LICENSURE EXAMINATION FOR TEACHERS PRACTICE TEST

ENGLISH (MAJOR)

1. The first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A. Yasunari Kawabata
B. Rabindranath Tagore
C. Wole Soyinka
D. Po Chu-I

2. Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought.

A. Taoism
B. Confucianism
C. Hinduism
D. Buddhism

3. This ethical concept suggests a sense of obligation or indebtedness which

explains the sense of patriotism and nationalism of the Japanese.
A. on
B. seppuku
C. giri
D. Kami

4. What insight is suggested by this haiku from Basho?

Povertys child He starts to grind the rice
And gazes at the moon.
A. Nature has a soothing effect on the human spirit.
B. Child labor is a reality in many Asian nations
C. The poor dreams and are hopeful of better things in their life.
D. Life is never-ending routine of work and leisure.

5. He is the leading figure of the Negritude movement.

A. Leopold Senghor
B. Dennis Brutus
C. Wole Soyinka
D. David Diop

6. The plot development of the Ramayana.

A. Circular
B. En medias res
C. Linear
D. Pyramid

7. The South African novelist and short story writer whose major themes are on
exile and alienation, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
A. Ousmane Sembene
B. Nadine Gordimer
C. Bessie Head
D. Barbara Kimenye

8. This novel is based on the pilgrimage of the Bhuddist monk Xuangzang to India in
search of sacred texts.
A. The Tale of Genji
B. Dream of the red Chamber

C. Record of a Journey to the West

D. On Learning to be an Indian

9. Fine arts and literature flourished during this dynasty which is viewed as the
Golden Age of Chinese civilization.
A. Han
B. Tang
C. Chin
D. Shang

10. This excerpt from Soyinkas Telephone Conversation indicates the universal
issue of _________.
ARE YOU DARK? OR VERY LIGHT? Revelation came.

You mean- like plain or milk chocolate? Her assent was clinical, crushing its light
Impersonality. Rapidly, wave length adjusted, I chose, West African sepia. And as
an afterthought, Down in my passport.

A. gender discrimination
B. colonial mentality
C. human rights violation
D. racial discrimination

11. The Hindu belief that life is an illusion is __________.

A. dharma
B. artha
C. maya
D. kama

12. In which Jane Austen novel do the following lines appear?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good
fortune must be in want of a wife.
A. Mansfield Park
B. Northanger Abbey
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Sense and Sensibility

13. Which novel by Thomas hardy begins with the hero selling his wife and daughter
to a sailor who is on his way to Canada?
A. Return to the Native
B. Tess of dUrberville
C. Under the Greenwood Tree
D. The Mayor of Casterbridge

14. In what Shakespearean play do the following lines appear?

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form
and moving, how express and admirable!

A. Hamlet

C. A Midsummer Nights Dream

B. Romeo and Juliet

D. King Henry IV

15. What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys Tale of Horror?

A. Bleak House
B. Frankenstein
C. Heart of Darkness
D. Tale heart

16. Identify the poem from which the lines are taken:
I LOVE THEE WITH A LOVE I SEEMED TO LOSE WITH MY LOST SAINTS- I LOVE THEE
WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS, OF ALL MY LIFE! AND, IF GOD CHOOSE, I
SHALL BUT LOVE THEE BETTER AFTER DEATH.

A. Sonnet 53
B. Sonnet 43
C. Sonnet 15
D. Sonnet 14

17. What sound device is exemplified in the first two lines of Poes The Raven?
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood
there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever
dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness
gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the
whispered word, Lenore?
This I whispered and an echo murmured back the
word, Lenore!
Merely this and nothing more.
From The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe

A. Anaphora

B. Onomatopoeia
C. Assonance
D. Alliteration

18. What atmosphere do the images create?

A. Confusion
B. Contentment
C. Longing
D. Solitude

19. What figure of speech is exemplified in the following lines from Shakespeares
As You like It?
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou are not so unkind as mans
ingratitude

A. Allusion
B. Apostrophe
C. Personification
D. Metaphor

20. Who did Abraham Lincoln call the little woman who started the Civil War?
A. Rosa parks
B. Sojourner Truth
C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
D. Zora Neale Hurston

21. In the following dialogue, what Filipino value is affirmed by Marios statement?
Gloria: So, for a measly apple, you
lost a job you needed so much
Mario: I woulnt mind losing a
thousand jobs for an apple for my
daughter!

