1st Prelim/ 1st Sem-1st Term

2019-2020
ENGLISH 1

Name:_____________________________________ Course & Yr:____________ Score:_____________

Instructor:__________________________________ Date:__________________

Test I: Word Bank

Directions: Answer the following items. Choose your answers inside the Word Bank. Write your
answers on the space provided before each number. (15 points)

Morphology Linguistics Geoffrey Chaucer Discourse Consonant Sounds

Syntax Morphology Semantics Pharynx Ferdinand de Saussure

Noam Chomsky Phones Allophones Phonetics

_________1. It studies language at the level of sounds: how sounds are articulated by the human
speech mechanism and received by the auditory mechanism.
_________2. The study of word formation; it deals with the internal structure of words.
_________3. It deals with how words combine to form phrases, phrases combine to form clauses,
and clauses conjoin to make sentences.
_________4. These are variants or other ways of producing a phoneme.
_________5. Produced with some restriction or closure in the vocal tract as the air from the lungs is
pushed through the glottis out the mouth.
_________6. The scientific study of human language.
_________7. Father of 20th century linguistics.
_________8. The study of the sound system of language: the rules that govern pronunciation.
_________9. It can be discovered by the minimal pair technique (ex. pat and bat)
_________10. Father of Modern Linguistics.

Test II. Fill in the Blanks (Views about Language)

1. The ___________believe that language can be described in terms of observable and verifiable
data as it is being used.
2. ___________believe that language emphasizes the meaning and functions rather than the
grammatical characteristics of language.
3. The ___________ believe that language is a vehicle for establishing interpersonal relations
and for performing social transactions between individuals.
4. The ___________________ believe that language is a system of knowledge made manifest in
linguistic forms but innate and, in its most abstract form, universal.
5. To ____________, language is a system of speech sounds, arbitrarily assigned to the objects,
states, and concepts to which they refer, used for human communication.
Test III. Table Completion
Directions: Complete the table below. (15 pts.)
Place of Articulation

Voiced
Voiceless

Manner of Articulation

Test IV.
Directions: Write the Brief History of English Language inside the box below. Make sure to write the
persons and the group of people involved, year, example of words derived, and the important events happened
during its 3 major historical periods. (30 pts.)

OLD ENGLISH MIDDLE ENGLISH MODERN ENGLISH

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Albert Einstein