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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.
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 basallearners.
7. Vowels are speech sounds made simply by shaping the oral cavity to give the sound
a particular color or timbre.
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.
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13. Systematic Functional Linguistics has three variables: Tenor, Field, andMode.
14. “We put it off too long” is a structure that uses “off” as an adverbial
particle.
16. Course outline is the summary of main points of a text, lecture, orcourse of
study.
18. English is MOST interesting subject for Rizza. The adjective thatexpresses
supreme value is called Superlative Adjectives.
19. “Pedestrians are not permitted beyond this point” is an official sign inthe passive
voice.
20. The THIRD child is the most brilliant. The capitalized word is anexample of ordinal
adjectives.
25. The type of paragraph for the topic “The day I won the oratorical title
changed my self-perception” is Narrative.
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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 isomniscient.
32. “Bad credit” and “Debit Card”, “The earthquake” and “the queer shake” are
examples of anagrams.
37. Silent Way method makes use of rods and colorful charts.
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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.
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.
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.
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50. An example is the term room for someone who stays in a dormitory orshared 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.
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.” isan example
of a complex sentence.
57. Josh dreads wild animals in the zoo. The function of the underlinedconstituent is
optional modifier.
60. “The man with a tall hat sits rather uncomfortably at the dinner table”
is syntactically ambiguous.
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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.
66. All interpretations and meanings of a text are correct as accepted bya Reader-
Reception Critic.
67. In the excerpt “Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey / Dostsometimes
counsel take—and sometimes tea.”, Alexander Pope useda 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 theplay.
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.
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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 andthe same meter to form a complete
thought is called a couplet.
76. Appeal to Ethos means that the author convinces the audience using his credibility,
character or expertise. These include enumerating workexperiences,
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.
80. The MOST important sentence in any essay is the thesis sentence.
81. Self-fulfilling Prophecy is where the prophecies are realized due to theactions of a
character who tries to prevent them (for example: Oedipus Rex)
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82. Antanaclasis is the literary trope in which a single word or phrase isrepeated,
but in two different senses.
83. The person assigned to dictate the actor’s line if he forgets is called a
prompter
85. The characteristic of a formalist’s criticism is that criticism is focusedon the work
itself.
86. Nemesis is a literary device is where the good characters are rewardedfor 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 playthat 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.
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94. The presence of the three gods: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos in GreekMythology
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 stealingfire.
97. In the poem, “Vulture” by Chinua Achebe, the line that represents a miserable or
bleak scene is “Broken bones and a dead tree”
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…” Itmeans 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.
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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.
109. The forest in the play Midsummer Night’s Dream symbolize a place to
face trials for the characters to pass.
111. In Maya Angelou’s 'On the Pulse of Morning', it is suggested that eachnew day
gives people new chances.
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 sungis 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.
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117. A book-length fictional prose narrative which has many characters andoften
complex plot is called a novel.
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 isNOT a goal of
K to 12 language teaching in the secondary level.
123. All materials from the real world not intended for classroom use butused 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 languageteaching.
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 isprovable by
adequate evidence.
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131. The generalization in the area of phonology that can be drawn from the following
linguistic data: table, attack, can, paper, space, accordionis 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.”
134. “Magnificence”, the story about a girl abused by an old man, isauthored by
Estrella Alfon.
135. The reality TV show Big Brother is based on the novel by GeorgeOrwell 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'.
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.
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139. Direct Testing requires the candidate to perform precisely the skillthat 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”.
143. The application of social and behavioral science research method tothe practice
of journalism is called precision journalism.
144. In journalism, copy refers to any piece of material that makes it toprint.
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 textcommunicates is
by translation checking. The subjects of such activity are called speakers with
receptive language ability.
149. The first-ever printed material using the printing press is the LatinVulgate or
Gutenberg Bible.
150. In creative non-fiction, you use essays and memoirs to support a fact-based
narrative.
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151. The speaker’s use of highly jargonized words falls under speaker-created
interference.
152. Audio-lingual method assumes that the over-learning of patterns through choral
repetition and drilling is the key to learning a target language.