A. Parental sacrifice for children

B. Material comfort for the family

C. Family happiness over job security

D. Childs care above morality

22. Which famous painting is described in the poem?

He saw the terror and violence, and he
Depicted sorrow, too, and infamy.
Corpses are dragged across a blood
soaked floor.
What gods the victims di implore?

A. The Gladiator
B. Death in Rome
C. The Spolarium
D. The Execution

23. He in these lines of poetry refers to

A. Juan Luna
B. Jose Rizal
C. Resurrection Hidalgo
D. Emilio Aguinaldo

24. The foremost Filipino sonneteer.

A. Trinidad Tarrosa Subido
B. Angela Manalang Gloria
C. Nina Estrada Puyat
D. Rita Gaddi Baltazar

25. The pre-war writer of local color who excelled in presenting the simple life of the
Ilocano peasants is
A. Arturo Rotor
B. Francisco Icasiano
C. Amador Daguio
D. Manuel Arguilla

26. The Food expert who wrote on Filipino Cuisine is

A. Pura Santillan Castrence

C. Gilda Cordero Fernando

B. Doreen Gamboa Fernandez

D. Carmen Guerrero Nakpil

27. The writer acknowledged to have introduced modernism in Philippine poetry in

English is
A. Jose Garcia Villa

C. Hilario Francia Jr.

B. Angela Manalang Gloria

D. Cirilo Bautista

28. The literary awards started in 1950 is the

A. Commonwealth Literary Awards
Awards
B. Republic Cultural Heritage Awards

C. Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary

D. Stonehill Awards

29. Which writers organization tried to create a wide reading public for Filipino
writers by printing low-cost books?
A. The Veronicans
B. Barangay Writers Project
C. Philippine Book Guild
D. Philippine Writers League

30. Aliguyon, the most notable Ifugao hero immortalized in the epic Hudhud has
been written as a long poem by
A. Amador T. Daguio
B. Manuel A. Viray
C. Ricaredo Demetillo
D. Vidal A. Tan

31. The process of language learning characterized by repeated practice of

sentence patterns until they become habitual and automatic is __________.
A. simplification
B. hypothesis testing
C. habit-formation

D. over generalization

32. When teaching the difference between auxiliary verb and linking verb, it can be
pointed out that _____.
A. an auxiliary verb can stand alone
B. a linking verb cannot stand alone
C. a linking verb goes with a main verb
D. an auxiliary verb goes with a main verb

33. The view of language on which Audiolingualism is based

A. structural grammar
B. pedagogical grammar
C. functional grammar
D. transformational grammar

34. The theory of language learning that emphasizes the childs creativity in
constructing his/her knowledge of the language.
A. Cognitivist
B. funcionalist
C. behaviorist
D. interactionist

35. The innate property of all normal persons that enable them to learn a language
naturally and spontaneously is
A. language competence
B. comprehensible input
C. language performance
D. language acquisition device

36. Based on Canale and Swains model of communicative competence, the ability
of a language learner to repair communication breakdown is
A. linguistic competence
B. socilinguistic competence
C. discourse competence

D. strategic competence

37. What method is used when learning a language is facilitated in a relaxed

comfortable environment with dim lights and soft music?
A. Grammar translation method
B. Silent Way
C. Suggestopedia
D. Total physical response

38. The reading model that refers to a kind of processing in which meaning is
derived from the accurate, sequential processing of words. The emphasis is on the
text rather than the readers background knowledge.
A. Top- Down
B. Interactive Compensatory
C. Bottom-Up
D. Question-Answer relationship

39. An assessment device in which a student reads a series of selections that

gradually increase in difficulty is called
A. Cloze test
B. Informal Reading Inventory
C. Miscue Analysis
D. Retelling

40. A strategy that allows students to tell back what they have read is called
A. Introspection
B. Think-aloud
C. Retelling
D. Free-Writing

41. A learner who cannot read yet, but can comprehend text read aloud to him/her
can be categorized in
A. frustration level
B. instructional level

