Student’s Name : Romel B.

Guray
Course and Code Name : Major 8 (The Teaching & Assessment of Macro Skills)
Term : First Semester Academic Year 2020-2021
Consultation Time : 6:30-7:30 1 hour/MWF

MID TERM
Learning Task No. 3
 
A. Fill in each blank with an appropriate answer. (for Quiz)
( Note: A little detail about Listening is also included)
 
1. Macro Skills are generally the skills that refer to the language skills. Thus the measuring
stick of a person’s communicative competence.

2. This particular skill is a communication technique that requires one to understand, interpret
and evaluate what he or she hears. Listening

3-4. These are skills known to be “receptive” because while the first one requires good
auditory nerves for understanding; the second one needs a retentive  mind to comprehend the
written symbols. Listening, Reading 

5-6. Two other skills known to be “productive” the first one requires the ability to gain
fluency in spoken interaction. The second one requires the knowledge to put into prints or
symbols what he or she hears and reads. Speaking, Writing
 

*Tell whether the statement is TRUE or FALSE

 
7. Listening, speaking, reading and writing are most commonly referred to as Micro skills.
FALSE

8. Reading is an input receptive skills which means receiving language prevails producing it.
FALSE

9. Finding yourself responding emotionally to what one has said, say so and ask for is an
indicative for being an active listener. TRUE

10. Meaning cannot just be transmitted as a tangible substance by the speaker. It must also be
stimulated or aroused in the receiver. TRUE

11. To communicate properly, it is not so much important to study a balance of the four basic
language skills, it’s enough to have fluency. FALSE
 

*The following items are flawed. Pick out the word or words that makes or make the
sentence incorrect and replace it the right one. ( for Two (2) points each)
 Incorrect - ■
Correct -■

 
12-13. Without the needed listening skills, a student would be well-equipped for his
college lessons. well-│ill-

14-15. Reading for the introduction and conclusion of a lecture is not a problem because of
sequencing… reading│listening

16-17. ________________ copying helps you make sense of what you hear and read… it
facilitates information recall. copying│note-taking

18-19. Communication anxiety is considered to be an external distraction in a speaking

engagement. external│internal

20-21. It is always the reading ability that is the problem in public speaking or intense
communication. reading│speaking

22-23. Standing alone in front of a mirror to soliloquize as means of mental rehearsal is a

good practice to entrance the listening skill. listening│speaking

24-25. Listening is also one way to gauge how wide is someone’s range of vocabulary.
listening│reading