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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.

2. In using Think-Pair-Share strategy in a speaking class, which should the teacher AVOID?

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.

C. Games can provide both rehearsed and extemporaneous, language practice,

D. Games if done right can increase motivation making the students enjoy and be productive in acquiring and learning the language

ANS: 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.

- The other items include unsound principle in using games

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 _________________.

A. separable form literature

B. inseparable from literature

C. beyond literature

D. the development of more than linguistic ability

ANS: B. inseparable from literature and not of language. Letter A is a false because language is used by writers in the creation of texts.

-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

7. Which is an engaging task of recording experience ideas, insights or reflection on a regular basis that basis that encourage students to articulate their minds than merely restating information about a text?

A. Role play

B. Brainstorming

C. Journal Writing

D. Pantomime

ANS: C. Journal Writing

- Journal writing involves regular recording on insights on a specific length of time. The other options may not involve any writing at all; the writing itself is not the final product which is the case in journal writing.

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 ___________.

A. tell what each piece of literature is about

B. prescribed interpretations: do character studies

C. make a synopsis; dictate notes

D. enable his/her students to discover for themselves what the work is about giving encouragement when and where needed

ANS:  D. enable his/her students to discover for themselves what the work is about giving encouragement when and where needed

-  In a student-centered literature class, learners are given more opportunities to explore the literary texts and to develop their own responses and sensitivities.

10. Which of the following pair of words do NOT rhyme?

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

ANS: B. Unfolding plot

-Accretive and linear are sequential; en Media’s res starts in the middle action while unfolding plot begins near the climax (crisis), conclusion or end.

14. The statement “Once upon a time in a distant land” exemplifies the _____________.

A. setting  of the story

B. time of the setting

C. place of the setting

D. local color

ANS:  A. setting  of the story

-Setting both time and place when and where the story happens. Local color is the use of dialect, customs, apparel, etc. Identifying a particular place and time.

15. Which benefit is derived from literature as we engage ourselves in a continuing process of refining our capabilities to use language and our sensibilities to good language use?

A. Wisdom

B. Exploration of  a Word view

C. Cultural function

D. Language enhancement

ANS: D. Language enhancement

- It is a language use; therefore the benefit is language enhancement.

16. Which is an early 20^th 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 20^th 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 ___________.

A. curriculum planning and implementation

B. curriculum planning  and evaluation

C. curriculum planning

D. curriculum evaluation

ANS: C. curriculum planning

-production of instructional materials is based on the overall framework of the curriculum plan.

18. 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

B. goals and objectives of the curriculum

C. provision in the constitution of the PTA

D. vision and mission of the school

ANS: B. goals and objectives of the curriculum

- Content and design of instructional materials must be aligned with the goals and objectives of the curriculum.

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

ANS: I. Graphic Organizers

- A graphic is a diagram or illustration of a written or oral statement. Examples include matrices, hierarchies and continue. The goal in using graphic organizers is to organize ideas and examine relationships.

20. Which of the following qualifies as an authentic material?

A. A label of a can good

B. A list of isolated sentences

C. A paragraph from the book

D. A series of vocabulary words

ANS: A. A label of a can good

- Authentic material refers to authentic texts that are not written for language teaching purposes.

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