C. independent level
D. capacity reading level

42. An assessment device used to determine language competence and readers

comprehension is called
A. Cloze test
B. IRI
C. Miscue
D. Rubric

43. A reader got 30 correct answers in a 40-item cloze text. This reader can be
categorized under
A. Capacity reading level
B. Independent reading level
C. Instructional reading level
D. Frustration reading level

44. A subpart of an IRI requires student to read aloud the selection. This is done to
measure readers ability in reading
A. words in isolation
B. words in context
C. known words
D. unknown words

45. A grade 5 student got 25 items in a 40-item cloze test. Interpreting the result of
the test, the teacher should place the student under_______.
A. Independent reading level
B. Instructional reading level
C. Low reading level
D. Capacity reading level

46. Top-down process in listening involves _____________________.

A. information available within the text only
B. the inside the head information that the listener brings to the text

C. language information, contextual clues, and prior knowledge

D. the ability to process acoustic signals

47. A listener who hears sounds in the background but ignores them is into
________________.
A. attentive listening
B. critical listening
C. appreciative listening
D. marginal listening

48. One of the ways to effective oral communication is delivery of the message. This
means that the intelligibility and clarity of a message depends on:
A. how the message is constructed
B. how the message is articulated
C. how the message is sent
D. all of the above

49. The use of minimal pairs has been found to be very effective in developing
_____________.
A. aural discrimination
B. aural comprehension
C. oral discrimination
D. oral comprehension

50. When students engage in labelling a picture or a diagram, they are into
____________
A. while-listening
B. post listening
C. pre-listening
D. all of the above

51. Instructional materials are classroom tools which contain instructions to learners
or teachers and which specify
A. Methods and techniques

B. Syllabus design and approach

C. Goals and objectives
D. Learning text and tasks

52. An example of instructional materials which allows the learners to work

independently and learn a particular set of instructional objectives without the help
of the teacher is _____.
A. textbook
B. reference
C. workbook
D. module

53. Mrs. Reyes realized that the recommended textbook lacks discussions on
agreeing/disagreeing, and making/answering requests. She went to the bookstore,
but was surprised to see a whole range of textbooks in English. To find out what she
is looking for, Mrs. Reyes should_____.
A. scan the unit and chapter headings and read different activities
B. skim through the blurbs, the foreword and the table of contents
C. request for a copy of language textbook titles
D. ask the sales person to help her look for the book

54. With reference to goals and objectives, it is necessary to make a list of things
that _____.
A. learners are required to do in the real world
B. learners need to do in the different subject areas
C. learners need in a democratic society
D. parents expect their children to do in school

55. The curriculum goes through the stages of curriculum planning, curriculum
implementation and curriculum evaluation; the production of instructional materials
fall under ____.
A. Curriculum planning and implementation
evaluation
B. Curriculum planning

C. Curriculum planning and

D. Curriculum evaluation

56. An important step in ensuring the relevance of the instructional materials to the
rest of the curriculum is to keep a list of _____.
A. Policies issued by Deped
the PTA

C. Provisions in the constitution of

B. Goals and objectives of the curriculum

school

D. Visions and mission of the

57. One prime consideration of instructional materials is to link the materials to the
_____.
A. Curriculum
board

B. Current issues

C. Government policies

D. Textbook

58. The primary aim of second language teaching using the Audiolingual Method is
_____.
A. reading comprehension B. literary appreciation C. grammar & vocabulary
D. oral proficiency

59. Generally, the desired goal of English language teaching in the country is to
enable students to _____.
A. master English pronunciation, grammar, & vocabulary
B. achieve confidence & spontaneity in using English
C. communicate accurately, fluently, & appropriately
D. show sensitivity to contexts where English is used

60. A teaching practice which is compatible with Communicative Approach is one

that _____.
A. derives & makes explicit the grammatical rules of the language
B. follows the listen-speak-read-write sequence of skills
C. assesses the needs of the target learners
D. gives priority to oral proficiency

61. Who wrote this line? Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
a. Robert Browning
b. William Shakespeare
c. Rudyard Kipling
d. Edgar Allan Poe

