1. Among Filipinos, what characteristic makes English difficult to understand?

a. It is a complex language c. It is a second/third language

b. It is a strange language d. It is a universal language

2. ESP is centered on the language appropriate to various activities that relate well with grammar,
lexis, register, discourse, and __________.
a. Genre b. Poetry c. Prosed. Composition

3. An English teacher may administer a performance based assessment in ESP, using a rubric as a
measuring instrument. In which of the following test is a rubric best applicable?
a. Dictation test c. Sentence transformation
b. Oral interview d. Analyzing sentences

4. Use of grade readers is one approach applied in ESP to teach students with a low level of
knowledge of English. In general these materials refer to _____.
a. Books read by the students from Grades I-VI
b. Multi-graded books received in the different grade levels
c. Different versions of books with simplified grammar and vocabulary
d. Books used by several grade levels

5. An act enhancing the Philippine Basic Education System by strengthening its curriculum and
increasing the number of years for Basic Education, appropriating funds therefore and for other
purposes, is known as ___________.
a. Enhanced Basic Education Act 2013
b. Trifocalization Act
c. National Education Act
d. Kindergarten Education Act 2012

6. Examples, activities, songs, poems, stories, and illustrations, are based on local culture, history,
and reality. This strategy particularly refers to ___________.
a. Localization b. Contextualization c. Cultural adaptability d. Authenticity

7. The Philippine Qualifications Framework (PQF) is very significant in the development of

_________.
 a. Content and performance standards c. Critical content
b. Learning resources d. Learning competencies

8. Listening to classical music ______ one of his preferred leisure activities.

a. Were b. are c. will d. is

9. While there is no absolute way to prevent ankle _________, exercises such as ankle lifts can
helps strengthen the joint.
a. Sprain b. Sprain’s c. Sprains d. Sprains’

10. Substituting different sounds for the first sound of a familiar song just like the example below
can help in developing ____________.
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily;
Life is but a dream

Bow, bow, bow your boat

Bently bown the beam.

Berrily, berrily, berrily, berrily;

Bife is but a beam

a. Phonological awareness c. Phonological stress

b. Word recognition d. Emergent word reading skills

11. Lila bought coffee for Isabella and _______________.

a. Me b. mine c. Both me and I are correct d. I

12. After the show, the board members went to another area and ___ out with their fans.
a. Hung b. Hunged c. Hanged d. Hang
13. Neither you nor your children __________ the problem.
a. Understands b. Are understanding c. Is understanding d. Understand

14. Eminent educators have observed that qualified jobs are becoming _______.
a. Scarcest b. More scare b. Scaring d. scarcer

15. Which statement is correct in structure and form?

a. Of the areas that produce lanzones, the Camiguin island is sweeter
b. Of the areas that produce lanzones, the Camiguin island is the sweetest
c. Of the areas that produce lanzones, the Camiguin island, is the sweetest
d. Of the areas, that produce lanzones, the Camiguin island is the sweeter.

16. Among ASEAN countries, Singapore is known as a ___________ paradise.

a. Shopper’s b. Shop’s c. Shoppers’ d. Shops’

17. An example of a word formation process that changes kindergarten to “”kinder” and “All
conditioning” to “Aircon” is known as ______________.
a. Coining b. Compounding c. Blending d. Clipping

18. The speaker should change the language according to the needs of the listener or based on the
dictate of the situation like the examples below except for ______.
a. Speaking differently in a classroom than on a playground
b. Talking differently to a baby than to an adult
c. Giving background information to an unfamiliar listener
d. Sophisticating the language by using high terminologies for basal learners

19. A semantic study of Philippine English shares how unique meanings are in contrast to its
standing counterpart. 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 ___________.
a. Bed pals b. Bed spacer c. Roommate d. Transient

20. Someone who can operate his/her linguistic competence and his/her sociolinguistic awareness
of the relationship between language and the context refers to what kind of speaker?
a. Intercultural b. Adapt c. Technical d. Context-driven

21. The study of ways in which non-active speakers acquire, comprehend, and use linguistic patterns
or speech acts in a second language is known as _______.
b. Contrastive Rhetoric c. Jargonized Expression
c. Intra-language Variety d. Inter-language Pragmatics

22. They are speech sounds made simply by shaping the oral cavity to give the sound a particular
color or “timbre”.
a. Vowels b. Digraphs c. Consonants d. Diphthongs

23. Linguistic interference occurs when students ___________.

a. Learn another language or dialect c. Speak without readiness
b. Learn their mother tongue d. Learn to speak and hide their fear

24. A summary of main points of a test, lecture, or course of study is referred to as ________.
a. Lesson exemplar b. Subject Framework c. Course outline d. Unit plan

25. Learning for empowerment and better self-image is an example of ________.

a. Genuine motivation c. Extrinsic motivation
b. Intrinsic Framework d. Life-long motivation

