First Semester Examination Period

First Grading Periodical Exam

ORAL COMMUNICATION 11

Name: ____________________________ Score: _________

Grade: ______________ Date: __________

Note: any forms of ALTERATION is considered a wrong answer. Read carefully

each of the following before answering. Use ballpen only.

I.IDENTIFICATION:Read carefully and write what is being asked or defined by the

following statement below. Write your answer on the line provided before each
number.(20pts)

__________________1.Is sending and receiving messages through written symbols,

such as language.
__________________2.A systematic arrangement of letters, figures, symbols, and
word, through which a message is transmitted or communicated.
__________________3.Anything that is associated with, relating to or pertaining
too.
__________________4.Refers to the nonverbal features such as intonation, pitch,
loudness and intensity.
__________________5.Communication through smell.
__________________6.Communication through touch.
__________________7.Communication through taste.
__________________8.They use communication for pleasure and enjoyment.
__________________9.They use positive language to make them realize that their
actions lead them to something beneficial for their being.
__________________10. People use it to preach, get elected, improve business,
and promote social causes.
__________________11.This is the type of speech used when we talk to ourselves.
__________________12.This is the type of speech used when we are talking more
than one person.
__________________13.Includes all the learned behaviors and rules that affect the
interaction.
__________________14.Deals with “where” they are communicating.
__________________15.Refers to the participants and what each brings to the
interaction.
__________________16.Deals with the psychosocial “where” the exchange happens
__________________17.Concerns the relations to the interactors.
__________________18.Such as informing, ordering, warning, and etc.
__________________19.Achieving by saying something, such as convincing,
persuading and surprising.
__________________20.Roughly equivalent to uttering a certain sentence.
II.MULTIPLE CHOICES:Read and analyze each statement then write the correct
letter on the line before each number. Capitalized your answer.

_____1.You leave the message unfinished because of language difficulties.

a. Message abandonment c. Circumlocution
b. Topic avoidance d. Approximation
_____2.You describe or paraphrase the target object or action.
a. Message abandonment c. Circumlocution
b. Topic avoidance d. Approximation
_____3.You try not to talk about concepts difficult for you to express.
a. Message abandonment c. Circumlocution
b. Topic avoidance d. Approximation
_____4.You use an alternative term to express the meaning of the target word.
a. Message abandonment c. Circumlocution
b. Topic avoidance d. Approximation
_____5.You expand a general word to the context here certain words are lacking.
a. Use of all-purpose words c. Use of nonverbal means
b. Word coinage d. Literal translation
_____6.You translate a word or an idiom from your mother tongue to English.
a. Use of all-purpose words c. Use of nonverbal means
b. Word coinage d. Literal translation
_____7.You create a new English word based on what you know of the way English
works.
a. Use of all-purpose words c. Use of nonverbal means
b. Word coinage d. Literal translation
_____8.Use facial expressions, and imitate sound to express the meaning you want.
a. Use of all-purpose words c. Use of nonverbal means
b. Word coinage d. Literal translation
_____9.You use the native word or expression for the English term that expresses
the meaning you want.
a. Foreignizing c. Appeal for help
b. Code switching d. Hesitation devices
_____10.You use the word in your native language but pronounce it like English.
a. Foreignizing c. Appeal for help
b. Code switching d. Hesitation devices
_____11.You ask other students o your teacher for help when you do not know, or
forget some words, structures, or idioms.
a. Foreignizing c. Appeal for help
b. Code switching d. Hesitation devices
_____12.You use filling words to gain time to think.
a. Foreignizing c. Appeal for help
b. Code switching d. Hesitation devices
_____13.“Would you like to first of all tell us something about yourself?”
a. Formal c. Casual
b. Frozen d. Consultative
_____14.“Hi there! What’s up?”
a. Casual c. Formal
b. Consultative d. Intimate
_____15.“I now pronounce you man and wife.”
a. Intimate c. Frozen
b. Formal d. Casual
_____16.“To be, or not to be-that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to
suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of
troubles.
a. Intimate c. Frozen
b. Formal d. Casual
_____17.