62. What nationality was Robert Louis Stevenson, writer of Treasure Island?
a. English
b. Welsh
c. Irish
d. Scottish

63. Which Bronte writer authored Jane Eyre?

a. Charlotte
b. Emily
c. Cristina
d. Anne

64. In which century were Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales written?

a. 14th
b. 15th
c. 16th
d. 17th

65. The following taboo phrases were used by which writer? I fart at thee, shit on
your head, dirty bastard
a. Ernest Hemingway
b. Henry James
c. Ben Johnson
d. Arnold Bronte

66. In the book The Lord of the Rings, who or what is Bilbo Baggins?
a. man
b. hobbit
c. wizard
d. dwarf

67. Name the book which opens with the line All children, except one grew up?
a. The Jungle Book
b. Tom Sawyer
c. Peter Pan
d. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

68. How many lines does a sonnet have?

a. 12
b. 13
c. 14
d. 15

69. Who was the author of the famous storybook Alices Adventures in Wonderland
?
a. H.G. Wells
b. Lewis Carroll
c. Mark Twain
d. E.B. White

70. Cabbages and Kings (1904) is either a novel or a collection of related short sto
ries written by O. Henry. In it, he coined the phrase banana republic. On what was
his title based?
a. Mark Twains The Prince and the Pauper
b. Alice Hegan Rices Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
c. The Shahnameh an 11th Century Persian epic poem
d. Lewis Carrolls poem The Walrus and the Carpenter

71. Two versions of Robert A. Heinleins novel Stranger in a Strange Land have be
en published:
the edited version first published in 1961 and the original fulllength (60,000 words l
onger) published posthumously in 1991. From what does the title derive?
a. The play Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
b. The Old Testament Book of Exodus
c. The novel Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift
d. The book Utopia by Sir Thomas More

72. Southern American poet, novelist and literary critic Robert Penn Warren wrote A
ll the Kings Men in 1946. The novel won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. On what
is the books title based?
a. A verse in the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty
b. William Shakespeares play Richard III
c. Oscar Wildes short story The Young King
d. Joyce Kilmers poem Kings

73. Which novel, eventually published in 1945, was rejected by a New York publisher
stating it is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA?
a. Animal Farm
b. Black Beauty
c. Watership Down
d. The Tale of Peter Rabbit

74. Which writer of spy fiction, and creator of Smiley, was rejected with the words y
ou are welcome to **** he hasnt got any future?
a. Ian Fleming
b. John le Carr
c. Eric Ambler
d. Len Deighton

75. The Good Earth was rejected fourteen times, before being published and going
on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Who was the author?
a. Pearl S. Buck
b. John Steinbeck
c. Edith Wharton
d. Henry Miller

76. Irving Stones Lust for Life was rejected sixteen times, with one rejection statin
g a long, dull, novel about an artist. Which artist did the book feature?
a. Sigmund Freud
b. John Noble
c. Michelangelo
d. Vincent Van Gogh

77. Who is presented as the most honest and moral of Chaucers pilgrims?
a. The Knight
b. The Parson
c. The Reeve
d. The Wife of Bath
78. Out of the following four pilgrims, which is the most corrupt?
a. The Sergeant /Man of Law
b. The Wife of Bath
c. The Reeve
d. The Pardoner

79. He translated The Fall of Princes from the French.

a. William Langland
b. Sir Thomas Malory
c. Geoffrey of Monmouth
d. John Lydgate

80. What work contains these lines: There hurls in at the hall-door an unknown ride
r. . . Half a giant on earth I hold him to be.
a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
b. Morte Darthur
c. Piers Plowman
d. Canterbury Tales

81. Newspaper articles, advertisement, radio announcement, etc. in the real world
when used in the classroom situations are classified as _____.
A. Authentic materials
B. Audio-visual aids

C. Mass Communication materials

D. Recycled materials

82. A plan of what to be achieved through the teaching and learning process which
contains the course description, objectives, the topics to be taught and the require
ments is the____.
A. Course outline
B. Learning competency
C. Syllabus
D. Curriculum

83. He is the brainchild of the model of communication which source encodes

messages & transmits information through mass media to opinion leaders who relay
it to the public
A. Westley-MacLean (1955)