153. To enhance the power of the mind, learners read literary texts in the target
language and memorize vocabulary lists translated into the native language. Explicit
grammar instruction of rules and their exceptions is the main focus to master the
target language. This method is Grammar-Translation.
154. The literary criticism that highlights how meaning, interpretations, frameworks,
system, and structural beliefs break apart is poststructuralism or deconstruction.
156. Antagonist is the character or force in conflict with the main character, who is the
protagonist.
157. Folk Literature is a body of stories, legends, myths, ballads, songs, riddles, sayings,
and other works arising out of the oral traditions of the peoples around the world.
158. Sisyphus is the king of Corinth who is condemned in the underworldby forever
rolling a huge stone up a hill.
159. The three monstrous sisters with snakes for hair, hands of brass and bodies covered
with impenetrable scales and turns to stone those wholook at them are the
Gorgons.
160. The subjects in Mythic history portrayed in the “Musee des BeauxArts” are
Daedalus and Icarus.
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161. Among the typical characteristics of epic heroes, immortality is NOTone of them.
162. Magic Realism is a term borrowed from art criticism and applied to a kind of fiction
that mixes realism with flights of fantasy and myth. It is associated with Latin
American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
164. Aenid, an epic poem in twelve books recounting the story of Aeneas,was the
crowning achievement of Virgil.
165. “It is true but arguable” does NOT make a good idea for an essay.
168. Annotating is a strategy for reading literature where the reader responds to the
literary and cultural impact of the text b identifying images and themes and writing
marginal notes about them.
169. Classicism is an approach t literature and other arts that stresses reason, balance,
clarity, ideal beauty, and orderly form in imitation of the arts of ancient Greece and
Rome.
171. The reading and teaching of literature must yield not only enjoyment but also
understanding.
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172. Fashionable is NOT among the qualities needed by the teacher in thepreparation,
selection and utilization of instructional materials.
173. Allophone is shown in the systematic variation of /t/ such as /t/ in topis aspirated,
/t/ is stop is released, and /t/ in pot is unreleased.
176. A novel about the education and development of a young hero is called
Bildungsroman.
177. Cliffhanger is a plot device that ends abruptly that the main charactersare left in a
difficult situation without offering any resolution or conflict.
178. Roman a clef is a novel where real people are represented in the guiseof fictional
characters.
179. Philosophic and religious belief in reincarnation is based on the mythical character
Orpheus.
182. The figure of speech that Hawthorne used in making Rev. Dimmesdale
metaphorically dim as the novel progresses, while making Chillingworth have a
chilled heart is Charactonym.
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184. Cecile gave a donation to charity is an example of sentence depictinga dative case.
188. A Filipino student writes a sentence: The book is new. This is anexample of
positive transfer.
189. Negative Transfer happens when L1 complicates or impedes the use of L2. Example:
A Filipino student writes: Beautiful is Mary (the structure is influenced by the
student’s L1 which says “Maganda si Mary”)
193. An example of English for Occupational Purposes (EOP) is English for Technician.
196. Children who have been watching TV a lot would likely suffer from short attention
span.
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197. “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you willever regret.”
This is a good advice for those who are ill-tempered and impulsive.
198. The phrase associated with President Magsaysay is For Democracywill die.
200. IRI (Informal Reading Inventory) reading technique is being utilized when a teacher
asks his student to read a particular passage, and he marks mispronounced words.
202. Pitch level 3 must be used in emphasizing the main idea in a sentence.
203. The intensification of the conflict of the story or play is called rising action.
204. The National Heroes’ Day reminds us about heroes worth emanating.
205. Mended, Blocked, Recommended, Postponed. The word among the following that
has a /t/ sound is blocked.
206. The sentence “She drives an expensive white European sports car.”
follows the correct order of adjectives.
207. English has been the Lingua Franca of the world since America gained its
international power. Lingua Franca means Language of the World.
209. The poem which the quote “Nevermore” is taken is The Raven.
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211. The smallest unit of sound of any language that causes a difference in meaning is
called a phoneme.
