SUMMATIVE TEST IN ORAL COMMUNICATION IN CONTEXT

Name: _______________________________________ Score: _________________________________

Grade & Section: _______________________________ Date: __________________________________

A. TRUE OR FALSE:
On the blank, write TRUE if the statement is correct and write FALSE if otherwise.

___________ Communication is very vital to our everyday lives.

___________ We cannot live without communicating because we need to share thoughts, impart information,
persuade others in our beliefs, and show our love and affection.
___________ Communication is a systematic process in which individuals interact with and through symbols to create
and interpret meanings.
___________ Communication is symbolic and involves meanings.
___________ Communication happens only when two or more people talk with each other
___________ Communication always involves face-to-face interaction.
___________ Communication meanings depend on our interpretation.
___________ Communication does not happen on a daily basis.
___________ People communicate to understand and to be understood.

B. Identify what is being described in each statement below. Choose the answer from the box and write it on the
blank.

speaker/sender message medium channel

listener/receiver feedback context noise/interference

______________ It is anything that impedes or gets in the way of accurately sending, receiving, and interpreting the
message, whether it be internal or external.
______________ He/She gets the message in the medium desired through the chosen channel, and decodes the
message.
______________ It is the situation or environment in which communication takes place, which includes time, place,
event, as well as sender’s and receiver’s feelings, perceptions, beliefs, attitudes and relationships.
______________ It refers to the source of the message that is encoded into symbols that are verbal and/or nonverbal.
______________ It is the form in which the speaker/sender conveys the message, which may probably be speech,
conversation, letter, email, blog, newspaper, book, and the like through a channel.
______________ It is the mode, method, or means of sending or expressing the message, which may perhaps be
through any of the five senses.
______________ It is any information or anything the speaker/sender wants to communicate by using a medium.
______________ It is the receiver’s response, verbally or nonverbally.

C. Read each given scenario/situation. Then, identify the kind of noise being presented as to INTERNAL NOISE or
EXTERNAL NOISE. Write your answer on the blank.

______________ A teacher lectures while a passing motorcycle hoots its horns.

______________ A student thinking about a quiz he has to take in the next class.
______________ A child busily plays with his tablet while his mom is giving him instructions.
______________ A speaker in a seminar explains a certain product when a cellular phone rings.
______________ A professor lectures and coughs continuously
______________ A student cannot concentrate on what the teacher is saying because he is suffering from migraine
______________ A student reports in a class where there is poor ventilation.
 D. Identify the communication model described in the following scenarios or situations. Write on the blank
SHANNON-WEAVER MODEL, INTERACTIVE MODEL, SCHRAMM MODEL, and INTERMEDIARY MODEL.
____________________ The editor-in-chief of a magazine decides to pull out one article because the topic is too
sensitive for its readers.
____________________ A call center agent persuades a client through phone to purchase a new product from their
company.
____________________ High school best friends Millette and Geline met again after 20 years. They reminisced about
their high school days and shared some common experiences.
____________________ A reviewer of a peer-reviewed publication disapproves a study because it did not meet the
qualifications or standards set by the committee.
____________________ A well-known TV news anchor reports from a remote area where the signal is erratic.
Therefore, TV viewers had a problem understanding the news because of the unclear signal.
____________________ A daughter sends a text message to her mother and asks permission to go to her classmate’s
house after school to finish a particular project. The daughter finds it hard to decide if she
can go because her mother has not replied to her message.