C. Watzlawick- Beavin- Jackson (1967)

B. Katz-Lazarsfeld (1955)

D. Shannon-Weaver (1949)

84. The context of communication process which includes location, time, light,
temperature, distance between communicators, and any seating arrangements.
A. Psychological aspect
B. Cultural norms

C. Physical setting
D. Historical aspect

85. The type of communication that involves two or three people talk with one
another in close physical proximity.
A. Interpersonal communication
B. Mass communication

C. Intrapersonal communication
D. Group communication

86. A general function of media which strengthen particular responses and reinforce
beliefs, attitudes, values and opinions. A student of English, for example, will
reinforce his/her knowledge of English by reading grammar books, listening to
lectures and watching TV programs on English improvement.
A. Entertain
B. Persuade
C. Reinforce
D. Educate

87. The activity in the communication process by which physical messages are
translated into a form that has eventual meaning for the receiver is referred to as
A. decoding B. feedback

C. convergence D. encoding

88. Read the banner headline of the Philippine Star:

AFP: No Ceasefire in Sulu
A senior military official denied yesterd
ay that the military has suspended its o
ffensive against Moro national
Liberation Front (MNLF) renegades in S
ulu, and belied claims by a local official
who said he had brokered
an informal ceasefire between governm
ent troops and Muslim rebels in the pro
vince.

In the headline, the colon functions as

A. an ascription

B. an attribution

C. a cue

D. a trim

89. What kind of lead does the article have?

A. Soft lead
D. Throwaway lead

B. Delay lead

C. Hard lead

90. Medias carrying of many stories surrounding the Y2K bug that was supposed to
turn computers haywire at
the beginning of the new millennium is an example of media
A. surveillance B. dysfunctions C. socialization

D. entertainment

91. Mr. Reyes made his students listen to an American visitor, and asked his them to
identify the reduced forms in fast speech (elision and assimilation). What listening s
kill is he trying to develop?
A. Perception Skills
B. Interacting with speaker
C. Dealing with information
D. Using knowledge of the world

92. Ms. Santos asked her students to listen for key words or phrases from a listening
passage. On the worksheet is a list of twelve key words or phrases. When they hear
a particular word or phrase, they check it off on the worksheet. If they dont hear a
particular item, they leave it blank. What process of listening is involved?
A. Bottom-up processing

B. Top-down processing
C. Interactive processing
D. Personalization

93. Your classmate approached you, crying because she failed in the final exams.
What type of purposeful listening will you be involved in?
A. Discriminative

B. Comprehensive

C. Therapeutic D. Critical

94. After working on a listening task, Ms. Jane made her students work on a listening
worksheet that would spell-out their mistakes in the activity. What stage of the
Integrative listening model is manifested in Ms. Janes activity?
A. Prepare to Listen
B. Apply the Listening Process Model
C. Assess Effectiveness of Listening Performance
D. Establish New Goal(s)

95. All of the following are problems that learners encounter when listening aside
from
A. Process

B. Task

C. Text

D. Goals

96. Which among the four basic types of speaking requires parroting back words,
phrases, sentences, which they hear?
A. imitative
responsive

B. interactive

C. extensive

D.

97. Ms. Theresa, an English teacher, divided the class into groups and gave a
problem-solving activity entitled Lost in a Desert Island. She wanted to provide
her students with an activity that would allow them to signal that one wanted to
speak. What specific speech routine used in conversation did Ms. Theresa adhere
to?
A. negotiation of meaning

B. feedback C. interaction

D. turn-taking

98. All of the following are problems that learners face when speaking aside from:
A. Clustering
B. Reduced Forms
C. Highlighted speech

D. Performance Variables

99. Despite his age and regional dialect, Manny Pacquiao still speaks in English and
has slowly improved his oral proficiency. Which factor is the most influential the
development of his oral proficiency?
A. Motivation
B. Native Language
C. Innate phonetic ability
D. Identity and Language Ego

100. Mr. Paner gave his class a group assignment. The class must come up with
possible solutions to the growing number of vandalisms in their school. Each group
is expected to come up with a proposal. What kind of speaking task is he using?
A. Imitative B. Intensive C. Responsive D. Interactive