213. When the coach said “Bring home the bacon!”, he meant that the team has to win
the competition.
214. “What you said does not hold water with me.” The statement means it
is unbelievable / illogical.
215. 64.26% of the cases in a normal curve fall between +1 and -1.
216. Divine Comedy is the work of Dante Alighieri that narrates his journey through Hell
(The Inferno), purgatory, and finally, paradise.
218. In Nick Joaquin’s short story, May Day Eve, the technique he used in developing the
plot was Flashback.
220. Input hypothesis of Krashen’s Monitor Model proposes that when learners are
exposed to grammatical features a little beyond theircurrent (i.e., I + 1), those
features are “acquired.
221. “Teachers should correct errors during the time they are committed as error
correction is valuable” is NOT an implication of Krashen’s Monitor Model.
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225. Intonation is the rise and fall of pitch which may contrast meanings of sentences.
227. The syntactic structure shown in the examples, “responsible officers, trusted friend”
is Modification.
229. Recession will worsen in Europe in the next five years. The category of illocutionary
act demonstrated in this sentence is assertive / representative.
230. Overgeneralization errors such as “goed” and “keeped” are commonin children’s
speech. Such errors suggest that children induce the rulesfor the past tense from
the language to which they are exposed.
232. “To be or not to be, that’s the question” this line is taken from
Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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236. Guy de Maupassant is a writer of short stories and novels who is bygeneral
agreement the greatest French short-story writer.
237. A distinct feature of poetry during the age of modernism is free verse.
238. To punish himself for murdering his father to have sexual relationshipswith his
mother, Oedipus gouged his eyes.
239. The playwright who used alienation effect to educate the audienceand not rely
upon their emotion is Bertolt Brecht.
240. What is true about textually authentic materials is that they are NOTwritten for
teaching.
241. Sophocles wrote Ajax, Antigone, and Oedipus and Colonus, but NOT
Agamemnon.
244. The press is referred to as “fourth state” because it checks allbranches of the
Government.
245. Echo reading takes place when the teacher reads each line then thelearners
repeat it.
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249. I have been teaching for 32 years, and I can’t imagine doing anything
else.
250. The period considered as the Golden Age of the Filipino Language is
the Japanese Regime.
251. One implication on listening and speaking for language teaching is link listening and
speaking task to provide opportunities for students to notice how language is
used in different contexts.
252. When the word “consumables” refers to resources such as toner, ink, and paper
which can get used up, it is regarded as a/an ICT jargon.
255. The FENCE in the story written by Jose Garcia Villa refers to walls representing
hindrances that separate families.
256. During the 1800s as reflected in American Literature, the US government expanded
its territory NOT by the use of Invasion (conquest).
257. In “I Hear America Singing” by Whitman, the workers sing varied carols
to express happiness in work and the uniqueness of contribution.
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258. Indirect illocution is when the speaker expresses another illocutionaryfor other that
literally expressed the utterance by relying on background knowledge, principles of
convention.
259. In a study comparing the effect of studying with music versus no musicon reading
comprehension. The independent variable is the presence or absence of music
during studying.
260. Iconic Learning involving instructional audio-visual materials refers to visual images
for the real thing.
262. The function of language test which aim to motivate students pertains to learning.
264. In Paz Latorena's short story "The Small Key", what Soledad’s second wife found in
the small chest is old clothes and other things of his firstwife.
267. Pidgin refers to language that emerged between two speakers who donot share a
common language.
268. Creole is a developed pidgin that established a definite structure and has native
speakers.
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271. Edgar Allan Poe is popular for his gothic style in his compositions.
273. Leo Tolstoy is known as the world’s greatest novelist for writing War and Peace,
and Anna Karenina.
277. Proverbs embodied the practical philosophy of Filipinos during the pre-Hispanic era.
278. Paradise Lost is written by John Milton and it is based on the popular story of the
Sinning of Adam and Eve.
279. In Paz Marquez Benitez’s “Dead Stars”, the dead stars represent
Alfredo’s love for Julia.
