralist Approach views that language learning is chiefly
concerned with a systematic acquisition of a set of “building blocks”.
141. The function of language test which aims to motivate students
pertains to learning.
142. Sociolinguistic component assesses the use of linguistic forms in
language performance.
143. The application of social and behavioral science research method to
the practice of journalism is called precision journalism.
144. In journalism, copy refers to any piece of material that makes it to
print.
145. The date line in a news story refers to the time when the story was
filed.
146. According to Wilson, the “heart of the theatre experience” is the live
relationship between the performers and the audience.
147. One way to see if translation communicates what the source text
communicates is by translation checking. The subjects of such activity
are called speakers with receptive language ability.
148. A foil is a character who contrasts with another character.
149. The first-ever printed material using the printing press is the Latin
Vulgate or Gutenberg Bible.
150. In creative non-fiction, you use essays and memoirs to support a factbased
narrative.
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