English Part 6
English Part 6
English Part 6
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English Part 6
1. Considering the principle in teaching minimal pair drills, which of the following should
the teacher AVOID?
A. Proceed from known sound to the new one, e.g from /p/ to /f/.
B. Pronounce the word pairs with the same intonation so as not to confuse the students
with difference other than the sound contrast being illustrated, e.g, pit vs Fit
C. Provide over drill and spend ore time in the production of sound in similar contexts
D. Use familiar words if possible and present one pronunciation problem at a time, e.g. /
I/ vs /i/ in bit-beat first ship and sheep.
ANS: C. Provide over drill and spend more time in the production of sound in
similar contexts
-The other items are sound principle in teaching minimal pair drills.
I. Initiate the task by posing a question, wait for a single students to respond, evaluate
and provide feedback
II. Pose a question give students time to think or considered the question discuss their
response with partners, and shares their answers with the entire class
III. Use any question of interest that may resemble these ones: “What do you
considered as the most effective time of studying you lesson?”, “How can you challenge
students’ apprehension to speak?” “When was the last time you lied?, “What makes
you laugh or smile ?”, “An eye will make the world blind", etc.
A. I only
B. II only
C. II and III
D. I and II
ANS: I. Initiate the task by posing a question, wait for a single student to respond,
evaluate and provide feedback
- The other items are used in TPR
3. Games are effective strategies to use in speaking classes. Which of the following
principle is VIOLATED in using games?
A. Game can be great tools for reviewing the lesson and help students recall what they
have learned such as vocabulary and grammar rules.
B. Games to be presented must require minimal language use outright elimination,
complicated with elaborate set-up/procedures to stimulate challenge, or must be overly
simple especially with young adult and older learners.
4. The teacher aims to develop in the students the ability to hear sounds accurate and
to produce these sounds correctly and automatically. In doing pronunciation drill in a
speaking class, which is the correct sequence of activities?
I. Let students listen to the teacher/tape for the individual sound of sounds and sounds
of words, and in phrases and sentences
II. Ask students to produce the sound of contrast in words, phrases, and sentence
III. Let students listen to the sound of a word in contrast with another sound/s words,
phrases and sentences.
IV. Ask students to produce the sound of sounds and swords, and in phrase and
sentences.
A. I-II-II-IV
B. I-IV-II-I
C. I-IV-III-II
D. II-III-IV-I
ANS: C. I-IV-III-II
-The other items present incorrect sequence of steps.)
5. Which strategy is for reading literature where the reader responds to the literary and
cultural impact of the text by identifying image and themes and writers marginal notes
about them?
A. Previewing
B. Highlighting
C. Annotating
D. Reading
ANS: C. Annotating
-The strategy is annotating because it involves the reader’s taking down significant
meanings and understanding on the margins of the text. Highlighting involves
underlining the striking parts or key features of the text without writing notes on the
margins.
6. Literature is language in use; as such language becomes the medium or the tool of
literature. Therefore, language is _________________.
-Literature involves more than language, ergo choices c and s speak of literature and
not of language. Letter A is a false because language is used by the writers in the
creation of literary texts
A. Role play
B. Brainstorming
C. Journal Writing
D. Pantomime
8. The reading and teaching of literature must yield not only enjoyment but also
______________.
A. understanding
B. knowledge
C. information
D. pleasure
ANS: A. understanding
- The study of literature expands or refines out thinking and our sense of life; therefore
we do not only find pleasure nor mere information or knowledge but a sleep
understanding; it is not merely cognitive but also affective.
9 In teaching literature the task of the is not just to provide the students with information.
Therefore, he/she should NOT do the following EXCEPT ___________.
D. enable his/her students to discover for themselves what the work is about giving
encouragement when and where needed
A. Cry-buy
B. Face-race
C. Write-right
D. Cunning-running
ANS: C. Write-right
-Wright-right do not rhyme because the letter “r” before the accented vowel is the same.
11. Which is an approach to literature and the other arts that stresses reason balance,
clarity, ideal beauty and orderly from imitation of the arts of ancient Greece and Rone?
A. Realism
B. Classicism
C. Romanticism
D. Imagesim
ANS: B. Classicism
-Realism stress the actual rather than the ideal while Romanticism stresses imagination
emotion and individualism. Imagism was a literary movement specially in poetry where
poets led by Erza Pound and Amy Lowell used ordinary language and free verse to
create, sharp, exact concentrated pictures.
12. The play “Oedipus the king” by Sophocles starts with a crises: The bans are
suffering from a plague caused by the murder of the former king. Oedipus, the present
and trusted leader, his search for truth finally found out that he himself was the killer he
is looking for. What approach to staring a drama is illustrated here?
A. Accretive plot
B. Unfolding plot
C. Enmedias res
D. Linear plots
14. The statement “Once upon a time in a distant land” exemplifies the _____________.
A. Wisdom
B. Exploration of a Word view
C. Cultural function
D. Language enhancement
16. Which is an early 20th century movement in literature and the arts that broke with
traditional forms, conversion and expectations, challenging accepted notions of the
relationship between art and everybody life, and experimenting with new techniques
and new modes of representing reality?
A. Modernism
B. Postmodernism
C. Scientific realism
D. Realism
ANS: A. Modernism
-Postmodernism – a value term used to cover a number or cultural phenomena in the
second half of the 20th century. It is specific reference to literary and an artistic
development in the wake of modernism has been overlaid by a more general application
to the products and attitudes of a hi-tech culture. Scientific realism refers to naturalism.
Realism – While realism in art is often used in the same contexts as naturalism,
implying a concern to depict or describe accurately and objectively, it is also suggests a
deliberate rejection of conventionally beautiful or appropriate subjects in favor of
sincerity and a focus on simple and unidealized treatment of contemporary life.
17. The curriculum goes through the stages of curriculum planning, curriculum
implantation and curriculum evaluation . The production of instructions materials falls
under ___________.
18. An important step in ensuring the relevance of the instructional materials to the rest
of the curriculum is to keep a list of_________.
19. Which materials are used to help students organize information through the use of a
combination of shapes, figures, and lines?
I. Graphic Organizers
II. Material organizer
III. Pocket organizer
A. I only
B. II only
C. I and II
D. I, II and III
- Authentic material refers to authentic texts that are not written for language teaching
purposes.