282. Telephone Conversation is a literary piece written by Wole Soyinka about racism.
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283. Hamartia is the term for the downfall of the hero or heroine in a story.
284. "The self-assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s." The
underlined word means excessive pride or self- confidence.
285. The Filipino writer whose short stories depic Filipino-Spanish culture is
Nick Joaquin.
286. The phenomenon where people share the same false memory about something is
called the Mandela Effect. (e.g. The dash between KitKat)
290. Diegesis and Mimesis are coined terms by Aristotle to distinguishtelling (diegesis)
from showing (mimesis).
291. The difference between phonics and phonetical awareness is that phonics include
written language, phonetical awareness does notnecessarily.
292. Exegesis is an explanation of a text that identifies and explains the figurative
language and forms within the work.
294. “Touch me one more time, and I swear—” this breaking-off of speechusually
because of rising emotion or excitement is called Aposiopesis.
295. Chiasmus refers to two phrases in which syntax is the same but theplacement of
words is reversed.
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297. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own ways.” This
line is taken from Ana Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
301. Input hypothesis proposes that when learners are exposed togrammatical features
a little beyond their current (i.e., I + 1), those features are “acquired”.
303. Structuralists believe that language is primarily vocal; language is system of systems,
and language is arbitrary.
305. Syntax is a branch of linguistics that deals with how words combine toform phrases,
phrases combine to form clauses, and clauses conjoin tomake sentences.
306. Fricatives are produced by bringing the articulators near each other such that the
flow of air is impeded but not completely blocked.
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310. The concept of universal grammar states that all languages are built upon a
common grammar.
312. A cataphoric reference unit refers to another unit that is introduced later on in the
text/speech.
313. The slippery slope argument involves reasoning that because of an initial event, a
second event, more extreme event must inevitable follow.
314. Milton’s Paradise Lost which was published in 1667 in Modern English.
315. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, unicorn was commonly describedas an
extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could only
be captured by a virgin.
316. Muchukunda (cited in Mahabarata & Parunas) saw the emptiness of his life and
turned his back on it, becoming a wanderer and sadhu. He refused to return to the
world.
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319. The K-W-L chart can be used to document what students know, what they want to
know, and what they learned.
320. Petrarchan sonnet is form of poetry that has an 8-line stanza with the rhyme
scheme abbaabba followed by 6 lines with various rhymeschemes, usually cdcdcd
or cdede.
322. Wolvin and Coakley (1992) listed four different kinds of listening: Comprehensive
(Informational), Critical (Evaluative), Appreciative (Aesthetic), and Therapeutic
(Emphatic).
324. Listening SELECTIVELY means listening only to specific parts of the input.
326. Wash-back effect happens when what was assessed became what was taught.
327. The factors that affect learners listening are: (1) Background Knowledge or
Schematic, (2) Knowledge of the situation or Context, and (3) Knowledge of the
language system or Systematic.
328. Life after Death is what was depicted in Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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332. In novels and short stories, the role of a trickster is a mischievous myth character.
333. George Eliot is the pen name of the female writer Mary Evans.
334. James Joyce wrote Ulysses and uses the literary style of stream of consciousness.
337. When a teacher LOCALIZES the curriculum, it means that she relates the curriculum
to local information and material.
339. The main theme of Bonsai by Edith Tiempo is enjoy the little things.
340. “Talks with Kuwaiti officials ongoing” is an example of a news peg among the given
editorials.
345. When the narrator said he could not stop for death, he means he istoo busy.
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347. All sentences are clauses, but not all clauses are sentences. Both ofthese
statements are true.
348. Schema is a theory in reading that describes the ways mind acquires, categorizes,
and organizes knowledge.
349. Snowball Toss activity do a quick write or quick draw, then crumple,throw, and
read the pieces of paper.
350. Chaucer’s collection of stories in verse showing his skill as a story tellerin giving a
vivid picture of English society in 1300’s is The Canterbury Tales.
352. “On the day of Silician July, with Etna Smoking” is a GeographicalAllusion.
353. In Tolstoy’s God Sees the Truth but Waits, Aksenov was imprisoned for
26 years.