26. “All the bitterness melted out of him suddenly and the world renewed itself out of the youth
and happiness that was all around him, PROFLILGATE as the spring sunshine.” The capitalized
word means __________.
a. Superfluous b. Openly c. Over-abundant d. Brightly

27. Which is an example of a bound morpheme ending in-ion that changes a verb into a noun?
a. Action b. Nation c. Scion d. Mention

28. In applying passive voice, which should you use on an official sign?
 a. Beyond this point, do not permit pedestrian
b. Do not permit pedestrian beyond this point
c. Beyond this point, pedestrian should permit to go
d. Pedestrians are not permitted beyond this point

29. EVERYONE met at the contest venue. The capitalized pronoun is an example of a/an
_____________.
a. Indefinite pronoun c. Demonstrative pronoun
b. Relative pronoun d. Interrogative pronoun

30. Vince said, “I’m studying English a lot at the moment”. The indirect speech is:
a. Vince said i was studying English a lot at the moment
b. Vince said he was studying English lot at the moment
c. Vince said he was studying English a lot at that moment
d. Vince said he were studying English a lot at the moment

31. Roniel and Carl who _________ a restaurant in Manila are now the youngest partner
entrepreneurs.
a. Run b. has run c. runs d. have run

32. The adjective that expresses the supreme value of the noun like the capitalized phrase in the
sentence, “English is the MOST INTERESTING subject for Ryza,” is called ___________.
a. Superlative adjective c. Demonstrative adjective
b. Predicate adjective d. Possessive adjective

33. Which is NOT a variable of functional grammar?

a. Term which represents the role of the interlocutors
b. Tenor is concerned with the nature of the relationship among the people involved
c. Field which represents the content or topic of the social activity
d. Mode is the medium and role of language in the situation

34. When decoding multisyllabic words, what do students need to know?

I. What a syllable is
II. That a syllable contains one vowel sound
 III. How to divide the words in parts and read each part
IV. Read the word by combining the parts
a. I, II, III and IV b. II and III c. I and II d. I, III and IV

35. Which is one implication on listening and speaking for language teaching?
a. Link listening and speaking tasks to promote social interaction in specific situations
b. Link listening and speaking tasks to develop viewing skills in real life situations.
c. Link listening and speaking task to improve students self-confidence
d. Link listening and speaking task to provide opportunities for students to notice how language is
used in different contexts

36. To enhance the power of the mind, learners read literary text in the target language and
memorize vocabulary list translated into the native language. Explicit grammar instruction of
rules and their exceptions is the main focus to master the target language. What is this
approach?
a. Grammar-translation b. Audio-lingual c. Natural d. Direct

37. What is the ability of the listener to understand the speaker’s intentions?
a. Intelligibility b. Interpretability c. Acceptability d. Comprehensibility

38. The THIRD child is the most intelligent. The capitalized word is an example of ________.
a. Descriptive adjective c. Ordinal adjective
b. Cardinal adjective d. Limiting adjective

39. Some people feel that his ___________ to the president was unnecessary.
a. Delusion b. Convulsion c. Allusion d. Illusion

40. Analogies are comparisons based on relationships between ideas. Finish the analogy below.

Dwindle: increase: stiffen:___________.

a. Relax b. Cringe c. Crawl d. Freeze

41. When the word “consumables” refers to resources such as toner, link, and paper which used up,
it is regarded as a/an _____________.
 a. Technological jargon c. Computer jargon
b. Multimedia jargon d. ICT jargon

42. In Bloom’s Taxonomy of Thinking Process, which verbs help you design activities for the creating
level?
a. Justify, debate, invent c. Recommend, design, produce
b. Modify, apply, debate d. Compose, imagine, propose

43. Which type of plot device ends abruptly so that the main characters are left in a difficult
situation without offering any resolution or conflict?
a. Foil b. Anti hero c. Cliff hanger d. Archetype

44. The intensification of the conflict in a story or play is called _________.

a. Exposition b. Conflict c. Rising action d. Complication

45. Which type of paragraph would this topic sentence be considered? The day 1 won the oratorical
title changed myself perception.
a. Expository b. Narrative c. Descriptive d. Persuasive

46. Sounds words like bam, bang, booing are examples of ______________.
a. Metaphor b. Simile c. Onomatopoeia d. Idiom

47. A type of comedy based on a far-fetched humorous situation often with ridiculous or
stereotyped character is called ____________.
a.Sequel b. Simile c. Farce d. Fable

48. “Life is like a roller coaster.” Is an example of what figure of speech?

a. Simile b. Personification c. Metaphor d. Hyperbole

49. Which refers to the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its
meaning? Example: “Keeping time, time, time; A sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation
that so musically wells, from the Bells, bells, bells.”
a. Rhyme b. Alliteration c. Rhythm d. Onomatopoeia

50. “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 this opening line of the novel The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses
_______________.
a. Didacticism b. Consonance c. Juxtaposition d. Concession