354. A huge fire-breathing monster that has the head of a lion, the body ofa dragon,
and the hind legs of a goat is called Chimera.
355. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 talks about love as Love never wanes even in old age.
356. The Panchatantra is a collection of fables which was used to educate Indian princes
into becoming wise kings.
357. Tribble (1996) enumerates the range of knowledge that writers need to know in
order to write effectively when undertaking a specific task.
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359. The five phases of teaching vocabulary are: Disposition, Integration, Repetition,
Interaction and Meaningful Use, and Self Instruction. It does NOT include Imitation.
361. “I’ll meet you at the library at 10:00 am” is an example of Commissive
illocutionary act.
362. “Mercury is the nearest planet from the sun.” Mercury and “the nearest planet” are
called co-referential.
363. The generalization that can be made from the group of words: “responsible officers,
trusted friend, impartially conducted…” is Structure of Modification.
364. Natural Order Hypothesis suggests that grammatical structures are acquired in a
predictable order for both children and adults.
365. Learning is the CONSCIOUS process of knowing about language and being able to
talk about it, which occurs in a more formal situation where the properties or rules
of a language are taught.
366. Flashforward is the other term for “prolepsis” which is a scene that temporarily
takes the narrative forward in time from the current pointof the story in literature,
film, television, and other media.
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367. In the first scene of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the witches said “Something
wicked this way comes.” The plot element employed here is foreshadowing.
368. In teaching the works of James Joyce and Virginia Wolf to 3rd year HS students, you
need first to orient the students with stream of consciousness.
369. In teaching Without Seeing the Dawn by Stevan Javellana to 4th yearHS class, the
period in Philippine History that you will discuss as background knowledge to the
novel is the Japanese occupation.
370. The Poor Christ of Bombay by Mongo Berti is an example of literary SATIRE.
371. The view on language teaching that believes language can be described according
to the regularities and patterns or rules in language system is Structuralist.
374. “A policy statement about a piece of Education” does NOT correctly define
Curriculum.
376. The preposition under denotes a figure at a lower point than thelandmark, while
the preposition over denotes a figure that is at a higher point that the landmark.
Under and Over are referred to as Vertical-space preposition.
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378. Their abilities fall several levels below their current level. Thischaracterizes
remedial students in general.
384. The speaker can convey interest in communicating with his audience through
establishing eye contact.
385. The Curriculum ideology that focuses on the mastery of content of English as a
subject is Academic Rationalism.
386. The student was sad because he was called off for his late submission of his school
project.
388. The teacher considers feelings of anxiety, fear, and shame that may hinder second
language acquisition. The method that can help addressthis concern is
Communicative Language Teaching.
389. The first thing that a child must know to know a word is word soundand
sequencing.
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390. Tartarus, Elysium, Asphodel, and Erebus all pertain to regions in the
underworld.
391. A teacher asks her class to prepare a genealogy of the characters inthe drama
Oedipus the King. Her objective in asking the class to dothat is to help the class
see the relationship of the characters to each other.
392. A teacher wrote in her lesson plan for teaching Oedipus the King this “What
qualities make a good king? Fill up the web below with words that describe an ideal
king.” The primary purpose of this activity is to build the students’ schema.
393. Annabel Lee was written by Edgar Allan Poe which people speculate he dedicated
to his wife.
394. “Drink me only with thine eyes,” This poem is written by Ben Jonson.
395. Vanity Fair is a novel satirizing society in early 19th Century Britain and is written by
William Makepeace Thackeray.
396. In teaching the works of Edgar Allan Poe, what should be given prime consideration
is Atmosphere.
397. In teaching the short stories of Guy de Maupassant, what should be given prime
consideration is Characters.
398. If you are teaching students with literature of the writer O’ Henry, you
should highlight the use of surprise endings.
399. Two novel-like stories The Predestined Prince and Sinuhe were written around 1200
BC in Egypt.
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401. Among the basic types of speaking task, Extensive Speaking requiresstudents to
present Oral Reports.
402. The listening-speaking problem that occurs when a student finds it hard to
distinguish between a word which may be used as a noun or asa verb in a sentence
is Stress.
406. You ask your class the question “Do you like the poem” after it has been discussed.
409. Structuralists believe that language can be described in terms of observable and
verifiable data as it is being used.
410. The following are levels of vocabulary in ESP: Technical Vocabulary, General
Vocabulary, and Semi-technical Vocabulary EXCEPT Colloquialvocabulary.
411. A correct description of auxiliary verb is: It is used to complete a verb phrase in
certain constructions such as emphatic, negative, passive, perfect and progressive
aspect.
412. The principle in grammar teaching that is applicable for ESP context is
teaching structures related to language functions.
413. The K-12 envisions holistically developed learners equipped with 21st century skills.
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415. The “t” before *n+ in words like “button” and “written” is pronounced
as glottal stop by most American English speakers.
417. “When she arrived, Diane was surprised to find her apartment door
open.” The underlined pronoun is cataphoric.
418. “Diane was surprised to find her apartment door open.” The
underlined pronoun is anaphoric.
419. “The teacher’s grammar is excellent.” The sentence shows a noun in the genitive
case.
420. Words with the same spelling and related meanings are called
polysemes.
421. “Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat anddrink that
they may live.” This is an example of chiasmus.
422. “Marvin is probably at school now.” The modality used in the sentence
is epistemic.
423. In an oral interpretation activity, one student delivers a declamation with so much
shouting and crying. These acts are examples of Histronics.
425. IMs explain the lesson. This is NOT a purpose of instructional materials.
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427. Transferring a textual material to a tabular form illustrates the skill ofviewing and
representing.
431. Class size might be affected in remedial instruction when class sizegets smaller.
432. Upon learning the past tense of call is called and talk is talked, the child writes
singed for sing. This kind of language error is called overgeneralization.
434. The co-text refers to the linguistic context or textual environmentprovided by the
discourse and which helps in the interpretation of meaning.
436. The primary goal of remedial instruction in English is to help studentscope with
the demands of their actual level.
437. Thoroughly assess and evaluate students is what a teacher should doprior to
remediation.
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438. Testing lend itself well to teaching when testing provides tangiblereasons for
pedagogic changes.
439. Conducting a text analysis of the specific text types is a procedure that explicitly
teaches genres.
441. Mateo is not yet comfortable about speaking English with his colleagues. He has
learned to insert fillers such as, “uh”, “well”, when he speaks. The characteristic of
spoken language that Mateo has takenadvantage of is PERFORMANCE VARIABLES.
442. Testing creates different learning groups is NOT TRUE about testing.
443. The basic consideration in curriculum or syllabus design is the Needsof the
Learners.
444. Action Research is at the instructional level and has classroom as itslocale.
446. Aira received her paper with the mark 4 before the sentence “Theywill go to
Paris next month.” The teacher wants Aira to indent four spaces.
447. Look at those pictures hanging on the wall. This is an example of aprototypical
sentence.
448. An intensive pronoun can be left out in a sentence without changing the sentence
meaning.
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450. Among the four basic types of assessment task in speaking, Imitative requires
“parroting” back words, phrases, and sentences that studentshear.
452. Vocabulary Development is NOT a domain in the Grade 11-12 Language Arts
Curriculum.
453. Students went to the library and looked into the title, synopses, introduction, first
sentence, and parts of the book. This is Survey Reading.
454. The kind of questions that must be asked after presenting a lesson on animal
protection and situations that endanger species is general queries on animal
protection.
455. Teacher Keith learned in his graduate degree that language learning could also be a
result of cognitive processes, or the act of knowing something. This is a result of
Content-based Instruction.
456. The vocal variable that dictates the highness and lowness of your voiceis Pitch.
457. The percentage allotted for written output in the K-12 grading system specifically
the language subject is 30%.
460. Being willing to suspend judgment until sufficient evidence is presented helps the
students develop the habit of critical thinking.
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461. The teacher gave the class a group assignment. The class must come up with a
possible solution to the vandalism problem in school. Each group is expected to
come up with a proposal. The speaking task she isusing is Interactive.
465. The characteristics of effective speech based on Cicero’s canons of rhetoric include:
invention, disposition, elocution, pronunciation, and memory.
466. You want to explore the effective methods used in improving thechildren’s way of
using the language in the classroom. The best respondents of your study would be
the Teachers.
467. If you want to discuss about Ballad in your class, you should NOT teachyour
students that ballad typically is historical and condensed.
469. The type of words that a child may be able to comprehend usingcontext clues are
known as potential/marginal vocabulary.
470. The Critical Foundation for reading, writing, and spelling and is the engine of
learning and thinking is cognitive development.
471. One cosmic truth holds in Hindu Mythology that “all things are simply a part of a
greater whole One.”
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473. The body of myths highly dominated by tales of courageous combatants, great feats,
and activities related to tribal life such as hunting and feasting is Norse Mythology.
474. A narrative within a narrative, such as the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, is called
Frame Story.
475. Léopold Sédar Senghor is the leading figure of the Negritude Movement.
477. Titanomachy is a victorious 10-year series of battles of the Olympian gods against
the Titans in Thessaly.
478. Cavalier Poems are known as “carpe diem” or “seize the day” poetry.
480. Both Realism and Naturalism oppose the earlier literary and artistic cycle
Romanticism.
481. Panday Pira is the play of Jose M. Hernandez that tells of an artisan who forged
cannons for the use of the Spaniards.
482. Among the Elizabethan playwrights, Dante does NOT belong in the group.
483. Gnomic verses are the earliest form of literacy expressed during the pre-colonial
period in Philippine Literature. Riddle is NOT an example of Gnomic verse.
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485. The two groups at war in The Iliad are the Trojans and Achaens.
488. Nadine Gordimer is a South African novelist and short story writer whose major
themes are on exile and alienation, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
489. The story of a scholar who sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge is
entitled Faust.
490. The goal of English language teaching in the Philippines is to produce learners who
can communicate accurately, fluently, and appropriately.
491. The Greek alphabet is adopted from the consonantal writings of the
Phoenicians.
492. Fine arts and literature flourished during the T’ang dynasty which is viewed as the
Golden Age of Chinese civilization.
495. Rousseau’s The Social Contract is among the most important works in political
philosophy.
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499. “Have a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”
Rousseau is pertaining to security.
500. In the “Fall of the House Usher”, the name of the woman who is
entombed alive is Lady Madeline.
501. Manuel Arguilla is known for using local color in his stories.
502. Comedia was used to express social protest during the early days ofAmerican
regime
504. Parang Sabil is an epic about the exploits of early Muslim warriorswho fought
in defense of Islam.
505. Naturalism is the literary movement in the American Literature thatexamines life
as it is.
506. Buddhism was imported from India to China during the Han Dynasty.
509. Hector died at the end of the Iliad. Achilles’ death was never
mentioned in the epic.
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516. A character of a good writing program is: students are assignedauthentic writing
tasks.
519. The problem of a student who constantly reads pat as bat and got asdot is
graphophonic correspondence.
521. The primary goal of remedial instruction in English is to help studentscope with
the demands of their current level.
523. Register Analysis analyses the speech variety used by a group ofpeople with the
same occupation.
525. A reader got 30 correct answers out of 40-item cloze test. This readercan be
categorized under independent reading level.
526. A listener who hears sounds in the background but ignores them isinto marginal
listening.
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528. Philippine Literature and World Literature are compulsory subjects for
Grade 12 students in the K-12 curriculum.
530. The two categories of a literary test are Literary Information andLiterary
Interpretation.
531. If the textbook evaluator is examining the relationship of tests and exercises to the
learner needs and course content, he is doing internalevaluation.
533. The stages of literary learning are: First Encounters, Maintaining Momentum,
Exploiting Highlights, and Ending.
534. Curriculum Evaluation is the phase in curriculum cycle where designers plan
changes in the curriculum.
537. Among the basic types of speaking task, extensive speaking requires students to
present ORAL REPORTS in the classroom.
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